Students at a military graduate school in California are mining social media with new methods that may change the way the armed forces collect intelligence overseas. Students and researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have tackled ...
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It was a jittery session for stocks, with shares falling more than 1 percent after Senate Majority Harry Reid warned a deal was unlikely before the deadline, only to rebound merely on the news that the House would reconvene Sunday, ...
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Twitter launched an interactive map to shine a spotlight on which of the presidential candidates' tweets gain the most traction in different areas of the country. As election day nears, President Barack Obama and his Republican ...
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A subcommittee in the U.S. House of Representatives will hear testimony on Friday about whether the FCC followed its own rules when it gave LightSquared conditional approval for an LTE network early last year. LightSquared wants to build ...
Nebraska's Department of Environmental Quality could issue as early as next week its final evaluation on the Keystone XL project to the state's governor, a DEQ spokesman said Thursday. "Right now it's looking like early January, but I ...
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Apple will manufacture one of its Mac lines exclusively in the U.S. by the end of 2013, CEO Tim Cook told NBC and BusinessWeek in interviews made public today. Analysts saw the move as primarily a public relations ploy, a reaction to ...
GUINNESS is now in a "glass of its own" but for many punters it's a case of "if it's not broken, don't fix it". Drinkers of the black stuff have turned their noses up at the new-shaped glass launched by Diageo for its best-selling stout. ...
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WITH just one trading day left this year, the sharemarket climbed to a 19-month high yesterday as stronger iron ore, copper and oil prices boosted miners, and investors bought shares in anticipation that US politicians can reach a deal to ...
Proposed laws could protect virtual intellectual property. A number of Internet laws that aim to protect intellectual property rights online have been proposed in recent months. While only one piece of legislation has passed, proposed ...
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Energy.gov reported that senior Advisor in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Mr Gil Sperling joined local officials and company representatives for the ribbon cutting ceremony and tour of the ArcelorMittal steel ...
The Australian sharemarket closed higher yesterday as US President Barack Obama cut short his Christmas holiday to return to Washington for talks aimed at avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff. Locally,investors remained optimistic that ...
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THE Australian dollar is higher as sentiment about the US budget negotiations continues to be the main driver for financial markets. US President Barack Obama cut short his Christmas holidays in Hawaii to return to Washington for talks ...
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House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's"Plan B"to limit income-tax increases to the wealthiest sliver of the population appeared likely to pass the House on Thursday evening after it narrowly cleared a procedural hurdle in the ...
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Reuters reported that London copper firmed after data showed China's manufacturers built on a recovery this month, driving a fifth straight week of gains but a lack of resolution to the US fiscal cliff kept a lid on prices. Growth in ...
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LOCAL shares closed higher today as US President Barack Obama cut short his Christmas holiday to return to Washington for talks aimed at resolving the so-called fiscal cliff. Investors in Australia's sharemarket remained optimistic that ...