"ISPs have been throttling BitTorrent traffic for years now, but only recently has this turned into a political issue. In a huge victory for BitTorrent users, the FCC has now announced that it will order Comcast to stop interfering with BitTorrent traffic. ...
New brain research suggests having people around us at work makes us less productive. Apparently, some of our more emotionally intelligent neurons are distracted because they empathize with what others are...
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"The adage that laughter is the best medicine has been backed by an unusual investigation which says that people who seethe with anger take longer to recover from injury.
Previous studies have linked ill tempered behaviour, whether brow-beating or road rage, with higher...
The west coast was hit hard by heavy storms this past weekend both up north in Canada and below south in the western US states. " Thousands of customers had been blacked out in three states and many of them in...
The rest of the world's major economies no longer depend o America's. Neither do America's own largest corporations"'m spending my spare time these days debating supply-siders who are convinced that the record-breaking Dow proves the correctness of the Bush tax cuts.
Yes, the...
" April 26, 2007 Traffic on U.S. Route 401 in Fuquay-Varina was slowed early Tuesday evening on April 24th as emergency crews battled a house fire. Firefighters rushed to the blaze at the intersection of Route 401 and Hill Top Road about 5 p.m. No one was in the residence at...
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If you were wondering why the Government has banned drivers from talking on mobiles – well now there's some scientific research to back it up.
A US team claims to have found a 'bottleneck in the brain' which explains why people struggle to do two things at once....
"Fire crews guarded homes Wednesday as a massive wildfire crept within a half-mile of hundreds of dwellings in rural Ventura County.
More than 220 fire engines were dispatched to mountain communities threatened by...
" WASHINGTON - The economy's growth slowed sharply in the second quarter, logging just a 2.5 percent pace as consumers tightened their belts and spending on home building nose-dived. Inflation, however, shot up. The latest snapshot of gross domestic product released by the...
According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and salads. ...
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