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With Motorcycles, Eco-Friendly and Badass Can Mix (10 May 06:30) |
| : Electric and alternative-fuel bikes are the future of individual transportation not because of their fuel efficiency but because they are extremely cool. That's right. Creators of eco-frie... |
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NSA Attacks West Point! Relax, It's a Cyberwar Game (10 May 06:30) |
| Five hours into their assault on West Point, the hackers got serious.
The SQL [structured query language] inserts that came earlier were just pablum intended to lull the Army cadets into... |
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The Car of the Future Will Know You Can't Drive (10 May 04:30) |
| A Stanford University professor wants to make cars that know what you're up to. The technology will make it easier for your car to protect you -- and for insurers and advertisers to hassle y... |
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Über-Investor: Gas Will Reach $10 a Gallon and Make U.S. Greener (10 May 04:10) |
| Billionaire investor Steve Novogratz doesn't see the price of gas coming down any time soon, but that might not be a bad thing as rising energy prices help drive investment in greener techno... |
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Q&A: NASA Scientist Answers Your Questions About Lying in Bed for 90 Days (10 May 03:30) |
| A senior NASA research scientist answers your questions about the agency's Bed Rest Study, in which participants are paid $17,000 to lie in bed for 90 straight days.
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Proposed Google-Yahoo Partnership Draws Fire (10 May 02:55) |
| Even though no official deal exists, the proposed advertising partnership between the two internet giants draws the wrath of various consumer groups who fear Google will smother the online a... |
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New Online Videos Take Aim at Obama, by Fair Means and Foul (10 May 01:30) |
| A couple of new anti-Obama web videos are previewing what could be likely avenues of attack from Republican communications strategists in upcoming months -- exploiting voters' fear of the un... |
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Levi Strauss Scores Viral Gold With Back-Flipping Jeans Clip (10 May 01:30) |
| A clever stealth campaign featuring guys jumping into blue jeans bounces to the top of the YouTube charts.
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First Pics! Fisker Karma Plug-In Hybrid on the Road (10 May 01:30) |
| Fisker Automotive's $80,000 sedan hits the road, and we've got pics!
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Verbinski to Direct 'BioShock' Film (09 May 10:30) |
| The Pirates of the Caribbean director gets set to train his lens on a much creepier underwater world.
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Review: Olympus E-420 Is One Smokin' DSLR (09 May 08:30) |
| Olympus' E-420 is the lightest and smallest DSLR on the market. It also happens to take some damn fine pictures, thanks to top-notch optics and easy usability.
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Army Yanks 'Voice-to-Skull Device' Website (09 May 08:05) |
| Why did the U.S. Army pull its web page on a "nonlethal weapon" that sends
"microwave transmission[s] of sound into the skull[s] of persons or
animals?"
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Microhoo Tea Leaf Watch: Proxy Directors Set Free (09 May 07:00) |
| Microsoft has released potential directors in a hostile takeover of Yahoo, in what the Wall Street Journal calls a "clear sign" the Redmond giant is really, truly walking away. Will this def... |
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So, What Is 'Plan C' for Microsoft Search? (09 May 06:10) |
| Microsoft isn't saying much -- though Bill Gates does keep saying they are going to go it alone now. But having attempted to independently create a search that would rival Google, and then t... |
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Facebook, States Set Bullying, Predator Safeguards (09 May 05:51) |
| Facebook agrees to deploy 40 new safeguards it says will protect users from sexual predators and cyberbullies. The move is endorsed by 49 states and Washington DC, which have been negotiatin... |
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Google Wants a Yahoo Ad Deal (09 May 05:19) |
| Google still hopes to link up with Yahoo on advertising, a deal that would almost certainly be lucrative to both companies and make Yahoo a tougher takeover target for, say, a certain Redmon... |
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Let's See Microsoft Innovate Its Way Out of This (09 May 09:30) |
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Sex Drive: Motion-Capture Suits Will Spice Up Virtual Sex (09 May 06:30) |
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No matter how beautiful the sex animations are in your favorite virtual playground, they can't compete with the movement of your own body.
How soon will we be slipping gracefully into m... |
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May 9, 1941: German Sub Caught With the Goods (09 May 06:30) |
| 1941: British destroyers capture a German submarine, U-110, south of Iceland. The British remove a naval version of the highly secret cipher machine known to the Allies as Enigma, and then t... |
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A Close Look at the Colossal Squid (09 May 06:30) |
| : Courtesy Te Papa Museum Scientists at the national museum of New Zealand, Te Papa, have recently completed dissections of several enormous squids, including pieces of a colossal squid -- t... |
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British Birds Adapt to Changing Climate (08 May 11:30) |
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Climate change threatens many animals -- but with any luck, some will handle weather shifts with as much aplomb as Parus major, a colorful songbird also known as the great tit.
In a stud... |
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Stream Your iTunes Playlists on Facebook (08 May 10:55) |
| Melodeo's nuTsie app makes it easy to embed most of your favorite songs on your Facebook page.
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Ballmer's Facebook Lust: It's Just Like High School (08 May 09:20) |
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Pirate Music, Lose Your House (08 May 09:13) |
| Digital music pirates are the same as drug dealers, prostitutes and gangs in New York and Los Angeles -- at least as it relates to the government's ability to declare your place a public nui... |
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You Hacked an Epilespy Site with Flashing Pix. Really. (08 May 08:47) |
| Hackers who probably also think that torturing small animals is funny bombed an epilepsy foundation's site with animations and link forwards to sites that serve up pulsating kaleidoscopic im... |
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Papa John's Sells $1 Billion in Pizza Online (08 May 08:26) |
| Papa John's says it has sold more than $1 billion worth of pizza online in the seven years since it has taken orders over the web. In the fierce battle for click orders the nation's third-la... |
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Best Buy Puts $2.1 Billion Into European Cell Retailer (08 May 06:12) |
| Best Buy, the biggest US retailer, is paying $2.1 billion for a 50 percent stake in Europe's largest cell phone retailer, The Carphone Warehouse.
