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LOL, texting, and txt-speak: Linguistic miracles 2 Mar 2013 | 01:46 am
Is texting shorthand a convenience, a catastrophe for the English language, or actually something new and special? John McWhorter, a linguist at Columbia University, sides with the latter. According t...
Flaw in Intel Ethernet controller exposes to 'packet of death' attack 9 Feb 2013 | 03:18 am
The hardware qualification is a very important issue, recent vulnerabilities discovered in network appliances of various manufacturer have alerted security community once again on the necessity to val...
'Country pricing' a cause of Canada-U.S. price gaps 9 Feb 2013 | 02:56 am
Canadians are paying far more than Americans for the same products because of a systemic and unjustifiable markup scheme by many manufacturers, a retail expert says. A Marketplace report on Canada-U.S...
Executive coach: 'Finance is an amoral world, bordering on the immoral' 8 Feb 2013 | 07:32 am
"In two decades as a psychologist I have encountered perhaps half a dozen people in whom I could not detect at least something positive, if only a sliver. The psychopaths are a really rare breed. But ...
HBO Wants Google to Censor…. HBO.com 7 Feb 2013 | 01:07 pm
Every week Google is asked to remove more than four million URLs from its search engine. While these automated requests are usually legitimate, mistakes happen more often than one might expect. In a r...
Massive search fraud botnet seized by Microsoft and Symantec 7 Feb 2013 | 10:32 am
A botnet that redirected clicks from millions of PCs has been, at least for the moment, shut down by Microsoft and Symantec. Based on the fraudulent traffic generated by the Bamital botnet, the two co...
Dems move to change federal pot laws 5 Feb 2013 | 04:03 pm
An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax. While passage this year could be a...
Ottawa gives nod to west-to-east oil pipeline 3 Feb 2013 | 09:13 am
The federal government is firming up its support of two projects that would see oil from Alberta piped to Atlantic Canada. Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said he gave a tentative nod to one pro...
Decoding facial hair in the Arab world 3 Feb 2013 | 08:07 am
During the Mubarak-era, beards were a no-no in Egypt - but now they're back in fashion with a vengeance. In the Arab and Muslim world, facial hair signifies a lot more than personal style, writes Cair...
IBM's Watson Goes To College 1 Feb 2013 | 04:58 am
IBM is installing a more general-purpose version of its artificially intelligent Watson cluster supercomputer at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). The system was specifically architected for...
