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VIDEO: Barn owl love knows no borders

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Friday, 18 May 2012 06:00
BBC
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Barn owls used to catch mice and rats in the fields of Jordan and Israel are breeding in specially set-up nesting boxes.

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Israel May Be Dropping Spies In Iran Using Secret American Stealth BlackHawk Helicopters [Aircraft]

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 10:20
Gizmodo.com
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Former Pentagon senior policy analyst F. Michael Maloof claims that Israel is using the same ultra-secret stealth H-60 Blackhawk helicopter that...

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PopSci Q&A: NASA Just Gave You A Telescope. What Will You Look At First?

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Thursday, 17 May 2012 08:30
PopSci.com
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For the first time, NASA turns over the reins to a functioning spacecraft

If you follow NASA at all, you know the agency has had some funding troubles of late, forcing changes...

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Abraham’s genetic threads | Gene Expression

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:46
DiscoverMagazine.com
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Every few days my Google Alerts have been dropping in my inbox reviews of Harry Osters’ Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People. The latest, is in the The Tablet, A Case for Genetic...


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Abraham’s genetic threads | Gene Expression

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:46
DiscoverMagazine.com
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Every few days my Google Alerts have been dropping in my inbox reviews of Harry Osters’ Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People. The latest, is in the The Tablet, A Case for Genetic...


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Turkey Thinks This Bird Is an Israeli Spy Because Its Nostril Is Big Enough to Hold Microchips [Espionage]

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 11:00
Gizmodo.com
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Turkish authorities announced Tuesday that they have recovered the body of a daring Israeli spy—replete with feathers. And a belly full of...

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Franck Nazikian: Competition with Chinese Characteristics

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Tuesday, 15 May 2012 09:55
The Huffington Post
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With an online population of over 500 million and a consistent double digit growth rate, the region with the biggest stakes and the most significant prospects is none other than China.

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On View: Exhibition Traces the Emergence of Jews as Medical Innovators

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Monday, 14 May 2012 12:38
The New York Times
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An exhibition offers a look at the emergence of European and American Jews as innovators in medicine, despite their status as outsiders frequently scorned by the establishment.

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Forget 22nm Chips, Intel's Already Looking Ahead to 5nm

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Monday, 14 May 2012 03:28
MaximumPC.com
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Intel's 22nm processors, better known as Ivy Bridge, are fresh out of the fab and have given the Santa Clara's Core architecture a kick in the pants. But is the successor to...


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Ernest Kaye obituary

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Monday, 14 May 2012 00:52
guardian.co.uk
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Member of the original design team that built the Lyons Electronic Office (Leo), the world's first business computerErnest Kaye, who has died aged 89, was the last surviving member of the original...

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What is the new exercise science fit for? | Matt Seaton

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Sunday, 13 May 2012 07:43
guardian.co.uk
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We know more about health and fitness than ever before, but knowledge is only an unqualified good when it has benefits for allWhen I go to log in to the website managed by the maker of my sports...

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Does Thinking About God Improve Our Self-Control?

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Saturday, 12 May 2012 12:47
Wired.com
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My latest WSJ column is about a new paper looking at how priming people to think about religion can improve their performance on various measures of self-control, even if they don't believe in...

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Nano Drones, Ethical Algorithms: Inside Israel's Secret Plan for Its Future Air Force

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Friday, 11 May 2012 08:00
Wired.com
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Nano drones that an infantryman can pull out of his pocket; helicopters piloted by robots who extract wounded soldiers from the battlefield; micro satellites on demand; virtual training with a...

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Elderly Couple Killed by AT&T Dropped Calls after Escaping Nazis [Phones]

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Friday, 11 May 2012 04:13
Gizmodo.com
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Madeleine Morris survived Nazi-occupied France, and went on to happily marry a wonderfully trained musician. Then she went on a trip the country,...

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Israel s Science Minister on Space Technology-for Peaceful and Militaristic Aims

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Thursday, 10 May 2012 11:09
ScientificAmerican.com
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Launch of an Israeli Shavit rocket via Wikimedia Commons

Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Daniel Hershkowitz , Israel s minister of science and technology, to talk about his...


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EMC buys flash memory company

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Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:14
The Boston Globe
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EMC Corp., one of the world's largest makers of data-storage computers, said Thursday that it was adding to its flash storage product lineup with the purchase of an Israeli company. ...

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My Three Hours With the Most Violent Videogame I've Ever Seen

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Thursday, 10 May 2012 07:29
PopSci.com
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Sniper Elite V2's hyper-realistic, surgically accurate KillCam feature takes you inside your victim's body to see precisely how your bullet will end his life. Will gamers embrace...


