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Crippled Mars rover fails to phone home
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 7:57pm MDT
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Mega-flood triggered cooling 13,000 years ago
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 6:41pm MDT
Scientists say they have found the trigger of a sharp cooling 13,000 years ago that plunged Europe into a mini ice age. -
Deep ocean waves break on sea floor
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 6:15pm MDT
For the first time, 100-foot tidal waves roaring at 70 miles-per-hour have been caught breaking and creating long trains of billowing turbulence more than 1,800 feet down along the ocean floor. -
Russians report snag in space safety system
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 5:10pm MDT
When astronauts blast off to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft on Friday, they'll be relying on a safety system that failed in a still-unexplained manner less than a year ago, a top Russian space official said on Tuesday.
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Sight unseen, fans hear 'iPad' and think 'iWant'
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 3:44pm MDT
People who lined up to buy the first iPhone knew what they were paying hundreds of dollars for: a new cell phone that promised to be better. Apple's newest gadget, the iPad tablet computer, falls into a category that's foreign to most people.
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Cosmic Log: Monster bug? It's no joke!
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 3:41pm MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: It may look like a creepy-crawly April Fool's joke - but an expert on deep-sea species says the bizarre pictures of a giant bug being circulated on the Internet are the real deal.
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YouTube video playback pages get a new look
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 3:12pm MDT
YouTube is revamping the pages on which visitors watch clips. It's an effort to de-clutter the popular site and drive people to watch more videos. -
To scientists, laughter is no joke — it's serious
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 2:59pm MDT
Only 10 to 15 percent of laughter is the result of someone making a joke, says a neuroscientist who has studied laughter for decades. Laughter is mostly about social responses rather than reaction to a joke.
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Cisco dropping Linksys brand from new routers
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 2:30pm MDT
Cisco Systems Inc. is trying to remove the techspeak from home Wi-Fi routers and make the equipment easier to install and set up.
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15 techie wristwatches worth wearing
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 2:15pm MDT
Sure, these 15 concept wristwatches might not be as convenient as a Timex or as classy as a Rolex, but they would catch anyone's eye--if they actually existed. -
Fabled monopole magnet could be revealed
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 2:02pm MDT
Scientists hope to use the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful atom smasher, to create a bizarre magnetic particle completely different from any magnets ever seen.
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Two-face nebula Is half light, half dark
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 1:36pm MDT
Astronomers have captured a new photo of a two-faced nebula that appears dark on one side and bright on the other.
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Songbird genome may shed light on speech disorders
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 1:15pm MDT
Scientists have cracked the genetic code of a songbird for the first time, identifying more than 800 genes linked to song learning in a finding that may shed light on human speech disorders.
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Google's censorship balancing act beyond China
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 11:43am MDT
Google Inc. didn't stop wrangling with censorship when the company moved its search engine out of mainland China to shed its restraints on what can be shown on the Internet. -
Clear-winged woolly bat sings like no other
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 11:25am MDT
This bat has the highest pitched call of any animal ever documented, putting even the best human sopranos to shame.
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‘Rock art’ reveals language of ancient Scotland
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 11:08am MDT
Once thought to be rock art, carved depictions of soldiers, horses and other figures are in fact part of a written language dating back to the Iron Age.
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Nemo lives amongst poisonous tentacles
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 9:40am MDT
Clownfish live within sea anemone's poisonous tentacles, which keep would-be predators at bay, including morays, scorpionfishes and snappers.
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Scientists push closer towards birth of universe
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 9:32am MDT
Physicists at CERN, buoyed by their ground-breaking success in creating mini-Big Bangs giving them a glimpse of the dawn of time, began on Wednesday to push closer towards the very birth of the universe.
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Google: Online attacks aimed at Vietnam critics
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 8:54am MDT
Google Inc. says it has found another case of cyberattacks being used to suppress political dissent, this time to silence opponents of a Vietnamese mining project that involves a state-run Chinese company. -
Rocket prepared for Soyuz space launch
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 7:47am MDT
Technicians at the Russian-leased space center in Kazakhstan hoisted a rocket onto its launch pad ahead of Friday's blastoff of a NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station. -
Top reasons to not buy (or buy) the iPad
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 6:42am MDT
There are several good reasons to not buy an iPad right away, as well as to get one.
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NASA readies remote-control aircraft for flight
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 6:35pm MDT
NASA is gearing up Global Hawk, a remote-controlled airplane, for its first scientific flights in coming weeks.
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Apple sued over touch patent infringement
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 5:43pm MDT
With the public release of the Apple iPad looming, Elan Microelectronics, a Taiwanese chipmaker, is suing Apple, claiming many Apple products infringe on its multitouch patents. -
Student ‘hoots’ for Owl Nebula in photo contest
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 5:08pm MDT
A new image of the Owl Nebula taken by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii is the result of a student essay contest in Canada, where students picked their favorite object in the sky in hopes the observatory would snap a photo of it.
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Mystery behind great civilization's ruin revealed
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 4:49pm MDT
Climate change might have helped bring about the fall of the ancient Khmer civilization in Angkor, Cambodia, nearly 600 years ago, new research suggests
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Cosmic Log: The face in the Shroud
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 4:36pm MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: "The Real Face of Jesus" comes up with the most realistic representation yet of the man who was beneath the Shroud of Turin. But is it the real face of Jesus?
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Ten seriously silly award-winning achievements
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 4:31pm MDT
The pursuit of knowledge is serious stuff most of the time, but that doesn’t mean it’s always dull. In fact, the pursuit of knowledge can send researchers into some seriously kooky niches of life.
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Ant-eating dinosaur may have been smallest
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 4:06pm MDT
A newfound ant-eating dinosaur was one of the smallest known and also one of the best adapted for running, scientists revealed.
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Mock Mars explorers plan simulated mission
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 3:44pm MDT
Six volunteers will soon lock themselves inside an experimental mock spaceship in Russia for more than a year to see what it's like to be the first astronauts to visit Mars — without actually leaving planet Earth.
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Scientists to levitate liquid drops to study glass
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 1:52pm MDT
Physicists are building a levitation chamber to suspend a drop of liquid in mid-air and watch its atoms as it cools into glass. The machine should help clarify the mystery of glass, which is a puzzling state where matter is more like a liquid than a solid.
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Want to see the iPad? So do Apple store employees
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 1:14pm MDT
As Apple gears up for the crush of customers expected for Saturday's iPad launch, employees who staff its retail stores are just as curious about the tablet as the fans who will line up outside.
