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Modern flint expert 'reverse engineers' Neanderthal stone axes - and says our ancestors were clever, elegant craftsmen

Researchers at the University of Kent have recreated the processes Neanderthals used to produce stone technology, and found that our ancestors were skilled engineers.

Local News | Longtime Monroe dairy farm now turns manure into money | Seattle Times Newspaper

MONROE — It's 5 a.m. at the Werkhoven Dairy — happy hour for Holsteins. From a 5,000-gallon black tank containing beer and wine, Andy Werkhoven adds two pounds of alcohol to the feed of each of the 1,000 milking cows. "Cow-bernet," he jokes.

Your Privacy On Google: Don't Panic, Do Think

Alarming news arrived this week about your privacy online.

Why Twitter's new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates

My initial reaction upon a cursory reading of the announcement was also that it wasn’t too bad, given the alternatives.

In the Developing World, Solar Is Cheaper than Fossil Fuels

Technology advances are opening up a huge new market for solar power: the approximately 1.3 billion people around the world who don't have access to grid electricity.

Apple: made in China, untaxed profits kept offshore | ZDNet

 About two-thirds of Apple’s $97.6 billion cash pile is offshore. That’s a lot of money for an American company to keep outside of America.

US cybersecurity efforts trigger privacy concerns

The federal government's plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans' civil liberties.

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Electric-Car Firm That Got Biden Visit, $118M in Stimulus, Files for Bankruptcy | CNSnews.com

(CNSNews.com) - Ener1--a company that manufactures batteries for electric cars, and that received $118.5 million in federal stimulus money, and that Vice President Joe Biden visited last year the day after President Obama’s State of the Union Address—announced today …

Twitter to censor content in some countries

Twitter has announced it will begin restricting tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East. "As we continue to grow internationally, we will enter countries …

MegaUpload Users Plan to Sue the FBI over Lost Files

In most reports following the MegaUpload shutdown, the site is exclusively portrayed as a piracy haven. However, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections. As of today, these people are s …

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