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Petition asks Obama to legalize unlocking of mobile phones
2013-02-20 17:53:09| InfoWorld: Top News
More than 85,000 people have signed a Whitehouse.gov petition asking U.S. President Barack Obama to reverse a decision by the Library of Congress making the unlocking of mobile phones illegal under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). As of Wednesday morning, the petition, started by phone unlocking entrepreneur Sina Khanifar, still needed nearly 15,000 signatures by Saturday to trigger a response by the Obama administration.
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Analysis: Choices loom for Obama on climate change
2013-02-20 09:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama is talking about climate change like it was 2009. The president, who rarely uttered the words "climate change" or "global warming" during the second half of his first term and during the re-election campaign, has re-inserted it boldly back into his lexicon. In his latest State of the Union address before Congress, Obama sounded like he did in his first, urging lawmakers to limit gases blamed for global warming "for the sake of our children and our future." Those words followed...
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Obama Settles on EPA, Energy Department Nominees
2013-02-20 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: President Barack Obama intends to nominate air quality expert Gina McCarthy to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy as early as this week, according to a source familiar with the process. McCarthy would likely become the face of Obama's latest push to fight climate change. Currently the assistant administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation, she would replace Lisa Jackson, who stepped down as EPA chief this month....
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JFNA head: Obama trip is - a very positive sign'
2013-02-20 05:22:09| Steel - Topix.net
US President Barack Obama's decision to visit Israel next month "is a very positive sign," Michael D. Siegal, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federations of North America, said Tuesday.
Obama confirms neuroscience is the coolest, most important technology on earth
2013-02-19 19:12:48| Extremetech
Not to be outdone by the recent disclosure of the European brain project to simulate a mind, the Obama Administration will be seeking $300 million a year over the next decade for the new research in their budget proposal next month. The most visible author on the paper, George Church, has made quite a name for himself in the years since the Human genome project. He has now turned his attention to mapping the entire activity of a brain by printing DNA templates.
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