The Future Is (Gasp) Manufacturing?
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Washington DC (SPX) Feb 06, 2012 Thanks to lightning-fast software from the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S and T), if a truck bomb was discovered in Lower Manhattan we will now be able to predict the likely damage patterns in the surrounding areas, and prioritize the first responders' activities long before the bomb's acoustic shockwave ricocheted out ...
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Just weeks after a deer crashed into a Goodwill store in New Jersey, workers at a Washington D.C. library experienced a very similar surprise.
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After becoming the first jurisdiction in the nation to legalize online gambling within its borders, the District of Columbia is poised to repeal the program before it launches.
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A group of former FDA scientists who spoke out against the agency's allegedly flawed device-approval process are suing the feds for intercepting Gmail and Yahoo Mail messages by installing spy programs on their work computers. Although the computers were owned by the government, the plaintiffs say they were explicitly granted the right to use them for personal purposes. Back in January 2009 ...
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Nicolas Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, sure knows how to get people's attention. About three months ago, the venerable ed-tech evangelist told the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco that his organization would "literally take tablets and drop them out of helicopters," and return a year later to see if the effort was a success. While the comment has faced ...
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A D.C. Council committee finally showed its cards in the tortured first-in-the-nation bid for online gambling through the city's lottery system - and it's game over. The Committee on Finance and Revenue voted 3-2 in favor of a bill to repeal the program, known as iGaming, which created controversy from ...
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Washington, DC—On June 29, 2010, the Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration (ETA) officially encouraged its state and local workforce investment boards, state workforce agencies, and One-Stop Career Centers to partner with public libraries to extend their career and employment se [...]
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Many people dream of going to the US to study or on holiday, but how many get the opportunity to spend time with the American president and his family?
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After becoming the first jurisdiction in the nation to legalize online gambling within its borders, the District of Columbia is poised to repeal the program before it launches.
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