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There was a "significant breach" of the Data Protection Act when Google collected personal data via its Street View cars, the UK's Information Commissioner has ruled. the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) will audit Google's data protection practices.Google staged a significant infringement of privacy and civil liberties, by harvesting millions of e-mails, wi-fi addresses, and passwords.
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 * = Interesting News Article about "young job seekers hiding their Facebook pages" ||= Here is the article || Since Social Networking sites have become more popular many business have begun to search possible employees on these sites to get insight into their personal lives, in response to this many employees have hidden their Facebook accounts or made false accounts to divert attention away from themselves. ||
 * = ======Facebook fixes embarrassing security flaw====== ||= [|Here it is] || Facebook has rushed to fix a security flaw that allowed users to eavesdrop on the live chats of their friends and see their pending friend requests. The exploit used the site's privacy features - intended to protect a user - to expose the personal information. With just a few clicks users could spy on their friends' personal chat messages and see who had requested to join their network. ||
 * Solar cells are PRINTED on paper ?! || [|Click Here] || Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have successfully coated paper with a solar cell, part of a suite of research projects aimed at energy breakthroughs.However, the technique, in which paper is coated with organic semiconductor material using a process similar to an inkjet printer, is a promising way to lower the weight of solar panels.If you could use a staple gun to install a solar panel, there could be a lot of value. ||
 * Smart phones as babysitters . || [|here] || Almost half of the top 100-selling iPhone apps are for preschool or elementary-aged children, Harried parents for years have relied on glowing electronic screens -- TVs, video games, computers -- to entertain children in the home. Now more and more parents are discovering smartphones' similar ability to engage squirmy kids at restaurants, in the car and anywhere else where youngsters grow bored. ||
 * Robot musicians able to play with the real musicians || [|robo musicians] || Shimon, a marimba-playing robot that, despite having four arms, is remarkably human. It has a shiny aluminum-steel head that bobs with the music and acknowledges other people when they're nearby.Shimon can listen to music, analyze its structure and improvise with other musicians. But instead of lifelong musical training, Shimon relies on complex algorithms to identify tempo, beats, chord progressions and melodic dissonance and consonance. **(video below**) ||
 * Toothbrushes..... with WiFi, internet access..............all righty then. || [|wait....what?] || Jesse Schell, a game designer and Carnegie Mellon University professor, says toothbrushes will be hooked-up with Wi-Fi Internet connections within five years. As an example If the entire Internet knows how often you brush your teeth and for how long, there's an incentive to brush more often. Toothbrush makers could offer rewards for frequent brushers, too. Say you brush your teeth twice each day for three months. A company like Crest or Procter & Gamble could reward you with coupons for more toothbrushes, since your well-used bristles would probably be frayed by then. ||
 * In the Future..your hand is your keyboard, finally. || [|Awesome] || Harrison, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a former intern at Microsoft Research, has developed a working prototype of a system called Skinput that turns your hand and the rest of your body into a touch screen., essentially by turning a person's hand and forearm into a keyboard and screen. **(video below)** ||
 * Pixie dust.. once a Disney fairytale, now a technological marvel. || [|Disney was right] || In the 1990s, a researcher named Kris Pister dreamed up a wild future in which people would sprinkle the Earth with countless tiny sensors, no larger than grains of rice.These "smart dust" particles, as he called them, would monitor everything, acting like electronic nerve endings for the planet. Fitted with computing power, sensing equipment, wireless radios and long battery life, the smart dust would make observations and relay mountains of real-time data about people, cities and the natural environment.Now, a version of Pister's smart dust fantasy is starting to become reality. ||
 * 1 million dollars for playing Xbox? || [|Perfect Game] || On his fifth try with "Major League Baseball 2K10," McGilberry achieved the elusive feat and won $1 million in 2K Sports' Perfect Game contest.His entry, recorded on March 2, was just verified by 2K Sports .He and his wife have big plans for their winnings. ||
 * Google In Significant Breach of UK data laws. || [|Serious Stuff] ||  ||

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