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Facebook to nix ‘become a fan of’ for ‘like’
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 12:21pm MDT
Facebook is about to change the way it asks its users to connect to brands on the site. Instead of asking people to "become a fan" of companies such as Starbucks, Facebook will let them click on a button that indicates they "like" the brand. -
Computer commands bacteria to build pyramid
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 11:52am MDT
Researchers are putting swarms of bacteria to work, using them to perform micro-manipulations and even propel microrobots.
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Journalists in China say Yahoo accounts hacked
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 10:50am MDT
Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists appeared to have been hacked and Google's Chinese search engine was intermittently blocked Tuesday, the latest troubles in China's heavily censored Internet market. -
Is 4G better than 3G?
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 10:34am MDT
You’ve heard it on TV commercials: “our network is the largest 3G network in the United States” and “Which network would you trust, when you really need to trust your network?” The advertisements are extolling the virtues of 3G networks.
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China steps up Google service disruptions
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 9:16am MDT
The Chinese government appears to be be ramping up its conflict with search engine giant Google, according to reports. As of Tuesday, Internet users in China who attempted to conduct Google searches via both computers and mobile devices received error reports.
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Geneva atom smasher sets collision record
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 7:39am MDT
The world's largest atom smasher conducts its first experiments at conditions nearing those that existed just after the big bang, breaking its own record for high-energy proton collisions.
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Geneva atom smasher set for record collisions
Posted: March 30th, 2010, 2:27am MDT
The world's largest atom smasher set a record for high-energy collisions on Tuesday by crashing proton beams into each other at three times more force than ever before. -
Ukrainian hacker liable in SEC insider trading case
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 6:40pm MDT
A Ukrainian national who traded on insider information he obtained by hacking into a secure computer network was ordered by a U.S. judge to forfeit $580,000 in profits, interest and civil penalties, U.S. securities regulators said on Monday. -
Urine spray signals sex, violence to crayfish
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 6:31pm MDT
Female crayfish send mixed messages during courtship — using urine. However, as they unleash this seductive aphrodisiac, the females are typically fighting males, researchers found.
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Seldom-seen mummies star in ‘Silk Road’ show
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 6:01pm MDT
Mystery, dazzle and awe unite the mummies of a man, woman and child who were found in China's Tarim Basin at different times in different places for an exhibition so rich in history it contains some of the earliest known baby bottles, trousers, sunglasses and pasta.
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Think you're a ‘supertasker’? Probably not
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 5:55pm MDT
A very small percentage of the population can safely drive while talking on their cell phones, but chances are high that you're not one of these "supertaskers," according to a new study.
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Odd cloud on Neptune seen splitting into two
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 5:32pm MDT
A cloudy patch that is typically seen over the south pole of Neptune and that was spotted in double remains a mystery to researchers.
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Egyptian tomb’s door to afterlife discovered
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 5:14pm MDT
Archaeologists have unearthed a 3,500-year-old door to the afterlife from the tomb of a high-ranking Egyptian official near Karnak temple in Luxor, the Egyptian antiquities authority said Monday.
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Star's dusty remains illuminated by telescopes
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 5:03pm MDT
The dusty remains of a collapsed star can be seen flying past and engulfing a nearby family of stars in new images from NASA's Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes.
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Cosmic Log: Death Star in detail
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 4:23pm MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The Cassini orbiter gets its closest look yet at Saturn’s moon Mimas, which has been nicknamed the “Death Star” because of its curious crater. The fresh imagery leads to yet another curiosity ... and a fresh nickname.
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Report: Apple working on Verizon iPhone
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 4:13pm MDT
Apple may be working on an iPhone designed for Verizon Wireless, according to a report.
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The archaeology of Christianity
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 3:55pm MDT
While those believers take the stories of Jesus as told in the New Testament on faith, archaeologists have scoured the Holy Land and beyond in search of clues about the real life of Jesus and his followers.
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Court papers identify JC Penney as hacking victim
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 3:34pm MDT
JC Penney Co. was one of the victims of notorious computer hacker Albert Gonzalez, according to unsealed documents made available on Monday by a federal judge in Boston. -
Senator pushes for electronic privacy laws
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 3:23pm MDT
Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is pushing for new federal laws on electronic privacy as a school district back home struggles with a lawsuit over attempts to locate missing laptops by turning on webcams — something that could have enabled it to film students at home. -
iPad could be Kindle's first big threat in e-books
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 2:33pm MDT
Amazon.com, which has dominated the young but fast-growing electronic book market for the past few years with the Kindle, could get its biggest threat Saturday, when Apple releases its iPad multimedia tablet.
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'Nyet' to $1 million? Math genius may reject award
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 2:11pm MDT
Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Maybe a 43-year-old unemployed bachelor who lives with his elderly mother in Russia — and who won $1 million for solving a problem that has stumped mathematicians for a century.
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Will iPad be a hit with businesses?
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 1:44pm MDT
Since becoming available for pre-order earlier this month, Apple's iPad has been greeted with strong sales by consumers. But will businesses and working professionals ever be among those who snatch up the device?
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Mysterious whale die-off is largest on record
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 10:37am MDT
Mass death among baby right whales has experts scrambling to figure out the puzzle behind the largest great whale die-off on record.
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Earth's biggest tree rings tell fiery tales
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 9:49am MDT
Fifty-two giant fallen giant sequoias reveal a 3,000-year-old history of fire and drought after giant chainsaws expose their rings.
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U.S. questions Australian Internet filter plan
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 9:30am MDT
The United States has raised concerns with Australia about the impact of a proposed Internet filter that would place restrictions on Web content, an official said Monday. -
Clues to long-lost pharoah's tomb found
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 8:58am MDT
The missing pyramid of an obscure pharaoh that ruled Egypt 4,300 years ago could lie at the intersection of a series of invisible lines in South Saqqara, according to new astronomical and topographical research.
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Apps to curb texting while driving multiply
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 7:49am MDT
Several software and gadget companies are developing programs to break drivers of the bad habit of holding a cell phone while driving, whether for texting or talking.
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Dealing with digital memories after a breakup
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 6:42am MDT
Often in relationships, people upload their photos to Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, Kodak Gallery or other photo sharing sites. Other times, they never leave a person's phone or camera.
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Niche matchmaking sites attract date 'crashers'
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 6:42am MDT
Exclusive parties have always had gate crashers. Now, singles are discovering that their exclusive online dating sites — those specialty interest sites catering to religious, cultural, political, educational or personal criteria ranging from health to hobbies to height — are attracting date crashers.
