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LinkedIn login emails, passwords for more than 100 million users posted online for sale

LinkedIn issued a statement saying it is aware of the situation, but added that this is not a new data breach and comes from a hack in 2012

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One year after its launch, the purpose of a secret U.S. space plane remains a mystery

The most recent military spacecraft was originally supposed to stay in orbit for about 200 days but has yet to return one year later, and speculation has been rife

Meet Canada’s newest astronaut: David Saint-Jacques is the engineer and doctor headed for the ISS

He’ll become the ninth Canadian to travel to space, six of whom worked at the International Space Station. In all, Canadians have made 16 space flights to date

Facebook CEO to meet with Glenn Beck, other conservatives

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Radio host Glenn Beck and American Enterprise Institute president Arthur Brooks are some of the conservative leaders Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg plans to meet with this week.

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Mayor Walt Cobb says concerns about the rights of criminals have to give way to concerns about ‘protecting the innocent.’ — PNG files

Williams Lake council urges use of injected GPS chips to track prolific criminals

The city council in Williams Lake is standing firm after voting unanimously this week to take steps to have prolific criminal offenders injected with GPS tracking chips. It’s not clear whether anyone has developed such a chip — B.C.’s solicitor general said he hadn’t heard of it — and civil liberties advocates decried the notion of such a physically invasive step.

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A woman uses a pay phone on the corner of Main and Cordova streets as a man walks by with a cellphone in his hand in Vancouver on Monday. Ric Ernst/ PNG

Rest easy, Clark Kent: Pay phones not yet extinct in B.C.

It’s easy to think that pay phones have gone the way of the extinct phone book. Wait, what? Phone books were delivered across the Lower Mainland last week?

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Jessica Ladd describes Callisto, a new tool for reporting sexual violence now being tried at two U.S. institutions. Ryan Lash/TED

TED Conference preview hears about online reporting app aimed at campus sex assaults

When Jessica Ladd hears about how a University of B.C. PhD student allegedly sexually assaulted at least six women before the university expelled him, she winces. It is an all-too-familiar story. Most students on college campuses tend not to report such attacks, either because they don’t think people would believe them, they face barriers to reporting, or they believe the assault is too trivial.

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Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, introduces the Google Glass.

Google reveals tech specs for Glass devices

Google Inc. released technical specifications for its Glass wearable computing device, encouraging software developers to create applications for the Web-enabled spectacles as they get closer to mainstream sales.

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Pixar among the digital media studios putting Vancouver on the map

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An image from YouTube of Daryush Valizadeh, aka Roosh V.

Roosh V, the 'pro-masculinity' man, has been found — and it's claimed he lives in his mom's basement

According to a report by the Daily Mail Online, the man who raised the ire of many around the world for his "pro-masculinity" stances on rape lives in his mother's basement in Maryland.

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Economist Werner Antweiler says his research shows downsides of daylight time. Mark van Manen /PNG

Time to take a look at daylight saving time

At 2 a.m. this Sunday it will suddenly be 3 a.m. for most Canadians, as daylight saving time arrives once again. But is there any saving at all?

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The annual Perseid meteor shower in August, shown here, is a more reliable display of the regular meteors than the imminent Taurids event, says a UBC astronomy professor. — The Associated Press files

Cosmic fireballs about to brighten the dark November nights above B.C.

Only the clouds and the city lights can come between B.C. stargazers and a celestial light show from the Taurid meteor shower. A U.S. weather service was predicting the Taurids would throw out an excess of “fireballs,” extremely bright meteors that can turn night into day for a couple of seconds. Two B.C. experts said the annual display, caused by the Earth passing through dust clouds that have broken away from the comet Encke, was difficult to predict.

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