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It's Now Illegal to Dump Electronics in Landfills
Last Updated: 11:25 PM 10/23/09 - MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Jim Doyle has signed into law a bill designed to cut down on the amount of computers and other electronics dumped in landfills.
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'Anonymous' Author of Weston Administrator Criticism Outed by Local Paper
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Last Updated: 9:19 PM 09/17/09 - The Wausau Daily Herald says they regret turning over the identity of an anonymous poster on their website to Weston Village Administrator Dean Zuleger. (Full Story)
NEW INFO: Twitter Service Restored for Now
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Last Updated: 6:47 PM 08/06/09 - The tweets are flying again, at least intermittently, after Twitter fell victim to a hacker attack this morning. Facebook says it is also looking into possible problems.
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Tech @ 10: Woman is Sued After Tweeting about Moldy Apartment
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Last Updated: 10:56 PM 07/29/09 - In this week’s Tech @ Ten: Microsoft and Yahoo merge their search engines, a Chicago woman is facing a $50,000 lawsuit after tweeting about her moldy apartment, and digital etiquette. (Full Story)
Tech @ 10: Calling while Driving No Safer with Hands-Free Device
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Last Updated: 10:54 PM 07/22/09 - The Tech @ 10 Report for July 22nd, 2009 (Full Story)
Tech @ 10: New Search Engine Options
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Last Updated: 4:35 PM 07/15/09 - When you're looking for information, it's pretty likely you'll 'Google it'. But soon, you could be using a different strange verb to describe your online searches. (Full Story)
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We might not be wired to remember to whom we tell information.
An inherited cellular repair mechanism thwarts aging and perhaps helps prevent disease.
A rare monkey may have mated with baboons in the past.
Clever beetles use bodily waste to guard against attackers.
Food chemists hope to concoct a healthy and satisfying ice cream.
Men are more likely to leave their sick wives than the other way around.
Science and Technology
  • Google OS: the end of the hard drive?
    Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
  • Three charged as Comcast hackers
    Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast's homepage with a shout-out to other hackers.
  • False alarms prompt space station scare
    Astronauts aboard the international space station and space shuttle Atlantis woke up to a worrying sound -- alarms indicating a fire and dangerous loss of pressure, NASA said Friday.
  • Android's growth worries some
    A year after its release, Google's open source Android operating system has become a sensation.
  • Online churches draw believers
    Hjalti á Lava was searching his iPhone for a Bible app when he stumbled across Church Online, a service of Web site LifeChurch.tv. Soon he was regularly logging into the Oklahoma-based cyber-church -- some 4,100 miles away from á Lava's home in the Faroe Islands, west of Norway.
  • Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
    ROME (AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus....
  • Astronauts await word of baby girl on Earth
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word on the birth of one crewman's daughter Friday, as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for another spacewalk....
  • Biologists save fish after landslide
    NILE, Wash. (AP) -- A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish....
  • 3 new ancient crocodile species fossils found
    WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs - like wild boar tusks - roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported Thursday. While this fearsome creature hunted meat, not far away another newly found type of croc with a wide, flat snout like a pancake was fishing for food....
  • U. of Neb. board votes down stem-cell rule changes
    LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted down a proposal to restrict the school's rules governing embryonic stem-cell research beyond what the federal government allows....
  • Google OS: the end of the hard drive?
    Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
  • Three charged as Comcast hackers
    Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast's homepage with a shout-out to other hackers.
  • False alarms prompt space station scare
    Astronauts aboard the international space station and space shuttle Atlantis woke up to a worrying sound -- alarms indicating a fire and dangerous loss of pressure, NASA said Friday.
  • Android's growth worries some
    A year after its release, Google's open source Android operating system has become a sensation.
  • Online churches draw believers
    Hjalti á Lava was searching his iPhone for a Bible app when he stumbled across Church Online, a service of Web site LifeChurch.tv. Soon he was regularly logging into the Oklahoma-based cyber-church -- some 4,100 miles away from á Lava's home in the Faroe Islands, west of Norway.
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