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Iran reportedly flies monkey into space, brings it back safely

Eric Abent — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:13:28 +0000

Big news coming out of Iran today, as the country has reportedly flown a monkey into space and returned it safely to Earth. At any rate, that’s what the country’s state-run TV is claiming, and if it’s true, this is a significant step forward for Iran’s space program. The monkey apparently flew to height of

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Iran launches its answer to YouTube

Eric Abent — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:54:22 +0000

Watching videos of cats on YouTube when you should be doing other things may be a part of your daily routine, but in some regions of the world, that isn’t possible. As many of you know, countries like Iran like to ban popular websites like YouTube and Facebook for varying reasons, leaving their citizens without

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Iranian Internet disrupted by cyber attacks

Shane McGlaun — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:02:00 +0000

Officials in Iran have been busy over the last few months setting up the country’s new national information network. Once that information network was set up, Iran moved to block certain Internet services such as YouTube and Google search. Iran later said that it accidentally blocked access to Google Gmail at the same time. New

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Iran restores access to Gmail and Google search

Shane McGlaun — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:37:35 +0000

About a week ago, we mentioned that Iran had deployed its new national information network and blocked access to Google’s search engine. Iran also reportedly blocked access to Gmail at the same time. BBC News reports that Iran has now lifted restrictions imposed on both Google search and Gmail. However, access all Google services inside

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