This 19th Century Invention Could Keep You From Being Hacked

If the CIA’s Director John Brennan can’t keep his emails private, who can? Sadly the fact that email and instant messaging are far more convenient than communicating via papers in envelopes or by actually talking on the phone, or (God Forbid) face to …
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Frustrations as inventions gather dust in laboratories

The invention had gone on to win the 2014 Schlumberger Schools Science Project Challenge, an annual science competition among all secondary schools in the country. But, aside from the star prize trip to France, which comes up this Sunday, all has been …
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Google refused patent for ‘invention’ on providing hypertext to phones

The country’s patent office has refused to entertain an application by US technology and search engine major Google for its ‘claimed invention’ regarding a computer-implemented method for providing hypertext to mobile phones. Rejecting the patent …
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Invention from Wash. helps wounded veterans fish, heal

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Aaron Boyle will never forget waking up from his five-day coma and learning his right arm and leg had just been amputated. “I looked at myself and was like, this isn’t real,” said Boyle, who stepped on a landmine in Afghanistan in 2010.
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So just what is the third Great Invention of all time?

Worstall @ the Weekend So here’s a fun little game for a Sunday morning: what was, or is, the third great invention of all time? I have a candidate for it and it’s very much to do with what youse guys do all day. But I’m not entirely sure that it is the …
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3 Things You Probably Didn’t Know Nikola Tesla Invented

However, in 1904, the patent office reversed its decision, and instead awarded the patent for the invention of the radio to Guglielmo Marconi, who famously made the first transatlantic radio transmission in 1901. Tesla never fought him over the issue …
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