Rugged veteran Iranian special forces hero “Commander Bahman” will soon be tackling one of his toughest missions, rescuing one of his country’s top atomic scientists captured by U.S. forces in Iraq.

Or he will be doing so soon on computer screens across the Islamic Republic, the Fars news agency reported on Sunday.

The agency said a computer game detailing the fictional Commander Bahman’s adventures, designed by schoolchildren belonging to the Union of Islamic Student Societies, would be available before March 2007.

Source: Reuters

Intel Corp., the world’s biggest chip maker, is unique in the way it rolls out new manufacturing methods, perfecting it in a laboratory and then painstakingly duplicating it at factories around the world.

The strategy, first employed in the mid-1980s, is called “Copy Exactly.” And the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company means it.

Engineers strive to duplicate even the subtlest of manufacturing variables, from the color of a worker’s gloves to the type of fluorescent lights in the building. Employees from around the world spend more than a year at a development lab in Oregon learning their small piece of the new recipe so they can bring it back to their home factory.

Source: AP

Amnesty International marked its 45th anniversary on Sunday by launching a global campaign to stamp out state censorship of the Internet.

The human rights pressure group called on Web users to sign a pledge calling on governments to stop censoring sites and urging technology corporations not to collude with them.

Source: Reuters

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Britain is the fastest growing market for the booming Internet adult pornography business, with one in four adults, including 1.6 million women, downloading images each month, a study suggested.

A survey by Nielsen NetRatings for the Independent on Sunday found that more than nine million men — almost 40 percent of Britain’s male population — used pornographic websites last year compared with an estimated two million in 2000.

Some 1.5 million women used Internet pornography in the last 12 months, up from one million in the previous year, it added.

Source: AFP

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