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FCC Pressed by All Sides Over Open Internet Rules
Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is caught between the differing demands of a federal appeals court, a Republican Congress, and President Obama over how to oversee Internet services, The New York Times reports.
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140-million-year-old Dinosaur Tooth Found in Malaysia
A dinosaur tooth found in Malaysia is at least 140 million years old and belongs to a new species within the bird-hipped Ornithischian order, researchers said Thursday.While still unsure of the exact species of dinosaur, lead researcher Masatoshi Sone from the University...
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Drones Now Patrol Half of Mexico Border
The U.S. government now patrols nearly half the Mexican border by drones alone in a largely unheralded shift to control desolate stretches where there are no agents, camera towers, ground sensors or fences, and it plans to expand the strategy to the Canadian border.It...
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Europe Space Agency Lands Probe on Speeding Comet
The European Space Agency landed a probe on a comet on Wednesday, a first in space exploration and the climax of a decade-long mission to get samples from what are the remnants of the birth of Earth's solar system.
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Scientists Set for Historic Comet Landing Attempt
A historic attempt to land a spacecraft on a comet was set in motion Wednesday by scientists at the European Space Agency, despite a last-minute problem with the landing system.It is the climax of a decade-long mission to study a 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) wide lump of dust and...
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Google Signs 60-year, $1 Billion NASA Lease
Google has signed a long-term lease for part of a historic Navy air base, where it plans to renovate three massive hangars and use them for projects involving aviation, space exploration and robotics.The giant Internet company will pay $1.16 billion in rent over 60 years...
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Google to Boost Ebola Donations
Google launched a campaign Monday to raise money to fight Ebola, tossing $10 million into the pot and saying it will match donations to the fund two to one.In addition, Google chief executive and co-founder Larry Page said his family's foundation is contributing $15 million...
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Netflix Backs Obama Call for Curbs on Phone, Cable Web Providers
Netflix Inc., the largest video- subscription service, backed President Barack Obama's call for stricter regulation of the Internet to prevent cable and phone companies from restricting what people can access."President Obama agrees: consumers should pick winners and losers...
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Ed Gillespie Links Near Win in Va. to Social Media's Help
Republican candidates like Virginia's Ed Gillespie bet on Facebook and other social media sites in hopes that the online "likes" would transfer to the ballot boxes, and Gillespie's gamble almost paid off.
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Google’s Fitness App Climbs to Top of China Android Rankings
Google Inc.'s fitness application has climbed to the top of rankings in China, making the country its most-successful market since being released last month.Google Fit, which tracks activity and connects to health- monitoring devices, debuted late last month at No. 24 on...
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International Crew Leaves Space Station, Heads Back to Earth
Three International Space Station crewmen strapped themselves inside a Russian Soyuz capsule on Sunday and flew away from the orbital outpost on a return trip to Earth, wrapping up a 5½-month expedition.
The capsule, which departed at 7:31 p.m. EST/0031 GMT Monday,...
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Lawsuit: LinkedIn Can Hurt Job Search
LinkedIn, the most popular job-search website, is facing a class-action lawsuit, claiming it can actually hurt the job prospects of people who use the service.
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Elon Musk, Greg Wyler Considering Satellite Launches
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk may be moving on from electric cars and inexpensive rockets to focus on small satellites that can easily deliver worldwide Internet access.
According to sources familiar with Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur is working with former Google...
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Virgin Galactic Passengers Pull Out After Crash
About two dozen passengers have bowed out of the opportunity to be among the first space tourists since the Virgin Galactic Ltd. air crash, which killed a pilot, the company's chief executive officer said in an interview.
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New Malware Can Infect IPhones via Mac Computers
A newly discovered family of malware has the capacity to infect iPhones via Apple computers, posing a security threat to devices that have been largely resistant to cybercriminals, researchers said.The researchers at Palo Alto Networks, a cybersecurity firm, said the...
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CBS Launches Broadband News To Vie With Cable-News Outlets
CBS launched what may be the modern media-industry version of a CNN with a new broadband-distributed news feed that will send live, anchored news programming to Internet-connected TVs and other devices - an attempt by the company to monetize its CBS News unit without the...
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'Kissing Bug' Infection Spreads Across Texas, Southern States
Kissing bugs have invaded Texas and other southern states, and giving people a parasitic infection called Chagas.
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Boy Donates Projectile Point to Smithsonian
A Virginia boy has donated a prehistoric projectile point that he found along the New Jersey shore to the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.Noah Cordle was vacationing on Long Beach Island with his family in late August when the point struck the 10-year-old's...
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Brazil Scientist Blames Logging for Extreme Drought
Increased logging and burning in the Amazon rainforest will worsen already disastrous droughts, a leading Brazilian scientist warned in a new report on climate change.Trees in the Amazon rainforest emit into the atmosphere the equivalent of 20 billion tons of water daily,...
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Scientists See Mechanism for Spontaneous HIV 'Cure'
French scientists claimed Tuesday to have found the genetic mechanism for a spontaneous cure in two HIV-infected men, proposing a new strategy for combating AIDS even as other experts urged caution.The findings were based on a study of two men infected with the human...
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'Political Bible' Author: Gaffes Abound in Social Media Age
Even savvy politicians are getting tripped up by the 24-7 cycle of online social media, Rich Rubino, author of "The Political Bible of Humorous Quotations from American Politics," told "MidPoint" host Ed Berliner on Newsmax TV Monday.
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Hospital Records Being Adapted to ID New Ebola Cases
To better and more quickly flag possible Ebola cases, hospital software that charts new patients has been adapted to prompt triage staff to ask about foreign travel, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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Spaceship's Descent Device Deployed Prematurely
Virgin Galactic's experimental spaceship broke apart in flight over California's Mojave Desert after a device to slow the craft's descent prematurely deployed, federal investigators said Sunday.National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Christopher Hart said that...
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Probe of US Spaceship Crash May Take a Year
Authorities who Saturday carried out their first full day of investigation into a US spacecraft crash that killed one pilot and seriously injured another said probing the incident could take a year.National Transportation Safety Board acting chairman Christopher Hart told...
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Microsoft Smartwach Beats Apple and Fitbit to Market
Microsoft beat Apple and Fitbit to the punch when it released its new smartwatch and fitness tracker, the Microsoft Band, for just $199.
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