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Comcast Mulling Net Usage Cap to Discourage 'Excessive' Use (08 May 05:49) |
| Comcast is considering putting a formal cap on monthly downloads instead of just calling up users who used several times a typical subscriber's 2 gigs. It's a bid to increase transparency ab... |
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iPhone Coming to Latin America (08 May 05:20) |
| Latin America's top mobile provider says it has a deal to bring the iPhone south of the border. Mexico City-based America Movil, which has 159.2 million subscribers in 16 countries, includin... |
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May 8, 1790: Liberté! Egalité! Métriqué! (08 May 06:30) |
| 1790: The French National Assembly decides to create a decimal system of measurement. The metric system is born.
This came after the storming of the Bastille but still before the declaratio... |
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Gear Gallery: New Motorola Slider, Mobile TV and the Ultimate Gadget Watch (08 May 06:30) |
| : The Z9 effortlessly satisfies the standard phone user, and pleases the rest of us with a couple extra perks. You get your e-mail and IM; you can listen to music from the microSD card or bu... |
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Firefox Infects Vietnamese Users With Trojan Code (08 May 06:30) |
| Vietnamese users of the open source Firefox browser may have nasty Trojan horse code inside their browsers, thanks to rogue code that sat inside a Vietnamese language pack for more than two ... |
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Author: Microsoft is Still Here, Dammit! (08 May 06:30) |
| Even though Microsoft's Steve Ballmer bungled Yahoo and Vista is sticking to store shelves, the company he runs is as dangerous as ever, says the author of a new book about the future of Mic... |
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Airline Emissions: Even Worse Than You Think (08 May 05:40) |
| Research shows the airline industry spews 20 percent more CO2 into the atmosphere than previously believed -- and its carbon output could hit 1.5 billion tons a year by 2050.
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Report: Hoax Anti-Obama E-Mails Still Fool Dumb White Guys (08 May 05:15) |
| Voters of a certain demographic remain vulnerable to fake e-mail reports that Barack Obama is an unpatriotic Muslim who was sworn into office on a Koran.
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Radiohead Extends Remix Voting as Entrants Bellyache (08 May 04:45) |
| Sour grapes or sound reasoning? The "Nude" remix contest earns the wrath of some participants.
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Is Tween Vampire Flick 'Twilight' the Next 'Harry Potter'? (08 May 04:00) |
| Stephenie Meyers' book series is working major magic on its fans. This could be a megafranchise in the making.
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TorrentSpy Dinged $111 Million in MPAA Lawsuit (08 May 03:15) |
| A federal judge is levying one of the biggest fines in copyright history, ordering torrent-tracking service TorrentSpy to pay an $111 million penalty. The site shuttered in March and was acc... |
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'Grand Theft Auto IV' by the Numbers (08 May 03:00) |
| With $500 million in sales, a $300,000 lawsuit and one restraining order, Rockstar Games' record-smashing sequel is giving the competition a fierce beating.
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Air Force's Scare-Mongering Space Ad Shoves Facts Out the Airlock (08 May 02:50) |
| A new Air Force ad warns of a "single missile" that can take out "your cellphone calls, your television, your GPS system, even your bank transactions." Luckily for us, not a word of it is tr... |
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China Farms the World to Feed Ravenous Economy (05 May 12:30) |
| Beijing has scoured the world for mining and logging concessions. Now, Chinese enterprises are snapping up vast tracts of land abroad and forging rubber-farming deals. Officials in poor coun... |
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Smarter Electric Grid Could Save Power (04 May 09:00) |
| If the electric grid stops being just a passive supplier of juice, consumers could make choices about how and when to consume power. Power providers and tech companies are working to redesig... |
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Iron Man's Soundtrack Draws on Heavy Sonic Roots (04 May 10:30) |
| Iron Man's soundtrack comes out May 6. Though the film is scored by various composers, Iron Man's sonic branches reach back into heavy metal territory.
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Microsoft Walks! Says Yahoo Demands Don't Make Sense (04 May 07:28) |
| Microsoft walks away from Yahoo after offering $33 a share -- $4 less than Yahoo was seeking. The announcement came at the end of a long, tense week of deliberations and three months after M... |
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Microsoft Withdraws Bid for Yahoo! (04 May 06:48) |
| Microsoft withdrew its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Saturday after last-ditch efforts to come to terms on a price proved unsuccessful. Microsoft was willing to pay $33 a share, but Yahoo w... |
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PCs Go on Sale in Cuba for the First Time (04 May 12:00) |
| Another restriction on daily life falls away under new President Raul Castro: Cuba's government allows desktop computers to go on sale to the public for the first time.
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Amazon Sues New York Over Net Sales Tax (04 May 12:00) |
| Amazon is suing New York over a new law that requires out-of-state online companies to collect sales tax from shoppers in New York. Officials estimate the state would gain about $50 million ... |
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Record Arctic Sea Ice Melt Predicted for Summer (03 May 11:30) |
| The Arctic will remain on thinning ice, and climate warming is expected to begin affecting the Antarctic also, scientists announce Friday. This summer will likely match last year's record lo... |
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Microsoft Increases Yahoo Offer to Over $31 a Share (03 May 11:00) |
| Microsoft dangles a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks of saber rattling.
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Review: 'Mario Kart Wii' Skids Way Off the Road (03 May 09:30) |
| A great game franchise gets dumbed down for the world's most fun console, and is basically ruined in the process. It's a rare miss for Nintendo.
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