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Each is printed in its color and positioned on a color wheel. Just looking around, there sure seem to be different regions for different names. We also made a color label explorer, so you can search for different terms and see different parts of the space
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Clearly Facebook is a little tired of beating questionable developer tactics away with a stick. So now they will reward developers who play by the rules and build useful, popular applications, with the ‘Preferred Application Program’
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As usual, Google is at the forefront of, well, everything. But this one is a little surprising: their philanthropic branch, Google.org, is putting $10 million into plug-in electric hybrid research and real-world testing.
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The Associated Press reported that its reporters were able to use an undisclosed method to access private photos on Facebook, Update: Some readers here and on Twitter are telling us that it was a simple URL edit, which no longer works.
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Renault-Nissan and Project Better Place recently announced a plan to make Israel oil-free by 2010. They are going to do this with vehicles with swap-out-able batteries, and a system of 500,000 re-charging facilities across the country.
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Website DVICE has put together some amusing takes on the MacBook line. The MacBook Earth. Who wouldn’t want a solar-powered laptop made from clay that you could simply throw into your garden when you’re done?
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The Central Intelligence Agency’s new facilities in northern Virginia are going LEED, with a 22,000 square foot green roof, 40% savings in water by using low-flush toilets and waterless urinals, 21% savings in energy
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Aerogenerator above, which is being developed by a Scottish firm called, imaginatively enough, Windpower (we can’t find a link to their site). We previously covered the design of this baby in its early stages, via The Guardian
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Writers were already beginning to feel the financial impact from the walkout. Most studios Monday sent out suspension letters to scribes with production deals. Some writers were seen packing up their stuff.
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Some 62 percent of the people who downloaded “In Rainbows” in a four-week period last month opted not to pay the British alt-rockers a cent. But the remaining 38 percent voluntarily paid an average of $6, according to the study by comScore Inc.
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Emma Gough, 22, died hours after having the healthy babies. She had signed a form forbidding a transfusion because her faith banned it. Her husband could not bring himself to overturn her decision, despite pleas by medics.
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The idea is to use the plane to provide telecom coverage in areas where satellite coverage is spotty, or for emergency relief following disasters which take out landline and cellular networks on the ground.
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a.k.a. FCoE. The major network vendors including Brocade, Cisco, Emulex, and QLogic are all on board. Additionally a new start-up called Nuova Systems has appeared in this space, headed up by at least one former Andamio executive.
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A new EU anti-terrorism proposal that will allow European courts to sentence individuals for “inciting terrorism” over the web. ISPs will be forced to take down any such sites that incite such violence, offer bomb-making instructions, or disseminate “terror attacks”
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