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Seriously ill Briton wins landmark ruling on assisted suicide

A British multiple sclerosis sufferer won a landmark victory Thursday in her long-running legal battle to clarify the law on assisted suicide.

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Apple offers to refund Australian iPad customers

Apple Wednesday offered to refund Australian customers who felt misled by advertising about the 4G capability of its new iPad, which can only access the ultra-fast wireless network in North America.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Facebook takes steps to address privacy concerns

(AP) -- Facebook has taken steps in recent days to address more worries about privacy, warning employers not to ask prospective employees for their passwords and trying to clarify its user "rights and responsibilities" ...

Technology / Internet

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

GPS court ruling leaves US phone tracking unclear

A US Supreme Court decision requiring a warrant to place a GPS device on the car of a criminal suspect leaves unresolved the bigger issue of police tracking using mobile phones, legal experts say.

Technology / Telecom

created Feb 11, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Pakistan delays ban on 'obscene' text messages

Pakistan's mobile operators on Monday deferred implementing a ban on nearly 1,700 "obscene" words from text messages, saying they were seeking further clarification from the telecoms authority.

Technology / Telecom

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Property tax confusion pokes Facebook in Oregon

(AP) -- The promise of lucrative tax breaks helped persuade Facebook to build a data center in one of Oregon's most economically depressed counties. Now, the state and the company are in a dispute over how much Facebook ...

Technology / Business

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Germany halts pork, egg sales in dioxin scare

(AP) -- Germany froze sales of poultry, pork and eggs from more than 4,700 farms Friday to stem the spread of food contaminated with cancer-causing dioxin, as fears grew that farmers could have been using ...

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created Jan 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

WikiLeaks switches to Swiss domain after attacks

(AP) -- WikiLeaks was forced Friday to switch over to a Swiss domain name, wikileaks.ch, after a new round of hacker attacks on its system prompted its American domain name provider to withdraw service.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 8

WikiLeaks: New release 7 times size of Iraq logs

(AP) -- WikiLeaks' next release will be seven times the size of the Iraq war logs, already the biggest leak in U.S. intelligence history, the website said Monday.

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created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Hospitals face legal dilemma if they test incapacitated patients after needle accidents

Anaesthetists are calling for greater clarity on the legal implications of testing incapacitated patients for blood-borne viruses, after a survey found that this is often done following staff needlestick injuries, in possible ...

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created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Stem cell ruling puts researcher's project in limbo

(PhysOrg.com) -- Promising work by Joanna Wysocka, PhD, has been thrown into an uncertain limbo by a recent injunction suspending federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research.

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