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NewsFactor - Once again, Apple has convincingly demonstrated that good things come in small packages. Thanks largely to a terrific sales quarter for the iPhone, Apple bucked the grim economy by posting a remarkable 26 percent increase in profits for the fourth quarter.
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Reuters - Oil prices dropped more than 7 percent to below $50 a barrel on Thursday as a bearish U.S. jobs report intensified concerns of a long and deep global recession and further crushed fuel demand expectations.
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Whoa, this is scary -- robotic military cannons malfunctioning... From the story: "Media reports say the shooting exercise, using live ammunition, took place at the SA Army's Combat Training Centre, at Lohatlha, in the Northern Cape, as part of an annual force preparation endeavour.
Mangope told The...(more)
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Reuters - U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, a California liberal, won the chairmanship of a key energy committee on Thursday and promised to work closely with President-elect Barack Obama to promote alternative energy, ease global warming and expand health care.
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Huge astronomy news! For the first time EVER, galaxy researchers have taken pictures of planets orbiting a sun-star, much like our own. The first, taken by the much beloved Hubble Telescope, shows a planet orbiting the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in...(more)
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This looks like the beginning of a George Romero's film, but it's real. It seems like one of the US Army's X-Files technologies is coming to us sooner than most skeptics expected: DARPA is developing now a portable blood farming system that could infinitely produce universal...(more)
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AP - President-elect Obama's transition chief said Sunday the incoming administration is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on stem cell research, oil and gas drilling and other matters.
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The son of a prominent Democratic politician is indicted over the hacking of Sarah Palin's private e-mail account.
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Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo aircraft will be doing the world a favor when they start flying paying passengers into space: they'll be carrying sensors aboard to monitor greenhouse gases at a little-monitored altitude. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has just signed a deal with...(more)
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An EPA panel blocked the agency Thursday from issuing a permit for a proposed coal-burning power plant in Utah without addressing global warming. That will probably leave it to the Obama administration to determine the fate of similar plants.
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InfoWorld - Many companies may be willing to take a second or perhaps first look at Apple???s mobile wunderkind, the iPhone, now that it has access to a 3G network. A 3G version also extends the reach of the iPhone to more operators and geographies, say...(more)
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AFP - Iraq said on Saturday that the falling global oil price has forced Baghdad to cut its 2009 budget to 67 billion dollars at a time when the country, owner of the world's third largest oil reserves, craves funds to develop its dilapidated infrastructure.
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