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BBC News
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Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked.
More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology.
When Facebook..
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BBC News
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A modular mobile phone that can add features and change its design could spell the end of costly upgrades.
Israeli firm Modu has launched what it bills the world's smallest and lightest mobile phone.
The 1.5 ounce phone can be augmented by adding "j..
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BusinessWeek
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Get ready for … anything. As companies, governments—indeed, entire countries—confront an array of dilemmas, the only constant will be change
Building the next-generation enterprise—and maybe even the next-generation nation—will preoccupy most..
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MSNBC
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The vivid sunsets painted by J.M.W. Turner are revered for their use of color and light and for their influence on the Impressionists. But could they also help global warming experts track climate change?
A group of scientists has studied the colors in..
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BusinessWeek
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As concerns about climate change heat up, more people are buying carbon credits. Are they paying too much, and where is the money really going?
The fight against climate change has never been so popular. From former Vice-President Al Gore's Oscar-winni..
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BBC News
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An interactive table-and-chairs set that can change colour has been developed by Japanese researchers.
On display at the Siggraph show, the Fuwapica furniture uses sensors embedded in the table-top to work out the colour of items placed upon it.
The..
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BBC News
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Amnesty International has warned that the internet "could change beyond all recognition" unless action is taken against the erosion of online freedoms.
The warning comes ahead of a conference organised by Amnesty, where victims of repression will outli..
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BBC News
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Governments should tax plasma screen televisions because of the large amount of energy they consume, according to a leading expert on climate change.
Professor Paul Ekins, who studies the economics of climate change, said taxing plasma screens would re..
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Reuters
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Remember that election last November? You know, the one that signaled the need for change. Well, apparently that change doesn’t include taking a more enlightened approach to legislation involving new technology. Earlier this month a bipartisan group of..
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Guardian Unlimited
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I rise each morning, shave with soap and razor, don clothes of cotton and wool, read a paper, drink a coffee heated by gas or electricity and go to work with the aid of petrol and an internal combustion engine. At a centrally heated office I type on a Qwe..
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