Two people without invitations crashed President Obama's first White House state dinner, the Secret Service says.
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Couple Slipped Past Security, Crashed State Dinner
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The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple managed to slip into Tuesday night's state dinner at the White House even though they were not on the guest list, an agency spokesman said. The Secret Service learned about the breach after the couple posted photos on Facebook.
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Blee37 writes "Researchers at Microsoft have invented a system for tagging images by reading brain scans from an electroencephalograph (EEG). Tagging images is an important task because many images on the web are unlabeled and have no semantic information. This new method allows an appropriate tag to be generated by an AI algorithm interpreting ...
A year after the assault that paralyzed India's commercial heart, the anniversary was commemorated across the city with candlelight vigils, prayer meetings, art projects, discussion groups, political speeches, music concerts and soul-searching newspaper articles. Activists fear that security upgrades in the city are not enough to prevent a repeat ...
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President Obama and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao will attend the Copenhagen climate talks next month and have pledged new targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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The yen’s strength prompted fresh concerns among Japan’s export giants, and could delay its move out of the deepest recession in decades.
Shareable Ink is hoping to popularize a camera-in-a-pen that wirelessly transfers text written on paper to a remote database to better track such data as glucose levels.
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Authorities executed at least 4,900 civilians suspected of communist sympathies at the start of the Korean War.
Raiden's Realm: "But have you really thought about what you're thankful for in the FOSS world? What is there that, if it were gone tomorrow, that you'd miss the most? Whatever you would miss the most should be the one thing you're most thankful for having."
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This Thanksgiving We're Thankful for a Break
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That's it, we're in holiday mode: the dayside writers are taking Thursday and Friday off, but the night crew — Adrian, Azaria and Ravi — will be posting sporadically. Also, we're launching an always-open chat page. Since Gawker Media embraced the anarchic tag page system, we've had people posting news tips and story ideas on the # ...
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On the nation’s greatest food holiday, the culinary habits of millions can be analyzed like never before.
John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park died nearly 28 hours after he became stuck 700 feet into the cave known as Nutty Putty, a Utah County Sheriff's Department spokesman said. Rescuers were next to Jones for much of the day, but he was wedged in a small hole too tightly to pull him out. He had been exploring the cave passages with a group of people.
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NATO allies appear willing to send fewer than half that number of additional troops to Afghanistan as part of President Obama’s strategy for the region, officials said.
 
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Alan F Beck paints watercolors of mice posed and modelled on classic and famous portraits -- including wonderful versions of Poe, Asimov, and Frankenstein's Monster as mice. Saw some of these last weekend at Philcon and was very amused -- so much so that I couldn't stop thinking of them and just bought a Poe one for Poesy's room (she's a big ...
The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the ...
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I love this simple wooden orrery from Muji's gift lineup. Sadly, their ecommerce-fu is about as terrible as it gets, but if you're near a Muji store, it's £16 well-spent. Wooden Solar System ( Thanks, Alice ! )
Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He is writing a weekly column about social networking and tech for CNN.com.
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AMPATUAN, Philippines - A scion of a powerful clan suspected in the massacre of 57 people in an election caravan in the southern Philippines turned himself in Wednesday amid mounting pressure on the government to crack down on lawlessness and warlords.
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In March of 2008 Scott Rasmussen explains how everything ever is good for John McCain A lot of my conservative readers insist that my disregard for Rasmussen simply comes from the ...
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Zadcat snapped this superb graffiti in Montreal's Chinatown -- snake-fire-escape! Sssnake stairs ( Thanks, Zadcat! ) Previously: C graffiti - Boing Boing Graffiti of giant people stuffed into small building - Boing Boing Graffiti: "I Love Cops!" - Boing Boing Graffiti of Koshi's Songbird ninja - Boing Boing BB Video: Canadian ...
Useful Things in my Home Office is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed I love to surround myself with things I can use – and that look good on my desk. When the folks at Useful Things sent me a care package recently, I was only too happy to try out their nifty little offerings! I was ...
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My First PDA – Sharp Wizard
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My First PDA – Sharp Wizard is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed My first PDA was an old Sharp Wizard which carried 64MB of data! It was over $300 back in the day, and was considered to be a high-end model. I could add things to my calendar and keep track of what I had to do. My calendar ...
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IPhone Comics
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iPhone Comics is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed This is Ken Brady, who lives in both Portland and Japan. He’s a software developer who I think you’ll want to follow! He’s working on a few very cool things. One of these is a comic reader for the iPhone. You can change ...
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