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Newsweek: Anna Quindlen: Reading has a strong future
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 6:07am MDT
The future of reading is backlit and bright. -
Newsweek: Why Apple’s co-founder wants two iPads
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 6:05am MDT
Q&A with Steve Wozniak, Apple's co-founder. -
Newsweek: Why the iPad will change everything
Posted: March 29th, 2010, 6:02am MDT
The iPad will change the way you use computers, read books, and watch TV—as long as you're willing to do it the Steve Jobs way. -
Hawaii goes to Google for faster Internet
Posted: March 28th, 2010, 2:31pm MDT
Stuck in the Internet slow lane, Hawaii and its sluggish network are hoping Google will ride to the rescue. -
$500 million launcher lacks one thing: rocket
Posted: March 27th, 2010, 10:23pm MDT
A mobile launcher has been built for the Ares 1. The problem is, if the Obama administration has its way, there never will be such a rocket.
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Data theft targets 3.3 million with student loans
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 7:39pm MDT
A company that guarantees federal student loans said Friday that personal data on about 3.3 million people nationwide has been stolen from its headquarters in Minnesota. -
See Venus and Mercury shine in celestial dance
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 7:12pm MDT
From now through mid April, a celestial Pas de Deux will be enacted in the western evening twilight sky as the "Queen of the Night," the brilliant planet Venus, will engage the normally hard-to-find planet Mercury.
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Behind the iPad: decades of clever technology
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 6:13pm MDT
Apple's iPad, available April 3, didn’t sprout from Steve Jobs’ forehead fully formed. There were a number of critical events stretching back nearly 40 years that helped pave a path for it.
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Cosmic Log: Hubble hits new heights
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 5:59pm MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: As the Hubble Space Telescope nears its 20th birthday, its value for research and the public understanding of science is reaching an unprecedented peak.
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Dozens of asteroids found daily by spacecraft
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 5:13pm MDT
Dozens of asteroids that have been lurking undetected in our solar system are being discovered every day by NASA's newest space telescope, scientists say.
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Town angry over Net slurs at suicide victim
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 4:16pm MDT
A community reeling from the suicide of a popular high school senior turned its sorrow to outrage Friday over a practice known as "trolling," in which derogatory, hurtful comments are posted online against a person.
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NASA OKs shuttle Discovery for April launch
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 3:08pm MDT
Despite a helium leak in one of the space shuttle Discovery's maneuvering rockets, NASA's senior managers give the shuttle a "go" for launch April 5.
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Scientists look to tobacco as a potential biofuel
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 2:21pm MDT
Some researchers say an age-old cash crop long the focus of public health debate could be used to help solve the nation's energy crisis, by genetically modifying the tobacco leaf for use as a biofuel.
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NASA pays sky-high price for seminar snacks
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 2:11pm MDT
The nation's space agency paid the out-of-this-world price of $66 a person a day for bagels, cookies and juice at a conference, a new report found.
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Washington state OKs tougher cell phone law
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 1:56pm MDT
Starting this summer, drivers better use a headset if they're talking on their cell phones. And don't even think about texting your friend while cruising down the interstate. -
More than 600 communities vie for Google network
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 1:45pm MDT
More than 1,100 communities have approached Google in hopes of landing one of the ultra-fast broadband networks that the company plans to build in a handful of spots around the country. -
‘Smart’ meters have security holes
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 1:29pm MDT
Computer-security researchers say new "smart" meters that are designed to help deliver electricity more efficiently also have flaws that could let hackers tamper with the power grid in previously impossible ways.
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Stealing electricity from algae
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 11:45am MDT
For the first time, scientists from California and Korea have successfully stolen an electric current from algae. The research could eventually create a new and environmentally friendly way to generate electricity.
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Spooky creature endangered by superstition
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 11:22am MDT
Although the aye-aye weighs a mere 4 pounds in the wild, this tiny animal is viewed as the harbinger of death by locals in Madagascar, the only place on Earth where you'll find these creatures in nature.
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Geneticist wins $1.5 million religion prize
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 10:38am MDT
A former priest who became an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist and helped scientifically refute creationism with his research is being honored with one of the world's top religion prizes.
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What's the ‘big f-ing deal’ about swearing?
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 10:06am MDT
When the Vice President dropped the f-bomb this week, he sparked a flurry of controversy, but researchers point out cussing has been around for centuries.
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Bumblebees have lightning-fast color vision
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 9:28am MDT
There's a reason why bees can see you while you're still searching for the source of that buzzing noise: Their color vision is five times faster than human vision and among the fastest color vision yet clocked in the animal world.
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Shuttles will keep flying through early 2011
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 8:54am MDT
NASA has made steady progress toward the planned retirement of its three aging space shuttles this September, but will likely not complete the fleet's current flight schedule until February 2011, a new report has found.
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Nintendo reveals 3-D on eve of DSi XL roll out
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 6:57am MDT
The Nintendo DSi XL arrives in stores next week. But will consumers pay $190 for the super-sized gaming gadget now that Nintendo vows to launch a 3-D game machine in the next year?
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Navigating China's web of censors
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 5:53am MDT
Google's standoff with Beijing reveals the complexity of Internet control in China—where an ever-shifting hodgepodge of restrictions limit what information Netizens can access, which Web tools they can us, and what ideas they can blog. By msnbc.com's Kari Huus.
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Navigating China's web of censors
Posted: March 26th, 2010, 5:53am MDT
Google's standoff with Beijing reveals the complexity of Internet control in China—where an ever-shifting hodgepodge of restrictions limit what information Netizens can access, which Web tools they can us, and what ideas they can blog. By msnbc.com's Kari Huus.
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Space companies relaunch rocket program
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 8:04pm MDT
Lockheed Martin and ATK are teaming up to build and sell a booster rocket known as the Athena, a decade after the brand was put into mothballs.
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'Avatar' director says 3-D will come to mobile
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 4:53pm MDT
3-D will come to mobile faster than anyone has anticipated, and without the need for awkward glasses, "Avatar" director James Cameron told an audience today at the CTIA Wireless conference. -
Rare arctic springs hold clues to Jupiter's moon
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 3:56pm MDT
Extraordinarily rare springs high above the rest of the world in the Arctic could serve as Earth's own little version of Europa, helping scientists picture what life might face on the mysterious Jovian moon.
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‘Complete collapse’ of coral inevitable?
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 3:04pm MDT
Coral reefs are dying, and scientists and governments around the world are contemplating what will happen if they disappear altogether.
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Greener tires, without oil, may be in the making
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 2:42pm MDT
A new technology being developed aims to eliminate the oil currently used to make isoprene, a key tire ingredient, by creating a more environmentally friendly alternative using plants like sugar cane, corn, or switchgrass. -
Video: 'Dragon Age' gets a little bit bigger
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 2:32pm MDT
The choice driven story and added features are wonderful extensions to an already epic game. Msnbc.com's Robert Gonsalves gives "Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening" an 8 out of 10. (msnbc.com)
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Hacker gets 20 years in credit card thefts
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 2:04pm MDT
A computer hacker from Florida is sentenced to 20 years in prison for helping engineer one of the largest thefts of credit and debit card numbers in U.S. history.
