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On Thursday morning, Apple announced a series of related initiatives designed to modernize learning based around its iPad tablet. Apple is hoping to "reinvent textbooks" and change the way we learn with an...Library computers can block porn—but Wicca? ACLU says no
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While the file-sharing community battles against laws and legislation that are set against them, the Office of Information Technology has started to implement new methods (or are they new?) of discouraging and blocking...Congress looks to tackle abusive e-waste exporting
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