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From Wash Post Technology:

The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.

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I found these pictures on Think or Thwim and was blown away. Back in the 40s, during the war, the Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank was not only Los Angeles' main airport, but a massive facility that produced warplanes from the P-38 to the B-17 bomber. Lo

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If you're stealing a car these days, there's a good chance you're not bothering to actually pick the locks, but if you are, your job is about to get a little easier. A device called the Electronic Key Impressioner is inserted into a car door and scans the position of

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The nation's farmers got a big boost Wednesday when the Obama administration issued new biofuels guidelines that could open the way for large increases in the production of corn-based ethanol.

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Garrett A. Morgan was born in Kentucky in 1877. He was the seventh of eleven children born to Sydney Morgan, a former slave who was freed in 1863. Garrett Morgan spent many years teaching himself to repair sewing machines before opening his own business specializing in sewing machine sales and re

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