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Google's List of Class-Action Lawsuits |
 ...stings by virtue of a provision in the Communications Decency Act."
Perfect 10 v. Google. Filed on November 19, 2004.
Claims: Perfect 10 claimed Google to have allowed people to view copyrighted images through Google's image search.
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First Antarctic Educational Center to be Opened Soon |
 ...systems: wind and sun. On the roof of the base a camera will be set. Thus the teachers will be able to use in class the educational material provided by the website. The online broadcast will include images and surroundings of the ice.
The adventurer hopes that a special interest to children will be the mix of actual images of the area covered in snow and additional information regarding the effects of climate change. ... |
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Scientist's call upon policy makers on global warming |
 ...cience Summit Week, which started on Wednesday in New Hampshire to make up their mind on crucial changes in the North Pole that highlights global warming more than ever before.
Ross Virginia, one of the organizers of the Arctic Science Summit on global warming, pre-opened the summit with a speech that was to make everyone realize the problem of the environment. She asked everyone to join scientific and policy efforts ... |
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Secret US military data was disclosed thanks to porn images |
 ...Secret information on US combat system was accidentally exposed by Japanese officer after he exchanged porn files with another officer at work.
The naval officer intended to copy adult images that came along with the data on Aegis military system taken by accident from another officer's computer. Thus when he swapped the files with the petty officer of the lower rank, the latter was carelessly given the access to t... |
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Attempt to control the blogosphere wakes up howls of protests |
 ...or abusive and offensive comments from blogs. Ironically the offensive comment filter proposal faced abusive comments from the blogosphere.
Thus the answer to the attempt was more that offensive – images of excrement. An idea to "troll feces, specifically designed to create a special group of self-satisfied, smug, condescending dingalings looking down their noses" was likened by a blogger whose nickname is bynkii.
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Suicide Bomber Attack in Afghanistan |
| ...bomber. No military casualties were reported, however eight civilians were wounded by the attack.
The convoy was attacked when it was passing the Kandahar western outskirts, which is the heartland of Taliban. This particular region is where the U.S. and NATO keep their military troops.
The province of Kandahar houses troops both from NATO and the U.S. and Canada is the main supplier of soldiers for NATO in the regio... |
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Rich People Are Not Always Smart People |
| ...A recent study, made nationwide, showed that one can make a fortune without having an astronomical IQ score. Scientists were able to determine that some people with a below average level of intelligence had about the same amount of money as those having higher scores on IQ test. It is worth mentioning that the analysis took into consideration the same circumstances of both categories.
In addition some people, who are c... |
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Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game |
 ...the UK for his/her study. The main goal of the player is to reduce the character's 'culture shock' from the default 100 points to zero. To do this a series of tasks is necessary, such as dealing with images and small scenes of students' life, which could arouse a culture shock by international students.
The opening episode of the game is the student's first day in the UK. The character receives a map and some tasks to... |
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School Cleaner Took Pics of Kids in the Toilet |
| ...ictures of schoolgirls and female teachers in the toilet. He made a large hole on the floor of the toilet and hid the camera in it to make photos of the intimate parts of the children . More than 90 images were later superimposed on the photos depicting sexual activity to make adult pictures.
He was also known to browse internet for children porn pictures.
Justice Peter Evans of the Supreme Court of Tasmania plea... |
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World's First 4D CAVEman to Help Treat Various Diseases |
| ...of a human body was developed by scientists at the University of Calgary. Scientists that created the 4D human atlas named it CAVEman. With the help of translation of medical and genomic data into 4D images the computer model of human body allows scientists to make their experiments more accurately having a clearer inside view.
The 4D human atlas is located in the CAVE, which represents a virtual reality room. The cub... |
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Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Gran Paradiso Alpha 5: out in June |
 ... the information about visited pages. The developers of the browser have paid much attention to off-line works. The users will be able to freely browse cached pages, to use special apps for searching images, texts and files.
The final release of Gran Paradiso - Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - is planned to happen at the end of 2007.
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School to be Guarded by a Robot |
| ...The world's first robot to guard children was developed in South Korea. Scientists dubbed the robot OFRO, and it's main goal is to protect children in Seoul's middle school. Placing a robot in the school is a test that the developers are going to make before launching the robot into the market.
According to the developers the robot could be useful in alerting staff in case outsiders intend to seduce students. Chief Exe... |
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More Google Earth Users than People in Brazil |
 ...gitude and latitude of her children's birthplaces, three of whom she adopted. A German magazine featured a photo of the actress' tattoo, mapped the kid's birthplaces on Google Earth and published the images.
Michael Jones mentioned that people got interested not only in Google Earth but specifically in digital earth. People enjoyed viewing their surroundings in a new way. An Iranian sent him mail, saying Google has sal... |
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Robots Assist in Rescuing Disaster Victims |
| ...sts will test robot performance applying actual training scenarios for emergency responders. Test results are required for improving and developing new usage guides that allow to match specific kinds of robots to particular disaster scenes.
The scientists developed two Disaster City training scenarios. The first provides a simulated collapse of a building. It will allow responders to use robots for victim searching and a... |
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Blind People Help Sighted to Discover the Unseen |
 ...s the roles reverse: sighted people say goodbye to their familiar environments while blind people offer them security, as well as a sense of orientation helping sight people to feel the world without images.
"Dialog in the Dark" showed a remarkable effect, being already presented in 17 countries throughout Europe, Asia and America.
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