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		<title>Dead gamer goes unnoticed in Taiwanese Internet cafe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Mathews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Taiwanese gamer's life comes to a tragic end in a New Tapei cafe.]]></description>
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		<title>Is pre-emptive .xxx domain buying pointless?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kameka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Universities, businesses and organizations are buying .xxx domains to prevent pornographers from exploiting their brands, but they may be wasting time and money.]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists to clone mammoth in &#8220;Jurassic&#8221; experiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to scientists, within five years, a woolly mammoth will likely be cloned.]]></description>
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		<title>Carrier IQ: Is your smartphone tracking everything you do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Invasive tracking software has been found on every smartphone platform all around the world, including Canada.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>52</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should websites have a &#8220;terrorist button&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kameka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman suggesting that Google add a way to flag terrorist websites, the web debates if it's sensible or silly.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why have hard drive prices skyrocketed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Phan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flooding in Thailand has shut down countless manufacturers including three of the world's largest hard drive manufacturers.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>U.S. SOPA bill could have terrible implications for Canadians as well</title>
		<link>http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2011/11/sopa-bill-affects-canadians-too.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2011/11/sopa-bill-affects-canadians-too.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kameka</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A proposed bill in the U.S. congress could grant companies the power to shut down a website - even if it is located outside of the United States.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>B.C. teens using social media to catch, expose &#8216;pedophiles&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Saltzman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three male teenagers posed as underage girls online to lure men into sex – and then filmed and uploaded the confrontation to YouTube. Do you agree with their efforts to expose these men or is it reckless and dangerous?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The FBI continues to keep tabs on the public using warrantless GPS trackers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not one, but two federal GPS tracking devices were discovered recently on one California resident's SUV.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Inception&#8217;-inspired virtual dreams used to help traumatized soldiers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Phil Tucker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Army is funding a new experimental treatment hoping to aid those suffering from PTSD by counteracting nightmares with virtual dreams.  ]]></description>
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