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Wolfenstein 3D: 20 this year and free online

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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 09:55
guardian.co.uk
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To celebrate two decades of zombie Nazi chaos, the Id classic is now a free browser gameOh hell, can it really be 20 years? Twenty years since Id Software effectively kickstarted the first-person...

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Wolfenstein 3D Turns 20, iD Showers Gamers With Gratis Goodies

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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 07:11
MaximumPC.com
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Long before there was Battlefield 3, there was Call of Duty, and before that, there was Quake and Doom. All those games can trace their lineage back even further, to Wolfenstein...


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PopSci Q&A: How Nanoracks Sends Scotch, iPhones and School Experiments to Space

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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 04:15
PopSci.com
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A private, non-governmental space cargo company

The private space industry is holding its breath for later this month when SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will lift off en route to...

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Beetle-fungus disease threatens crops and landscape trees in Southern California

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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 05:26
ScienceDaily.com
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A plant pathologist has identified a fungus that has been linked to the branch dieback and general decline of several backyard avocado and landscape trees in residential neighborhoods of Los...

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Paralyzed Woman Completes London Marathon in Bionic Suit After 16 Days

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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 05:10
PopSci.com
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This is one of the most inspiring stories we've ever seen: Claire Lomas of the U.K. was paralyzed from the chest down in a horse-riding accident five years ago. Yet today, she...

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Interpol Ups The War Against Cyber Crime

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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 01:43
The Huffington Post
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TEL AVIV, Israel — Interpol said Tuesday it is making the war against cyber crime a main priority this year as online fraud crosses borders...

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Particles for Peace: Iranian, Israeli, Turkish and Arab Physicists Lay Plans for a Joint Particle Accelerator

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Tuesday, 08 May 2012 00:00
ScientificAmerican.com
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SANTA BARBARA Physics has always been one of the most globalized of professions. Physicists think of themselves as supranational, rising above national and cultural concerns. They may not...


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Francois Hollande's start-down nation

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Monday, 07 May 2012 22:41
guardian.co.uk
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Under its new president, France is unlikely to take an ambitious stance towards startups or venture capitalA forgettable election campaign just wrapped up: François Hollande is now the president...

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Heart attack survivors living close to highways face higher 10-year death risk

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Monday, 07 May 2012 07:42
ScienceDaily.com
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Living close to a major highway poses a significant risk to heart attack survivors, reinforcing the need to isolate housing developments from heavy traffic areas, a Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...

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Re-gifting etiquette? The gifts we keep on giving

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Monday, 07 May 2012 02:37
ScienceDaily.com
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Birthdays, graduations, Christmas, baby showers, bridal showers, bar and bat mitzvahs, Mother's Day, Father's Day, wedding anniversaries, the occasional sorry- about-that gesture, hostess gifts...

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The rise of performance-enhancing genes

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Saturday, 05 May 2012 10:04
guardian.co.uk
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A single 'super' gene can make a dramatic difference to an athlete's performance. But is that fair?Evolution has not acted equally on men and women. This is most clear when it comes to the...

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Former Cern nuclear physicist jailed for al-Qaida terrorist plot

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Friday, 04 May 2012 02:24
guardian.co.uk
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Algerian-born Frenchman Adlène Hicheur sentenced to five years for exchanging emails with alleged al-Qaida contactA French court has sentenced an Algerian-born nuclear physicist to five years in...

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Connecting the dots of this climate change crisis | Bill McKibben

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Thursday, 03 May 2012 19:00
guardian.co.uk
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Across the world, people are seeing and believing the evidence of manmade global warming. Only the media don't get itThe Williams river was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was...

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The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use by the FDA

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Wednesday, 02 May 2012 06:04
PopSci.com
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Big news on the pharma front today: for the first time the U.S. Federal Drug Administration has approved a drug for humans that was produced in a genetically engineered plant...

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Ancient Hebrew seal discovered near Jerusalem’s First Temple

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Wednesday, 02 May 2012 01:47
FoxNews.com
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A 2,000-year-old seal bearing a name similar to that of Israel’s prime minister was discovered during excavations near the Western Wall, the Israel Antiquities Authority said.



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Sniper V2 Elite – review

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Tuesday, 01 May 2012 20:42
guardian.co.uk
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Xbox 360/PS3/PC; £xxx; cert 16+; 505 Games/RebellionA criticism often levelled against gun games is their routine failure to address the consequences of the violence they demand their players...

