Borrowing heavily from Woodstock, the three-day “What The Hack” convention is a self-styled computer-security conference dealing such issues as digital passports, biometrics and cryptography.
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The scam has existed for years in various forms, but in the 1990s it moved online, where it is cheaper to organize and harder to trace.
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While broadcasters wait for viewers to buy sets, viewers wait for content, which is more costly when shot in high definition.
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The boycott suggested that Epson ink cartridges prematurely block printers from churning out more pages even when there is enough ink to keep going.
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Italian embryologist Severino Antinori claims that three women had been impregnated with cloned embryos by a consortium of scientists, and that the first would give birth in early January.
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In the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, Britain and Austria, regular mobile phones can now be used to buy lottery tickets, bet on sporting events or enter sweepstakes for prizes.
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The environmentally-conscious Dutch are experimenting with urban turbines in city centers. Light, quiet and efficient, they can be placed unobtrusively on rooftops and generate up to 7,000 kilowatt hours of electricity a year, more than enough to power an average Dutch home.
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Businesses have been clamoring for ICANN – the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers – to open new address possibilities, complaining that existing top-level domains led by “.com” and “.org” are overcrowded.
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