 | Google Inc., the world's largest search engine, is in talks with the Indian government on blocking access to specific maps and images that reveal sensitive locations and vital installations in the subcontinent.
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 | A team of engineers and scientists are working in the United States on an ambitious project to develop an inter-planetary Internet system that will provide communication links between the Earth and Mars.
Spearheaded by Vinton G Cerf, widely known... More |
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 | Parents should not allow their children to surf on the Internet alone. That is the only way to protect boys and girls from encountering violent and pornographic content on the Internet, says Schau Hin, a Hamburg-based advocacy group.
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 | In this age of rock, hip-hop and heavy metal music, it's not easy to get a folk song to climb the charts. But 35-year-old Shefali Bhushan doesn't think so.
Her website beatofindia.com is all about re-discovering forgotten folk melodies of... More |
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 | Five science satellites were in orbit after being launched by US space agency NASA on a Delta II rocket.
The robotic Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions (THEMIS) mission lifted off late Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force... More |
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 | Researchers have found evidence that West African chimpanzees used stone tools to crack nuts 4,300 years ago, pushing chimpanzee tool use back thousands of years and indicating Chimpanzees also have their own Stone Age, according to a recent... More |
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 | Even the most avid of bird watchers can't always spot every tiny little difference. That's why a new classifying technique described in two papers published Sunday in the British journal Molecular Ecology Notes was needed to distinguish 21 new... More |
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 | Scientists have moved a step closer to decipher the development biology of the oldest animals on earth after researching on 600 million years old fossilised embryos found in Southwest China`s Guizhou province.
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 | Hanuman Baba rummages through the pockets of his voluminous saffron robe and fishes out, wonder of wonders, a cellphone. It has international roaming facilities and he proceeds to speak to a devotee in the United States.
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 | A nearly perfectly preserved fossilised nest of dinosaur eggs that may have been illegally taken from China was seized at a Los Angeles-area auction house by agents who were tipped off by a newspaper article.
Bonhams and Butterfields sold the... More |
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