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LiveScience.com - Common wisdom might suggest that because of their age, grandmothers are inappropriate caretakers for infants and children. Sure, they might have years and years of parenting experience from bringing up their own children (and they must be OK parents because their children obviously lived...(more)
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AFP - Inflation came off a 16-year high to 4.5 percent in October as the cost of oil fell sharply, putting the country at risk of equally damaging deflation, official data showed on Tuesday.
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PC Magazine - Apple has released iPhone OS 2.2 and iPhone OS for iPod touch 2.2 fixing a dozen vulnerabilities in the older versions. From a user perspective, the iPhone OS update also adds Google Street View and a podcast download capability.
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VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- A rocket carrying an Italian Earth-observation satellite blasted off Friday evening from the California coast. The Delta rocket II lifted off around 7:30 p.m. and made an arc south over the dark Pacific Ocean as it headed toward orbit....(more)
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SPACE.com - Astronauts aboard NASA's space shuttle Endeavour inspected their spacecraft's heat shield for damage Saturday while engineers on Earth tackled minor communications glitches as the orbiter heads toward a weekend rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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Reuters - A Missouri woman established a fake identity online to torment a vulnerable teenage girl who later committed suicide, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday in a trial that is being closely watched by the burgeoning social networking industry.
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LiveScience.com - President-elect Barack Obama has plans to invest $150 billion in clean energy technology over the next 10 years. With similar initiatives in other countries, when might we expect exciting alternative technology to deliver true energy independence?
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Reuters - Space shuttle astronauts delivered tons of custom upgrades to the International Space Station on Monday and prepared for their first spacewalk to restore the outpost to full power.
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Using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, Dr Massimo Marengo—from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics—and Dr Dana Backman—from the SETI Institute—are claiming that there's a solar system which is a younger twin of our own, just 10.5 light-years from us. Nothing surprising, really, until they tell...(more)
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Apparently President-elect Barack Obama is something of a Blackberry addict. Besides meaning he probably reads Gizmodo for all the latest Blackberry Storm info, this also means he has his Blackberry with him at all times, in the typical executive belt holster position. The trouble is, he's...(more)
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IBM dubbed it "on-demand computing." Others have called it "grid computing" and "software as a service." The latest name is "cloud computing," and it's the hot new dance craze -- er, tech trend -- sweeping the computing industry, generating so much hype that Oracle chief...(more)
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Reuters - Yahoo Inc said on Monday it will appoint a former Microsoft Corp manager Jeff Dossett to lead its U.S. media business as two more executives left the beleaguered Internet business.
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