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Eric Lombardi, the waste-management guru behind Boulder, Colo.-based recycler Eco-Cycle, is fighting incinerators around the world with a vision. Although his Zero-Waste Park may never be built, he has been able to use the artistic plan as an effective tool for discussion that has allowed city planners to consider alternati (Read More)
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overly strict export controls have so damaged the space industry that America’s national security is now threatened by its dwindling leadership in space technology. The system, they complain, fails to distinguish between militarily sensitive hardware that should be controlled and widely available commercial technologies. (Read More)
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Die Händler wird es freuen: Privateinkäufe über das Internet entwickeln sich zunehmend zu einem Massengeschäft. 27 Millionen Menschen ab zehn Jahren haben in Deutschland im 1. Quartal 2007 Waren oder Dienstleistungen für private Zwecke über das Internet bestellt. Das entspricht einer Steigerung von rund 7 Prozent. (Read More)
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Unter Führung von Sony Pictures unternehmen eine Reihe großer Hollywood-Studios einen neuen Anlauf zur Etablierung von digitalem Rechtemanagement (DRM). Das . (Read More)
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McCain got attention only when he slipped up during one of his patented freewheeling encounters with reporters. And so in July, the campaign decided to clamp down on the candidate. Open-ended question time was reduced to almost nothing, and the famously unscripted McCain began heeding his talking points, even as his aides m (Read More)
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This scene is not a glimpse of plantation days long gone by. It's the present-day reality of thousands of prisoners at the maximum security Louisiana State Penitentiary, otherwise known as Angola. The block of land on which the prison sits is a composite of several slave plantations, bought up in the decades following the (Read More)
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Video production was traditionally cumbersome. Veodia plans to change that, by offering its clients the ability to stream high quality video via a SaaS platform. Its service allows companies to broadcast live, on-demand videos without making significant investments in manpower and technology. (Read More)
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An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon, and a tipster promptly sent the soon-retracted file to gossip blog Gawker. (Read More)
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Die BBC will ihr Musikarchiv kostenlos zum Abruf bereitstellen. Mehr als 50.000 Songs warten auf die Digitalisierung. Außerdem im Überblick: Wikileaks verhökert E-Mails, und die Gerüchteküche um das mysteriöse "iPhone-Girl" brodelt. (Read More)
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By now, you might have heard that Murderdrome has been banned by Apple. This is due to the part of the sdk that suggests content must NOT offend anyone in ‘apple’s reasonable’ opinion. Here at infurious, we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system can be put in place to allow material that is no more (Read More)
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Murderdrome has now joined the pantheon of suppressed fiction as the first digital book banished from Apple’s App Store by censors in Cupertino. (Read More)
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Global investment in clean energy from April to June was less than the same period last year, and at $33 billion barely half the last quarter of 2007, initial NEF figures show. (Read More)
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There’s an interesting new research tool available, focusing on tags - or, more precisely, tag pairs. Tagatum’s tag spider searches blog feeds for tags, combines tags into pairs and calculates which pairs are most often used together. (Read More)