It’s cool, clean and crisp, but Google’s own shiny web browser has got privacy advocates worried about the technology that Google employs to deliver Chrome’s sleek features. There is fear that through its own browser Google, whose wealth rests upon the information it gathers of people who use the Internet, now has more means to [...]

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The term “deep packet inspection” already sounds creepy, like somebody’s hand deep down your pocket, literally.

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They “look like… drug addicts and not soldiers,” a rebel commander complained.

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A pissed off President Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines storms out of the media room

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Fighting between the Muslim separatists in Southern Philippines and the Philippine military has intensified with recent simultaneous raids by the rebels in key cities in Mindanao. Videos uploaded by a certain Even de Mata captures the most intense videos ever to come out from the field.

Watch the videos.

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The man who was once the world’s heaviest wants to break another record, this time, for weight loss. Manuel Uribe of Mexico has already shed 529 pounds, but he wants to lose another 421 pounds to break the record. His other goals: marrying his girlfriend and having a family.

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A class suit has been filed against publishers and editors of lewd magazines in the Philippines for alleged violation of a city ordinance which prohibits the printing, publication, sale, distribution and exhibition of obscene and pornographic acts and materials.

The criminal complaint was filed by Manila congressman Bienvenido Abante and a group of pastors and preachers [...]

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Asian internet neighborhoods dominated McAfee’s list of the “most dangerous” on the web with HongKong’s “.hk” and China’s “.cn” domains, and the Philippines’ “.ph” topping the list.
In its second annual McAfee “Mapping the Mal Web” report, the security technology firm McAfee found that 19.2% of all Web sites ending in the “.hk” domain pose a [...]

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WASHINGTON, May 14 (Xinhua) — Both Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton can beat their Republican rival John McCain in the November general elections, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
The New Quinnipiac University poll found that Illinois Senator Barack Obama could beat presumptive Republican presidential nominee [...]

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Born with an extremely rare congenital disorder called craniofacial duplication (diprosopus), in which part of the face is duplicated on the head, this month-old baby has been the center of attraction in her Saini village in Noida, some 55 km (34 miles) from New Delhi.
Her family of the baby has refused special medical [...]

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