AP - The world’s largest atom smasher on Monday broke the record for proton acceleration previously held by a U.S. lab, sending beams of the particles at 1.18 trillion electron volts around the massive machine.

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Geneva Big Bang machine beats Chicago lab record
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AP - When swine flu broke out, the government revved up a massive information campaign centered on three words: Wash your hands.

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Cybersecurity starts at home and in the office
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60 years of propaganda in Communist China

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Art = politics
AP - Some of the world’s most prominent technology companies are offering suggestions to publishers on how they can charge readers for news online.

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Tech giants offer ideas on charging readers online
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AP - In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don’t have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.

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Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules
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AP - Scott Painter makes his living betting on startup companies, having played a role in launching 29 of them over the years. But with the bad economy choking initial public offerings and acquisitions, Painter is now backing an idea that makes it easier for insiders like him to sell shares in their companies even before they go public.

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Facebook, Twitter and peers for sale - privately
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Reuters - A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said.

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Conficker virus begins to attack PCs: experts
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AP - Hollywood calls it “rent, rip and return” and contends it’s one of the biggest technological threats to the movie industry’s annual $20 billion DVD market software that allows you to copy a film without paying for it.

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Hollywood, RealNetworks square off on DVD copying
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