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WASHINGTON - Some U.S. Department of Homeland Security employees in the Washington area and Philadelphia were unable to access some agency computer networks on Tuesday, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

The FBI did not need a search warrant to hack a suspect's computer during an investigation of a large child pornography website, a U.S.

VIRGINIA, Minn. (AP) -- A computer engineering student from Virginia has helped design a smartphone application for winter travelers. The free app designed by 20-year-old Adam Koski and a fellow student at North Dakota State University helps motorists who are stranded in severe...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In the race to build a faster computer chip, there is literally nowhere to go but up. Today's chip surfaces are packed with the tiniest electronic switches the laws of physics allow, but Intel Corp. says it is blowing past those limits with a breakthrough, three-dimensional...

MINOT (AP) -- A computer specialist for Minot Public Schools faces charges of possessing child porn after sexual photos turned up on school computers. Court documents say Christian Webb stored images of sexually abused children on several school-owned computers. He's in federal...

BEIJING (AP) -- China-based hackers stole Indian national security information, 1,500 e-mails from the Dalai Lama's office and other sensitive documents, a new report said Tuesday. Researchers at the University of Toronto said they were able to observe the hacking and trace it to...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A North Dakota utility regulator is praising new computer software that's intended to help utility ratepayers reduce their energy use. Public Service Commissioner Tony Clark says the Microsoft Hohm (Home) software may help development of the so-called ``smart...

Texting while driving is one thing. The evidence on that is in, and the conclusion is hard to avoid: The practice is wildly dangerous, and authorities are right to be talking about a ban. But Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and others in Washington are jumping the gun by trying to ban...

A burglary was reported at Lincoln Elementary School, according to the Jamestown Police Department. Police said the suspect or suspects entered the building through a ground floor window sometime between the evening Sept. 25 and morning of Sept. 28. A laptop computer, valued at...

BRUSSELS (AP) -- The European Union published e-mail excerpts from computer makers and Intel Corp. to show that Intel pressured chip buyers into choosing Intel over rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Intel was hit by a record EU antitrust fine of 1.06 billion euros ($1.45 billion)...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A new computer system for paying North Dakota's Medicaid bills is delayed again. The project is being developed by Affiliated Computer Services of Dallas. It was supposed to be finished by May. ACS executive Mark Boxer told legislators Tuesday the...

Kathryn Lemm, assistant professor of computer science and technology and assistant track and field coach at Jamestown College, re-cently completed a professional development course in Sport Servant Leadership from the Center for Ethics at the University of Idaho. Lemm is Jamestown...

BISMARCK (AP) -- Police in Bismarck say two 8-year-old girls were cited for swiping a laptop computer from their classroom. The theft took place at Dorothy Moses Elementary. An investigation started when the third-grade teacher noticed that the computer was missing and reported...

This is "ART VOICES" column  part III, made up of  a three-page letter written by Ryan Pennington  to fellow North Dakotan, Jamestown College journalism student, Richard Schmit. Schmit, now a junior and "Collegian" editor,   is taking a digital photography course, and Pennington,...