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Burmese dodge junta to supply aid
People in Burma have had to find ways of bypassing the junta to deliver aid to victims of the cyclone in the southwest.
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China's battle to police the web
Web users in China are able to view the BBC News website for the first time. So how does the great firewall of China work?
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How the open net closed its doors
A new book details the extent to which countries across the globe are increasingly censoring online information.
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'Digital locks' future questioned
A hard drive maker blocks online access to consumer's media files, raising questions about digital locks.
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Burma's cyber-dissidents
A growing band of bloggers are using the internet to slip beneath Burma's repressive curtain of media control, says the BBC's Stephanie Holmes.
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Which freedoms do we want online?
Today's online services give us new ways to decide who we are, says Bill Thompson.
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Genome pioneer fishes for diversity
Human genome hunter Craig Venter discovers unexpected microbial riches on his latest ocean voyage.
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Tangled web
As a European-wide project is launched to examine children's use of online pornography, figures show one in four teenagers with access to the net view porn at least once a month. For some it's an obsession, for others, an adolescent rite of passage.
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Britain's holiday camp with guns
Shooting has long had a difficult image in Britain. But for some, no holiday would be complete without a rifle and target range.
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Iran's leaders harness media power
Iran's leaders understand the power of the media and use it to their advantage at home and abroad, says the BBC's Sebastian Usher.
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Hole-in-heart linked to migraine
Some cases of severe migraine may be effectively treated by closing a hole in the heart, research suggests.
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E-mail delivery 'tax' criticised
Non-profit groups protest about plans to charge up to one US cent to deliver e-mail to supporters.
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E-mail changes spark two-tier fears
Fee-based systems for commercial e-mails raises the spectre of the two-tier internet, argues law professor Michael Geist.
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Hungry for net freedom in Tunisia
Last week's UN net summit in Tunis put the spotlight on Tunisian human rights.
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Bad e-mail habits sustains spam
One in ten e-mail users are buying spam offers and many more are clicking on links in junk mail a survey finds.
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'DNA analysis' spots e-mail spam
Computational biologists at IBM develop an anti-spam filter that works in the same way scientists analyse DNA.
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'Net ninjas' take on web censorship
A small group of 'hacktivists' in Toronto are looking at ways of bypassing government controls on the internet.
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Bypassing China's net firewall
Numerous efforts are under way to help Chinese web surfers get around China's censorship of the internet.
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TV-style adverts arrive on web
Net users may have to get used to watching TV ads between web pages, if trials currently under way are successful.
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Coping with brain damage from heart surgery
When you go into hospital for heart surgery you do not expect to get brain damage. But that is exactly what is happening to thousands of people a year in Britain.
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