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Online Poker Study: The More Hands You Win, the More Money You Lose
 Blaine Friedlander
A new Cornell study of online poker seems counterintuitive: The more hands players win, the less money they're likely to collect – especially when it comes to novice players.
Smile – You Could Be On an Internet Camera
 Steven Hill
From bars and restaurants to beaches, attractions, traffic cameras and more, you’ll find hours of voyeuristic thrills watching people and places from all over the world with this little program.
Activists Worried About "Secret" Internet Treaty
 Emilio Godoy
An international treaty to combat copyright infringement and piracy, being negotiated by Mexico and other countries, could curtail expansion of the internet, violate people's rights to privacy and freedom of expression, and undermine multilateral accords on intellectual property, activists warn.
Google May Pull Out of China After Web Attacks
 Alexei Oreskovic
Google Inc said it may pull out of China because it is no longer willing to accept censorship of search results and after hackers coordinated a sophisticated attack on email accounts of human rights activists using its Gmail service.
Full-Body Scanners Used on Air Passengers May Damage Human DNA
 Mike Adams
In researching the biological effects of the millimeter wave scanners used for whole body imaging at airports, NaturalNews has learned that the energy emitted by the machines may damage human DNA.
Robot Border Guards to Patrol Future Frontiers
 Paul Marks
A migrant makes a furtive dash across an unwalled rural section of a national border, only to be confronted by a tracked robot that looks like a tiny combat tank - with a gimballed camera for an eye.
Study Looks Into Potential Side Effects of Terahertz Full Body Scanner Technology
 medgadget.com
As new government directives are now mandating full body (terahertz) scanning (or pat down searches) of our private parts on all US inbound flights, a recent research article in arXiv points to potential negative health effects from the new technology.
Roxxxy the Sex Robot Makes Her World Debut
 Glenn Chapman
Billed as a world first, Roxxxy the sex robot made here debut in front of adoring fans at the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas.
TomTom Products Now Available in Mexico
 TomTom
TomTom, the world’s leading provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, today announces the availability of the TomTom GO 630, XL 330S and ONE 130 in Mexico.
Peers Criticise Food Industry Secrecy on Nanotechnology
 Rebecca Smithers
The UK food industry has come under attack from peers for being secretive over its development of nanotechnology in food and drink.
Air Force Completes Killer Micro-Drone Project
 David Hambling
The Air Force Research Laboratory set out in 2008 to build the ultimate assassination robot: a tiny, armed drone for U.S. special forces to employ in terminating “high-value targets.”
California Police Testing Headcam Device
 Rick Cabral
San Jose police are trying out a new headset recording device in a pilot program designed to assist law enforcement by capturing audio and video in its entirety from the officer's perspective.
'Spanish eTrace' Sent to Mexico, Guatemala & Costa Rica
 mexidata.info
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today announced a two-phase rollout of eTrace 4.0, the newest version of ATF's web-based firearms tracing software, to the governments of Mexico, Guatemala and Costa Rica.
Are Planned Airport Scanners Just a Scam?
 Jane Merrick
The explosive device smuggled in the clothing of the Detroit bomb suspect would not have been detected by body-scanners set to be introduced in British airports, an expert on the technology warned.
Top Scientists Share Their Future Predictions
 Bryan Appleyard
From virtual brains and Matrix-like thought connections to diesel-making bacteria, what the next decade could bring.
Is Your Neighbor Wasting Energy? There's an App for That
 Max Linsky
Listen up, all you eco-warriors: Your days of griping in vain about neighborhood energy waste may be coming to an end. Finally, there's a tool that we normal folks can use to report environmentally negligent behavior. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to EcoSnoop.
Cyber-Security Chief Resigns in Protest
 NationalPolicyInstitute.org
The official in charge of coordinating the US government’s cyber-security operations has quit, saying the expanding control of the National Security Agency over the nation’s computer security efforts poses “threats to our democratic processes.”
'Dry Toilets' Provide Ecological Solution in Slums
 Inés Acosta
Although there are other alternatives to the traditional sanitation system, ecological sanitation is not merely a new technology, but a whole new approach, which sees human excreta as a reusable resource rather than a waste product.
