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Microsoft Upgrades Its Xbox 360 |
 ...on the field of gaming consoles, where the most severe struggles are among Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, Microsoft is to issue an upgraded version of their Xbox 360. The new model is to have a bigger hard-drive (120-gigabyte), a better high-def video support and a more stylish look, which, judging by the recent mirror-styled Wii, is a very significant factor in this sphere.
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Americans Adopt More Children with HIV from Ethiopia |
 ... one of the members of the Chances By Choice, an international HIV-positive adoption advocacy organization, helped 52 HIV-positive children to find a family. She also adopted three children with HIV, driven by a desire to make some difference in the world.
Nowadays, HIV is more manageable with a help of medications and sometimes the costs of a treatment would reach up to $1,500 a month, though with health insurance it m... |
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Tragic Human Error Lead to Transplantation of HIV-positive Organs |
 ...Careggi hospital said that the liver and kidneys of an HIV-positive woman were transplanted after a laboratory biologist mistakenly wrote on a woman's medical records that she tested negative for the virus.
The chief of Careggi hospital, Edoardo Majno, confessed that there has been a tragic human error. Doctors mentioned that the woman, although being HIV-positive, didn't know she was infected with the virus and after... |
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Storm virus attacks blogs |
 ...Storm virus is back again to infect blogs, webmails and bulletin boards. British and Korean computer security scientists claim it's a new variant of malware that is extremely difficult to detect.
The Storm worm looks like a message that features news about Europe's storms. In fact, this virus can evaluate network traffic on the computer and later insert a link to malicious website into user's post, webmail or bulleti... |
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Microsoft's Antivirus Causes Damage |
| ... whether Outlook or Outlook Express. The company's forum concerning OneCare included postings that state the cause of the message deletion.
Users found out that their e-mails were deleted by an antivirus program. It supposed to delete messages that contained malware attachments but besides doing its main job the antivirus whether quarantined or sometimes even erased all .pst or dbx files.
One user left a comment on Mic... |
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Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking |
 ...taking the pill reported missing food, wrappers in bed and traces of cooking in the kitchen and they can't recall eating, cooking or anything at all.
The more disturbing group is the one of sleeping drivers. Such people say that all they could remember was taking a pill and going to bed. However they wake up in their pajamas in the middle of the road and being interrogated by a police officer. Fortunately, there were no ... |
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Animated Cursors is now Windows' Vulnerability |
 ...ing an e-mail attachment that includes a malware, the hacker can make the affected system to execute the code.
Often such kind of holes in the system are exploited by cybercrooks so they can make "drive-by" installations of their malware. Both spyware and remote control tools, that are able to turn personal computers into drones for the attackers, are creepingly loaded onto computers that have a certain vulnerability. ... |
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USA Workers Allowed to Use Marijuana? |
 ... sanctioning medical marijuana would protect their interests if a worker who used marijuana to relieve pain injured his co-workers or made a job mistake. It is difficult for example to employ a truck driver smoking marijuana.
Meanwhile, companies in New York and other states that so far prohibit medical marijuana debate over the issue. Employers are looking for clear answers concerning the matter, as they face a lot o... |
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HIV blood killed haemophilia patients |
 ...ng agent Factor 8 and these supplies were taken from US prisoners. Specialists testing new blood products were neglectful of the danger and used blood from the donors who were infected with dangerous viruses.
The official data to prove the terrible incident disappeared. As the government officials said, documents were deleted or not exposed to the public due to its confidentiality.
From one of the letters it was re... |
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