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LA building explosion hurls people into street

in a large South Los Angeles commercial building has hurled people into the street, wedging some beneath parked cars. Fire Capt. Steve Ruda says a violent natural gas explosion shook the two-story building housing a welding operation at 6:15 a.m. Friday

Google cleared of wi-fi ’snooping’ by UK body

apologised for mistakenly collecting peoples data, such as parts of emails, text or photographs, via its Street View cars antennae, as it logged Wi-Fi hotspots to improve its location-based services, such as Google Maps. About 600 gigabytes of data was

School warning signs not enough: parents

Lake Macquarie primary school where parents are lobbying for a 40kph zone. Four children have been hit by cars on Carey Street outside Toronto Public School already this year. Last week, the RTA installed new signs on the street warning of school age

G.M.’s Free Ride on the Government’s Dime

4 percent of G.M’s buyers have subprime scores and it leases only 7 percent of its cars, The Wall Street Journal reports. The acquisition allows G.M. to offer additional financing to subprime buyers and expand into a market that is now estimated to be

Google pressed on wi-fi snooping

name the engineers who wrote code that captured personal data from unsecured wi-fi networks. Google’s Street View cars collected this data while taking photographs and gathering location data to create the search giant’s imaging service. The call to name

Investigation into Google’s WiFi snooping now 38 states…

The investigation into Google’s unauthorized collection of data over WiFi by its Street View cars is now 38 states strong, Connecticut’s AG said today

Workmen hoist woman’s car into the air to paint yellow…

replaced by a note saying: “Your car has been repositioned by the council.” At least two other cars – a BMW and a Mini – were also lifted up by a truck as the lines were painted on Little Quay Street and Atkinson Street, just off Deansgate. Mrs

Runaway truck cuts power in Woburn

it rolled downhill on a Woburn street. No one was injured, but wires were pulled down and three cars damaged Tuesday afternoon on Warren Avenue. The driverless truck came to rest at the intersection of Main Street, its tilted cargo bed entangled in

Google guilty of privacy breaches

SYDNEY: Google is guilty of breaching Australian laws by collecting private wireless data with its “Street View” mapping cars but will escape punishment, the privacy regulator said. Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis said she was unable to impose

Google guilty of privacy breach :Oz

SYDNEY: Google is guilty of breaching Australian laws by collecting private wireless data with its “Street View” mapping cars but will escape punishment, the privacy regulator said. Privacy Commissioner Karen Curtis said she was unable to impose