North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due to Core Flux
 Richard A. Lovett
Earth's north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet's core, new research says.
New Tool in the Fight Against Mosquito-Borne Disease: A Microbial 'Mosquito Net'
 Cathleen Genova
Earlier this year, researchers showed that they could cut the lives of disease-carrying mosquitoes in half by infecting them with a bacterium they took from fruit flies. Now, a new report in the December 24th issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication, suggests that their strategy might do one better.
 Obama Finally Names a New Cyber Coordinator
 Lolita C. Baldor
The White House has tapped a corporate cyber security expert and former Bush administration official to lead the effort to shore up the country's computer networks and better coordinate with companies that operate 80 percent of those critical systems.
Avatar (2009) NYT Critics' Pick
 Manohla Dargis
With “Avatar” James Cameron has turned one man’s dream of the movies into a trippy joy ride about the end of life — our moviegoing life included — as we know it.
Sexbots Will Give Us Longevity Orgasm
 Hank Hyena
The Sexbots are coming, and we will cum with them. Three times a week or whatever our physician / longevity coach recommends. Because orgasms - particularly the hormone-exploding O's we'll enjoy with carnal cyborgs - are excellent for our mental and physical health.
Technology in the 21st Century
 Mark de Leon
Dedicated Media Players are devices that connect to a television to play video, photo, and audio files from your computer. Dedicated media players come in all shapes and sizes. Some media players rely on an internally installed hard disk, while others rely on a USB connected disk or a network connection. Nearly all units offer a remote control.
The US Dollar Bill Goes High-Tech
 John Brandon
Counterfeiting is becoming commonplace. Fortunately, nano threads, color-shifting inks, and even built-in windows are improving our currency.
Google to Challenge iPhone
 Miguel Helft
Two titans of the tech world, Google and Apple, may soon be engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Or, more precisely, handset-to-handset combat.
Argentina's Solar Villages Light Up the Andes
 Marcela Valente
The residents of the Puna, the dry Andean highlands in northern Argentina, are cut off from everything - except the sun. Living on arid land thousands of metres above sea level, they are on their way to becoming "solar villages."
'Whack A Banker’ Game Proving a Hit in Britain
 Agence France-Presse
A new “Whack A Banker” amusement arcade game is proving so popular in Britain that the mallets used to clobber them are wearing out fast, its creator said.
VeriChip’s Merger With Credit Monitoring Firm Worries Privacy Activists
 Penn Bullock
Remember VeriChip, the Florida company that once dreamed of injecting its human-implantable RFID microchips in everyone from immigrant guest workers to prison inmates? It’s still alive, and in November it pulled off a seemingly incongruous acquisition.
Google CEO: Secrets Are for Filthy People
 Gawker
Eric Schmidt suggests you alter your scandalous behavior before you complain about his company invading your privacy. That's what the Google CEO told Maria Bartiromo during CNBC's big Google special, an extraordinary pronouncement for such a secretive guy.
Breakthrough in Monitoring Tropical Deforestation Announced in Copenhagen
 Greg Asner
Tropical forest destruction accounts for some 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But quantifying these emissions has not been easy, particularly for tropical nations. New technology, developed by a team of scientists at Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology, is revolutionizing forest monitoring by marrying free satellite imagery and powerful analytical methods in an easy-to-use, desktop software package called CLASlite.
BanderaNews.com Relanzamiento de Marca 2010
 Daniel Gomez
BanderasNews.com hace mancuerna con Mijo! Brands para rediseñar su sitio web de noticias, entretenimiento y estilo de vida. Lanzado en 2001 como una publicación comunitaria con una edición semanal impresa BanderasNews se ha convertido en portal líder para visitantes de Puerto Vallarta.
Rethinking Artificial Intelligence
 David L. Chandler
A broad-based MIT project aims to reinvent AI for a new era. By going back and fixing mistakes, researchers hope to produce ‘co-processors’ for the human mind.
Now Where Was I Again?
 Economic & Social Research Council
Although the actual interruption may only last a few moments, the study shows that we then lose more time when we try to find our place and resume the task that was interrupted.
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