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After a major collapse in March, the causes behind Friday’s accident are more obscure. If the crane did indeed meet all city safety regulations, what went wrong? For starters, residents were worried that the worst might happen again.

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After a major collapse in March, the causes behind Friday’s accident are more obscure. If the crane did indeed meet all city safety regulations, what went wrong? For starters, residents were worried that the worst might happen again.

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The multitouch action demonstrated in Windows 7 earned Microsoft the lion’s share of buzz at this week’s All Things Digital conference. But are we really ready to give up our mice and keyboards?

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The multitouch action demonstrated in Windows 7 earned Microsoft the lion’s share of buzz at this week’s All Things Digital conference. But are we really ready to give up our mice and keyboards?

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For the past few years, an arms race in thinness has been shrinking everything from cellphones to laptops. Our resident gadget geek gets hands-on with Hitachi’s ridiculously thin new LCD sets.

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Call it the “don’t be evil” Google way, but the willingness of Netflix to gamble on the streaming platform at no additional cost, first online and now with the set-top Roku Player, will help set its course against the next wave of competition, like Apple TV and Hulu.

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The non-profit group SRI International will unveil the design of a wall-climbing robot at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation. It can clamber up all common building materials, the scientists told PM-and proved it to us with this video.

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Reporting on the multi-segment research system known as the the Air Force Missile Test Center in July 1952, PM wrote that “Missile launching and flying is one of the most complicated operations on earth.”

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Problem: It’s difficult to send text messages while holding an umbrella. Solution: A hands-free umbrella that straps onto your shoulders. But does it work? And does the editor of Cosmo think girls will like it?

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Robert Young Pelton says to execute long-distance RF detonation-say, from a station in the middle of an island to a freighter more than five miles off shore-you’d need something that can cover some ground: “the standard IED system of sat-phone relays.”

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