"A Michigan man has been fined $400 and given 40 hours of community service for accessing an open wireless Internet connection outside a coffee shop. Under a little known state law against computer...
Rating war for a time being came to an end with CBS at the top reolacing ABC."In the second week of the broadcast season, CBS replaced ABC as the top network thanks to a strong lineup of competitive performers. CBS won the week in both total viewers and the key adults 18-49...
Union officials have failed to reach a deal, and strikes are set to go ahead on Scotland's rail network. 450 members of the Rail Maritime and Transport Union will walk out today on the first of two 24-hour strikes. The next strike will start at noon on Thursday. "Commuters...
Human jobs are being eliminated by computers and robots, who work without complaints or demands, in exchange for electricity and maintenance. In the future, if the rat-brain research described in this article pays off, perhaps we will be able to rent brain-hours to our local...
"To the people of the great state of Ohio, welcome to day five of "they're stealing your election." As you might have heard, the Ohio Democrat secretary of state decided to bend the law and allow a...
Since John McCain unceremoniously dropped the 'pit bull in lipstick' Sarah Palin into our midst many normally loquacious political editorialists have found themselves rendered strangely speechless by the apparent...
Anybody who has ever had their cable connection chewed through by squirrels knows that Internet transmissions are far less tolerant of interference and disruption than something like terrestrial TV and cable...
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OCT-3 Cern started the GRID network, 7000 scientists are linked to evaluate Data from the LHC collider, or popular the "Big Bang Machine". Desktop computers paticipate in that Super-Internet Event. Cern originally...
Serious number crunching to be a co-CERN project !Grid computing is changing science the world over."CERN, the world's biggest particle physics laboratory and creator of the Worldwide Web, on Friday unveiled a new computer network allowing thousands of scientists around the...
On many issues I disagree with Glenn Beck, but we agree that Ray Kurzweil is relevant and fascinating; an inventor, author and futurist, Kurzweil predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union and the power and...
Jon Stewart sat down at an informal breakfast with reporters in Denver on Monday and proceeded to deliver a scathing indictment of mainstream media and political journos: "This morning, Jon Stewart sat in a laid-back...
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In the nineteen-nineties when Bill Clinton was president, many people began to tune out from CNN, the 24 hour cable news network, when the reporting...
George Bush has been spying emails and other electronic data to check on the war on terror. But now an american non profit organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit against President George W. Bush and other senior members of his...
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The new 90210 is set to premiere tonight on the CW network but very few people know what it's going to be like. Select details, cast member bios, and buzzy plot synopses have been released to the media and fans, but...
Come on, you know you want to! "Some 500,000 Facebook users who don't like the site's new design have found a loophole leading back to the old one. The trick is to sign up as a Facebook application developer — and...