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Obama Looks to Web Industry for Online Consumer Privacy Standard
BusinessWeek
By Eric Engleman and Sara Forden Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration unveiled an initiative to give consumers more control over their personal information online, calling on Internet companies such as Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. to ...
Voluntary guidelines for Web privacy backed by Obama administrationWashington Post
State requires privacy posts by mobile app makersSan Francisco Chronicle
White House unveils plan to protect online privacyReuters
Los Angeles Times -Forbes -Fox News
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Recommended: Flaw found in faster-than-light setup
msnbc.com
Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble and Mars. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor. E-mail Alan, or connect via Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The CERN Neutrinos to Gran Sasso experiment sends muon ...
Italy: Flaw Found in Neutrino TestNew York Times
Was Einstein wrong - or was the cable loose?Reuters
Neutrino experiment might have had glitch; Einstein was probably rightThe State Column
Forbes -NDTV
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Heads-Up from Google on its way Tech Talk Nick DeLorenzo
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
According to a New York Times report, Internet giant Google, developer of the Google Search Engine and the Android Operating System will soon be releasing glasses that feature a Heads-Up display, similar to high performance aircraft and automobiles.
Behind the Google Goggles, Virtual RealityNew York Times
7 Potential Problems With Google's GlassesInformationWeek
Report: Google Working on HUD Glasses for 2012 DebutPC Magazine
Washington Post -Los Angeles Times -Computerworld
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Ex-Apple Man Streams Flash onto the iPad
Wired News
By Caleb Garling First, OnLive put Windows on the iPad. And now the free-thinking San Francisco startup has gone so far as to put Adobe Flash on Apple's holy tablet. On Wednesday, the company unveiled a new version of OnLive Desktop ? an iPad ...
Windows on the iPad, and SpeedyNew York Times
OnLive Desktop Plus brings Adobe Flash and IE to iPad; $5 per monthZDNet (blog)
OnLive offers service to speed up Web browsing on an iPadSan Jose Mercury News
VentureBeat -TechCrunch -Macgasm
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Google Aims to Offer Kansas City TV
Wall Street Journal
By AMIR EFRATI And SAM SCHECHNER Google Inc. applied last week to provide video service to residents of Kansas City, Mo., according to state records, setting the stage for the Web giant to offer a cable-TV-like package in addition to the high-speed ...
Google Seeks To Plant Antenna Farm in IowaData Center Knowledge
Google Files Application to Operate TV ServiceTom's Guide
Google hints at TV service for ultra-fast broadband testKansas City Star
Mashable -CNET -VentureBeat
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Black hole clocks fastest wind ever recorded by NASA
CNET
by Dara Kerr February 22, 2012 9:00 PM PST Follow @darakerr Born from the collapse of a massive star, a recently detected stellar-mass black hole is breaking high-speed records. This artist's impression shows a stellar-mass black hole, on the left, ...
Cosmic Hurricane: Black Hole Has 20 Million MPH WindsSpace.com
Black hole producing super winds, 20 million miles per hour windsCatholic Online
NASA sniffs little black hole's 20-million-MPH windRegister
Christian Science Monitor -Forbes
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Quad-core LG 4X HD could be king of the Optimus hill
CNET (blog)
by Kent German February 22, 2012 10:10 PM PST Follow @KentGerman Bound for Mobile World Congress, the LG Optimus 4X HD promises a 4.7-inch display, a quad-core processor, and high-end features. We haven't even left for Mobile World Congress yet and LG ...
LG confirms its Optimus 3D Max smartphoneInquirer
LG unveils the Optimus L3, L5 and L7Moneycontrol.com
LG unveils slimmer and smarter Optimus 3DIBNLive.com
ZDNet UK
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Male chromosome is not doomed, say scientists
Telegraph.co.uk
Fears that the male Y chromosome could be wiped out within five million years have been undermined by new research showing the drop in genes has stabilised. By Donna Bowater A study of rhesus macaque monkeys found that while male DNA was lost at first, ...
Genetic Maker of Men Is Diminished but Holding Its Ground, Researchers SayNew York Times
Male Y chromosome extinction theory challengedBBC News
Men Aren't Going Extinct, Study of Shrinking Y Chromosome FindsBusinessWeek
The Guardian -Channel News Asia -Bloomberg
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Symantec's pcAnywhere Woes May Be Worse Than We Thought
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter Symantec advised users of its compromised pcAnywhere software to disable the remote-access tool about a month ago, but a security firm said this week that as many as 200000 computers out in the wild may still be exposed to hijacking by ...
Symantec pcAnywhere Exposes 200000 Systems To AttackCRN
Symantec pcAnywhere hack exposes 200000 PCs: analystSlashGear
Researcher: 200000 Windows PCs vulnerable to pcAnywhere hijackingComputerworld
InformationWeek -PCWorld -eWeek
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Scientists get kick out of deep space 'buckyball' discovery
msnbc.com
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected the solid form of buckyballs in space for the first time. To form a solid particle, the buckyballs must stack together, as illustrated in this artist's concept showing the very beginnings of the process.
NASA budget gets cut (again)Concordiensis
Kennedy Space Center at 50: A spaceport in transitionWashington Post
Spitzer spots first solid buckyballs in stellar discRegister
San Francisco Chronicle -TG Daily -Space.com
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