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16-year-old kid tries to start a riot. On Facebook.

Aug 9, 2011
He's promptly arrested for inciting trouble and for being an idiot. He had started a Facebook page called "Let's start a riot in Glasgow", which...
Posted In: Facebook, riots, Some Idiot
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Can you spot the fake reviews?

Jul 28, 2011
It seems that sites like Yelp are getting less and less useful. Whenever I'm searching online for a new Indian restaurant or a hotel I'm hit wit...
Posted In: reviews
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Li-Fi: Can lightbulbs help move our data around?

Jul 25, 2011
Imagine if the light bulbs in your house could be not just lighting up a room but transmitting and receiving data as well. That's idea behind the emerging technology of Li-Fi.
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The high price of cloud computing

Jul 5, 2011
All those bits and bites flying around the Internet get processed in hundreds of data centers around the country, with ever increasing power consumption and costs.
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Android@Home because nothing could go wrong with an android in your house

Jun 14, 2011
I've been hearing about the smart house for as long as I've been alive. How one day everything in the house will run on the same computer system...
Posted In: android, jetsons
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Your employment may depend on a system that's 98.3% accurate

Jun 6, 2011
How does that make you feel? More and more states are requiring business owners to use the government-operated E-Verify database to check employment eligibility. But even the people who run it say it isn't perfect.
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Tracking consumers' eyeballs to find out how they shop

Jun 3, 2011
Consumer products makers spend billions to find out what sells and why. Now, technology allows companies to see exactly what catches the eye.
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Are you getting ripped off by AT&T or do you just not understand your phone?

May 26, 2011
That's what may decide a lawsuit against the wireless carrier. People are being charged for data they didn't even know they were using. The plaintiffs say it's a ripoff, AT&T says it's just the way phones work.
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Will anything stop the AT&T-T-Mobile merger?

May 10, 2011
A U.S. Senate subcommittee is scheduled to take up the proposed merger of two giant wireless companies on Wednesday. The deal is a long way from being done and when it is, there will be plenty of strings attached.
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Blogs from behind prison bars

Apr 8, 2011
Prison inmates generally don't have access to the Internet. But a new program is letting them publish handwritten blogs online.

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