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Wis. college switches e-mail font to save money
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 1:26pm MDT
A Wisconsin college has found a new way to cut costs with e-mail — by changing the font. -
Tiny tyrannosaur came from land down under
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 1:09pm MDT
A pelvic bone uncovered in Australia marks the first evidence that tyrannosaurs could have inhabited the Southern Hemisphere.
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Birds fuel up on super foods before migrating
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 12:33pm MDT
Birds that normally eat insects switch to antioxidant-rich berries just before starting their long journey south for winter.
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Rover spots ‘strange stuff’ on Martian rock
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 11:45am MDT
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has found a Martian rock covered in weird material as its odometer hit a major milestone this week, with the long-lived robot completing equivalent to a half–marathon on the Red Planet.
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French Twitter hacked Obama for the thrills
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 10:42am MDT
He's 24, unemployed and has no specialized computer skills. Using sheer wit and persistence, the Frenchman managed to infiltrate Twitter administrators' accounts and post confidential company documents online, a prosecutor said Thursday. -
Zoo welcomes birth of 25 Komodo dragons
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 10:14am MDT
An Indonesian zoo is welcoming the births of 25 endangered Komodo dragons, hatched after eight months in incubators.
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Racist e-mails wreak havoc for Australia police
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 10:00am MDT
About 100 Australian police are being investigated for circulating racist and pornographic e-mails via the internal police e-mail system, and one officer involved in the scandal has committed suicide, a top official said Thursday. -
Wireless stars of the show
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 9:45am MDT
Tablets. Netbooks. Photo frames. GPS-enabled pet collars. Oh yeah — and phones. They are all a part of this spring's CTIA wireless industry trade show in Las Vegas. -
Pearls mass-produced on paper machines
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 9:24am MDT
Nacre, or mother of pearl, is one of the toughest and most beautiful natural materials on Earth. Now scientists can make it — cheaply.
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UK police ask Internet cafes to monitor users
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 8:59am MDT
Internet cafe users in the British capital may want to watch what they download. -
Slideshow: Photo gallery: Springtime in space
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 8:51am MDT
See an active sun, a blooming "cosmic rose" and other cosmic highlights from March 2010.
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Third of Americans use library computers
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 8:48am MDT
A third of Americans — about 77 million people — use public library computers to look for jobs, connect with friends, do their homework and improve their lives, according to a new study released Thursday. -
Where Facebook profiles go when we die
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 6:48am MDT
More than any other service, Facebook will be the most important fixture in your digital mausoleum. I mean, it's a basically a catch-all for your memories, with timestamped comments, loads of personal info, and pictures. (Oh dear god, the pictures...) It's the first place acquaintances look after someone dies, and the first place the press will look if your death was particularly public or tragic.
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Cosmic Log: Dark energy in 3-D
Posted: March 25th, 2010, 5:16am MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: A 3-D galaxy survey confirms the view that the expansion of the universe is speeding up — and provides a map of dark energy's effect.
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Could new test settle Shroud of Turin debate?
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 6:52pm MDT
The Shroud of Turin, the controversial piece of linen that some believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, could finally be dated accurately.
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Want a good look at Mars? Time’s running out
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 6:17pm MDT
This year's opportunity to get a close look at Mars is nearing its end. The next opportunity won't come around until 2012.
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8 awesome alarm clocks
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 4:54pm MDT
The alarm clock is the most evil piece of industrial design ever, combining form and function to make you miserable. From the Wake N' Bacon to baby birds signing, here are eight innovative designs that attempt to make the act of getting out of bed as effective and/or pleasant as possible.
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Galaxies undercounted in cosmic census
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 4:25pm MDT
Space.com: The United States wants everyone to stand up and be counted in the 2010 census, but meanwhile many galaxies have been undercounted in their own celestial census. -
Newsweek: Piano-improv guy becomes Chatroulette star
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 3:52pm MDT
A self-trained pianist with a voice like Ben Folds and a penchant for hoodies recorded his sessions on Chatroulette, improvising songs about the strangers he came across. -
Frenchman hacks Obama's Twitter account
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 3:15pm MDT
A French man has been arrested for hacking into the Twitter account of President Barack Obama, French police said on Wednesday. -
Twitterers go offline in the name of charity
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 2:50pm MDT
Thousands of Twitterers worldwide will put their fingers to rest and gather offline on Thursday in the name of charity. -
American wins $1 million math prize
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 2:38pm MDT
An American professor at the University of Texas at Austin has won the 6 million kroner ($1 million) Abel Prize for mathematics.
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No bars at home? AT&T to offer $150 fix
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 2:04pm MDT
AT&T Inc. wireless subscribers who have poor reception at home will soon be able fix that, for $150.
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A $499 e-reader that opens like a book
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 1:53pm MDT
E-book readers are a fun category of gadgets, because their shape is not yet set in stone. While one laptop is much like the other, manufacturers are still experimenting with e-readers, trying to figure out how best to take the book into the digital age.
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MetroPCS to launch 4G phone before Verizon
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 1:36pm MDT
MetroPCS, a wireless carrier catering to those of modest means, is set to be the first to introduce a phone with a brand new network technology that provides faster data access. That means it's beating Verizon Wireless, the country's largest carrier. -
Light bends matter, surprising scientists
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:54pm MDT
Light can twist matter, according to a new study that observed ribbons of nanoparticles twisting in response to light.
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Another U.S. Internet company leaves China
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 12:13pm MDT
Two U.S. companies that sell Internet addresses to Web sites said Wednesday they had stopped registering new domain names in China because the Chinese government has begun demanding pictures and other identification documents from their customers. -
Cosmic Log: DNA reveals prehistoric surprise
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 11:58am MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: DNA taken from an ancient pinky bone suggests that a previously unknown group of human ancestors mixed it up with Neanderthals and modern humans in Siberia 40,000 years ago.
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Hunt for elusive dark matter goes virtual
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 10:03am MDT
Space.com: Scientists think they've found a virtual way to hunt for dark matter in the lab by studying real-world materials that may behave similarly to the elusive cosmic stuff.
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Telephone pole-like fungus was tallest ever
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 9:27am MDT
These towering fungi lived on algae and bacteria and grew over 26 feet high some 420 million years ago.
