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Yahoo 'secretly scanned emails for US authorities'
2016-10-04 20:47:01| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Yahoo secretly scanned millions of its users' email accounts on behalf of the US government, according to a report by Reuters news agency.
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The crazy true story of how George W. Bush secretly tried to raise the gas tax
2016-07-05 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Remember that time the George W. Bush administration tried to sneak a new gas tax onto the books and sort of succeeded? You probably dont, because not even those fighting over this measure in Congress understood what was going on. As far as I can tell, the only person who knows the full story is Hanna Breetz, a political scientist at Arizona State University who wrote a dissertation on U.S. alternative fuel policy back in 2012. Its a dissertation that - mirabile dictu - broke news. But, because...
Verizon secretly planning next-generation TV service?
2016-04-17 17:16:16| Wireless - Topix.net
Verizon is getting ready to test and launch its next-generation TV service later this year, according to a report in Variety . Citing sources familiar with the company's plans, the report says the new service will deliver movies and TV via an IP-only set-top box, marking a major change in how content is transmitted into American homes.
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Report: Google Secretly Testing '5G' Internet Using Flying Drones
2016-01-30 22:02:58| PC Magazine Wireless Networking Product Guide
Google's plan is to use high frequency millimeter waves to transmit data up to 40 times faster than today's 4G LTE speeds.
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Game of Thrones is secretly all about climate change
2015-06-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: Did you know that Game of Thrones is secretly about the world's terrible failure to stop climate change? Well, it is, and this video explains why: The show's much more entertaining stand-in for climate change is the White Walkers, the north-of-the-Wall monsters that command a gigantic zombie army. The White Walkers are a threat to all humanity: their zombie minions are equally happy to rip apart people of all nations and noble houses. Yet instead of uniting to combat the shared threat to human...
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