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English: Pangea animation (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Map Showing Where Today's Countries Would Be Located on Pangea | Open Culture :  "The supercontinent of Pangea formed some 270 million years ago , during the Early Permian Period, and then began to break up 70 million years later, eventually yielding the continents we inhabit today" ...ero. Related articles Map Showing Where Today's Countries Would Be Located on Pangea Visiting Pangea How Earth avoided global warming, last time around Pangea Redrawn With Today's Political Boundaries How Earth avoided global warming, last time around What Pangea Looks Like Mapped With Modern Political Borders The biggest mass extinction and Pangea integration Pangea's history Supercontinent: how the world is moving together

Phone unlocking bill clears US House, next step is president's signature | PCWorld :  "“It took 19 months of activism and advocacy, but we’re finally very close to consumers regaining the right to unlock the phones they’ve legally bought,” said Sina Khanifar, who organized an online petition that kicked off the push to have the Library of Congress decision overturned. The petition attracted more than 114,000 signatures on the White House’s “We The People” site. In its response to the petition, the Obama administration called for the legalization of cell phone unlocking."

Victor high frequency electric apparatus. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) | The Public Domain Review :  "Monell claims that his high frequency currents of electricity could treat a variety of ailments, including acne, lesions, insomnia, abnormal blood pressure , depression, and hysteria. Although not explicitly delved into in this volume, the treatment of this latter condition in women was frequently achieved at this time through the use of an early form of the vibrator (to save the physician from the manual effort), through bringing the patient to “hysterical paroxysm” (in other words, an orgasm). " Related articles Female Hysteria?! Vibrators en wat nog... Ja, dis histeries snaaks! A night at the vibrator museum Hysteria leads to Electric Vibrator The Surprise Cure for Anxiety and Depression They Did WHAT??!!! Have Two Paroxysms And Call Me in the Morning

Logo of the United States Federal Communications Commission, used on their website prior to 2002 or 2003, and still used on some publications and areas of their website. The central part of the logo is also used on products which conform to FCC requirements. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) US agency that regulates Internet service too poor to build a good website | Ars Technica :  ""Efforts to upgrade this IT capability were a casualty of sequestration," Wheeler wrote in a blog post yesterday. "Most recently, the agency requested of Congress approximately $13 million for IT upgrades in the FY 2015 appropriation. I appreciate that the Senate subcommittee has provided the Commission with full funding in its FY 2015 spending bill, so that we can make these important upgrades. Unfortunately, the appropriations bill passed by the House today would fund the FCC at $17 million below current levels and $53 million below our overall budget request, dramatically under...

There is currently no consensus on how closely the brain should be simulated. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Louis Del Monte Interview On The Singularity - Business Insider :  ""Today there's no legislation regarding how much intelligence a machine can have, how interconnected it can be. If that continues, look at the exponential trend. We will reach the singularity in the timeframe most experts predict. From that point on you're going to see that the top species will no longer be humans, but machines." These are the words of Louis Del Monte, physicist, entrepreneur, and author of "The Artificial Intelligence Revolution." " ...ero. Related articles By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans' By 2045 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans,' And That Could Be A Problem By 2045, Physicist Says 'The Top Species Will No Longer Be Humans' By 2045, humans might lose out to machines as 'top sp...

New York Groups, Officials Seek PSC Telecom Inquiry | Broadcasting & Cable : Related articles City says PSC has 'no jurisdiction' over Mountain Water property