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Repairing Solar Array Is New Focus of Spacewalk - New York Times
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 Peninsula On-line |
Repairing Solar Array Is New Focus of Spacewalk
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ Faced with two major problems on the International Space Station, NASA station managers shifted gears yesterday to an audacious effort to save a torn solar array.
Space station troubles delay spacewalks
NASA Shifts Mission Priorities at International Space Station
read comments (0)Comcast really does block BitTorrent traffic after all - CNET News.com
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 Half Life Source |
Comcast really does block BitTorrent traffic after all
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For a few months Comcast has been the subject of scattered reports that say it throttles BitTorrent traffic. TorrentFreak said in August that Comcast was surreptitiously interfering with file transfers by posing as one party and then, essentially, …
Comcast Screws with File-Sharing Traffic
How Comcast blocks your Internet traffic
read comments (0)Sen. Gregg says global warming legislation deserves consideration - Boston Globe
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 Environment News Service |
Sen. Gregg says global warming legislation deserves consideration
Boston Globe -
CONCORD, NH –Republican Sen. Judd Gregg says a new Senate bill to combat global warming "deserves serious consideration," even though one of the bill's sponsors says it goes beyond President Bush's proposals on global warming.
McCain Passes On Warming Bill 
Comment by Kevin Knobloch president, Union of Concerned Scientists
read comments (0)The Halo Over Xbox - New York Times
Author: Google News OverTheLimit.info |
New York Times -
By Saul Hansell It predicted Halo 3 was going to sell a lot of games in a short period of time. It did. The space epic came onto the market on Sept.
Analysts: September PS3 sales 'dismal'
Xbox 360 Beats Wii in September Console Sales
read comments (0)NPD: July game-industry sales soar 37 percent - GameSpot
Author: Google News Product Reviews |
GameSpot -
PlayStation 3 doesn't beat 360, and Wii tops DS; NCAA, Guitar Hero Encore, Wii Play top software side. By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot On Tuesday, the NPD Group released its July sales figures for Canada.
Wii Sales Surpass Xbox 360 Lifetime Shipments
How the Wii won over the world's gamers
read comments (0)PGR4 delayed, 360 wheel 'retrofitted' - GameSpot
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 Wall Street Journal |
PGR4 delayed, 360 wheel 'retrofitted'
GameSpot -
By Tom Magrino, GameSpot Between Blue Dragon, Halo 3, Project Gotham Racing 4, and Mass Effect, Microsoft has a number of big-name exclusives headed to its console in the next few months.
Microsoft Recalls Smoky Xbox 360 Racing Wheel
Microsoft offers fix for Xbox 360 Wireless Wheel problem
read comments (0)Astronauts begin spacewalk as NASA analyzes shuttle damage - New Straits Times
Author: Google News Vancouver Sun |
New Straits Times -
NASA on Saturday attempted to gauge the extent of ice damage on the space shuttle Endeavour's heat shield, as two astronauts successfully completed the first spacewalk of the shuttle mission.
Potentially serious gash overshadows shuttle mission
Shuttle Mission Overshadowed by Gash
read comments (0)Government warns of busy hurricane season ahead - News 8 Austin
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 Earthtimes.org |
Government warns of busy hurricane season ahead
News 8 Austin -
NOAA experts released Thursday morning an updated forecast for the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season that includes an overall higher chance of an above-normal season but with potentially fewer storms.
NOAA predicts fewer tropical storms this season
NOAA updates hurricane outlook
read comments (0)Forbes man exposed as fake Apple blogger - Telegraph.co.uk
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 Washington Post |
Forbes man exposed as fake Apple blogger
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By Emma Thelwell An anonymous blogger who riled Silicon Valley for months with tall tales about computer giant Apple in "The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs", has been unmasked as Daniel Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes magazine.
Journalist behind the fake Steve Jobs revealed
Fake Steve Buzzkill, Frigtards!
read comments (0)NASA set to fly teacher, 21 years after Challenger - Reuters
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 Philadelphia Inquirer |
NASA set to fly teacher, 21 years after Challenger
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By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A teacher who walked out of the classroom she loved a decade ago to join the US astronaut corps is scheduled to fly aboard the space shuttle Endeavour this week on a mission to the International Space …
Shuttle Endeavour's Leak Caused by Debris
NASA Completes Checks on Space Shuttle
read comments (0)Phoenix takes flight! - Spaceflight Now
Author: Google News Canoe.ca |
Spaceflight Now -
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD NASA's $420 million Phoenix Mars lander blasted off early today and began a 10-month voyage to the red planet, bound for the northern polar plains where scientists believe vast deposits of ice are hidden just beneath the frozen ...
Probe lifts off for journey to Mars
NASA Launches Mars Lander to Examine Ice and Soil
read comments (0)Stronger Link Found between Hurricanes and Global Warming - Scientific American
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 Earthtimes.org |
Stronger Link Found between Hurricanes and Global Warming
Scientific American -
By David Biello Using records dating back to 1855, hurricane researchers say they have uncovered an ongoing rise in the number of Atlantic hurricanes that tracks the increase in sea surface temperature related to climate change.
Global warming behind hurricane increase?