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Privacy battle looms for Facebook, Google
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 9:00am MDT
European regulators are investigating whether the practice of posting photos, videos and other information about people on sites such as Facebook without their consent is a breach of privacy laws. -
Inside a global cybercrime ring
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 8:45am MDT
Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine's capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world's most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses. -
The best new netbooks
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 7:05am MDT
Gizmodo: If you're in the market for a netbook — the gimpy kittens of the laptop jungle — know this first: on the inside, they're all basically the same. Making the little differences all the more important! And yes, they do add up.
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Bathroom tech: From strange to ridiculous
Posted: March 24th, 2010, 7:05am MDT
The bathroom is the last bastion of privacy where one can shower, scrub, and, well, take care of business without the incessant interruptions of modern life. Geeks probably wouldn't mind some of these high-tech accoutrements.
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Super bug! World’s strongest insect revealed
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 7:41pm MDT
After months of grueling tests, a species of horned dung beetle takes the title for world's strongest insect.
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Verizon says Skype on some phones this week
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 6:53pm MDT
Skype's popular telephony application will be available on nine phone models sold by Verizon Wireless starting on Thursday. -
Cosmic Log: Fusion’s ups and downs
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 4:24pm MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The folks following an unconventional path to nuclear fusion power are feeling more confident about their footsteps.
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Ordinary laptops act as earthquake detectors
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 3:58pm MDT
Most people use their laptops for work and Web browsing. Now you can add one more task to that list: earthquake detection. -
Clearwire to expand to L.A., Miami, St. Louis
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 3:40pm MDT
Clearwire Corp. said Tuesday that it will expand its wireless broadband network to cover Los Angeles, Miami, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City this year. -
Sprint to promote video calling with '4G' phone
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 2:40pm MDT
Sprint wants to make video calls a selling point of the new, faster data network that it's spending billions to build, along with co-investors.
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UK launches British version of NASA
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 1:53pm MDT
Britain has opened its first space agency to coordinate all U.K. space activities and help raise the country's profile in the global space economy. -
Video: 'Just Cause 2':all foam and no beer
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 1:36pm MDT
The game may be flawed but you get to blow stuff up... a lot of stuff. Msnbc.com's Todd Kenreck gives it a 7 out of 10. (msnbc.com)
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Samsung unveils new Galaxy S Android phone
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 1:20pm MDT
Samsung , the world's second-biggest mobile phone maker, on Tuesday unveiled a new smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S, which is based on Google's Android software.
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Leap adds free nationwide roaming to Cricket
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 1:03pm MDT
Leap Wireless said Tuesday that it's eliminating most roaming fees for its Cricket contract-free wireless service, continuing a series of price cuts and service enhancements in the growing and competitive prepaid market. -
Verizon to test advanced network in summer
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:51pm MDT
Verizon Wireless plans to test an advanced, high-speed wireless network in six markets this summer and hopes to launch the service in up to 30 markets this year. -
Apple sells no-contract iPhones at full price
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 12:30pm MDT
Apple is making some of its iPhone models available at full price without a contract from AT&T. However, the new phones are still "locked" to AT&T and will not work with any other cellular carrier unless they're modified.
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Mega star growth secrets revealed
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 10:38am MDT
The birth of the largest stars in the universe have always posed a conundrum for astronomers: Massive stars are created by sucking in vast amounts of gas, but somehow they do it without blowing away their gassy feedbags when they ignite early on.
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Zoo investigates dismembered giraffe
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 10:19am MDT
The mayor of Albuquerque has ordered an investigation after a beloved Rio Grande Zoo giraffe was dismembered and placed in a trash bin. -
3 zoo tigers escape in Spain, killed by police
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 10:13am MDT
A zoo in Spain's Canary Islands says three tigers escaped from their cage after a mistake by an employee and were later shot by police. -
Internet firm in China drops Google services
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 9:43am MDT
An Internet company run by one of Asia's richest men said Tuesday it has ended its affiliation with Google Inc. as the American search giant stopped censoring the Internet in violation of Chinese regulations. -
Physicists set schedule for Earth’s biggest bang
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 9:26am MDT
The world's largest scientific experiment will try to collide particles at the highest energy level so far on March 30, re-creating conditions at the "Big Bang" birth of the universe, CERN said Tuesday.
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Bill Nye: Cell phone aren't making us dumb
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 6:54am MDT
Gizmodo: Forget what you've heard, iPhones and Google going to take the place of our memory. According to Bill Nye the Science Guy, storing information outside of the brain is what makes humans human.
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Crank up the Wi-Fi, bring in the femtocells
Posted: March 23rd, 2010, 6:53am MDT
With increasing network congestion and data demands, wireless carriers are now welcoming, even encouraging, customers’ use of Wi-Fi on their smartphones and trying out devices called femtocells.
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Web inventor to lead British research institute
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 5:23pm MDT
Britain's prime minister says the scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web will lead a new Internet research institute. -
Moon's water comes in three flavors
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 5:14pm MDT
Space.com: Since the surprise discovery last year of trace amounts of water on the moon, scientists have been redefining their concept of Earth's rocky neighbor. Now researchers say the water on the moon comes in three different flavors.
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Critics: Broadband plan doesn't go far enough
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 4:51pm MDT
The sweeping national broadband plan that federal regulators delivered to Congress last week doesn't go far enough to satisfy some experts who warn that the United States would still trail other industrialized nations in prices and speed. -
Volcanic eruption opened the door for dino rule
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 4:30pm MDT
Some 200 million years ago, Earth was on the verge of either an age of dinosaurs or an age of crocodiles. It took the largest volcanic eruption in the solar system — and the loss of half of Earth's plant life — to tip the scales in the dinos' favor, say researchers.
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Video: Wii need more games like this
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 3:40pm MDT
"Red Steel 2" is a western samurai story that boasts some of the best gameplay you can find on the Wii system. Msnbc.com's Todd Kenreck gives it a 9 out of 10. (msnbc.com)
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Cosmic Log: First flight for SpaceShipTwo
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 2:25pm MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane takes to the air for the first time, marking another milestone in the age of private-sector spaceflight.
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Google pulls out of mainland China
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 1:52pm MDT
China moves to block access to Google's Hong Kong site, The New York Times reports, after the Internet giant began redirecting Chinese users to its uncensored server there.
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Iceland volcano could have world consequences
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 12:50pm MDT
Blasts of lava and ash shot out of a volcano in southern Iceland on Monday and small tremors rocked the ground, a surge in activity that raised fears of a larger explosion at the nearby Katla volcano.
