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- This week in Science (latimes.com)
Science Briefing African genes vary more, study finds / Fungus prompts bat cave closures / NASA to cut 900 jobs in manufacturing / Some animals can 'dance' to music, scientists say / Roman bowl unearthed in London May…
- Twitter Controversy, Blue Eyeball Webcam Mic (pcworld.com)
Join Robert Strohmeyer, Tim Moynihan, Lauren Barnard, Zack Stern and JR Raphael in the 27th edition of the PC World Podcast--which is, to say the least, chock full of goodness.<p>This week, Zack fills us in on…
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BOSTON - A malicious software program known as Conficker that many feared would wreak havoc on April 1 is slowly being activated, weeks after being dismissed as a false alarm, security experts said. Conficker, also…
- How 10 Iconic Tech Products Got Their Names (pcworld.com)
I really liked this article! ~felipe
- Exploding star is oldest object seen in universe (uniknotions.com)
Edo Berger got an alert early last Thursday morning when a satellite detected a 10-second blast of energy known as a gamma ray burst coming from outer space. Telescopes around the world swiveled to focus on the…
- Microsoft goes social (money.cnn.com)
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Facebook might have a larger audience than the population of Brazil (200 million users vs. 191 million citizens), but the site doesn't yet have a viable business model. Twitter is wildly popular…
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Analyst Opinion - With Google coming to market, the OS environment is very similar to what it was in the late 80s with Microsoft in IBM's position, Apple in Apple's, and Google in Microsoft's. Windows 7 is the best…
- Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04 hands-on (tuxradar.com)
In episode 6 of our podcast we asked the question, "should netbook manufacturers standardise on a single distro?" Well, as netbook manufactuers continue to find ever more obscure distros to fit onto their systems,…
- Radeon HD 4770--The First 40nm Desktop GPU (extremetech.com)
We certainly recommend that people interested in playing modern games on their PC prioritize putting in a good graphics card. Not everyone needs or wants a big power-hungry $400 pixel-pushing monster, but the $200–$250…
- Microsoft's "Pink" smartphone could rival iPhone on Verizon (engadget.com)
It's crazy, we know. Just hours after hearing shockingly believable whispers that Apple's white-hot iPhone 3G could be sashaying over to Verizon Wireless, in flies a Wall Street Journal report asserting that the suits…
- Innovations inspired by Star Trek (timesonline.typepad.com)
In the early years of the last century, a new generation of scientists was inspired by the mysteries of the world around them. Einstein, Bohr and others spent the rest of their lives engaged in a debate about the nature…
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The patches adopted in Linux 2.6.30 introduce many significant changes affecting data security and Ext3 and Ext4 performance. Support for the EXOFS and NILFS2 file systems is new, as is the cache for the AFS and NFS…
- In Developing Countries, Web Grows Without Profit (nytimes.com)
Facebook is booming in Turkey and Indonesia. YouTube’s audience has nearly doubled in India and Brazil. That may seem like good news. But it is also a major reason these and other Web companies with big global audiences…
- A New Chance for Online Gambling in the U.S. (nytimes.com)
PARIS — Is online gambling coming in from the cold? When the U.S. Congress cracked down on Internet betting in 2006, the big, publicly traded European companies that had dominated the business closed up shop in the…
- NASA may move up Hubble repair mission by 1 day (latimes.com)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA may move up its final trip to the Hubble Space Telescope by one day. Space shuttle Atlantis could blast off with its telescope repair crew as early as May 11th, if the Hubble team can…
- J.J. Abrams on the Magic of Mystery (wired.com)
This essay ends with cheating. Specifically, my friend Greg and I, after playing a particular videogame for 11 hours straight, are stuck. We call a fellow gamer to learn what moves we need to make to get to the next…
- The Geomagnetic Apocalypse — And How to Stop It (blog.wired.com)
all I can say is: AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Entitled "Severe Space Weather Events — Understanding Societal and Economic Impacts," it describes the consequences of solar flares unleashing waves of energy…
- Jailhouse Tech Sniffs Out 'Cell' Phones (blog.wired.com)
In prison, the cellphone is a deadly weapon: Inmates can use contraband phones to plot more crime, intimidate or kill witnesses or plan escape. But the introduction of the Safe Prisons Communications Act of 2009 --…
- 6 things that could ruin Twitter (and 5 that won't) (networkworld.com)
1. Buying friends. CNN announced Friday that it had acquired @CNNBrk, a Twitter feed that serves up links to CNN breaking news stories. Now that people are rewarded for selling followers, an entire underground economy…
- Birdhouse Helps You Polish Your Twitter Posts (latimes.com)
Twitter apps for the iPhone may seem like a dime-a-dozen (or, to account for inflation, 99-cents-a-pop), but the newly released Birdhouse (iTunes link), by Sandwich Dynamics, isn't your dad's Twitter app--although, if…
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HATFIELD, England (AP) — In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in the right place. European…
- The World’s first fully sustainable race car (tgdaily.com)
Chicago (IL) - With a vehicle body made from potatoes, a steering wheel made from carrots, the ability to run on waste chocolate and vegetable oil, the 140 mph Environ-MENTAL is the first formula 3 race car designed…
- 'Racetrack' computer memory could be 100 times faster, cheaper (montrealgazette.com)
This thing is siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick! ---------------------------------------------- Soon your computer and electronic gadgets could be much smaller, faster, cheaper, more reliable and even greener thanks to a new form of…
- The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown (wired.com)
CAMPINAS, Brazil — On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S. Navy communications satellite FLTSAT-8 suddenly erupted with illicit activity. Jubilant voices and anthems crowded the channel on a…
- The Mighty Margin (technewsworld.com)
Apple's tiny, third-generation, 4GB iPod shuffle, according to iSuppli, has an equally diminutive bill of materials -- the research firm says components cost just US$21.77. With a retail price of $79, that gives the…