Tropical storms stepping up with climate change
read comments (0)Google Plans YouTube Antipiracy Tool for September - PC World
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 NBC 11.com |
Google Plans YouTube Antipiracy Tool for September
PC World -
Long-awaited and much-promised technology to combat piracy in Google's YouTube video sharing site should be ready by September.
YouTube to Implement New Technology Against Copyright Infringement
YouTube says September is target time to block copyrighted videos
read comments (0)Conroe company to review security - Houston Chronicle
Author: Google News Hawaii Channel.com |
Houston Chronicle -
By MIKE TOLSON, KEVIN MORAN and MARK CARREAU A Texas subcontractor for NASA said Friday that it will review its security procedures following the sabotage of one of its pieces of equipment readied for launch next month on the space shuttle Endeavour.
US space agency jolted by report of boozing astronauts
NASA worker sabotaged Space Station computer
read comments (0)A Bad Buzz at NASA - Newsweek
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 China Daily |
A Bad Buzz at NASA
Newsweek -
Aug. 6, 2007 issue - A few astronauts may have given new meaning to the term "flying high." Last week NASA disclosed that an independent review panel had "identified some episodes of heavy use of alcohol by astronauts in the immediate preflight period …
NASA chiefs set to get a rocket over 'drink-fly' astronauts
NASA Opens Inquiry Into Drunken-Flying Reports
read comments (0)Dust Storms Could Cripple Mars Rovers - Washington Post
Author: Google News eFluxMedia (press release) |
Washington Post -
AP PASADENA, Calif. -- Mission scientists worry that nearly a month's worth of storms could permanently damage or disable the Mars rovers exploring the Red Planet.
Huge dust storm threatens NASA rovers on Mars
Dust storms on Mars halt NASA rovers
read comments (0)Chinook, the unbeatable checkers-playing computer - Salon
Author: Google News TechShout! |
Salon -
Scientists at the University of Alberta report that they've built an unbeatable checkers-playing computer. Their machine, Chinook, has solved checkers: It proves that if two players play perfectly, making no mistakes, the game of checkers will result ...
Computer you can never beat at draughts
Game over for humans as computer is crowned king of draughts
read comments (0)Study: Dinosaurs' Rise to Dominance Was Gradual - FOX News
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 UC Berkeley |
Study: Dinosaurs' Rise to Dominance Was Gradual
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By Ker Than Fossils uncovered in New Mexico show dinosaurs co-existed with a closely related group of reptiles for millions of years before overtaking them to become the dominant land animals on Earth.
New fossil finds shake up dinosaur theories
Dinosaurs and Their Ancestors Coexisted
read comments (0)Grouper to Serve As Online Talent Agency - Forbes
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By GARY GENTILE 07.16.07, 12:05 AM ET The online video site Grouper, which Sony Corp. bought last year for $65 million, is exiting the crowded and risky user-generated video business and focusing on finding professional talent for Sony's film and TV ...
The next Kubrick? Sony aims to find him
Sony's 'New' Crackle
read comments (0)Can Sony Revitalize Its Games? Yes, Maybe - New York Times
Author: Google News Xinhua |
New York Times -
By SETH SCHIESEL A picture from Killzone 2, created by Sony’s internal development studio for its PlayStation 3. The game will not be available until next year.
Games Take Center Stage at Expo
The Big 3 of E3
read comments (0)Intel joins $100 laptop project - Bangkok Post
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 PhysOrg.com |
Intel joins $100 laptop project
Bangkok Post -
San Francisco (dpa) - Intel on Friday said it would back the One Laptop per Child effort, the non-profit programme designed to manufacture and distribute $100 laptops to poor children around the world.
Tech week in review: Intel joins cheap laptop drive
Digitizing the developing world
read comments (0)Is this Earhart's final landing site? - Telegraph.co.uk
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 Telegraph.co.uk |
Is this Earhart's final landing site?
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By Tom Leonard It is one of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century. But today an expedition is heading for a remote South Pacific island that they believe holds the key to finally solving the 70-year-old puzzle of the missing aviator Amelia Earhart …
Latest Attempt to Find Evidence of Amelia Earhart
Island hunt for aviator bones
read comments (0)Reckoning for online radio - Los Angeles Times
Author: Google News The Money Times |
Los Angeles Times -
THE ROYALTIES and fees owed by online radio stations will increase substantially Sunday, the first in a series of hikes that threaten to put much of the industry out of business.
Sunday, The Beginning of the End for Internet Radio
Web Radio Rate Hike Nears
read comments (0)The vanishing PS3 price drop: soon only one $600 PS3 remains - Ars Technica
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 Ontario Now |
The vanishing PS3 price drop: soon only one $600 PS3 remains
Ars Technica -
By Ken Fisher | Published: July 13, 2007 - 09:26AM CT The Great PS3 Price Drop of 2007 isn't much of a price drop after all, not when Sony's moves are looked at in aggregate.
E3: David Reeves Talks PS3
Sony Promises Plentiful Supplies of Cheaper PS3s
read comments (0)E3: Microsoft Press Conference - CVG Online
Author: Google News Video Game Generation |
CVG Online -
8:00: So here we are on the eve of the new E3 and every thing's much the same so far with Microsoft getting its press conference in first.
Xbox Live adds Disney movies to its download menu
The 'Halo 3' version of the Xbox 360.
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