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A wealthy suburban Philadelphia school district spied on its students with webcams in school-issued laptops, a lawsuit filed by one student’s parents charges....
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The world's biggest social network has revealed details of a stripped-down, text-only version of its mobile site called Facebook Zero....
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Researchers describe the discovery of a specific protein called disabled-2 (Dab2) that switches on the process that releases cancer cells from the original tumor and allows the cells to spread and develop into new tumors in other parts of the body....
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Google has pulled images of an Ontario murder scene from Street View, the Windsor Star reports....
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After decades of false starts, planners are finally beginning to make headway on what could become the largest, most complicated infrastructure project ever attempted in the US....
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As few as 56% of multiple sclerosis patients show signs of a blood-vessel problem that a controversial new theory cites as the cause of the disease....
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Meet Inuk, a 4000-year-old Arctic hunter. He lived in Greenland, ate seafood, and appears to have died young. And he is the first ancient human to have his genome almost completely .....
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When Google announced Google Buzz, its new social sharing feature for Gmail, company representatives admitted Buzz was inspired by a similar product: Google Wave....
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Toyota turned down an energy efficiency award from the Japanese government Wednesday, saying it was not appropriate given recent massive recalls....
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The Shangri-La of "full bars" doesn't have to be a pipe dream. Here are some tricks to give that signal of yours a boost....
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Google has updated its Street View service with increased coverage to more than 130 cities and towns across Canada....
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On Friday, the social network began to roll out new changes to the homepage of some 80m users, while the rest of the 320m users will follow in the next few days, according to the website Inside Facebook....
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Mobile banking has been slow to catch on in Canada, but experts say it won't be long before the service is more popular than online banking....
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In an unprecedented move Google final succumbed to advertising on television, a medium it has pointedly ignored for years, to promote its search engine....
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It will be a busy week for astronauts on the International Space Station, with Friday's arrival of a Russian cargo ship and Sunday's scheduled U.S. shuttle launch....
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Google has turned to the National Security Agency for technical assistance to learn more about the computer network attackers who breached the company’s cybersecurity defenses last year....
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The death of cellphone voice plans may be on the horizon as internet calling service Skype will soon be available over iPhone cellular connections....
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People who spend a lot of time surfing the internet are more likely to show signs of depression, British scientists said on Wednesday. But it is not clear whether the internet causes depression or whether depressed people are drawn to it....
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For Apple, it's not about killing off tinkerers, but ensuring that not everybody who wants to use a computer has to be a tinkerer....
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LOL-speak, fractured grammar, and emoticons are all finding their way into the college essays of Canadian students with increasing frequencies....
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Canada's privacy commission is again investigating Facebook after receiving a new complaint from the public regarding how the website handles users' data....
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Apple didn't really sell this point, but it's the single biggest benefit of the iPad: speed. It feels at least a generation faster than the iPhone 3GS. Lags and waits are gone, and the OS and apps respond just as quickly as you'd hope....
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While the invitation — “come see our latest creation” — is broad and vague, it’s fairly obvious that the biggest news will be the widely anticipated tablet....
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A California company has found that computer users consistently choose weak passwords, with the most common one being 123456. The fourth most common password is "password."...
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Are these social media -- which between them have nearly 400 million users -- really the serious threat to established media they are often said to be?...
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There’s a joke about the iPhone you’ve probably heard: it’s the best smartphone there is, unless you want to make a call....
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In the past month, multiple independent reports have claimed Apple in late January will launch its highly anticipated tablet....
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Wi-Fi Direct, first announced in October, is a technology that allows gadgets equipped with Wi-Fi chips to communicate with each other without having to go through an intermediary device, such as an internet router....
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Google Inc.'s startling announcement that it's prepared to quit China rather than risk continued cyber attacks on Chinese operations may mark a dramatic sea change....
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Google's threat to pull out of China over censorship is a rare display of defiance in a system where foreign companies have long accepted intrusive controls to gain access to a huge and growing market....
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Google has vowed to defy Chinese Internet censors and risk banishment from the lucrative market in outrage at "highly sophisticated" cyber attacks aimed at Chinese human rights activists....
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Apple has created new multi-touch technology that enhances user interaction with the screens of its devices, according to patent documents....
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Mice exposed to cellphone radiation seem to gain protection from the memory-robbing effects of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published this week...
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"Cybermoms" have emerged as a powerful consumer group and are getting special attention at a summit being held at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas....
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The runaway success of science fiction blockbuster "Avatar" will accelerate the 3D movie revolution, which has already powered Hollywood to a record year at the box office, analysts say....
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India's Tata is bringing its Nano minicar to Detroit to show the Motor City what the world's cheapest car looks like, the automaker said Wednesday....
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A Montreal design company has left its mark on the 124th floor of the tallest building in the world, inaugurated on Monday in Dubai....
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Google will showcase its first in-house designed Nexus One smartphone at a press conference at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California on Tuesday....
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From the amazing collective power of jellyfish, to a new human ancestor, to a cancer-detecting breathalyzer test, these stories made our list of kick-ass science in 2009....
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Logging on to read your e-mail from a wi-fi hotspot is relatively safe, but be careful using credit cards or logging on to your bank website when surfing the web on someone's free network....
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With Globalive and other wireless companies poised to offer more choice in the new year, call it the beginning of the end to that modern Canadian gripe....
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New York City’s Times Square has been reopened to traffic after a bomb squad found no explosive devices in an abandoned van parked in the area....
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Canada's privacy commissioner unveiled the results of a 14-month investigation into Facebook's privacy policies, identifying several areas where the popular online social network's privacy practices violate federal privacy laws....
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Despite meager funding, the Aquatic Species Program laid the scientific foundation for making diesel-like fuel from the fat that microscopic algae accumulate in their cells....
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Google’s much-anticipated new phone, the HTC-designed Nexus One, could make its debut next week....
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Macworld has compiled a simple list of uses for a dead iPod. The suggestions include using the iPod as a car stereo (if the battery no longer charges), turning the iPod into a storage drive, or tethering the iPod to a computer as an always-plugged-in iTunes player....
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Canadian and U.S. scientists working on a $200-million mission to unravel the mysteries of the northern lights have made a "startling discovery"....
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A New Brunswick judge has ordered a Miramichi woman to reveal how often she uses the social-networking website Facebook to a man she's suing after a 2004 car crash....
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Canadian and U.S. scientists working to unravel the mysteries of the northern lights have made a "startling discovery" after 20 cameras positioned throughout Canada and Alaska captured the "spectacular" collision of two waves of aurora borealis....
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Any number of undiscovered near-Earth objects could one day careen into the Earth. So far, though, only one discovered object has seemed even mildly likely to hit our planet....
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