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  • Feds move toward health claims database despite privacy fears

    Despite lingering privacy concerns, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is plowing ahead with plans to build a massive centralized database containing detailed healthcare claims information on millions of federal employees and their families.

  • Syria drops off the Internet amid turmoil

    In what appears to be the latest bid by a government to throttle access to news and information amid growing civil unrest, the Syrian government Friday shut down all Internet services.

  • NASA astronauts complete space station work

    NASA astronauts Friday wrapped up the fourth and final spacewalk of space shuttle Endeavour's last mission, moving a robotic arm from the space shuttle to its new home onboard the International Space Station.

  • California looks to protect smart meter data

    California's Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has proposed a new set of rules for protecting the security and privacy of consumer data collected by the state's utility companies via new <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179139/Utilities_use_of_smart_meters_faces_image_problem">smart metering technology</a> .

  • LimeWire settlement unlikely to blunt music piracy

    Peer-to-peer software maker LimeWire's willingness to pay a whopping $105 million to settle music piracy claims marks a decisive, if somewhat symbolic, victory for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

  • NASA looks to a new generation of innovation

    As <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215737/Two_milestones_in_space_20_years_apart">NASA celebrates</a> the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle launch, the agency is also looking ahead to the next chapter in space exploration.

  • NASA names space shuttles' retirement homes

    NASA has announced the four facilities that will receive a <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178815/NASA_extends_shuttle_mission_schedule_into_2011">retired space shuttle</a> to display once the fleet is officially shut down.

  • Gov't shutdown could delay Endeavour launch

    NASA confirmed Friday that a government shutdown could <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215464/NASA_delays_i_Endeavour_s_i_final_launch">delay the final launch</a> of the space shuttle Endeavour.

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