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Just Like Avatar: Scenes from India, Canada, China, and Hawaii — NEXT> Pandora on Earth If you’re a big Avatar fan, then James ...

Google-China flap spurs federal plan to bypass censors — Members of Congress announce the Global Internet Freedom Caucus and a bill to spend federal dollars on research to "defeat Internet suppression and censorship."

Zhang Ruifang: Unicorn Lady —

Zhang Ruifang, a 101-year-old grandma from China, up sprouted a horn out of her head last year. No one knows how it got there. Apparently, a second horn is starting to grow on the other side of her head, which would be pretty much the end of the whole unicorn thing.

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1. The Original Unicorn Lady [PIC]
2. Chinese woman Zhang Ruifang, aged 101, grows ‘devil’ horn

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Google: China Hackers Stole Valuable Source Code —

According to McAffee CTO George Kurtz the cyber-attacks that occurred in January targed a small number of employees who controlled source code management systems.  These source code management systems handle the myriad changes that developers make as they write software, the breach of which can have a cascade effect across multiple levels of Google and as many as 30 other business targeted in the January attacks.  Aside from being awesome and using ‘cyber-attack’ in a sentence, I also have some valuable source-code for sale at rock-bottom prices; check out my store at ‘CyberNinjaAssassinCassanova138’ on eBay.

Tags: china, crimes, cyber attack, george kurtz, google, hack, hacking, internet, mcafee, source code, theft,

CNN visits dog and cat meat market in China —

Warning: This may shock you if you love dogs and cats. In this highly disturbing video report, CNN's Emily Chang goes to a dog and cat meat market in Guanghzhou, China. There, dogs and cats are kept in cages and sold to restaurants and street vendors that specialize in things like cat stew and frozen dog leg. The Chinese government has taken the first steps in banning the consumption of dog and cat meat, but this report says it may take a decade for actual changes to be implemented.

Cisco Unveils One Router to Rule Them All — Cisco has unveiled its biggest routing system to date, one that the company says is capable of linking everyone in China on a video call.

Why Cisco's Crazy New Router Won't Make Your Internet Faster (CSCO) —

Cisco made a splash today by announcing an insanely fast new router, which, on paper, is capable of doing all sorts of amazing things, like letting everyone in China make a video call all at once.

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• Where The Heck Is Cisco's Apple TV Killer?
• Cisco's New Router Could Let Everyone In China Make A Video Call At Once
• Cisco Making 'Major Technology Announcement' To 'Forever Change The Internet' On March 9

Vodafone HTC Magic found to be carrying virus out of the box — It appears that just because something is factory sealed doesn’t necessarily insure that it is free of viruses. An employee at Panda Research, a maker of anti-virus software, reportedly discovered some malware on her brand new HTC Magic phone from Vodafone according to a post on the corporate blog.  Apparently the employee’s antivirus software set off [...] Related posts:

1. Fisher-Price cameras – now with free added virus
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3. Microsoft’s Vista anti-virus solution slammed

Where The Heck Is Cisco's Apple TV Killer? (CSCO, AAPL) —

Cisco's hugely hyped "major technology announcement" -- the one the company said would "forever change the Internet and its impact on consumers, businesses and governments" -- has come and gone.

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• Cisco's New Router Could Let Everyone In China Make A Video Call At Once
• Cisco Wants To Kill Your Cisco Set-Top Box With Another Cisco Set-Top Box
• Cisco Making 'Major Technology Announcement' To 'Forever Change The Internet' On March 9

Cisco Unveils One Router to Rule Them All — Cisco has unveiled its biggest routing system to date, one that the company says is capable of linking everyone in China on a video call.

Demon-Spawn, Burn It With Fire!: Woman Has 3-Inch Horn Growing Out Of Her Damn Head — Rouse the villages, tell them to bring torches!

A 101-year-old woman in China has baffled doctors after growing a huge goat-like horn on her forehead. "[At first] we didn't pay too much attention to it," said Mrs Zhang's youngest son Zhang Guozheng. Cutaneous horns are made up of keratin -- the protein found in fingernails -- and are typically seen in elderly people who have had prolonged exposure to sunlight. "Now something is also growing on the right side of her forehead -- it's quite possible that it's another horn."

Dude if she grows a horn on the other side there's no way in hell(!) you can tell me she's not demon-spawn. Shoot, even with just the one I'm convinced. Now, start collecting dry branches. Hit the jump for two more shots, at least of which kinda looks like a bad pickle. Woman grows 6cm horn on forehead [9news] Thanks to Ross, who, NO YOU CAN'T KEEP THE HORN AFTERWARD, WHAT THE HELL'S THE MATTER WITH YOU?! It's mine.

