In the end, it was the keen eye of an employee at the Internet cafe in Berlin that helped police nab Magnotta.

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For instance in 2011 the new media artists Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev invented a gadget that allows them to hijack the wifi signal in a library or internet cafe, and to remotely edit the content of news sites such as nytimes.com so that anyone in the room browsing The New York Times on a wireless device sees modified headlines.

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And that was given to them with the beating death of an Alexandrian activist named Khaled Said in an internet cafe in Alexandria by the police.

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Police sealed off another three premises in the city for searches, along with five addresses in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester, including an internet cafe, and a guest house in Clitheroe, Lancashire.

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Finally opened in 2006, the new facility includes a shop, post office, cafe and internet cafe, with one full-time and eight part-time staff.

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So last November they opened the world's largest Internet cafe, an 800-seat beast smack in New York's Times Square.

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Across the US, voting took place against a variety of backdrops - from a launderette and an internet cafe in Chicago to a lifeguard station in Los Angeles and car dealership in Columbus, Ohio.

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