Manhunt: Pentagon Fears Wikileaks Founder

Pentagon investigators are trying to determine the whereabouts of the Australian-born founder of the secretive website Wikileaks for fear that he may be about to publish a huge cache of classified State Department cables that, if made public, could do serious damage to national security, government officials tell The Daily Beast. Julian Assange – Wikileaks – Pentagon – National security – Iraq

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US hunts Wikileaks founder after national security disclosure

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Friday 11 June 2010 at 20:13:00 Soldier said to have passed on 260,000 military and diplomatic cables The US authorities are seeking to interview Wikileaks founder Julian Assange following allegations that he was sent a huge cache of classified State Department cables by a disgruntled soldier in…

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Almost halfway there: New York becomes 23rd state to adopt e-waste recycling law

If you live in New York state and have neglected your spring cleaning, you may want to hold onto your old electronics doo-dads a bit longer: Your state just passed what some are calling the “most progressive” electronics waste recycling law in the country. There are a couple of things that make this law unique (New

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Motorola and RIM cease all legal action

Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Friday 11 June 2010 at 17:34:00 RIM offers payments and royalties as part of deal to share licence agreements Research in Motion and Motorola have announced a worldwide end to litigation over licensing disputes. The companies have entered into a cross-licensing agreement to share intellectual property on a range…

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UK operators likely to follow O2 with data caps

Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk , Friday 11 June 2010 at 17:17:00 Analysts believe download limits are here to stay Analysts have predicted that the major UK mobile networks will follow O2 and cap data use, but stressed that such a move will affect only a small proportion of consumers….

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Top 10 articles: The iPhone 4 arrives

V3.co.uk staff, V3.co.uk , Friday 11 June 2010 at 14:59:00 V3.co.uk readers’ most popular stories this week No prizes for guessing the most popular stories with V3.co.uk readers this week. The launch of the iPhone 4 has taken the smartphone market by storm, and the major UK…

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Solar-powered LED floodlights bring new meaning to night games

Philips is traveling Africa for the next two months to show off the cultural and economic benefits of a new portable solar-powered floodlight that could be used to keep homes and other community areas brightly lighted well into the evening hours. Each floodlight can light up an area of approximately 40 meters by 20 meters. Philips

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Canon’s New Printers Get Five-Star Ratings from BERTL

BERTL (Business Equipment Research and Test Laboratories) has given its highest possible rating to Canon’s new 44-inch imagePROGRAF iPF8300 and 24-inch iPF 6350 and  iPF6300 large format printers. As an independent analyst firm, BERTL reviews new printer products introductions on the basis of 11 categories: build quality, network administration, security, workflow, finish,ease of use, media handling,

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Power management software now supports Intel-based Macs

1E, one of the more aggressive software companies in the power management space, has released a version of its NightWatchman software for Apple’s Macintosh operating system. The application allows you to control when power saving features are switched on and off, without affecting the productivity of the people using the systems. The big deal is that

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of refilling printer cartridges.

We are often asked if we sell ink to refill empty printer cartridges. The short answer is – NO we definitely don’t sell ink for refill purposes. This blog article briefly details why we have come to this decision: Whilst many people are attracted to refilling cartridges, due to the perception of it being cheaper, we have found that it really is not worth the hassle

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Robot Self-Assembles, Then Flies

Self-sufficient wheeled robots lock together to make a larger, flying robot. A flying platform from ETH Zurich is made up of autonomous wheeled vehicle that lock together to share the task of controlled and autonomous flight. The robot, dubbed the “Distributed Flight Array,” was presented by Raymond Oung, Raffaello D’Andrea, and others at this year’s IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA ) and was a finalist for best conference paper

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Taking some heat … and turning it into electricity

Harnessing heat for useful purposes isn’t really anything new. Um, that’s kind of what steam does and has been doing for more than 100 years. I actually wrote a few months ago about a data center in Helsinki that is using these principles to keep the city heated during the winter months

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Power from osmosis? New twist on water-generated electricity

Here’s a new term for you to wrap your head around: “osmotic.” If you, like me, have no idea what that term means even though it seems to be derived from the term “osmosis,” I’ll save you a trip to the dictionary: Merriam-Webster’s take on the word describes it as the “entry movement of a solvent

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Educational Sessions at SGIA 2010 Focus on Business Development and Marketing

SGIA has published details about educational sessions planned in conjunction with the 2010 SGIA Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Oct. 13-15. The schedule reveals a heavy emphasis on how graphics businesses can adapt and update their sales, pricing, and marketing strategies for today’s economic climate.

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Will Apple’s Latest Browser Hurt Publishers?

Removing ads from Web pages may be an attempt to push content creators toward the iPad and iPhone. The latest version of Apple’s Web browser, Safari 5, sports a feature called “Reader” that concatenates the multi-page articles seen on most news sites (including Technology Review ‘s) into a single scrollable window

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Win Valuable Prizes in LexJet’s Sunset Metallic Shine On! Print Competition

Show us just how amazing your prints can look when output on LexJet’s Sunset Metallic Photo Paper for inkjet printing. Enter up to three prints in LexJet’s Sunset Metallic Shine On! Print Contest and you can qualify to win one of these valuable prizes: A 24-in.

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A Flying Robot that Perches, Flips and Dives

The small flying robot could autonomously navigate tight spaces. Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) could help the military carry out surveillance in unknown territory or first responders look for survivors after a disaster. The trick is making them agile enough to pull off daredevil aerobatic maneuvers

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Genetic Testing Can Change Behavior

Preliminary evidence suggests people respond more strongly to genetic risk. People who find out they have high genetic risk for cardiovascular disease are more likely to change their diet and exercise patterns than are those who learn they have a high risk from family history, according to preliminary research. The findings, from a personalized medicine study at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research , a non-profit research institute based in Camden, NJ, suggest both a potential benefit of genetic testing–inspiring patients to get healthy–and a misunderstanding of the power of genetics.

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Model Of The Week: Kit Build Goodyear F2G-1 Super Corsair

This is going to be a blow by blow kit build of Will Aldridge’s 1:32 scale Goodyear F2G-1 Super Corsair. I am going to add enhancement details and will detail that when it takes place. If you have questions or want more detail in any area just post and I will try to accomadate.

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A Simple Way to Produce Durable, Kid-Friendly Wall Murals

Here’s a great example of how a LexJet customer is using Simple Flo wrap adhesive vinyl for a project other than vehicle wraps. The Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center in Honolulu is a warm and friendly museum with hands-on instructional exhibits for children of all ages.  So when designers of a new facility at the center

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