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Telecom: Tue, May 15, 2012
Couple Dead For Lack of a Signal
Blog Post: Elderly couple perishes when they can’t summon help with their cellular phone
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Energy: Tue, May 15, 2012
Offshore Wind Transmission "Backbone" Clears Regulatory Hurdle
Blog Post: Atlantic Wind Connection can now move ahead with environmental review
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Computing: Tue, May 15, 2012
California Loses Personal Data In the Mail—Again
Blog Post: A busted shipping container allows sensitive records belonging to 700 000 home care workers and patients to go missing
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Semiconductors: Tue, May 15, 2012
Hunting New Quasiparticles
Blog Post: Researchers have seen hints of two new particle-like entities in materials - they could help advance quantum computing and superconductivity theory
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Geek Life: Tue, May 15, 2012
How Accurate Is the Mason-Dixon Line?
Podcast: The resolution of the 18th-century mapping is also a story of 20th-century technology
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