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9 years ago+24 24 0Cities Want Cops to Wear Cameras, but Technology Could Heighten Distrust if Not Carefully Used
Less than a month after Michael Brown was shot and killed by a law-enforcement officer in Ferguson, Mo., the municipal police department issued 50 wearable video cameras to its officers so they could record encounters with the public. Since then, at ...
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9 years ago+28 28 0 x 1Cricketer Phillip Hughes dies two days after being hit by ball during match
Australian batsman suffered injury after being hit on head by short ball during Sheffield Shield match at SCG.
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9 years ago+6 6 0Theresa May moves to give police powers to identify internet users
Police are to get powers to force internet firms to hand over details linked to IP addresses in order to help them help identify criminal suspects online. The anti-terrorism and security bill will oblige internet service providers (ISPs) to retain in ...
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9 years ago+12 12 0The FBI Is very excited about this machine that can scan your DNA in 90 minutes
Rapid-DNA technology makes it easier than ever to grab and store your genetic profile. G-men, cops, and Homeland Security can't wait to see it everywhere.
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Review
9 years ago+8 8 0Far Cry 4 Review in Progress
The Himalayan country of Kyrat is a place of myth, faith, secrets, lies, and beauty, and it's one of the best-realized locations I've ever explored in a video game. Kyrat is a colossal, dense, visually diverse place that feels lived in, tor ...
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9 years ago+20 20 0The Grand Bazaar: A Munchies Guide To Tehran
When it comes to Tehran, it's impossible to avoid politics and easy to overlook the Iranian city's thriving culinary scene. In our first installment of The MUNCHIES Guide to Tehran, our host Gelareh Kiazand introduces us to the bustling str ...
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9 years ago+15 15 0How much would it cost to buy everything advertised in an NFL game?
The average NFL game lasts three hours from start to finish but contains only about a dozen minutes of action. TV broadcasters have become expert in filling the gaps between outbreaks of sport on the field with an intoxicating mix of anticipation, ap ...
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9 years ago+8 8 0Verizon's greed may have finally gone too far
Verizon was probably pretty happy with itself after it got the Federal Communications Commission’s previous net neutrality rules tossed out in a court ruling from earlier this year. However, it looks like this may have only been a short-term victory ...
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9 years ago+15 15 0How Google Inadvertently Crushed A Privacy Startup
If you don't want the NSA to know anything about you, that's tough. If you don't want Google to know anything about you, that's also tough. The makers of the Epic Privacy Browser, a browser that protects your identity by sharing a ...
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9 years ago+22 22 0'Foodini' machine lets you print edible burgers, pizza, chocolate
As further proof that you can now 3D-print anything, a company called Natural Machines has introduced a 3D printer for food.
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9 years ago+16 16 0Bats Can Transmit "Signal Jamming" Sounds
Bats are dependent upon echolocation to catch their insect prey. But competition for resources is fierce among bats, so they've evolved the capacity to "jam" the signals of other bats to send them off target.
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9 years ago+17 17 0Google Now Reads Emails, Sets Reminders For Bills Due
Google has released an update to its search app for Android and iOS that searches the phone's Gmail account for dates of bills due. It works as a reminder, pulling in notations from the calendar and scanning emails for related words, similar to ...
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9 years ago+19 19 0Sweden is Now Recycling 99 Percent of its Trash. Here's how
It would serve Americans greatly to take a page out of Sweden’s book about recycling their waste.
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9 years ago+19 19 0ISIS Will Try for Tunisia Next
Tunisia is one night's rapid sail from Italy and the situation there is beginning to resemble that of Iraq and Syria.
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9 years ago+16 16 0Windows 10 command prompt finally gets dragged into the 21st century
Microsoft talked briefly about the new features in its upcoming Windows 10 operating system, but it glossed over one thing that will surely be of great interest to sysadmins and developers alike: the further refinement of the Windows command line int ...
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10 years ago+14 14 092% of patients say medical marijuana works
A 2013 survey in the New England Journal of Medicine found that nearly 8-in-10 doctors approved the use of medical marijuana. Now, a wide-ranging survey in California finds that medical marijuana patients agree: 92 percent said that medical marijuana ...
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10 years ago+19 21 2 x 1Mount St. Helens shows signs of reawakening
Ten years ago this week, Mount St. Helens awoke from an 18-year geological slumber. The news media and volcano-watchers flocked to Johnston Ridge, the closest road with a crater view. Steam and ash eruptions shot thousands of feet into the air, and f ...
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10 years ago+19 19 0LAPD Officer: 'Django Unchained' Actress "Is Lying"
Sgt. Jim Parker refutes the account of the actress, contending that he recorded the incident from the moment he got out of his car
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10 years ago+1 2 1Scientists Have Captured the Sound One Atom Makes
If an atom gets excited in a laboratory, does it make a sound? Turns out that it absolutely does, albeit it's the softest sound that scientists say is physically possible. Researchers at Columbia University and Sweden's Chalmers University ...
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10 years ago+21 21 0U.S. and Iran Hit ISIS, Ignore Each Other
U.S. warplanes striking targets in Iraq. Iranian tanks are reportedly moving into the northern part of the country. But the two foreign militaries fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) are not talking to one another.