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YouTube to Take a Stab at Video Fingerprinting

YouTube is planning to test new technology that will help it identify copyrighted video content that has been uploaded onto the site illegally, according to press accounts ...

LiPS Unsealed as Mobile Linux Group Rolls Out Specs

The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum announced Monday the publication of its first specifications aimed at fostering interoperability across the Linux-based mobile phone market ...

WEEKEND FEATURE

Online Rx, Part 2: Bad Medicine

It may be against the law for U.S. consumers to import prescription drugs into the United States, but that isn't stopping the growth in rogue Internet pharmacies ...

Researchers Create ‘Creepy’ Child Robot

Researchers at Osaka University in Japan demonstrated on Friday a toddler robot designed to assist in studies of child development ...

MIT Wizards Zap Electricity Through the Air

Power cords and chargers may rule the technological world today, but their days could be numbered, thanks to a breakthrough at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Wii Hurts, Says Doc

Forget Nintendinitis -- the new affliction for those who enjoy gaming just a little too much may be "Acute Wiiitis," which was first reported Thursday in a brief posted to the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site ...

Investors to Ameritrade: Merge, Merge, Merge

Two hedge funds are pushing TD Ameritrade Holding to pursue a merger with a rival firm, the online brokerage announced Tuesday ...

Lala Pays the Piper, Users Listen Free

Digital music startup Lala.com has launched an iPod-compatible online music service that allows users to play songs online for free, the company announced Tuesday. In the future, it will reportedly allow users to download individual tracks without digital rights management (DRM) protection directly to their iPods ...

Four Hours Could Get ’24’ Pirate Three Years

A Chicago man faces the possibility of three years in prison for leaking four episodes of the Fox show "24" onto the Internet before they had aired on prime-time TV ...

WEEKEND FEATURE

Online Rx, Part 1: Prescription for Trouble

In theory, Internet pharmacies have the potential to offer consumers considerable benefits over their brick-and-mortar counterparts. Convenience and lower prices, in particular, are two of the big ones proponents frequently cite ...

SCIENCE

NASA Chief Draws Incredulity With Global Warming Remarks

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin stirred up a maelstrom Thursday when he said he's not convinced global warming is a problem humans should try to solve ...

SCIENCE

Bush Talks Global Warming Talk

Just a week ahead of the Group of Eight (G8) summit to be held in Germany next week, President Bush Thursday outlined his own proposal to combat global warming ...

SPACE

The Final Frontier, Part 3: Working Out the Details

At US$30 million a ticket for orbital space travel and about $200,000 for suborbital trips, demand can only go so far. Before space tourism can really take off -- so to speak -- prices are going to have to come down, and that may require a new business model ...

Google Grabs GreenBorder to Tighten Web Security

Google's acquisition of DoubleClick may be under scrutiny for potential antitrust and privacy violations, but that's apparently not stopping the search giant from snatching up another smaller firm -- this time, security software maker GreenBorder ...

Report: Cyberwarfare at Heart of China’s Military Strategy

The Chinese People's Liberation Army has set up "information warfare" units to create viruses for use in attacking enemy computer systems and networks, according to a Department of Defense report released Friday ...

Antispam Word Jumbles to Help Digitize Books

Web surfers all too familiar with the distorted-letter tests that accompany so many site registration forms today can now take heart -- the time they spend on those tests is being put to good use ...

Huge Searchable Military Database Temporarily Open for Free

In recognition of Memorial Day,Ancestry.com announced Thursday that it is offering the largest collection of searchable military records online at no charge to users through early June ...

SPACE

The Final Frontier, Part 2: From Planetary Cargo to Space Hotels

Before orbital travel becomes commonplace, there's another type of suborbital transit that will likely help fuel the orbital market while fulfilling a critical need in its own right -- "point-to-point transportation." ...

HP Fortunes Skyrocket With $5.6B NASA Deal

NASA has awarded HP a seven-year contract that could be worth as much as US$5.6 billion, HP announced Wednesday ...

New Trends Tool Tells Googlers What’s Hot

List lovers, take note: Google on Monday added a new feature to its Google Trends report that reveals the top 100 fastest-rising Google search queries ...

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