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BUSINESS is booming at a high-security vault in Brisbane as people look for ways to protect their valuables amid the financial crisis.
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“Getting a helping hand” took on a whole new meaning for Kasey Edwards Monday when he received a new, high-tech hand to replace the one he lost to a hungry alligator in June. “That’s awesome,” he said as he flexed the new, lifelike prosthesis.
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NASA engineers say they know how to fix the broken Hubble Space Telescope: They have to wake up computer parts that have been sleeping in space for more than 18 years. On Wednesday, NASA will start a complicated remote-control fix of a major glitch that stopped the telescope from capturing and beaming down pictures.
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Special features include night vision and a sensor that reads license plates.
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A controversial technology is being adapted to help ferret out people and drugs crossing the U.S. border illegally.
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Gartner has released a list of the top 10 technologies that will dominate the landscape for the next three years. The release comes at a jittery time for technology stocks and early stage startups alike, with all the major market indexes on a downward spiral. The list comes just one day after the research firm cut its 2009 outlook on growth in IT spending from 5.8 percent to 2.3 percent.
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Immigration is becoming as nettlesome to high-tech companies as it has long been in the agriculture and construction businesses. Although technology firms don't reach into the same labor pool as do ag comglomerates or building contractors, their problems are converging. The challenge, advocates of immigration reform say, is a lack of government responsiveness to their need for brain power.
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Darpa's director relishes the research body's quest for breakthroughs
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More companies than before rely on home users for the lion's share of revenue. But consumer purchasing is looking vulnerable. The high-tech industry's near-term health depends on how badly you need that iPod or flat-panel television.
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The conventional story relies a lot on myth. But the fuller explanation has to take account of the spillover effect from the nation's rapid military build-up to compensate for its small population.
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Buying an expensive, all-body elliptical machine -- even cutting-edge models that push the technology envelope like the novel sit-down and multi-mode models tested here -- might seem a bit counterintuitive in the midst of tough economic times. But bull and bear markets don't matter if you think of health as a long-term investment. The four excellent, club-quality machines below, each of which deliver smooth, heart-rate-monitored, arm-and-leg aerobic workouts that burn calories without joint stress, will pay dividends for decades.
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A draft Army report suggests Twitter could be effective in coordinating attacks.
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Cisco, Amazon, Comcast, and other tech stocks surge on market rally. Dow posts gain of nearly 900 points.
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Con artists are capitalizing on the intense interest in this year's presidential campaign to push schemes to steal your money and your identity.
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Using high tech, a scientist searches for the tomb of Genghis Khan.
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One of the best things about moving to Los Angeles from North Carolina was discovering the outrageous cadre of TV weathermen with vaguely meteorological-sounding names: Dallas Raines, Johnny Mountain, Fritz Coleman.
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Thousands of prostate, heart and other procedures are already being performed by robots, and experts predict machines will be used to penetrate ailing bodies in the years ahead.
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Nov 3 - German mourners can remember their loved ones who've passed away with a new digital tombstone.
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Metro officials say they need to buy 648 rail cars and overhaul 100 older ones to meet current and future ridership needs. The total cost will be about $2 billion if the agency is able to win board approval to begin the bidding process by next month, according to a staff proposal to be presented ...
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HAVING gazed into her nine-month-old baby boy's potential future, mother-of-six Monica O'Connor is not too encouraged.
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Nov. 5: Technologies like texting and Twitter helped get voters to the polls. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports. (Today Show)
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A British adaptation turns "The Waves," Woolf's 300-page modernist novel, into a commensurate theater piece.
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President-Elect Obama says he will embrace new technology in his administration and plans to appoint a Chief Technology Officer. Daniel Sieberg report.
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Hotels are competing for guests by offering computer lounges, Wii game consoles in exercise rooms, and remotes that control lights, blinds and the thermostat — as well as the television.
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If you want to see Cisco Systems' vision for baseball, you don't have to wait for the new Oakland Athletics' stadium in Fremont, Calif., which could be delayed. Instead, you can fly to New York. The New York Yankees and the San Jose networking giant on Tuesday announced what one team executive described as a new "state of the art-ness" for baseball.
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CHICAGO- Call it the e-fireside chat. U.S. President-elect Barack Obama plans to continue his close links with the Internet by making the weekly radio address into a YouTube video that he will post on his Web site www.change.gov, aides said on Friday. Obama, who takes office on Jan. 20, will record this Saturday’s Democratic weekly radio address [...]
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At the new stadium, HD TVs, smart phones and Internet access abound.
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The travails of a young company in Moscow offer a glimpse into the toll that the global financial crisis is taking on the budding entrepreneurial culture in Russia.
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The travails of a young company in Moscow offer a glimpse into the toll that the global financial crisis is taking on the budding entrepreneurial culture in Russia.
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A new report finds that many of us need help with tech gadgets.
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What will be tech-savvy Obama's priorities?
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Buying any sort of high-tech product involves risks not faced with most other purchases. The sweater you get for yourself probably won't cost dramatically less next year or be replaced in stores by a vastly upgraded Sweater 3.0, but your new laptop, camera or phone can become overpriced or obsolete within weeks.
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Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory.
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