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Ky. delivers report on last season's costly storms

AP News 2 days ago

Report on last season's wind, ice storms in Ky. says moving power lines underground too costly A report released Thursday on last season's ice and wind storms says Kentucky's utilities should not spend billions of dollars burying electrical transmission lines to prevent ...

Google adding automatic captions to YouTube videos

AP News 3 days ago

Google adding automatic captioning service on YouTube to aid the deaf and hearing-impaired Think of it as closed captioning for the new media world. Google Inc. said Thursday it is introducing automatic, machine-generated captions for videos on its YouTube site. The new ...

China tightens supervision of online games

AFP Global Edition 3 days ago

China has vowed to tighten supervision of its fast-growing online games market, saying some games contained content that was "harmful" to players. Some online games used "bloody, violent and obscene" content to attract players, hurting their "physical and psychological health", the culture ...

NJ man sentenced in Scientology cyber attack

AP News 3 days ago

NJ man gets 1-year term for participating in cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites A New Jersey man will serve a 366-day federal prison term for conducting a cyber attack on Church of Scientology Web sites in January 2008. At ...

Webby Awards name top 10 Internet moments of the decade

AFP Global Edition 3 days ago

The birth of Wikipedia, the death of Napster, the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter were named by the Webby Awards on Wednesday as among the top 10 Internet moments of the decade. Other events singled out by the New York-based International Academy of ...

House lawmakers push ban on peer-to-peer software

AP News 3 days ago

Lawmakers want to restrict use of 'peer-to-peer' after disclosure of ethics committee report Stung by an embarrassing electronic leak last month revealing ethics investigations into dozens of lawmakers, Congress moved Tuesday to prohibit federal employees from using the same type of Internet ...

Lead US disaster agency reaches out electronically

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

The lead US federal disaster agency is hoping to both inform and gather information through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, its top official said Wednesday. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), sharply criticized for its slow response to events like ...

EMI music videos, concerts coming to Hulu.com

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

EMI Music announced Wednesday it will offer free music videos and concerts on Hulu.com, making it the first major label to strike a deal with the increasingly popular US-based online video site. EMI and Hulu kicked off the collaboration with music videos ...

Internet still under US grip: forum delegates

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

The Internet is still under the control of the United States, participants at a governance forum said, despite a move by America to loosen its grip over the private corporation that administers the net. An agreement in September between the US Commerce ...

Web security company warns of 'cyber arms race'

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

Warning of a "cyber arms race," a leading Web security firm said that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States were among countries that have developed "cyber weapons." "McAfee began to warn of the global cyber arms race more than two ...

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