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submitted by AB 208 weeks 14 hours 30 minutes ago
NewsFactor - The Microsft-Yahoo battle continued Monday with some unexpected twists. Microsoft indicated it will keep fighting even as Yahoo's board raised the price and reports suggested Yahoo is trying to restart merger talks with AOL.
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submitted by Micca 165 weeks 17 hours 27 minutes ago
This article discusses an interesting find: twine made 8,000 years ago - making it the oldest length of string ever found in Britain. Fiber crafts from the stone age rarely survive and this pushes back the earliest find in Europe by several thousand years. From the...(more)
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submitted by Ari for team iphone mania 240 weeks 4 days 17 hours 20 minutes ago
Believe it or not, there will be cell phones not named the iPhone sold this weekend. But as the remarkable pre-sale buildup for Apple's gadget, which runs on AT&T's network, nears its end, the other wireless carriers are figuring out how to compete over the long...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 139 weeks 2 days 4 hours 43 minutes ago
Bats hunt in groups in the dark using a form of sonar called echolocation to find snatch bugs out of the air.
Scientists have not known how bats recognize their buddies, in order to stay together, and also avoid creating interference between their echolocation calls. The screech...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 6 hours 17 minutes ago
Oil and wind power companies are testing a novel technology-air bubbles-to shield marine mammals from the sound of their offshore operations.
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 7 hours 16 minutes ago
Seth Killian dropped by to play some Street Fighter X Tekken, so we got him to address the fan backlash against the game's gem system and its balancing, as well as talk about how they're going to be a positive thing for advanced play.
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Janice Voss, a veteran shuttle astronaut, also served as science director for NASA's Kepler planet-hunting mission.
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While the PC market skids in the U.K. and France, Apple coasts to market share gains--possibly presaging a similar trend in the U.S.
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submitted by pbl 173 weeks 2 days 18 hours 12 minutes ago
WHEN the e-commerce giant eBay emerged from the last recession seven years ago with an aura of invincibility, its chief executive, Meg Whitman, boasted that “eBay is to some extent recession-proof.”
As the online auctioneer’s revenues and stock price kept climbing, one of its primary rivals, Amazon.com,...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 185 weeks 3 days 3 hours 20 minutes ago
State crime lab analyst Kathryn Troyer was running tests on Arizona's DNA database when she stumbled across two felons with remarkably similar genetic profiles.
The men matched at nine of the 13 locations on chromosomes, or loci, commonly used to distinguish people.
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submitted by pbl 173 weeks 2 days 18 hours 15 minutes ago
European law-enforcement officials uncovered a highly sophisticated credit-card fraud ring that funnels account data to Pakistan from hundreds of grocery-store card machines across Europe, according to U.S. intelligence officials and other people familiar with the case.
Specialists say the theft technology is the most advanced they have...(more)
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submitted by M Walker 245 weeks 6 days 13 hours 19 minutes ago
InfoWorld - All the rumors about a Google phone may be just slightly off. Rather than sell a mobile handset, Google might instead offer wireless service.
