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1. -06-29-08 Seizing Laptops and Cameras Without Cause (MSNBC News)
   "The number of civilians killed in fighting between insurgents and security forces in Afghanistan has soared by two-thirds in the first half of this year, to almost 700 people, a senior U.N. official said Sunday."
   
   "The figures are a grim reminder of how the nearly seven-year war has failed to stabilize the country and suggest that ordinary civilians are bearing a heavy toll, particularly from stepped-up militant attacks." 06-08

2. Tips on Buying Digital Cameras (U.S. News)
   "A few ground rules can help. If there is a choice, pay for a longer zoom lens rather than more megapixels, says Julie Adair King, author of Digital Photography for Dummies. People often want more pixels because they can crop a photo to delete unwanted material around a subject, such as a small kid on a big soccer field. "A longer optical zoom lets you fill the frame with the subject in the first place," she says. But ignore "digital zoom," in which camera software simply crops the photo. That's better done later on a PC."
   
   "Also, find a model that has hardware that fights blurring caused by camera shake, often called optical image stabilization or antishake control. Some cameras try to do the same thing with software in what's called 'digital image stabilization,' but it doesn't work as well."
   
   "Finally, don't worry much about camera quality or reliability. Having been around for more than a decade, digital photography is a pretty mature technology. 'Virtually all the cameras out there from major brands do a good job,' Hoffenberg says." 11-09

3. Computer Hardware - Criteria (Computer Shopper)
   Provides suggestions on how to buy hardware, such as computers, monitors, printers, scanners, digital cameras, and more. 8-99

4. New Video Spying Technology for the Military (CBS News - Sniffen)
   "DARPA described a hypothetical terrorist shooting at a bus stop and a hypothetical bombing at a disco one month apart in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, a city with slightly more residents than Miami."
   
   CTS should be able to track the day's movements for every vehicle that passed each scene in the hour before the attack, DARPA said. Even if there were 2,000 such vehicles and none showed up twice, the software should automatically compare their routes and find vehicles with common starting and stopping points."
   
    "Joseph Onek of the Open Society Institute, a human rights group, said current law that permits the use of cameras in public areas may have to be revised to address the privacy implications of these new technologies."
   
   " 'It's one thing to say that if someone is in the street he knows that at any single moment someone can see him,' Onek said. 'It's another thing to record a whole life so you can see anywhere someone has been in public for 10 years.' " 7-03

5. 08-04-03 Mars Rover Expedition (CNN)
   "A NASA robot packed with eight cameras, geology instruments and super-rugged wheels roared into space on Tuesday, one of three missions headed to Mars this summer during the most favorable cosmic conditions in centuries."
   
   "Their geologic studies, scheduled to last three months, are designed to find physical evidence of water activity on Mars from billions of years ago, when the planet was thought to have been wetter and warmer -- and possibly inhabited by microbes."
   
   "Like surfers who have been waiting for the big wave, the spacecraft are riding to the red planet as Mars and Earth make their nearest pass to each other since prehistoric times."
   
   "A closer approach won't take place until 2287, according to Sky & Telescope Magazine." 8-03

6. -12-19-04 Challenge of Election (Boston Independent Media Center)
   "Across the US electors in at least five states, for the first time in history, turned the heavily scripted and ritualized electoral college proceedings into a forum for political action. Frustrated by the relative inattention to wide spread real voting violations now numbering in the tens of thousands, Electors called for congressional investigation and legislative action."
   
   "Vermont electors, on the record and in front of TV cameras and a number of statewide media outlets, expressed their concerns for our democracy with '57,000 complaints already received by the Congressional Judiciary Committee, we call on Congress and especially our Vermont Congressional delegation to investigate.' They enumerated credible violations affecting hundreds of thousands of voters across the US, Elector Jeffrey Taylor reports."
   
   "Massachusetts Electors who introduced the motion said they will use this to lobby Congressional members to take action now such as objecting to the vote. The motion passed by acclimation called on Congress to: 'Act to commit Congress to investigate all voting complaints that might have any validity that they receive, Act to commit Congress to remedy any voting rights violations or electoral fraud verified by its own agents or through the courts, File in Congress and commit their resources to passage of systemic remedies.' ” 12-04

7. -08-05-05 Russian Mini-Sub Stuck - Super Scorpio Rescuer (GlobalSecurity.org)
   "The Super Scorpio remote operated vehicle (ROV) is equipped with remotely operated video cameras and robotic manipulators. Deep Submergence Unit (DSU) Unmanned Vehicle Detachment (UMA Det) personnel operate the vehicle from Naval Air Station North Island, CA. The US Navy has two Super Scorpio ROVs, each equipped with two heavy-lift hydraulic manipulators: one five-function and one seven-function position-feedback. Super Scorpios have a maximum operating depth of about 5,000 feet (1,524 meters)." 8-05

8. -08-12-05 Orbiter Off to Mars (ABC News)
   "A spacecraft loaded with high-tech cameras, antenna and radar began a seven-month voyage to Mars on Friday that aims to gather more data on the Red Planet than all previous explorations combined."
   
   "During its first two years, the orbiter will build on NASA's knowledge of the history of the planet's ice. The planet is cold and dry with large caps of frozen water at its poles, but scientists think it was a wetter and possibly warmer place eons ago conditions that might have been conducive to life. Scientists are also trying to determine if it could support future human outposts." 8-05

9. -01-13-06 Humvee Armor Debate (USA Today)
   "Soldiers exposed to Iraq's increasingly lethal roadside bombs, which can rip through armored Humvees, are drawing on wartime experience and stateside expertise to protect their vehicles with stronger armor and thermal detection cameras." 01-06

10. -04-24-06 Using the Tongue for Super Powers (ABC News)
    "In their quest to create the super warrior of the future, some military researchers aren't focusing on organs like muscles or hearts. They're looking at tongues."
    
    "By routing signals from helmet-mounted cameras, sonar and other equipment through the tongue to the brain, they hope to give elite soldiers superhuman senses similar to owls, snakes and fish." 04-06

11. -12-28-06 New Type of Battery for Hybrid Cars (USCar.org)
    "USABC awarded the contract in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop lithium iron phosphate battery technology for hybrid-electric vehicle applications. The contract is for 36 months with a focus on systems that are high-power, abuse-tolerant and cost effective."
    
    Editor's Note: These batteries are designed to replace nickle-metal-hydride batteries currently used in hybrid cars with lithium batteries. Current lithium batteries, such as those used in cameras, cannot be used in hybrids because of overheating problems and cost. 12-06

12. MSN's List of Top Technology Products (MSNBC News)
    Provides overviews of desktops, laptops, cameras, media players, cells phones, and more. 06-07

13. Evidence of fraud in the 2004 Presidential Election in Ohio (WitnesstoaCrime.com)
    "Phillips' long-awaited book, 'Witness to a Crime: A Citizens' Audit of an American Election,' was published by Canterbury Press on April 12."
    
    "Richard Hayes Phillips has been the leading investigator of the fraudulent 2004 presidential election in Ohio. His work was relied upon by John Conyers in challenging the Ohio electors in Congress, by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in his article for Rolling Stone magazine, and by Algenon L. Marbley in issuing his federal court order protecting the ballots from destruction. Assisted by teams of volunteers equipped with digital cameras, Phillips amassed some 30,000 images of forensic evidence. Then he analyzed it all himself, examining 126,000 ballots, 127 poll books, and 141 voter signature books from 18 counties in Ohio." 05-08

14. -01-06-09 Five Ways to Recharge Without Plugging In (U.S. News)
    "So maybe we need a little magic: electricity that's delivered without wall plugs. A variety of new systems will recharge our cellphones, MP3 players and digital cameras without having to cable them into the grid. In fact, by year's end there should be at least five ways that we can detach ourselves from the outlet:" 02-09

15. Would You Stop a Hate Crime in Progress? (ABC News)
    "The victim, a Hispanic actor hired by 'What Would You Do?,' wore plenty of padding and, although his bloodied face looked real, it was the work of a makeup artist. The assailants, three young white actors, approached the victim as hidden cameras rolled." 03-09

16. -03-24-09 Teachers Want to Ban Cellphone Videos From the Classroom (U.S. News)
    "Union leaders say imposing limits on the use of cameras and other recording devices in school might be necessary to prevent damaging videos and pictures from ending up on Facebook and YouTube."
    
    "Legal experts argue that teachers have a limited expectation of privacy in the classroom. They say that attempts to regulate what students can film or record can provoke free speech challenges. In some cases, students have used recording devices to capture teachers behaving inappropriately. A Connecticut high school math teacher was suspended in 2006 after a cellphone video that appeared on the Internet showed him hurling a homophobic slur at a student." 03-09

17. Digital Camera Reviews (CNET)
    Reviews by manufacturer, manufacturer, price, or features. 11-09

18. Researchers Disagree on Use of Body Signals in Screening (CNN News)
    "The Homeland Security-funded project is Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST. Instead of focusing on whether you have hidden explosives or whether you're carrying a weapon, sensors and cameras located at security checkpoints would measure the natural signals coming from your body -- your heart rate, breathing, eye movement, body temperature and fidgeting."
    
    "Those physiological signs, measured together, will indicate whether you might have the desire or intent to do harm, project manager Robert Burns said."
    
    " 'We're going to look for the elevation, but we're also going to look for the absence of signals, which is just as indicative of being something that has to be resolved,' Burns said."
    
    " 'I haven't seen any research that shows that those measures from the autonomic nervous system ... measuring blood pressure, measuring breathing, measuring heat on the face, are at all related to intent,' said Stephen Fienberg, professor of statistics and social sciences at Carnegie Mellon University."
    
    "Fienberg, who participated in a government study critical of the use of polygraphs, said he worries that a lot of money is being spent on a program that in the end will show 'the emperor has no clothes.' " 12-09

19. -09-28-07 Cell Phones Reveal Myanmar Revolt (CBS News)
    "The attempt at revolution in Myanmar will be televised, it turns out, largely thanks to footage shot on citizens' cellphone cameras." 09-07