Day archives: September 2nd, 2005

From TechRepublic: A young girl has become the first swimmer in the U.K. saved from drowning by a computerized pool-monitoring system. The accident happened on Aug. 24 when a 10-year-old girl in a swimming pool in Bangor, North Wales, sank to the bottom of the deep end. A Poseidon monitoring system installed in the pool …

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From TechRepublic: The first thing any visitor to Robert McKeown’s home notices is the toy collection. Vintage Barbies dominate one wall of the living room, with several rows of dolls showing her evolution from the mid-1960s. Action figures from the ’60s television show “Man From UNCLE” stare patronizingly at the suburban icon. A Shadow Crime …

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