The heat has damaged wiring to urban railway lines, bringing delays to much of the network - CityRail have warned passengers to carry water with them.

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With that, another competitor to traditional network television could be in the early stages of wiring itself up.

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The whole point behind HomePlug is that you use turn the electrical wiring in your home to create a network.

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Two Microsoft retirees, Irene Pasternack and her husband, Edward Mills, volunteer at YES. Irene manages the SVP volunteers, while Ed is wiring the building--and three like it--to a single network.

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That means someone installing the smart wiring in the walls of buildings, the network firm providing the platform connecting the smart devices, the gadget-makers that provide an Apple-like user experience for every fixture, and the next-generation utility offering new forms or methods of energy delivery.

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Simply plug your camera into a power outlet, and HomePlug uses your existing electrical wiring and outlets to connect your camera to the network and transmit video securely.

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The cost of wiring up every house where there is no network at all is so high in comparison to setting up a wireless network that it will just never happen.

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To prosecutors, the 26-year-old Swartz was a thief whose aims to make information available didn't excuse the illegal acts he was charged with: breaking into a wiring closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and tapping into its computer network to download millions of paid-access scholarly articles, which he planned to share publicly.

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