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by superuser | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:44pm

Cambridge Mass. - A major water main broke open late yesterday evening at the intersection of Broadway and Trowbridge St. - flooding Broadway from near Ware St. to near Ellery St. about 100 feet of Trowbridge St.

by superuser | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:44pm

BOSTON/Government Center - Eighty people protested at City Hall Plaza early Wednesday evening in solidarity with Boston activists subpoenaed to testify in the ongoing grand jury investigation of WikiLeaks taking place in U.S. District Court in Alexandria Virginia.

by superuser | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:44pm

Somerville MA - Over 60 people filled a lecture hall at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University on Thursday to hear a panel of Honduran social movement leaders speak about the growing resistance movement against the recent coup d'etat in their country.

by Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:32pm

In two recent examples of conflict online—the Internet's response to Iran's rigged election, and 4chan's reaction to AT&T's perceived censorship—distributed denial of service attacks have been wielded (or threatened) as a powerful and disruptive, nonviolent tool for change.

by Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:31pm

Unless you've been living in a cave for the past two weeks (one without television or radio, Internet access, cell phone coverage, a newspaper subscription or friends who visit), you've heard about Apple's iPhone 3G and the App Store that accompanies it.

by Jesse Kirdahy-Scalia | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:31pm

OS X's Spotlight feature is a great search tool, and is fast enough to use as a keyboard-based application launcher, but that's about where its usefulness ends. Quicksilver picks up the slack by allowing users to control nearly every aspect of their computer without ever touching their mouse.

by Caroline Murray | 11 Aug 2013 - 12:18pm

On July 8, members of Alliance to Develop Power met with Senator Scott Brown at his office in Boston.

by kristina | 11 Aug 2013 - 12:18pm

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by Ana Traynin | 11 Aug 2013 - 12:18pm

Cambridge, MA - The Men of Color Task Force hosted the panel discussion “Civil Rights : Policing, Discretion & Race in Cambridge” at the St. Paul A.M.E. Christian Life Center on Thursday, February 11. A follow-up to last July’s controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

by mary lynn cramer | 11 Aug 2013 - 12:18pm

While I was in the shower Election eve I heard on my portable radio that Martha Coakley called Scott Brown to congratulate him on winning the Massachusetts Senate Race.

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