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Boeing to deliver 1st 787 after years of delaysSEATTLE � Boeing delivers its first 787 jet Sunday. It's been a long time coming. The new jet, which was supposed to be flying passengers three years ago, has been delayed by production and design problems. But now it's here, and airlines expect it to off
Online banking encryption brokenSecurity researchers have developed a potential cyber attack that could decrypt secure communications used by online banking and payment sites.
Google's YouTube Movies comes to CanadaJust one day after Blockbuster Canada announced it's closing its remaining movie rental outlets, Google quietly launched a Canadian version of YouTube Movies, its popular online movie rental service
NASA probe to asteroid begins collecting dataThe NASA probe made its first detailed observations of the surface Thursday from a distance of 2,735 kilometres and will spend the next several weeks taking images from that altitude. Afterward, it will spiral closer to the asteroid to get a better view.
400 hidden cameras show Earth's real wild sideThey are the hidden family portraits of Earth's most remote jungles finally revealed: A touching snapshot of an endangered female mountain gorilla carrying an infant on her back. A giant anteater sticking its enormous snout practically in the viewer's fac
Hacker Group Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook On November 5Hacktivist group Anonymous, which has been responsible for cyber-attacks on the Pentagon, News Corp, and others, has vowed to destroy Facebook on November 5th (which should ring a bell).
Citing privacy concerns and the difficulty involved in deleting a
Touch-screen BlackBerrys to go on sale in AugustResearch In Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM) on Wednesday unveiled five new BlackBerry phones with touch screens, as it hopes to revive the line's dwindling appeal in the face of competition from the iPhone and Android smartphones.
Russians to Sink International Space Station in Pacific OceanRussian officials are calling for calm saying that the sinking of the International Space Station (ISS) in the Pacific Ocean is not a big deal, and that it would not happen anytime soon. After startling some members of the public with statements made earl
Entire Apple stores being faked in ChinaBEIJING � It looks almost exactly like a sleek Apple store. Sales assistants in blue T-shirts with the company's logo chat with customers. Signs advertising the iPad 2 hang on the white walls. Outside, the famous logo sits next to the words "Apple Store"
Russian Hubble 1,000 times sharperA rocket carrying a telescope which will be the most powerful in space has been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Scientists have already nicknamed the Zenit-3SB the "green" rocket because it uses kerosene and oxygen as its fuel and is
Shaw launches Netflix rival, angers UBB criticsShaw Communications Inc. has revealed plans to launch an online movie streaming service to compete against Netflix Inc. that threatens to put the Calgary-based cable giant at the centre of the net neutrality debate in Canada.
Internet names to expand far beyond dot-comInternet minders voted Monday to allow virtually unlimited new domain names based on themes as varied as company brands, entertainment and political causes, in the system's biggest shake-up since it started 26 years ago.
Memory's next big leap: solid-state drivesWhen people think of disk drives, it�s only natural that the traditional spinning platters come to mind. These mechanical beasts, often with huge capacities, grace most of today�s computers.
'Space weather' forecasts to be upgradedOSLO - A U.N. plan to upgrade �space weather� forecasts can help the world cope with solar storms that might wreak up to $2 trillion in damage if the sun repeated a giant flare of 1859, experts said.
NEPTUNE offline after trawler incidentA fishing trawler has damaged the Ocean Network Canada (ONC) sensor array in Barkley Sound and the extent of repair won�t be known until July.
The damage occurred on Feb. 18 in the upper slope of the Barkley Canyon, where ONC has upwards of a million d
Steve Jobs makes rare appearance to unveil Apple's iCloudSAN FRANCISCO � Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs strode back into the spotlight Monday to unveil the iCloud, a music-streaming service that the company hopes will power its next stage of growth and popularize Web-based consumer services.
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Ford developing car seat to monitor your heartFord is working on a nifty new car seat that can monitor a driver's heart rate, with the aim of reducing the number of car accidents caused by drivers having heart attacks behind the wheel.
Students Win NASA Moon Robot CompetitionAfter a grueling five-day test of material-collecting ability, the team from Laurentian University returned home to Sudbury, Canada, with the win in NASA's second annual Lunabotics competition.
Sony probes another hacker data breach claimSony has been hit by a second massive data breach, hackers claim, another potential embarrassment for a company that is struggling to restore its image following the loss of tens of millions of credit card numbers through its PlayStation Network.
Activision bets on online play for Call of DutyActivision knows it's more fun to blast on-screen enemies into oblivion with friends, so this fall it's launching an online service for its �Call of Duty� games that's part Facebook, part player matchmaker and part organized sports.
The new ways thieves are stealing your identityIdentity thieves are nothing if not creative; they can take the most seemingly innocent item and turn it into the keys to unlocking your financial fortress. The more technology encroaches into our daily lives, the more access we give them to our personal
No internet in 1/5 Canadian homesAbout a fifth of Canadian households, many among the poorest in the country, still had no internet access in 2010, a survey suggests.
Vatican invites bloggers to first-ever summitMonks, priests, nuns and lay bloggers hunched over their iPads and tweeted updates to their followers as the Vatican told them of its desire to get to know them better and establish a genuine relationship.
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