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| Tech triumphs as you tinker |
| A Carnegie Mellon professor has devised a way to use wasted human online hours to digitise old newspapers and text. P. Hari reports |
| The next time you buy tickets online or sign up for an e-mail account, and you are asked to type in some puzzling strings of letters or numerals, you may be part of a large worldwide exercise. Websites ask people to identify distorted characters just to make sure that they are human and not spammers... |
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| Reining in the rains |
| Elsewhere, they call it autumn and revel in the onset of winter. For the villagers of Lakshmipur in the Kakdwip block of the Sundarbans in West Bengal
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| Securing your WiFi |
| BITS & BYTES - SURIT DOSS |
 WiFi, or Wireless Fidelity, has been in the news lately, after terrorists used a Mumbai-based businessman’s open wireless Internet connection to send threatening email. Many people disabled their WiFi after reading the news and reverted to their ... | Read.. |
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