Protect our children, asks Zuma

Source: Empowering Financial Decisions

2012-05-27 22:05 Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma has called on South Africans to unite to protect children. He was speaking in Kimberley on Sunday at the launch of Child Protection Week, which begins on Monday ...
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

Source: Techdirt

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Researchers Craft Stable Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell, Cheaper Than Silicon

Source: Geekosystem.com

Generic solar cells are made with a significant amount of silicon. Unfortunately, silicon can be pretty scarce, expensive and toxic. So a variation was made by replacing the silicon with the semiconductor titanium oxide in a dye-sensitized solar ...
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Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning Developer Shuttered, Lays Off Entire Staff

Source: Geekosystem.com

Big Huge Games, a wholly owned subsidiary of parent company 38 Studios, released Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning to decent sales figures this year. But it apparently wasn’t enough to keep them afloat. You see, 3 ...
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"Ubuntu 12.04 completely freezes frequently"

Source: Hacker News

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It seems that your bug report is not filed about a specific source package though, rather it is just filed against Ubuntu in general. It is important that bu ...
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The Great Britain Olympic Team Now A LEGO Set

Source: Geekosystem.com

Because there is nearly a LEGO set for every situation, there will now be a set of minifigures devoted to . The set of nine will be available starting in July — only in the United Kingdom. So if, like Pokémon, you ...
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Ars gear: the old Windows PC resurrected with Ubuntu

Source: Ars Technica

Designed for Windows XP, but it runs Ubuntu. Jon Brodkin I love buying gadgets, and I'm not one to deprive myself. My house has just about every piece of equipment I've ever lusted after, from a Mac Mini hooked up to an Apple Cinema Displa ...
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How to set the same wallpaper in KDE4 for the KDM, KSplash and Desktop

Source: LXer

VSO ConvertXtoDVD is considered to be one of the best Video converters. It combines high speeds, high quality and many options for your personalized DVD menus. Ubuntu is a free Operating System based on Debian GNU/Linux. I ...
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Mental capital, well-being key to better SA society

Source: Independent Online (South Africa)

I recently came across a brilliant project from the UK titled “Mental Capital and Well-being: Making most of ourselves in the 21st century”, whose findings were released in 2008. A key message from the project is that “if we are to prosper and th ...
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