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Anav Silverman: Google Street View in Israel: Tourists vs. Terrorists?

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Tuesday, 01 May 2012 09:37
The Huffington Post
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Israel became the first Middle Eastern country to be added to Google Street View services last week, when images of the Holy Land officially went up on Sunday, April 20.

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Jews Should Lead The Battle Against Technological Illiteracy

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Monday, 30 April 2012 06:03
The Huffington Post
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By Liel Leibovitz Tablet Magazine Next month, more than 1.5 million American college students will graduate with bachelor degrees. Nearly all of them will be...

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Franck Nazikian: China IT Is Ready, Are You?

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Monday, 30 April 2012 02:20
The Huffington Post
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China has been a leader in manufactured goods for a while, and now appears poised to lead in IT.

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Facing the ocean | Gene Expression

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Saturday, 28 April 2012 17:35
DiscoverMagazine.com
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Halford Mackinder’s conceptualization of the world

With the recent publication of the paper on the archaeogenetics of Neolithic Sweden I feel like we’re nearing a precipice. That precipice...


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After Murdoch, what of the new digital titans? | Observer editorial

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Saturday, 28 April 2012 07:00
guardian.co.uk
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Even as the Sun king's reign is over, we should be concerned about the future of internet regulationThere were two very revealing moments in Rupert Murdoch's interrogation by the Leveson inquiry....

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Ruth Eglash: How Israel's Museums Are Harnessing Social Media to Share Their Wares

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Friday, 27 April 2012 04:06
The Huffington Post
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"If someone based in Oklahoma goes online to read about the museum and learns through our Timeline what we do, then you can be sure that the first place that person will visit if they come to...

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews To Hold Rally Against The Internet

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Thursday, 26 April 2012 03:30
The Huffington Post
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A mass rally against the Internet and technology led by Haredim, or ultra-orthodox Jews, will be held at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York on...

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Ex-Terrorists and Neo-Nazis Get Their Own Social Network

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Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:19
Wired.com
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A new social network, backed by Google, tries to link up former extremists and survivors of attacks. One-time radical Islamists and neo-Nazis have already signed up.



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Obama announced crackdown on Iran and Syria's cyber oppressors

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Monday, 23 April 2012 04:01
guardian.co.uk
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US president signs executive order targeting people and firms that help authoritarian regimes clamp down on dissidentsPresident Barack Obama has signed an executive order targeting people and...

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Iranian oil ministry hit by cyber-attack

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Monday, 23 April 2012 03:10
guardian.co.uk
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Iran's main oil export terminal is cut off from internet after apparent attack on website and communications systemsIran's oil ministry has called a crisis meeting after its main website and...

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LOOK: Google Street View Adds Stunning New Locations

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Monday, 23 April 2012 01:37
The Huffington Post
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TEL AVIV, Israel -- After months of consultations with Israeli security officials, Google has launched its popular Street View service in the country's three largest...

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Check Point Software Falls On Mixed Q2 Guidance

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Monday, 23 April 2012 01:34
Investors.com
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Shares of Check Point Software Technologies (CHKP) tumbled more than 9% in morning trading Monday after the Internet security software maker posted better-than-expected first-quarter results but...

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US to sanction authoritarian regimes that block internet access for protesters

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Monday, 23 April 2012 00:55
guardian.co.uk
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Penalties are aimed at places like Syria and Iran that use technology to enable human-rights abuses against dissidentsPresident Barack Obama on Monday will announce a plan to impose sanctions...

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Drones Won’t Be Taking Over Our Wars Anytime Soon

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Monday, 23 April 2012 00:50
PopSci.com
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Unmanned drones are increasingly used in combat, but humans are still at the heart of every mission

Early in 2008 on the Black Sea coast, a Georgian drone flying over the...

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Drones Won’t Be Taking Over Our Wars Anytime Soon

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Monday, 23 April 2012 00:50
PopSci.com
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Unmanned drones are increasingly used in combat, but humans are still at the heart of every mission

Early in 2008 on the Black Sea coast, a Georgian drone flying over the...

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Turing's Nazi Enigma Code-Breaking Secrets Have Been Declassified [Cryptography]

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Sunday, 22 April 2012 22:40
Gizmodo.com
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Over 70 years ago, father of computer science Alan Turing developed the techniques which enabled quick and efficient decryption of the Nazis'...

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666

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Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:19
guardian.co.uk
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666 (and sometimes 616) is the notorious Number of the Beast... what's all that about? And what has roulette got to do with it!?I've always been amused by the rampant superstition associated with...

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