Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization, which gauge a person's tendency to justify, or explain away, inequalities.Read the full story
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional NSL Served on Internet Archive On November 26, 2007, the FBI served a National Security Letter NSL on the Internet Archive, a digital library. The letter sought personal information about one of the Archive s users, including the individual s NAME, address, and any electronic ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects.Read the full story
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Wikinews has obtained \\\\\\\'Operating Thetan\\\\\\\' (OT) documents of the Church of Scientology which were leaked via Wikileaks. Although some portions of the manual have been leaked previously, this is believed to be the first time the full unedited version has been leaked.Read the full story
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.Read the full story
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Microsoft Friday unveiled a 44.6 billion dollar bid for Yahoo in an effort to merge the world's biggest software company with a major Internet player to take on the Google juggernaut.Read the full story
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
A new study finds that the development of bullous lung disease occurs in marijuana smokers approximately 20 years earlier than tobacco smokers.Read the full story
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US scientists have taken a major step toward creating the first ever artificial life form by synthetically reproducing the DNA of a bacteria, according to a study published Thursday.Read the full story
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world\\\\\\\'s largest computer database of people\\\\\\\'s physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.Read the full story
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
In the early hours of Sunday, the Russian tanker Volgoneft-139, carrying 4,000 tons of black oil, fell apart due to storm damage, releasing up to 1,300 tons of black oil into the Kerch Strait. Read the full story
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