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Enthusiasts revive Polaroid film, plan to sell it
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 12:35pm MDT
A group of engineers and enthusiasts say they have managed to make new Polaroid instant film and will start selling it this week. -
Ancient bones delay Israel hospital project
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 12:23pm MDT
An Israeli government decision to relocate a hospital ward from its planned site on top of ancient graves has sparked heavy criticism from Israel's medical community, while marking a victory for the country's ultra-Orthodox religious political parties. -
Court ruling could encourage judges to ‘Google’
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 11:37am MDT
A federal appeals court said it can be acceptable for a judge to conduct an Internet search to confirm an intuition about a matter of common knowledge. -
Do you Facebook or Twitter while watching TV?
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 11:11am MDT
The amount of time people spend on the computer while watching TV is going up sharply. -
EU: Iran must stop jamming ’Net, broadcasts
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 10:33am MDT
Iran must stop jamming satellite broadcasting and censoring the Internet, the European Union said Monday, but the bloc has stopped short of threatening any action if Tehran doesn't agree to it. -
Who writes Wikipedia articles?
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 9:31am MDT
It takes a village of contributors — adding paragraphs here, inserting references there — to craft a quality Wikipedia article, according to a new study that identifies the types of contributors who initiate and dominate the process to separate the Wikipedia wheat from chaff.
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Crippled Mars rover is chilled, but still alive
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 9:11am MDT
NASA's crippled Spirit Mars rover is still awake as it prepares for the oncoming Martian winter, which has already left it colder than ever before.
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Octopuses prefer HDTV
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 8:52am MDT
Octopuses rely on visual cues to identify predators, prey and other marine creatures. Yet it has been difficult for researchers to study the animals' reactions to their natural environments, because the scientists can't control what might swim or crawl by an octopus — that is, until the advent of HDTV.
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Getting up to speed with 4G
Posted: March 22nd, 2010, 7:11am MDT
4G, or fourth-generation, wireless technology, expected to be touted this week at the wireless industry's trade show, will mean faster Internet access and speedier downloads for cell phone users.
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Red Tape Chronicles: Top 5 Web scams
Posted: March 21st, 2010, 5:50pm MDT
Most people think they'll never fall for a scam. In fact, that mindset is precisely what con artists look for. And many of the scams you hear about are sensational, which convinces consumers to let their guards down even more.
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Lawmakers wnt to limit txt msgs and e-mails
Posted: March 21st, 2010, 4:41pm MDT
Cities and state legislatures are adopting rules to limit texts and e-mails relating to official business, even as officials are increasingly fielding public-record requests. -
California museum celebrates ecosystems
Posted: March 21st, 2010, 3:41pm MDT
Stand in the path of a flash flood. Roam around a kelp forest. Nearly 10 years in the making, the $165 million Ecosystems Experience opens this week at the California Science Center.
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Nintendo aims to get consoles in schools
Posted: March 21st, 2010, 12:16pm MDT
Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping his world of magic mushrooms and ravenous dinosaurs for the staid confines of the classroom?
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Car tech: Coolest new systems on four wheels
Posted: March 21st, 2010, 11:54am MDT
Consumer technology companies continually churn out new ideas, cool innovations, and mesmerizing high-tech gizmos for our homes and everyday lives; and after a short interval, many of those same ideas follow us into the vehicles we drive.
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Net called great threat to rare species
Posted: March 21st, 2010, 11:03am MDT
The Internet is one of the greatest threats to rare species, fueling the illegal wildlife trade and making it easier to buy everything from live baby lions to wine made from tiger bones, conservationists say. -
China state media accuses Google of political agenda
Posted: March 21st, 2010, 3:17am MDT
China's state media on Sunday accused Google Inc of pushing a political agenda by "groundlessly accusing the Chinese government" of supporting hacker attacks and by trying to export its own culture, values and ideas. -
Big questions surround big-bang theory
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 7:59pm MDT
The big bang was the beginning of the universe as we know it, most scientists say. But was it the first beginning, and will it be the last?
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Cosmic Log: Solar sails take shape
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 6:21pm MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: As Japan gears up to send the first working solar sail into deep space in a couple of months, the Planetary Society is moving ahead with its own solar-sail project. You can put your name on both sails … if you act now.
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College kid beats out rap stars in digital sales
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 5:07pm MDT
An upstart Trinity College rapper emerged from obscurity when his primarily self-produced EP, "Boston's Boy," debuted atop iTunes' hip-hop digital albums chart. -
Smartphones not enough for carriers at CTIA
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 4:23pm MDT
Smartphones may be one of the hottest areas in technology with big names like Apple and Google tussling for share, but investors are questioning the growth prospects for mobile carriers as subscriber gains slow. -
Turbulence tamed in water pipes
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 3:58pm MDT
In an effort to help lower the cost of pumping fluids through pipelines, scientists have discovered an unlikely solution: adding more turbulence, research that could have huge implications in a wide variety of fields.
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Video: 'Command and Conquer' falls short
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 3:33pm MDT
"Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight" tries to open itself up to a more casual audience but alienates fans in the process. Msnbc.com's Todd Kenreck gives it a 6 out of 10. (msnbc.com)
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250 exotic birds die in blaze at Vegas sanctuary
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 3:11pm MDT
Hundreds of exotic birds and a dog have died in a blaze that destroyed a building at a private Las Vegas nature preserve and sanctuary. -
Web produces new generation of China activists
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 2:52pm MDT
There is a vibrant community of tech-savvy users who can easily hop over China's "Great Firewall" that blocks access to sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. They are a minority of the 384 million people online in China but among the most vocal.
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Look, up in the sky: Saturn at its best for 2010
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 2:35pm MDT
While the planet Venus is now gaining in prominence low in western evening sky and Mars continues to slowly fade as it recedes from Earth, another bright naked eye planet, Saturn, is now enjoying its finest month in 2010.
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Apple swears iPad partners to secrecy
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:41pm MDT
BusinessWeek: Developers must sequester the tablet computer in rooms with blacked-out windows, reflecting secrecy around a product that may mean billions of dollars in sales
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Businesses sue Yelp over manipulated reviews
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:27pm MDT
Yelp, one of the most popular Web sites that let people post opinions about restaurants, shops and local services, is being sued by several small businesses that claim they've been pressured to advertise on the site in exchange for getting negative reviews squashed. -
Earliest signature of Renaissance artist found
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 12:16pm MDT
Art experts find what they believe is the earliest signature of the master Raphael, hidden within a painting's arabesque decorations.
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iPad may beat iPhone's first three-month sales
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 11:46am MDT
Apple could sell more iPads in the first three months of availability than it sold original iPhones in the same period, according to sources quoted by the Wall Street Journal.
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World’s biggest particle collider hits a new high
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 10:46am MDT
Operators of the world's largest atom smasher on Friday ramped up their massive machine to three times the energy ever previously achieved, in the run-up to experiments probing the secrets of the universe.
