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79Meaning of Hacking and the Different Kinds of Hackers
When you hear news about hackers penetrating a website, your reaction will typically involve dilating pupils and astonishment -- if the website is your own, symptoms may include a big deal of swearing and deep hate for the hacking community as well....
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77Can there be life on other planets?
Could there be life on other planets? It turns out this is not an easy question to answer at all because, for starters, scientist still argue over the definition of the term 'life'. Since a complete...
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74How Babies Learn to Talk
Living in a polyglot family, one of the aspects that more than others trigger my curiosity is understanding the mechanisms through which people, and especially newborns, learn a new language. According to...
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79The Different Types of Internet Scams
If you frequently surf the Net, you'll probably have stumbled upon countless ads and pages promising you will earn incredible sums with no or very low effort in exchange for paying a small sum to join their...
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54The future of the iPhone
The 2007 Mac-World held in San Francisco is a conference that tech enthusiasts will find it hard to forget. After what he said to be a developing process lasting almost three years, a brilliant Steve Jobs...
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66Tricks to search the Web more efficiently
by Dario Borghino Sometimes, when you're looking for some information on the web, no matter what you type in the search box, you still can't find it. If that happens more often than you'd like to admit, this is the right place for you. This...
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67How to use Wikipedia for your research
"Welcome to Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit" recites the banner in the front page of the site. That doesn't really sound like something a student looking for unbiased information for his research wants to hear, but that surely...
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68The pros and cons of open source software
To be able to understand pros and cons of Open Source (or 'Free') Software, one must first understand the philosophy in which it is rooted. Suppose for a moment you're a student reading a physics book which...
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71The Future of Computers and Artificial Intelligence
In the last 50 years, the advent of computer has radically changed our daily routines and habits. From huge, roomy, terribly expensive and rather useless machines, computers have managed to become quite the opposite of all the above, seeing an...
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66The Shot -- funny science fiction short story
At first, you won't feel anything. So it's probably not as bad as they say, you think to yourself. But then after a second, just one single second, you'll start feeling the pain. It stings like a thin crystal of Goljm in your veins and gets...
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