View Hurricane Sandy From Space

    NASA captured video footage of the international space station flying over Hurricane Sandy as the storm approaches land.     Destruction As Sandy Hits Land  Hurricane Sandy neared an expected evening landfall on Monday, ripping up part of the fabled boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and spawning high winds and torrential rains […]

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How much does the Acxiom Corp know about you?

    Acxiom Corp: Some are saying it’s the  The ‘faceless organization that knows everything about you’   When you think of the surveillance state, what comes to mind is usually government agencies like the FBI, IRS, DEA, NSA, or TSA, .  But there’s a company you’ve probably never heard of that “peers deeper into American life,” and […]

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Plant explosion in China kills 1, injures 108

A chemical plant explosion early Wednesday in Luoyang, China, killed a factory worker and hospitalized 108 others, seven of them seriously, state-run media said. The U.S. Navy tailed a North Korean ship that was believed to have been carrying weapons bound for Myanmar.

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Gang of villagers chase away Google car

Google’s ambitious plan to offer a 3-D street level view of communities across three continents hit a snag when angry residents of a UK village blocked the search engine’s camera car from photographing their homes. Fearing the appearance of their well appointed properties on the Web site would attract criminals scouting for burglary targets, villagers in Broughton, north of London, summoned the police after spotting the car.

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Rock star: That’s not me drinking on Google

Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher on Saturday denied that he is the man shown pointing at the Google Street View camera as it drove past his local pub in London last summer. “Just saw google earth apparently that’s meant to be me, who … wears legwarmers with reeboks Not this kid!! LG,” he wrote on Twitter.

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