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A critical take on the EPA’s chemical safety standards

CDC Let’s say you open up a lab report you’ve received, one containing the analysis of a sample of your drinking water, or a sample of the indoor air where you work. You...

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Friday, September 14th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Lingual Jailbreak Tweak Allows Siri to Translate to Over 35 Languages

Lingual Jailbreak tweak gives Siri the power to translate to over 35 languages hands free, making it much easier to communicate with others on the fly. Lingual is a Cydia tweak for Jailbroken...

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Monday, August 20th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Supreme Court cops out, again, on "fleeting expletives"

NekaPearl The United States Supreme Court has once again ducked the issue of whether fining television stations for "indecent" broadcasts violates the First Amendment. In a Thursday ruling, the high court found that...

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Thursday, June 21st, 2012 Net News No Comments

White House IP czar: anti-piracy laws should not block free speech

The White House's Annual Report on Intellectual Property Enforcement is out, and there are some encouraging words in the 130-page document. The policy compendium reiterates what the Obama Administration declared in mid-January when...

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Sunday, April 1st, 2012 Net News No Comments

Why wait? Six ways that Congress could fix copyright, now

The battle over implementation of the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement in Europe is heating up, while the war of words over the Stop Online Privacy Act is still in play . Rightsholders have called...

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Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 Net News No Comments