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From building-blocking bollards to millimeter-wave scanners , the September 11 terrorist attacks have led to significant changes in security techniques and technology worldwide over the past decade to discourage future attacks and to avoid being surprised again. To meet these goals, law enforcement and counterterrorism operations worldwide have come to rely heavily on surveillance of public spaces. Nowhere is surveillance more pervasive in the U.S

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This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. Apple Pushes New Charity Scheme . Tim Cook has made one of the first noticeable changes to Apple policy since the resignation of Steve Jobs: In an email to Apple staff Cook revealed that if employees donate money to non-profit 501©(3) organizations, Apple will match the totals up to $10,000 annually

The terrorist attacks of September 11th drastically changed the security strategy of NYC. A massive camera network, dubbed the 'Ring of Steel' , is at the heart of this new strategy. In the first of three videos we watch it as it watches us.

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were a shocking and emotionally raw event that most adults, especially in the U.S., still have trouble comprehending . For children under 14, however, the events of that day are but a page of history, a modern-day Pearl Harbor. Now, with the 10th anniversary of these attacks upon us, psychologists, educators and parents are thinking again about how best to teach children about the traumatic day and its aftermath--as well as the complicated threat of terrorism .

More than half-a-billion smartphones will likely be sold in the coming year.

The terrorist attacks that shook the United States 10 years ago had effects that reached all the way into space. Not only did the events of Sept. 11, 2001, prompt NASA to immediately beef up its already strict security procedures, they forced military space officials to reassess their priorities regarding space security and triggered a shift in space policy .

No shortage of articles have been published about the deep distrust exhibited by most 2012 Republican presidential candidates toward specific scientific findings--notably evolution and climate change--as well as in some cases toward science itself. [More]

* New station crew will not fly until problem found, fixed * Former commander says it is time to bring in the Chinese [More]

Thar’s gold in them thar hills--and we may have meteorites to thank. Because it appears that a rain of meteors nearly 4 billion years ago peppered the Earth’s exterior with precious metals

A three-year, government-funded effort to track the movement of greenhouse gases throughout the atmosphere has yielded surprising results that could help improve the accuracy of climate models. Researchers used a specially equipped plane for a series of pole-to-pole flights to measure the concentrations of greenhouse gases and black carbon particles at different altitudes, different locations and different times of the year

By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Raging wildfires and scorching heat across the South over the last week, added to the human, economic and agricultural toll of a historic drought that climatologists said was only growing more dire. [More]

By Nicola Jones of Nature magazine The non-profit programme MyMicrobes , launched today, is inviting people to have their gut bacteria sequenced for about €1,500 (2,100). [More]

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