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Trainers invent new toothbrush for killer whale
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 9:59am MDT
SeaWorld Orlando's trainers will stand farther away from the killer whale who drowned a trainer at the park last month when brushing his teeth. -
Students discover clawed dinosaur in China
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 9:23am MDT
A claw sticking out of a cliff face in Mongolia, China, turned out to be the tip of the dinosaur — the skeleton of a 6-foot-long agile predator that preyed on its own kind.
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Cat fur puts criminals behind bars
Posted: March 19th, 2010, 8:41am MDT
A DNA database has been established that uses cat fur as forensic evidence. Dog and other animal fur may also be useful in forensic applications.
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For cyberwarriors, murky terrain
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 9:24pm MDT
Pentagon's dismantling of CIA-Saudi Web site illustrates need for clearer policies: When is a cyberattack outside the theater of war allowed? Should Congress be informed? -
Smithsonian traces saga of human origins
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 5:22pm MDT
Hundreds of early human fossils, artifacts and forensically recreated faces of our prehistoric relatives go on display at the National Museum of Natural History.
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Burglar logs into MySpace on store computer
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 5:17pm MDT
A burglar who spent about five hours on a store's computer after breaking into the business gave police all the clues they needed to track him down. -
Ancient giant redwoods endured frequent fires
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 5:13pm MDT
Ancient trees pack a record of ancient events. And now scientists have used 52 of the world's oldest trees — giant sequoia redwoods in California's western Sierra Nevada — to show that the region was plagued by drought and fire from the year 800 through the year 1300.
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Smartphone annoyances, with love
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 4:41pm MDT
Smartphones are like digital “Mini–Me”s, reflecting our tastes, interests, lives. But, like us, they're far from perfect.
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'Deep flow' migrates deeper into the universe
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 4:01pm MDT
The puzzling migration of matter in deep space – dubbed "dark flow" – has been observed at farther distances than ever before, scientists have announced.
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Cosmic Log: The latest fashion in invisibility
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 2:19pm MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Scientists have designed a more stylish cloak of invisibility that can hide a bumpy feature from view, even if you're looking right at it from a range of perspectives. But don't expect boy wizard Harry Potter to be modeling this cloak anytime soon.
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Video: Viacom-YouTube trial airs dirty laundry
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 2:09pm MDT
The release of hundreds of documents in the Viacom-YouTube court battle gives new insight into the workings of YouTube and shows embarrassing behavior on both sides. Cnbc's Jim Goldman reports. (CNBC)
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Cassini sees Saturn's rough and tumble rings
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 1:57pm MDT
The rings of Saturn are the most intricate planetary decorations in our solar system, but are also cosmic gems festooned with unknown red material and some tricky dynamic forces that shape them.
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Flawless diamond to create powerful lasers
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 11:29am MDT
In a laboratory buried underground and measuring several football fields in length, scientists are conducting experiments that could change the future of medicine.
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What the Hubble Space Telescope really sees
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 10:41am MDT
Space.com: The nearly 20-year-old Hubble Space Telescope has taken many iconic images of the cosmos and is even the star of a new 3D IMAX movie that gives viewers a chance to fly through those snapshots. But does Hubble show us what the universe really looks like?
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UK youngsters prefer online advice to parents
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 10:03am MDT
Young people in Britain turn to the internet to look for help with personal problems rather than seek advice from their parents or friends, according to a survey released on Thursday. -
Pikas prove flexible amid warming
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 9:30am MDT
The mountain-dwelling pika, which many predicted might be one of climate change's first casualties, is thriving in the Sierra Nevada.
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UK: NATO must do more on cyber security
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 9:00am MDT
NATO must do more to coordinate the international community's response to the threat of cyber attacks, members of Britain's House of Lords said Thursday. -
The rise of the super-smartphone
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 7:05am MDT
As the wireless trade industry prepares to meet in Las Vegas March 23-25, smartphones with even more smarts are in the pipeline, aided by improved processing power, screen technology and better software.
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Astronaut and cosmonaut touch down safely
Posted: March 18th, 2010, 6:45am MDT
A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying a U.S. astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the International Space Station landed safely in Kazakhstan.
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Sprint to support Google's Nexus One phone
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 6:49pm MDT
Google's Nexus One smartphone will soon be available to subscribers of Sprint, the second U.S. wireless service provider in two days to announce an agreement to support the touchscreen phone.
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Password-stealing virus targets Facebook users
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 6:20pm MDT
Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook's estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information. -
Pregnant male fish can choose abortion
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 5:38pm MDT
Male gulf pipefishes — one of the only species whose males can become pregnant — can selectively abort embryos from less attractive females, new research finds.
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Cosmic Log: Tales from the quantum frontier
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 5:17pm MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The quantum world may seem so small and weird that there's no connection with everyday reality, but that impression couldn't be further from the truth.
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Man accused of disabling 100 cars over Internet
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 5:03pm MDT
A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday. -
Primordial black holes formed after Big Bang
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 4:47pm MDT
A pair of primordial black holes have been spotted so far away that they likely formed relatively soon after the Big Bang, scientists announced Wednesday.
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Case-mate's Hug is an iPhone necessity
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 3:49pm MDT
Wireless charging has been around — even for the iPhone—for years, but it wasn't until the last 12 months that it's been refined to be as good as standard wired charging.
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Dogs domesticated in Middle East, not Asia
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 3:45pm MDT
From French poodles to German shepherds, domestic dogs likely trace most of their ancestry to the Middle East, as opposed to East Asian origins suggested by previous research, a genetic study reported on Wednesday.
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Monkey deaths prompt calls for crackdown
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 2:49pm MDT
Workers at a Nevada research lab were checking on a primate room when they came across a ghastly sight: Thirty dead monkeys were essentially cooked alive after someone left the heater on. Two others were near death and had to be euthanized. -
Prehistoric dads helped with child care
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 2:42pm MDT
The males among our earliest human ancestors may have helped jumpstart the modern human population explosion by helping females with child rearing.
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Wrong religion: Israeli ruins re-identified
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 2:00pm MDT
Israeli archaeologists have announced that ruins long thought to be of an ancient synagogue are actually the remains of a palace used by Muslim caliphs 1,300 years ago.
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Video: Fear the future of ‘Metro 2033’
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 1:52pm MDT
In the year 2033 the last remaining humans live underground, scratching out a desperate existence. Msnbc.com’s Todd Kenreck give the game an 8 out of 10. (msnbc.com)
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4 million-year-old shark attack reconstructed
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 1:45pm MDT
A shark attack that took place 4 million years ago has just been reconstructed from the extinct hunter's fossilized victim – a dolphin.
