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High Speed Internet access is now available on Turkish Airlines Flight

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Turkish Airlines, together with Panasonic Avionics Corporation, has added high-speed Wi-Fi broadband Internet access to its existing live, inflight television service on Trans-Atlantic flights using its IFE platform, PLANET.

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Hubble images reveal galaxy similar to Milky Way
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The Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a barred spiral galaxy — a galaxy similar to our own and expected to give astronomers a better insight into the Milky Way.

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Rogers promises to end internet throttling
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Rogers has promised to stop "throttling" internet traffic on its network by the end of this year, in response to an investigation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

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Life on Mars unlikely on dry surface
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Mars has been arid for more than 600 million years, making the planet's surface too dry and hostile to support any life, according to new research based on soil analysis.

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Ottawa Human Library
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Human Library took place Jan. 28 at five different branches of the Ottawa Public Library and at the Canadian War Museum.

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Social media users post ads for profit
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PowerVoice, a peer-to-peer marketing platform, has been gaining popularity since its launch in December. The site allows social media users to get paid for recommending brands and products. What do you make of this concept?

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Anonymous hacks phone call between FBI, U.K. police
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A sensitive conference call between FBI and British police's cybercrime investigators was recorded by Anonymous, the very group they were trying to catch, officials and hackers said Friday.

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2 new Kepler planets with double suns discovered
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A team of NASA scientists has discovered two new planets, each of which revolves around its own double suns.

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'Angelic' Steve Jobs impersonator promotes Android tablet
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A Taiwanese tech company is being criticized for an advertisement featuring an actor dressed as an 'angelic' Steve Jobs.

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Telesat to spend $40 million to expand broadband in Arctic
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Satellite services company Telesat says it plans to spend $40 million to expand and modernize the broadband equipment and infrastructure serving Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon.