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iFive: Sony Canada Hacked, Google’s NFC Credit Plans, No Windows 8 Soon, Amazon’s Cheaper 3G Kindle, EU Laws Vs. Cookies

1. Sony's hack woes have deepened--now its Canadian version of the eShop has been hacked by a self-professed grey hat Lebanese hacker, and 2,000 customer records have been acquired (evidence for around 1,000 posted online).

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Boys Who Lack Empathy Don’t React To A Fearful Face

Psychopaths can't connect emotionally. Researchers have thought that trait may be connected with an outsized drive for reward and an inability to register fearful expressions in others’ faces

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Tiger’s agent out at IMG as contract renewal fails

Mark Steinberg, the agent for Tiger Woods the last 12 years and head of the IMG golf division, did not renew his contract Tuesday and is no longer with the sports management company.

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Rare All-White Kiwi Born in New Zealand Breeding Program

This year has already been the most successful breeding season to date for endangered North Island brown kiwis ( Apteryx mantelli ) at New Zealand's Pukaha Mount Bruce national wildlife center , and now the rangers who manage the program have an extra reason to celebrate: the May 1 birth of an extremely rare all-white kiwi . [More]

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Brazil Cuts Tablet Makers A Tax Break, As China’s Foxconn Eyes A Move

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has signed a provisional bill that would allow manufacturers of tablet PCs to sidestep a 9.25% social-security tax and benefit from a reduction in the industrial-production tax, which would drop from 15% to 3%.

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Out, Damned Spot: Blood-Spatter Forensics’ Newest Advance

Blood spatters are telltale marks of violent crimes, and have captured the public imagination in shows like Dexter, CSI, and Bones--shows whose cool tech may be less based in reality than special effect. For instance, it's only just now been worked out how to determine the height from which blood droplets fell.

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Fatal Bat Disease Confirmed in All New England with Maine Find

By Zach Howard BUCKLAND, Mass (Reuters) - White nose syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats in the Northeast, has been found in Maine, the last New England state to discover it, wildlife officials said on Tuesday. [More]

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