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Valve just scored a historic win against a prolific patent troll and even got $152K out of it
Jennifer Young
When it comes to ever-developing tech, there are two ways to handle so-called patent trolls. You can do what most companies do, which is to write a hefty check for the annoying person challenging you ...[Continue Reading]
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Family Of Trans Mom Roberta Dorgan Breaks Silence After Rhode Island Hockey Tragedy
Lei RV
The family of Roberta Dorgan, the mother who opened fire on her son and ex-wife at a Rhode Island high school hockey game, has released a statement following the tragedy. Dorgan entered the arena an ...[Continue Reading]
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14 simple Windows 11 tweaks that instantly boost your privacy
mhuck@live.com (Mauro Huculak) , Mauro Huculak
Windows 11 works great out of the box, but it also connects, syncs, reports, backs up, and shares more than many people realize. If you care about privacy and want tighter control over what your comp ...[Continue Reading]
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Measuring the Big Bang with the COBE satellite
Alicia Cermak
The Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE) went up on a Delta rocket on Nov. 18, 1989, into a polar sun-synchronous orbit 900 km up. Our team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Ball Aer ...[Continue Reading]
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The Gestation of the Hubble
Alicia Cermak
Looking through the atmosphere is like looking through a piece of old stained glass. The glass has defects that distort the image. The atmosphere also has defects that distort the image, but the defe ...[Continue Reading]
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Cosmologically Unique IDs
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We are an exploratory species, just past the solar system now, but perhaps one day we will look back and call our galaxy merely the first. There are many problems to solve along the way, and today we ...[Continue Reading]
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