Cisco's New Router Could Let Everyone In China Make A Video Call At Once —

Cisco's major news is finally out: a new large-scale core router, the CRS-3, capable of handling 322 Tbps.

That number -- three times what Cisco's current best product, the CRS-1, can handle -- is just a theoretical upper limit. But still, it's a pretty staggering upper limit.

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• LIVE: Cisco's Epic Announcement That Will "Change The Internet Forever"
• Less Than 20 Minutes Until Cisco Changes The Internet Forever
• Only Two Hours Until Cisco Changes The Internet FOREVER

China tries microblogging top political event (AP) —

AP - So this is how you get through China's biggest political event of the year: "Sit still, stare toward the front, pretend like you're looking but you're really not, pretend like you're listening but you're really not ... make your brain blank."

When China Makes Goods for the US, Who’s Responsible for the Emissions? — When researchers rack up the carbon emitted across the world, the standard ...

Chinese companies plan tablet PCs amid Apple iPad hype — Several Chinese companies have jumped on the tablet PC bandwagon as buyers await the sale of Apple's iPad, possibly presaging wide imitation of the Apple device in China.

Hummer plant coming back online to fill 849-unit order? —

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Unless a buyer for Hummer materializes in the next few months, General Motors will continue to wind-down its environmental group dart board. The slow death of Hummer has actually been in process since before The General announced that the sale of the brand to China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery fell through, as the company's Shreveport, LA facility stopped making H3 and H3T models in January.

But while Shreveport has been down for two months, it looks like the plant could dust off the H3 tooling to fill one more big order. Brandcentric site Hummerguy.net is reporting that GM is ramping up production of the H3 from April 12 to May 13 to fill a 849 unit order. The General reportedly didn't announce the purchaser of the reported mega Hummer order, but the Detroit, MI-based automaker did say that the order was not related to the brand's wind-down or sale.

We're thinking this news won't stop Hummer from off-roading into the sunset, but it does at least prove that there are still people that like Hummers. Now all GM needs is a Hummer lover with a spare $150 million laying around the compound to step up and buy the withering brand.



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China denies Sweden Uighur spying — China denies it is spying on Uighur refugees in Sweden, after a Stockholm court jailed a Uigur for passing information to an agent.

Chinese companies plan tablet PCs amid Apple iPad hype — Several Chinese companies have jumped on the tablet PC bandwagon as buyers await the sale of Apple's iPad, possibly presaging wide imitation of the Apple device in China.

Most Believe Web Is a Fundamental Right, Not a Privilege — Americans might be on the fence about whether or not health care is a right or a privilege, but they seem to be in agreement with the vast majority of the world's population when it comes to the question of Internet access being a fundamental right. An international survey, conducted by the BBC World Service, found that 79-percent of respondents thought that having access to the Web was a basic right.

In addition, more than half of the 27,000 respondents, who were polled in 26 countries, agreed that the Internet should not be subject to any government regulation. From country to country, opinions did differ, though, when it came to the most valued aspect of the Net and the biggest concerns regarding it. Overwhelmingly, the biggest concern in China was censorship, while other nations were more concerned with fraud, offensive content and invasions of privacy. Disturbingly, 84-percent of respondents from Japan were not confident in their ability to "cope" without access to the Internet. Dig in deep with the BBC's findings in this PDF. [From: BBC, Via: Reuters]

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Chinese Companies Plan Tablet PCs Amid Apple IPad Hype (PC World) — PC World - Several Chinese companies have jumped on the tablet PC bandwagon as buyers await the sale of Apple's iPad, possibly presaging wide imitation of the Apple device in China.

More Than Jobs, We've Outsourced Our Carbon Emissions — image: Carnegie Institution We've written about the phenomenon of outsourced carbon emissions a number of times, with the example of perhaps up to one third of China's emissions coming from manufacturing goods destined for consumption abroad being most prominent. Well, a new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution adds some more data to our our understanding of this issue:...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Chinese companies plan tablet PCs amid Apple iPad hype — Several Chinese companies have jumped on the tablet PC bandwagon as buyers await the sale of Apple's iPad, possibly presaging wide imitation of the Apple device in China.

IMF Head Sees Changes in Yuan in 'Coming Months' — China is moving to a more traditional growth model, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said. "What goes with this kind of policy is a revaluation of the Chinese currency. We may get changes in the coming months."