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  • Reuters reports that any chance of a broad comprehensive bill on addressing climate change was essentially killed last night as the Republicans…

  • Nigel Leck was sick of all the people on Twitter arguing that global warming isn't real. So, he made a program that would scan Twitter every five…

  • And really, it's pretty painful anytime anyone inserts ANYTHING into your tweetstream….

  • Now you can buy someone a gift card that isn't really a card, just a credit at Amazon, really, and have it sent straight to their Facebook. It…

  • The plan to send a man back to the moon has been scrapped since at 150 billion dollars, that's just too expensive. But there's a rogue program…

  • 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…

  • Which is weird. So now if you're on Hotmail, you can import the contents of your Gmail account or your Yahoo account into your Hotmail interface….

  • On Friday, Facebook posted on their developers' blog updating their most recent privacy breach – the one in which the company was sharing user IDs…

  • Back when the ill-fated Google Wave was launched, one of the stars of the video announcement was Wave's developer Lars Rasmussen. He was a big deal…

  • For the last 20 years, the US military has been trying to build a new custom communications gadget system for soldiers in the field. It's cost half…

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