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Pro-Wikileaks Activists Abandon Amazon Attack

Pro-Wikileak activists have abandoned plans to bring down the website of online retailer Amazon, and switched back to targeting PayPal. The group Anonymous had pledged to attack the site at 1600 G...


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NASA Sold Computers With Important Data

NASA failed to delete sensitive data on computers and hard drives before selling the equipment as part of its plan to end the Space Shuttle program, an audit released on shows. NASA is getting rid...


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Ex-WikiLeaks Staff To Launch Rival Site

A group of former WikiLeaks collaborators who quit the project are to launch a new campaigning site next week to protest against its founder, a Swedish newspaper said. Respected daily Dagens Nyhe...


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Facebook Boss In Giveaway Pledge

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has become one of the latest billionaires to pledge to give away the majority of his wealth. He is one of 17 new people to support a group, founded by Bill Gat...


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Tokyo Business People Sleep Less Than Peers

New York may be known as the city that never sleeps, but Tokyo business people get less time in the sack than their New York peers -- and also those in Paris, Stockholm and Shanghai. According to ...


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Android Phones Choking Wireless Network

Users of Google's Android phones, such as Samsung's Galaxy S, use more data services than those with other smartphones, threatening to choke wireless network capacity, an industry study showed. Th...


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Google Unveils Chrome OS Notebook

Google has delayed a much anticipated branded laptop powered by its Chrome operating system until next year. Instead of a Chrome OS device for general release, Google announced a pilot programme a...


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Google To Launch e-book Store

Google hopes to write itself a substantial chapter in the digital books story with the launch of its own store. Google eBooks, formerly known as Google Editions, launches in the US on 6 December. ...


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Cellphones Link To Child Misbehavior

Researchers studying the health effects of cellphones say they have found evidence that when pregnant women use them regularly, their children are more likely to have behavioral problems. The stud...


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Russian Satellites Fail To Enter Orbit

Three Russian satellites have failed to enter orbit after they were launched on a rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russian aerospace experts said the satellites and the upper sta...


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Facebook Redesigns Profile Page

Facebook is redesigning the profile pages of its 500 million-plus users to make it more of a reflection of their real lives and emphasize one of the site's most popular features, photos. Facebook...


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Giant Panda Breeding Breakthrough In China

A critical breakthrough has been made in efforts to save the giant panda, one that could kick-start attempts to reintroduce the animals to the wild. Conservationists say they have perfected the di...


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China Orchestrated Google Hacking

Senior Chinese figures were behind the hacking of Google earlier this year which forced the search engine to quit the country, leaked US cables suggest. One cable, released by whistle-blowing site...


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Uncertainty A Source Of Anxiety In Patients

Uncertainty about a diagnosis causes more anxiety and can be more stressful than actually knowing that you have a serious illness, researchers reported here at the 2010 annual meeting of the Radiolo...


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Police Shut Down Bullying Facebook Page

The Italian postal police blocked a Facebook page, used by a baby-gang to bully and harass one of their classmates, according to a report by China's Xinhua news agency. The bullies had created a ...


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2010 Sets New Temperature Records

Temperatures reached record levels in several regions during 2010, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) says, confirming the year is likely to be among the warmest three on record. Parts of...


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Miscarriage Raises Heart Risk

Having multiple miscarriages increases the risk of a heart attack later in life, according to researchers. The German study, published in the journal Heart, found that women who had more than thre...


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J&J Recalls Millions Of Antacids

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) said that it is pulling millions of bottles of antacids from shelves because they don't list the alcohol content of flavoring agents, reports China's Xinhua news agency. T...


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Google Admits Trespassing

Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of a Pittsburgh-area house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued. U.S. District Mag...


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Acer Faces Smartphone Supply Shortages

A surge in demand for the latest smartphones has taken the industry by surprise and left it facing a shortage in the key end-of-year holiday sales season, a chief of Acer's cellphone unit said. "T...


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Switch To Low-energy Lightbulbs

The United Nations urged a global phase-out of old-style lightbulbs and a switch to low-energy lighting that it said would save billions of dollars and combat climate change. About 40 countries a...


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US Cautious On Breast Milk Sharing

U.S. health officials are cautioning new parents about sharing breast milk as a growing number of women are using social networking and other websites to share their milk instead of turning to infan...


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Ball Lightning May Explain UFOs

Some UFO sightings could be explained by ball lightning and other atmospheric phenomena, claims Australian astrophysicist Stephen Hughes. The scientist has made a detailed study of an unusual even...


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Google To Be Investigated By EU

The European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position. The body said it would look into whether the...


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Pacific Countries Top Most Overweight

The World Health Organisation has recently released the results of health surveys on world obesity, and the study showed Pacific Island countries make up most of the top 10 list of the world's fatte...


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Climate Warning Over Rising Emissions

A rise in global temperatures of four degree Celsius is likely to occur during the 21st century causing "devastating impacts" if greenhouse gas emissions continue rising at the current rate, accordi...


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Clue Found To Penis Birth Defect

Scientists have identified a gene which may play a role in a common defect affecting the genitalia of baby boys. Hypospadias, which affects one in every 375 boys, is the result of incomplete devel...


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International Migrants Estimated At 214 Million

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said that the world's international migrants are estimated to be 214 million in 2010, China's Xinhua news agency reported. In a report named "Wo...


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InterNet-Dedicated Satellite Launches

The first satellite dedicated to delivering broadband services to Europe has launched on an Ariane 5 rocket. The Hylas spacecraft is designed to fill so-called "notspots" - remote locations such a...


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'Facebook killer' won't look like Facebook

n the spring of this year, the "Facebook alternative" Diaspora achieved extensive media coverage -- including an article in the New York Times -- and raised tens of thousands of dollars in funding f...


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