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Google Sneak Views: Part I
Google has added St John’s, Sherbrooke, London, Sudbury, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Nanaimo and Victoria to its list of Canadian cities spammed on its Google Street View, “a feature of Google Maps and Google Earth that shows high-resolution street-level images,” as Digital Homes sums it up. Other Google-stalked Canadian cities include Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Vancouver, Squamish, Whistler, Ottawa Kitchener and Waterloo. “The service which provides panoramic views of street from a height of about 2.5 metres was launched in May of 2007 and is now available over ten countries including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia and Japan,” says the story.
Continue reading »Brazilian Blackout Traced to Sooty Insulators, Not Hackers
SAO PAULO, Brazil — A massive 2007 electrical blackout in Brazil has been newly blamed on computer hackers, but was actually the result of a utility company’s negligent maintenance of high voltage insulators on two transmission lines. That’s according to reports from government regulators and others who investigated the incident for more than a year. In a broadcast Sunday night, the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes cited unnamed sources in making the extraordinary claim that a two-day outage in the Atlantic state of Espirito Santo was triggered by hackers targeting a utility company’s control systems.
Continue reading »Amazon goes Kozmo in US
Same-day urban delivery Amazon is now offering same-day delivery – if you live in certain large American cities.…
Continue reading »Dutch TV network distributes CC-licensed documentary series via Mininova
Dutch public broadcaster VPRO is making a new documentary series dubbed “Century of the cities” available via Bittorrent. The network has already uploaded torrrents for the first two parts of the series to Mininova, where currently a few dozen users are seeding the files. vpro documentary on mininova Century of the cities aims to highlight the ongoing worldwide urbanization by looking at cities like South Africa’s Johannesburg and India’s Gurgaon , also know as the call center capital of the world.
Continue reading »Iran: Ballots Exceeded Voters by Millions
Iran’s Guardian Council has found that the number of ballots cast in the country’s presidential election this month exceeded the number of registered voters in at least 50 cities. Officials found that a total of 3 million more ballots were cast in these cities than there were eligible voters, according to the New York Times . Nonetheless, the council insists that the election results are valid and says the 3 million discrepancy would not affect the results of the election.
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