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PlayThru: A Gaming Alternative To CAPTCHA Bot Checks

Would you rather decipher random illegible letters or make digital pancakes? This week Detroit-based company Are You a Human announced PlayThru, its fun alternative to headache inducing CAPTCHA technology.

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Seven Startups Join Catapult Chicago

Catapult Chicago has announced seven new startups today that will be joining the 12,000 square foot collaborative space downtown: Dabble, Buzz Referrals, Shiftgig, Tempo, Procured Health, Kula, and BucketFeet.

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Anonymous Leaks 1.7 Gigabytes Of Data From The Bureau Of Justice

Members of hacktivist group Anonymous claim to have leaked some 1.7 gigabytes of internal emails from the Bureau Of Justice, a US government agency.

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WikiLeaks Launches Anonymous, “Encrypted Facebook” For Hacktivists

WikiLeaks announces the launch of Friends of WikiLeaks (FoWL), an encrypted social network for hacktivists, whistleblowers and WikiLeaks sympathizers.

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European Union Gives Google A Matter Of Week To Address Antitrust Concerns

The European Union’s commissioner responsible for competition policy has given Google an ultimatum to provide a list of steps the company will take to address concerns — and complaints from rivals” that it has abused its dominant market position in Europe.

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Tidal Turbines Lead The Future Of Green Energy In Europe

We’ve seen green energy harnessed from the wind with towering turbines and the ocean through bouncing buoys, but what about an underwater turbine that harnesses tidal power? For almost a decade engineers at Andritz Hydro have been developing a unique turbine that harvests energy from powerful tidal currents on the ocean floor.

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Climate-Simulating Cryoscope To Make Market Debut By August

Cryoscope, a haptic prototype that lets you “feel” what another climate would be like has launched a funding campaign to bring the gadget to the market by August.

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Visually Impaired Navigation Made Affordable With Smartphone App

Researchers at the University of Nevada in Reno have come up with a novel navigation method for the visually impaired.

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DifferentFeather: Social Sharing For Enemies

Sick of reading social links from your friends? Try your enemies.

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Microsoft Opens Social Search Network So.cl To The Public

Today Microsoft has made So.cl available to the public — an experimental research project at the intersection between social networking and search.

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