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Nicaragua invades Costa Rica after error on Google Maps
Nov 5, 2010
Apparently the way Google Maps draws one particular section of the border between the two countries is off by about 3000 meters, showing it to be...
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Turkey has YouTube once again
Nov 2, 2010
Here's a story about the thorny relationship between closed societies and the open internet. People in the nation of Turkey once again have access...
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Mt. Everest now wired
Oct 29, 2010
Engineers have installed a 3G base station at the 5200 meter mark of Mt. Everest, giving the mountain complete coverage, even at the summit of 8848...
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Top three most desired toys this holiday season are...
Oct 25, 2010
Not Tickle Me Elmo, not Cabbage Patch Kids, not a hula hoop....
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Dead Sea Scrolls coming to the internet
Oct 19, 2010
Apparently, it's a team up effort between Google and the Israeli Antiquities Authority. I hope commenting is not enabled....
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"Officer Bubbles" goes after YouTube commenters
Oct 19, 2010
You may have heard us talk about this on our show. A constable in Toronto does not like having bubbles blown at a protest. He threatens to arrest...
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ZeuS imitating Conficker
Oct 15, 2010
There's a whole lot of tech jargon in this story that I'll spare you but the important thing to know is that the ZeuS computer worm, which has been...
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Pope fears technology that destroys reality; Pope's fears realized
Oct 13, 2010
Pope Benedict who, I don't know, has just seen Tron for the first time or something, has spoken out against the warped reality that technology pro...
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Coming Soon: Netflix to offer streaming only option
Sep 24, 2010
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Sunshine Sachs)
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is hinting his company will soon o...
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Microsoft used as tool of repression by Russian government
Sep 13, 2010
A New York Times article got plenty of buzz in tech circles over the weekend. It's about how the Russian government is using the construct of the...
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