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Thursday technology link round-up

Thursday technology link round-up

• The ACLU of PA is representing university professor Karen Piper in a suit against Pittsburgh police for allegedly damaging her hearing after blaring a crowd-dispersal weapon at protestors outside the 2009 G-20 meeting in that city. The weapon, called a "Long Range Acoustic Device," emits a sound that physically hurts people over long distances. Read more about so-called 'non-lethal' weapons.