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Aging activists draw attention to lax security in uranium storage complex
82-year-old nun and two others slip past security equipment.
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Study: On Facebook, voting is contagious
Large-scale study of more than 60 million users conducted during the November 2010 election finds social network has discernible effect on participation.
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Electromagnetic pulse could knock out U.S. power grid
EMPs triggered by weapon or space weather threaten electronics and communications, officials warn.
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Feds work one month less per year than private sector peers, study shows
Data is based on a survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Online-gambling bill stalled by tactical spat
After months of negotiations, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., appear to have come to an impasse
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Moondoggle: The forgotten opposition to the Apollo Program
For most of our lunar adventure, a majority of Americans did not support going to the moon. On the 50th anniversary of JFK's "We choose to go the moon" speech, we examine why.
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Republican FTC nominee an expert on Google
Joshua Wright, the conservative economist appointed by President Obama as one of the top antitrust scholars of his generation.
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U.S. sending drones to hunt Libyan attackers
CNN reports that the United States will send unmanned drones to Libya to look for jihadist camps, as the White House now accepts the belief that the Benghazi attack was the premeditated work of terrorists
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Obama administration pushes to extend electronic surveillance law
Fate of legislation hangs in Senate.
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U.S. missile defense strategy is flawed, panel finds
Council calls for domestic defenses to be bolstered.
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GoDaddy outage briefly took down FedBizOpps, three other GSA sites
GSA didn’t directly contract with GoDaddy, spokesman says.
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Commission leaders call for emergency communications network
The attacks revealed the problems posed by a patchwork of emergency radio networks and devices that often do not work with each other.
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A continental network to monitor how we're trashing the environment
The National Ecological Observatory Network will feature dozens of monitoring stations to document land use patterns and ecosystem changes.
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Al Qaeda’s No. 2 in Yemen killed in airstrike
U.S. drone is believed to be behind the killing, officials said.
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Army, Marines want to give combat troops access to ‘cyber fire support’
Pentagon pushes to weave computer ops with ground missions.
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Overindulging at the data trough
In his book "The Information Diet," Clay Johnson confronts the endless stream of information that characterizes our daily lives.
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White House seeks unified system to manage interns
New intern platform would replace three legacy systems and five websites.
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An FBI battle over phone passwords Is brewing
The federal government has made it clear that a lot of our phone data isn't really ours.
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