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As personal technology explodes, deaf and blind people feel left behind

4hearingloss.com     30-Jun-2008          

Olivia Norman's fingers fly across her laptop keyboard, dexterously tapping out instant messages to friends and entering search-engine queries without committing a single typo. A minute later, she's listening intently to the...

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America's Untapped Oil ( Drill Here! Drill Now! )

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil companies and many lawmakers are pressing to open up more U.S. areas for drilling. But the industry is drilling on just a fraction of areas it already has access to. Of the 90 million offshore...

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Annals of Homeland Security: Crony Capitalism, Nuclear Terror and the "Advanced Spectroscopic...

buzzflash.net     30-Jun-2008          

When the Department of Homeland Security announced in 2006 that it awarded contracts totaling some $1.2 billion over five years to Raytheon, Thermo Electron and Canberra Industries for "Advanced Spectroscopic Portal" (ASP)...

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Injecting politics into politics: guns, warming and war

Today let's talk about what's political and what's not. On the same day that readers and viewers across the country were confronted with the grisly story of the Henderson factory worker who killed five co-workers with a handgun...

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Lawmakers want tougher rules for CAFE

iii.co.uk     27-Jun-2008   6 related          

By tittle-tattle: Lawmakers want tougher rules than 35MPG-2020 CAFE standard Posted on Thursday 26 June 2008 The House committee on climate change and energy independence has told the U.S. government that current CAFE...

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Keep Your Hands Off My Internet, Tesh!

mashable.com     27-Jun-2008   2 related          

Folks called me crazy when I said Representative Edward Markey (the current US Congression winner in the John Tesh look-a-like running) acted like he knew a lot about technology, but really doesn’t. Ars Technica is currently...

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ISPs still considering tracking Web use

msn.com     27-Jun-2008   8 related          

Although a large Internet service provider has backed away from technology that tracks subscribers' Web use in order to deliver personalized advertising, two other broadband companies said Wednesday they are still considering...

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Mr. Agassi Goes to Washington [Earth2Tech]

gigaom.com     27-Jun-2008          

While we just spoke to Shai Agassi inside the beltway, the Project Better Place founder and CEO was back on Capitol Hill yesterday to testify before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming. The...

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Mr. Agassi Goes to Washington

While we just spoke to Shai Agassi inside the beltway, the Project Better Place founder and CEO was back on Capitol Hill yesterday to testify before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence & Global Warming. The...

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Charter suspends NebuAd data-pimping experiment

Squeaky wheels kill pilot - for now Charter Communications has suspended plans to deploy NebuAd's web usage tracking technology following howls of protest from critics who say that practice seriously compromised the privacy of...

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