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Alien world found in not-so-alien setting
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 1:33pm MDT
A newly discovered exoplanet is the first such alien world to resemble the planets in our own solar system, researchers announced Wednesday.
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Interstellar dust shines bright in new image
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 11:38am MDT
Space.com: A new image of vast filaments of frigid interstellar dust that reach across our Milky Way galaxy is giving scientists new clues into the forces behind the birth of new stars and the galaxy's shape.
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Asteroid mission may offer clues to life's origins
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 11:07am MDT
Four tablespoons worth of real estate from a nearby asteroid could help to explain how life began.
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App helps shoppers make greener food choices
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 9:25am MDT
A new smartphone application aims to help eco-conscious consumers make greener choices at the grocery store.
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Horses never forget human friends
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 9:09am MDT
Horses not only remember people who have treated them well, they also understand words better than expected, research shows.
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Is Foursquare the new Facebook?
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 6:47am MDT
Foursquare, if you don’t know yet, is a hipster-habituated, location-based social networking Web site in which you can tip your friends on hot (or not) locations and earn virtual merit badges by punching your coordinates into your iPhone (or whatever) whenever you hit a bar, brunchery — or hook up with other Foursquare participants.
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Teen wins $100,000 for spaceflight software
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 8:03pm MDT
An 18-year-old whiz kid from New Mexico has won the $100,000 top award in the Intel Science Talent Search for developing a software navigation system to improve spacecraft travel through the solar system.
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Microsoft's Bing has more bang in February
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 6:30pm MDT
Researchers say Microsoft's Bing search engine is gaining market share in the U.S. -
NASA chief touts new space opportunities
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 5:56pm MDT
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden defended the space agency's budget Tuesday and said its focus on commercial space transportation would provide ''incredible opportunities'' for U.S. companies. -
iPad subscriptions may boost magazine circulation
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 4:47pm MDT
Magazine publishers may have a new way to boost flagging circulation: the iPad. The Audit Bureau of Circulations said Tuesday that it has changed its definition of a digital magazine to accommodate the new class of tablet-style devices. -
NASA telescope spots ‘cosmic rose’
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 4:26pm MDT
A new snapshot from NASA's latest space telescope has revealed a vast cloud in deep space that is brimming with new stars inside flower-like wisps of interstellar dust.
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Cosmic Log: How Jupiter changes its spots
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 4:19pm MDT
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Thermal images have taken the temperature of Jupiter's Great Red Spot in unprecedented detail, revealing the mechanics of the solar system's biggest storm.
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China mulls plans for new moon rock lab
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 4:02pm MDT
China is mulling plans for a facility to handle returning moon rock samples as part of a step-by-step plan to explore the lunar surface with robotic probes.
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Google phone now works on AT&T network
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 3:48pm MDT
Google is taking another swipe at Apple with an upgrade of its Nexus One mobile phone.
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BlackBerry users willing to swap for an iPhone
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 2:49pm MDT
Almost 40 percent of BlackBerry users would switch camp to an Apple iPhone , a recent study into smartphone brand loyalty shows.
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Study: video games can hurt schoolwork
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 2:12pm MDT
Parents who fear that buying a video game system will hurt their kids' schoolwork might be right. -
FCC unanimously approves broadband plan
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 1:27pm MDT
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved on Tuesday a summary of the agency's national broadband plan, that aims to expand access, increase Internet speeds and shift airwaves to mobile services.
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3 tigers very ill at Chinese zoo where 11 starved
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:40pm MDT
Zookeepers are scrambling to save three seriously ill Siberian tigers at a cash-strapped zoo in northeastern China where 11 of the big cats starved to death recently. -
Venezuela denies plans to censor Internet
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:36pm MDT
Venezuela is not planning to censor the Web or to shut down social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook, officials said on Monday, after President Hugo Chavez called for regulation of the Internet. -
‘Avatar’ out on DVD April 22, but not in 3-D
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 12:19pm MDT
The market for 3-D home video is still in the nascent stages, though TVs equipped for 3-D are increasingly being produced.
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New private space freighter has solid backing
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 11:52am MDT
Space.com: The field of commercial spaceflight is ripe with younger companies hoping to make it big with new spaceships, but Orbital Sciences is drawing on nearly 30 years of rocket-launching experience for its effort to build a new vehicle capable of stocking up the International Space Station.
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File-sharing software reveal user's private info
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 10:10am MDT
Thousands of Americans may unwittingly be sharing personal medical and financial information stored on their home computers when they use file-sharing software, according to a new study. -
Schools accused in Google hacking ask 'why us?'
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 9:28am MDT
With Google expected to decide soon whether to close its Chinese search engine, students at one of the schools cited by some reports for being behind hacking attacks on the Internet giant are decidedly ambivalent. -
Your new Facebook ‘friend’ may be the FBI
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 8:54am MDT
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information. -
Leaky valve may delay space shuttle launch
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 8:38am MDT
Space.com: NASA engineers are testing a leaky helium valve on the space shuttle Discovery to see if the shuttle can still launch to the International Space Station next month or if it must stand down for repairs.
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Google appears to drop censorship in China
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 7:28am MDT
Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing's censorship rules.
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Red Tape: Cutting cable and phone bills
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 7:02am MDT
It took Mary Schreiber about an hour, and just a little moxie, to save $300. You can do it too. -
Apple's iPad is one of a slate of slates
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 6:48am MDT
There are many other companies jumping into the tablet arena besides Apple. Among them: HP, Dell and Samsung. Google and HTC are reportedly working on a slate, and Sony may be interested, too.
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Wacom Intuos4 Wireless: The joy of freedom
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 6:37am MDT
Gizmodo: This wireless tablet features brushstrokes as smooth and precise as the real thing, and the touchscreen never misses a single beat.
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Google appears to drop censorship in China
Posted: March 16th, 2010, 4:25am MDT
Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square protests could all be accessed through Google's Chinese search engine Tuesday in defiance of Beijing's censorship rules.
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Help wanted: Spaceflight experience required
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 6:14pm MDT
For astronauts worried about their future with NASA, good news: A private company is hiring.
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Zero-G launches airborne weightless science lab
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 5:22pm MDT
Scientists who want to conduct research on Mars, the moon, and in space don't have to travel that far anymore.
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Meat-eating amphibian predates dinosaurs
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 3:20pm MDT
A "rock" initially tossed aside at a FedEx site in Pennsylvania turns out to be the skull of a meat-eating amphibian that lived 70 million years before the first dinosaurs.
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Broadband plan would boost speed, wireless
Posted: March 15th, 2010, 3:13pm MDT
U.S. regulators released a blueprint for upgrading Internet access for all Americans, with an emphasis on speed, expanding coverage and freeing up more airwaves for mobile services.