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Wash Your Hands: ATMs Are Germ Havens

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October 25, 2011
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Wash Your Hands: ATMs Are Germ Havens A swab test conducted in six U.S. cities of 10 items commonly found in public places showed high levels of a type of germs that cause the common cold.
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What Makes Siri Special? With its combination of advanced artificial intelligence and sharp wit, Apples virtual assistant may kick off an explosion of new voice recognition applications.
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WikiLeaks Suspends Publication Because of Financial Boycott WikiLeaks will be suspending its publication of leaks, thanks to a financial boycott by companies such as Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal.
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How CIOs Can Help Curb E-Waste Many have seen it: that picture of a small child playing in a heap of discarded metal scraps and wires in a Third World country. Images such as these have raised awareness about a fact of life in the computer era that's tainting corporate brands and creating a huge environmental problem: electronic waste.
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iPod Guru Launches Sleek Thermostat Named Nest The Nest Learning Thermostat is a touch-controlled thermostat designed to personalize your home energy needs that could help save you as much as $173 per year on your energy bill.
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Battlefield 3's Pretty, Messy, Tedious Solo Campaign While the PC version of Battlefield 3's downloading, we spend some time with the solo campaign on an Xbox 360.
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Users Can Now Replace Blogger Profile With Google+ Profile In the first integration between the Google+ social networking site and the Blogger blog publishing platform, users will be able to replace their Blogger...
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Ice Cream Sandwich Can Make Your Android Into a Gaming Console If you're already anticipating loading Ice Cream Sandwich onto your non-iPhone, you're in luck -- Android 4.0 supports USB game controllers, just like Honeycomb...
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FTC Approves Google Buzz Settlement The U.S. Federal Trade Commission members voted unanimously to approve an agreement that settles a privacy-violation complaint the agency leveled against Google...
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ViewSonic Debuts 7-Inch Android Tablet Selling for $200 The ViewPad 7e runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, has a 1 GHz processor and 4 GB of internal storage that can be upgraded up to 32GB.
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Microsoft's YouTube Channel Gets Hijacked and Wiped Clean Microsoft's official YouTube channel was hijacked on Saturday and all videos hosted on it were temporarily removed.
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Android Overtakes iOS in App Downloads Android has captured 44 percent of the total app market, thanks to rapid growth in the last year, according to ABI Research.
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5 Tech Pros Companies Want to Hire Networking pros are among the top five tech professionals that companies want to hire, according to Robert Half Technology.
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Wikileaks to Stop Publishing Classified Files Wikileaks is set to stop publishing classified files, following a "blockade" by US finance companies.
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In Praise of Netflix I've looked into replacements for Netflix and have come up mostly empty-handed. No competitor matches up.
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Google Tweaks Advanced Search: Change Irks Some If you want Google to match a word precisely, you can no longer put a "+" in front of it--instead, you have to use quotation marks.
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Amazon Selling Horror Games for Up to 85% Off This Month Amazon.com is having a Halloween video-game sale on horror-themed titles, including Dead Island for $39.99 ($20 off), Aliens Infestation for $22.49 ($7.46 off).
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Store Offers Wi-Fi So Consumers Can Compare Prices Britain's biggest department store John Lewis is to offer customers free in-store Wi-Fi so they can compare its ticket prices with rivals.
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Bluetooth 4.0 Becomes 'Smart': What It Means For You Bluetooth 4.0 drastically reduces power consumption via a low pulsing method that keeps devices connected without the need of a continuous information stream.
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Google: Bidding for Yahoo or Driving up Cost for Microsoft? The pursuit of Yahoo appears to be heating up as a report Monday added Google to a list of interested suitors already said to include Microsoft.
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Wash Your Hands: ATMs Are Germ Havens A swab test conducted in six U.S. cities of 10 items commonly found in public places showed high levels of a type of germs that cause the common cold.
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What Makes Siri Special? With its combination of advanced artificial intelligence and sharp wit, Apples virtual assistant may kick off an explosion of new voice recognition applications.
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