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Discarded analog television sets in Florida. Analog was rendered obsolete in the switch to digital broadcasting in 2009.

For the first time in 20 years, the number of homes in the United States with television sets has dropped.


Analog...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sony Corp. said Monday that hackers may have taken personal information from an additional 24.6 million user accounts after a review of the recent PlayStation Network breach found an intrusion at a division that makes multiplayer online games.

The data breach comes on top of the 77 million PlayStation accounts it has already...

Targeting only mosquito larvae may work in the short run, but could result in higher resistance in the insects and less disease immunity among human.



DENGUE FEVER: Global incidence of the disease, which is rarely fatal but often debilitating, has risen dramatically in recent decades, linked to both rapid urbanization and the impact of...

was a regurgitation of (some) facts I already knew. The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy was still the best book I have read, besides A Bold, Fresh Piece of Humanity. Non fiction seems to be my forte lately.
I had to escape the college books somehow. I tire of them midterm. Hellweek.

Mcgraw Hills' Electronics magazine used to be compulsory reading for anybody that was even remotely interested in electronic engineering. The target audience was engineering professionals but when I was a mere student it was compelling reading. The magazine is now defunct, this was a slow decline from the early ninties when the target audience...