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NEW YORK - It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams.
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More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It’s a problem familiar to O’Connors, D’Angelos, N’Dours and D’Artagnans […]

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REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it will share more information about its products and technology in an effort to make it work better with rivals’ software and meet the demands of antitrust regulators in Europe.
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European Union regulators, however, expressed skepticism, saying the software maker did not address monopoly abuse in the past or […]

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The Voyager 2 spacecraft’s Plasma Science instrument, developed at MIT in the 1970s, has turned up surprising revelations about the boundary zone that marks the edge of the sun’s influence in space.The unexpected findings emerged in the last few weeks as the spacecraft traversed the termination shockwave formed when the flow of particles constantly streaming […]

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Using observations from ESO’s VLT, astronomers were able for the first time to reconstruct the site of a flare on a solar-like star located 150 light years away. The study of this young star, nicknamed ‘Speedy Mic’ because of its fast rotation, will help scientists better understand the youth of our Sun.The astronomers [1] observed […]

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Images from telescopes aboard a Japanese satellite have shed new light about the sun’s magnetic field and the origins of solar wind, which disrupts power grids, satellites and communications on Earth.Many of Hinode’s key goals involve understanding the basic physics that operate on the Sun, providing Earth with the heat and energy to sustain life.
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