A Japanese research team has revealed it had created a technology that could eventually display on a computer screen what people have on their minds, such as dreams.
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So, if a kid dreams that he's at school naked, and the device records it, is he guilty of child pornography?
The board of Yahoo! has agreed to a deal to purchase the popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.
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Iran is tightening control of the Internet ahead of next month's presidential election, mindful of violent street protests that social networkers inspired last time around over claims of fraud, users and ...
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