13,000-year-old tools unearthed at Colorado home

Landscapers were digging a hole for a fish pond in the front yard of a Boulder home last May when they heard a "chink" that didn't sound right. Just some lost tools. Some 13,000-year-old lost tools. They had stumbled onto a cache of more than 83 ancient tools buried by the Clovis people — ice age hunter-gatherers who remain a puzzle to anthropologists.

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Maine library offers garden tools

Borrowers at the Turner Public Library can choose from a large selection of gardening books — and more than a dozen hand tools to carry out their chosen projects.

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Tech takes its place in the garden

I don’t have a green thumb. That’s something that I did not inherit from my parents, who were splendid gardeners.

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Ancient Tools Unearthed in Australia

Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have been unearthed in a rock shelter in Australia's remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds in that part of the country, archaeologists said Monday.

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Hacking tool preys on vulnerable wireless networks

A point-and-click computer program that can automatically hack into vulnerable wireless networks - or probe them for weak spots - has been released by US researchers. Experts say it highlights the importance of ensuring that wireless networks are configured securely.

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Did prehistoric chimps use stone tools too?

Chimpanzee stone tools excavated in Taï National Park, Côte de Ivoire (Image: Gerald Newlands)

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If your wardrobe includes a shiny tin-foil hat, then you will love these free Ma Internet tools.

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How are we this week my fine SEO geeks and phreaks.. last week was a pretty busy one out in the search blogosphere.

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Google has just announced that it is open-sourcing a set of tools its own developers use to build some of the company's most well known products, including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps.

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Absolutely no business is too small or has enough community support and word of mouth marketing to negate the need for an online presence.

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Every day, SEOs are challenged in their jobs to solve problems big and small - some are technically complex, others are merely time consuming, repetitive and tedious. At SEOmoz, we love to build, use and recommend tools to help solve these issues.

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Windows 7 may be brand spanking new, but that doesn't mean you can't find free or cheap tools to tweak its settings, add features, or smooth an upgrade from XP or Vista.

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Stone Age ''blacksmiths'' were using fire to make tools at least 72,000 years ago, scientists have discovered.

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A human bone found in Devon with tool-cut marks thought to have been made during a ritual ceremony 9,000 years ago may be evidence of cannibalism. The arm bone was identified by Torquay Museum staff documenting animal remains discovered in Kents Cavern in Torquay.

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In Switzerland, there is a saying that every good Swiss citizen has one in his or her pocket. It is an object that is recognised all over the world, and it is globally popular. But the Swiss army knife had humble beginnings, and, at the start, it wasn't even red.

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Hopefully, besides mainstream Egyptologists, such as Mark Lehner and IES Edwards, (RIP) other Egyptologists do not suggest that the copper chisels, that can now be found in the Cairo Museum, were representative of the tools used to build the pyramids.

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Achieving comprehensive health reform has emerged as a leading priority of the President and Congress.

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The Twitter breach occurred about a month ago, Twitter said.

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Tips for managing your online personae. (via American Libraries Direct)

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I love how the clip starts with "I was against it before I was for it".

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Motorists on Oklahoma's turnpikes could see an average toll increase of about 16 percent in the next month. Members of the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority will consider raising the tolls on the state's 10 turnpikes at their meeting Wednesday.

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Very Very Scary vintage surgical instruments...

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The brain represents tools as extensions to the body, according to researchers writing in Current Biology.

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Pictures by Michael Soluri.

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Research reveals that rooks are intelligent enough to use tools in captivity to get food, even though they are not known as tool users in the wild

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Rooks have a remarkable aptitude for using tools, scientists have found. Tests on captive birds revealed that they could craft and employ tools to solve a number of different problems.

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It's a mystery first of all how H. floresiensis (the "hobbit" species of the Homo genus) could develop a tool-making tradition despite its small brain size. And it's yet another mystery why modern humans that arrived later in the island of Flores adopted the same type of tools.

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CHEYENNE — In one month, a Cheyenne teenager sent 10,000 text messages and received about the same — all while her family's plan did not include texting. That means the family's provider — Verizon — charged them for each incoming and outgoing text message.

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Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs that could be used to disrupt the system, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

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Virtual company and collaboration

Virtual Inc. Setting up a virtual company is easy. You need tools to manage your , usually, small group of people from all over the world in a consisten way. Robin Good posted excellent list of these collaboration tools available online for free or for a small fee .

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