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Senate Passes Bill Requiring Black Boxes in All New Cars

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April 20, 2012
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Senate Passes Bill Requiring Black Boxes in All New Cars Starting in 2015, all new commercial automobiles will be equipped with Event Data Recorders.
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Infected WordPress Blogs Blamed for Mac Flashback Trojan The source of the Apple Mac Flashback Trojan was probably a large clutch of compromised US-based WordPress blog websites hijacked to push visitors to malware.
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Sony to Launch 5GB Online Photo Sharing Service Next Week Sony said Friday it will launch its online photo sharing service, "PlayMemories Online," next week.
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A Liquidmetal iPhone 5: What's in it for You It's not liquid at all, but this lightweight, durable metal could support an iPhone that won't scratch and is less likely to shatter if dropped.
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$70 ARM PC Can Run Android and Ubuntu Linux Similar in some ways to the Raspberry Pi, the Mele A1000 offers yet another low-cost computing option.
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FCC Fights Carrier Bill Shock Site lists the major mobile U.S. carriers' policies for warning customers who approach their over-usage limits (and accompanying fees) in a compromise with industry association.
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Top Honor for Linus Torvalds Highlights Linux's Importance 2012 Millennium Technology Prize recognizes the ubiquity and impact of the free and open source operating system.
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Verizon Shared Data Plans Go Live 'Midsummer' The carrier joins T-Mobile and Sprint in offering a single monthly fee for users to get data access for more than one gadget.
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Laptops With AMD's 'Trinity' Chips Coming This Quarter Consumer laptops and desktops will go on sale this quarter and do battle with Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs.
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Berners-Lee: Demand Your Data From Internet Companies The Web scientist says the problem with companies like Facebook and Google is not that they collect vast troves of data about their users, but that they don't reveal what they do with it.
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Don't Text and Fly: Pilot Nearly Crashes Plane While Checking Text Messages In an extreme case of cell phone distraction, a commercial passenger airplane nearly touched down without its landing gears, because the pilot was too busy texting while flying.
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Samsung Galaxy S III Spied in Video (Perhaps) Leaked peek, specs of purported forthcoming model reveal software navigation buttons on a unit running a 1.4 GHz quad-core CPU and supporting NFC.
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Your Next Phone May Be Able to See Through Walls Texas researchers develop an X-ray chip for smartphones.
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Microsoft Q3 Revenue Beats Wall Street Expectations UPDATE: The numbers were good, but the next 12 to 18 months appear crucial for Microsoft, which finds itself coping with the cloud's challenge to its historical business model, based on on-premise desktop and server software.
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Verizon's IP VPN Opens a New World of Wireless Possibilities New Private IP Wireless (LTE) service to let businesses create IP VPNs that span and integrate wired and wireless networks.
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Apple, Google, Others to Face Former Employees' Antitrust Suit A federal court in California orders seven technology companies including Apple, Intel, Adobe, and Google to face a private antitrust suit from former employees.
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Skepticism Mounts Over Windows RT's Enterprise Role Analysts cite omissions from the Windows RT feature set.
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ARM Unveils High Performance Quad-Core Chip ARM has launched a higher-performance chip for laptops that also delivers more efficient power management.
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Yes, IT Departments Should Worry About Google Drive Google Drive is poised to give IT departments yet another headache to deal with.
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Verizon LTE Network Now Covers Two-Thirds of U.S. Population Verizon's LTE network may not be the fastest right now, but it does cover the most people.
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