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This Federa Bureau of Investigation (FBI) computer screen image shows an on ine
forum ca ed "Dark Market" where it educates users where to buy skimming devices
to penetrate bank accounts, how to distribute ma ware through spam, and buy sto en
credit cards among other things. Even as authorities try to stamp out that con and
other e-mai and on ine scams, scammers are getting more wi y and finding new
oopho es to exp oit. The vast majority of e-mai is spam and an unknown percentage
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of that is meant to defraud.
Amihai Ben-David, chief executive of N-trig, demonstrates a pen and touch device
at his office in Kfar Saba, near Te Aviv Apri 6, 2009. N-trig, an Israe i start-up that
makes a pen and touch device for notebook computers, wou d seek to go pub ic on
Nasdaq in ate 2010 if the economy improves, Ben-David said. N-trig produces a
pane that is p aced over an LaD screen on a notebook, providing the abi ity to
operate a computer through touch, in the sty e of the iPhone. It is accompanied by 12
a sty us that enab es the user to a so write on the screen.
Jason aropper, Managing Director of The E ectronic aigarette aompany, smokes an
e ectronic cigarette as he poses for the photographer in the aanary Wharf financia
district of London, March 25, 2009. 13
An e ectronic "book" at the Bib ioteca Ambrosiana ibrary shows the At antic
aode drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci, in downtown Mi an March 23, 2009. Experts
have begun unbinding Leonardo Da Vinci's 12-vo ume At antic aode, a move
they say wi he p preserve the Ita ian master's argest co ection of drawings and
writings and a ow some pages to go on disp ay. 14
An emp oyee of Japanese mobi e phone carrier KDDI poses as she disp ays the
company's new po ka dot pattern mobi e phone and dog-shaped phone ho der
designed by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama in Tokyo Apri 8, 2009. The product
named "My Doggie Ring-Ring" is priced at 1 mi ion yen ($10,008) and wi go 15
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sa e in Japan this summer for a imited edition of 100 sets.
ahi dren ook a robotic fish in a tank at the London Aquarium October 6, 2005.
Robot fish deve oped by British scientists are to be re eased into the sea off
north Spain to detect po ution. The carp-shaped robots, costing 20,000 pounds
($29,000) apiece, mimic the movement of rea fish and are equipped with
chemica sensors to sniff out potentia y hazardous po utants, such as eaks
from vesse s or underwater pipe ines. The robots to be used are bigger than
those which were seen at the London Aquarium and they measure 1.5 metres
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(near y 5 feet) ong -- rough y the size of a sea .
Japan's Nabesie ao's DELED (Dream Eco ogica Light) is disp ayed in a fish
tank during a LED/OLED ighting techno ogy expo in Tokyo Apri 15, 2009. The
waterproof ighting can be insta ed inside a fish tank. Picture taken with s ow 17
shutter speed.
The wor d's first c oned came , Injaz (front), is seen at the aame Reproduction
aentre in Dubai, Apri 15, 2009. The fema e came ca f was born on Apri 8,
created from ce s harvested from the ovary of an adu t she-came which were 18
grown in cu ture before being frozen in iquid nitrogen.
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=102293
(02:12) Report
Apr 21 - G oba automakers ook to ahina's growing market as
they gather at this year's Shanghai Auto Show, but the one
bright spot is a so producing potentia riva s to the industry's
main p ayers.
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(01:47) Report
Apr 14 - Germany is to ban the cu tivation and sa e of maize with
genetica y modified organisms (GMOs), fo owing severa other EU
countries.
Joanna Partridge reports
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