Last updated: 3/21/2010 7:09:25 PM GMT

TigerText App: A Cheater’s Dream
Posted on March 20, 2010
An aptly-named new iPhone app makes text messages disappear from both the sender's and receiver's phones, as well as any servers.
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    On/Off: Can South Koreans survive without the web?
    Posted on March 13, 2010
    South Korea is often called the world's most wired society, boasting the fastest average broadband speeds on the planet. What happens when you ask two families to live without the web for one week?
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    • Beijingers get back on their bikes
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    Office worker David Dai is one of a growing army of Beijing residents returning to two-wheeled transport.
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    • Microsoft launches free rival to BBC iPlayer - the MSN Video Player
    Posted on March 11, 2010
    Microsoft is launching a free online video player - the first serious rival to the BBC’s iPlayer. The MSN video player, which goes live tomorrow, will feature a thousand hours of television programming that is aimed mainly at the youth market, young families and professionals.
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    From goggle to Google: TV meets the internet
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    Television viewers are doing it for themselves – hitching up to the web for more control over their viewing. Hardware and content providers are scrambling to keep up, Stephen Foley reports
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    Korea unveils the ‘future of transport’ — the Online Electric Vehicle
    Posted on March 10, 2010
    The first public demonstration of the Online Electric Vehicle, or Olev, was, however, as much about the road on which it travelled as the prototype bus itself. Electric power strips have been buried 30cm (12in) under the surface and connected to the national grid.
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    Cord blood: a wasted lifeline?
    Posted on March 2, 2010
    The blood from umbilical cords may be a better source of stem cells than bone marrow. Simon Usborne meets the couple campaigning to make donation of it easier
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    New homes to be built from 18 tonnes of recycled plastic
    Posted on February 25, 2010
    A pioneering company is building three-bedroom houses with frameworks made entirely of recycled waste plastic - including thousands of water bottles. And the price? All yours, complete with bathroom, kitchen and plumbing, for £42,000 - although you will have to provide your own land.
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    Launch of the Bloom box fuel cell generates a slice of Apple hype
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    What brings Arnold Schwarzenegger to eBay HQ? An ex-Nasa scientist's cheap energy invention made from sand inscribed with special inks
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    • Flying into the future: New Zealand company to make personal jet packs
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    Martin Aircraft Company, in Christchurch, New Zealand, aims to make 500 packs a year which will sell for around £50,000.
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    • Google faces anti-monopoly probe by European Commission
    Posted on February 24, 2010
    Google is facing a preliminary anti-monopoly probe by the European Commission into its dominant position in online browsing and digital advertising following allegations that it demotes competing websites to the lower echelons of customers' search results.
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    Universal therapy could 'contain Aids epidemic in five years'
    Posted on February 21, 2010
    Universal therapy with anti-retroviral drugs would not only save millions of lives, but would also prevent transmission of HIV by making people who carry the virus less infectious to others, said Brian Williams, of the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (Sacema).
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    Universities told to consider dope tests as student use of 'smart drugs' soars
    Posted on February 21, 2010
    Cambridge scientist calls for ethical debate on drugs bought on internet that boost alertness and attention
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    Online voyeurs flock to the random thrills of Chatroulette
    Posted on February 18, 2010
    A new website that has been described as "surreal", "addictive" and "frightening" is proving a sensation around the world – and attracting a reputation as a haven for no-holds-barred, explicit material.
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    • China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy
    Posted on January 31, 2010
    TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.
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