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This Children’s Science Book Could Help Save The US Economy
It’s Alive! is the story of how things got alive on earth, written for children, comic style. But most adults could probably stand to read it — and would enjoy it — just as much as any kid.
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I Don’t Care About AT&T’s Manufactured Network Doomsday
Lately, anytime the gaping maw of US carrier AT&T opens, no matter what it’s talking about — puppies! or unlimited data (boring) or financial data — it has to slip in at least a tiny reference to how badly the T-Mobile merger has to happen, or all of our phones are going to explode and the…
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911 To Get MMS: Here Come The Emergency Cockshots?
How horrible it is to be a 911 operator. You have to answer calls from screaming/injured/angry/crazy/dying people all day. Their job is about to get worse, as soon they’ll be able to receive texts, photos and video of that misery.
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Squirrels Continue To Be Awful By Wrecking People’s Internet
Level 3 Communications, a major ISP in the US, has a serious beef with squirrels. It turns out the little rodents have a penchant for chewing through their fibre optic lines. They actually account for 17 per cent of the damages to its 135,185km network this year.