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Video: Waterloo stays positive despite RIM's woes

Waterloo isn't letting gloomy predictions about Research in Motion get it down. Business and community leaders say the mood in RIM's Ontario hometown is upbeat -- thanks to the hundreds of other tech companies in the region
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Miners look to a future of automated operations

Companies research running surface, underground pits from control centres thousands of kilometres away
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Cold War 2.0: East and West divide on digital rights

(CA) THE GLOBE AND MAIL - Technology - 5. February 2012 - 10:00
Disagreements on how to manage intellectual property theft, Internet freedom between U.S., allies and Russia, China
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'Anonymous' hackers' antiracist campaign goes too far: Critics

(CA) Ottawa Citizen - Technology - 5. February 2012 - 7:06
Calgarians whose names have been connected to neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups are angry that their personal identification has been published on the Internet.
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'Anonymous' hackers' antiracist campaign goes too far: Critics

(CA) canada.com - Technology - 5. February 2012 - 7:06
Calgarians whose names have been connected to neo-Nazi and white-supremacist groups are angry that their personal identification has been published on the Internet.
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Rogers promises to end internet throttling

(CA) cbc.ca - Technology - 4. February 2012 - 1:55

Rogers has promised to stop "throttling" internet traffic on its network by the end of this year, in response to an investigation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

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Anonymous hacks police websites worldwide

(CA) cbc.ca - Technology - 4. February 2012 - 0:02

Hackers have taken over the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective called Anonymous, including in Boston and in Salt Lake City, where police say personal information of confidential informants and tipsters was accessed.

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Hubble images reveal galaxy similar to Milky Way

(CA) cbc.ca - Technology - 3. February 2012 - 23:21

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a barred spiral galaxy — a galaxy similar to our own and expected to give astronomers a better insight into the Milky Way.

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Life on Mars unlikely on dry surface

(CA) cbc.ca - Technology - 3. February 2012 - 22:02

Mars has been arid for more than 600 million years, making the planet's surface too dry and hostile to support any life, according to new research based on soil analysis.

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Social media users post ads for profit

(CA) cbc.ca - Technology - 3. February 2012 - 18:48

PowerVoice, a peer-to-peer marketing platform, has been gaining popularity since its launch in December. The site allows social media users to get paid for recommending brands and products. What do you make of this concept?

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Ottawa Human Library

(CA) cbc.ca - Technology - 3. February 2012 - 17:59

Human Library took place Jan. 28 at five different branches of the Ottawa Public Library and at the Canadian War Museum.

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2 new Kepler planets with double suns discovered

(CA) cbc.ca - Technology - 3. February 2012 - 16:36

A team of NASA scientists has discovered two new planets, each of which revolves around its own double suns.

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