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November 19, 2008

Google to present millions of photos from 'Life' archives - CNET News

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Telegraph.co.uk
Google to present millions of photos from 'Life' archives
CNET News - 21 hours ago
This photograph of then-Sen. John F. Kennedy and his brother, Robert Kennedy, was taken in April 1960 on the night of the Wisconsin presidential primary.
Google brings past LIFE to the future Inquirer
Google Life: Search millions of historic photos Product Reviews
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Meet the first multi-touch laptop: HP's TouchSmart tx2 - CNET News

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Fresh News
Meet the first multi-touch laptop: HP's TouchSmart tx2
CNET News - 48 minutes ago
HP today released the TouchSmart tx2, the first consumer laptop to feature multi-touch functionality. This 12.1-inch convertible tablet provides the iPhone-like ability to scroll, zoom, flick, and drag and drop by using your fingers on the screen.
HP Gets Touchy with New TouchSmart tx2 PC World
HP introduces new touch-screen notebook CNNMoney.com
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Microsoft rules out buying Yahoo but likes search - Reuters

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Washington Post
Microsoft rules out buying Yahoo but likes search
Reuters - 53 minutes ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Wednesday ruled out an acquisition of Yahoo Inc but said his company was very interested in resuming talks on a Web search partnership.
Ballmer: 'We are done' with Yahoo acquisition idea CNET News
Now Comes the Hard Part as Yahoo Wrestles With a Question of Direction New York Times
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National Geographic makes foray into gaming - Inquirer

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National Geographic makes foray into gaming
Inquirer - 55 minutes ago
By Sylvie Barak: Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 2:21 PM LOOKING AT STUNNING photography from a climb up Everest just doesn’t do it for today’s yoof, which is why National Geographic has decided to branch out - into video games.
National Geographic Society To Do Video Games ReadWriteWeb
National Geographic charts games division GameSpot
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Wolfram Research Releases Mathematica 7

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mblase writes “Wolfram Research has released the seventh version of Mathematica, and it does a lot more than symbolic algebra. New features range from things as simple as cut-and-paste integration with Microsoft Word’s Equation Editor to instant 3D models of mathematical objects to the most expensive clone of Photoshop ever. Full suites of genome, chemical, weather, astronomical, financial, and geodesic data (or support for same) is designed to make Mathematica as invaluable for scientific research as it is for mathematics.”

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Lost tool bag forces changes to mission spacewalks - The Associated Press

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Times Online
Lost tool bag forces changes to mission spacewalks
The Associated Press - 1 hour ago
HOUSTON (AP) - Flight controllers were revamping plans Wednesday for the remaining spacewalks during space shuttle Endeavour's visit to the international space station, after a crucial tool bag floated away during repair work.
Lost Bag Forces Change of Plans for Spacewalks FOXNews
When It's Lost in Space, It's Really Lost ABC News
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Lunar Oxygen and Water Production Tech Tested

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savuporo writes “NASA and its industry partners organized a two-week lunar in-situ resource utilization field test in Hawaii. The tested machines included a few different rovers and prototype plants for generating oxygen and water from lunar regolith. Astrotoday has picture gallery and video report. This follows on the heels of recent ESA lunar robotics challenge event held on Tenerife, which tasked student teams to build a lunar robot that would be able to search for water ice in lunar polar craters.”

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Mini E concept | LA Auto Show Coming Soon, Mini’s Electric Kool … - New York Times

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New York Times
Mini E concept | LA Auto Show Coming Soon, Mini’s Electric Kool
New York Times - 1 hour ago
By JERRY GARRETT Is it real? Is Mini, the iconic minicar maker, ready to take the plunge into electric vehicles? Only time, and 500 models set to be released for long-term test drives, will tell.
MINI Cooper First Drive: Mini E MotorTrend Magazine
BMW's Electric Mini First Step Toward Mass Production by 2010 Bloomberg
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PSN And Live Subscribers: Dead Heat - PSX Extreme

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dBTechno
PSN And Live Subscribers: Dead Heat
PSX Extreme - 1 hour ago
Over the past year, most analysts have projected that Sony's PlayStation 3 will eventually catch Microsoft's Xbox 360 in terms of overall worldwide sales.
Sony yanks movies from Netflix-to-Xbox streaming service Yahoo! Tech
Microsoft launches New Xbox Experience, Netflix streaming off to a TG Daily
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NASA Tests Deep Space Internet - InformationWeek

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DailyTech
NASA Tests Deep Space Internet
InformationWeek - 1 hour ago
By KC Jones NASA has transmitted dozens of space images about 20 million miles in its first successful use of deep space communications modeled on the Internet.
New Internet goes to space, comes back to Earth CNET News
NASA Testing New Interplanetary Communications Network DailyTech
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Toyota shows natural-gas Camry - AutoWeek

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TheCarConnection.com
Toyota shows natural-gas Camry
AutoWeek - 1 hour ago
By GREG MIGLIORE There are fuel sippers, and then there are fuel shunners. The Toyota Camry hybrid concept unveiled Wednesday at the Los Angeles auto show that runs on compressed natural gas falls into the second category.
Toyota will show hybrid vehicle fueled by CNG CNET News
Ford's new hybrids tell Toyota: Catch me if you can USA Today
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How Microsoft Live OneCare changed the AV landscape - CNET News

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BBC News
How Microsoft Live OneCare changed the AV landscape
CNET News - 2 hours ago
Since its introduction in 2006, Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare has altered the antivirus landscape. With Tuesday's announcement that Microsoft will no longer be selling the product but offering a free version, code-named Morro, starting in June 2009,
Microsoft Kills OneCare to Offer Freebie; So Long, Norton PC World
Microsoft To Offer Free Security Software InformationWeek
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Microsoft Feared Mac vs. Vista In ‘05

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CWmike writes “Gregg Keizer sifted through many threads of e-mails released under the ‘Vista Capable’ lawsuit to dig up this jewel…More than a year before Windows Vista’s release — and long before Apple started poking fun at the OS — Microsoft officials were already worried about comparisons between Mac OS X and Vista. An e-mail thread from October 2005 showed that an article in the Wall Street Journal by Walt Mossberg grabbed the attention of managers at Microsoft. In a column headlined What PC to Buy If You Are Planning On a Vista Upgrade, Mossberg alarmed one Windows manager who forwarded a bit from the column…. ‘You won’t have to worry about Vista if you buy one of Apple Computer’s Macintosh computers, which don’t run Windows,’ Mossberg had written. ‘Every mainstream consumer doing typical tasks should consider the Mac. Its operating system, called Tiger, is better and more secure than Windows XP, and already contains most of the key features promised for Vista.’ Warrier added a comment of his own: ‘A premium experience as defined by Walt = Apple. This is why we need to address [the column].’”

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Google CEO promotes new version of government - MLive.com

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AFP
Google CEO promotes new version of government
MLive.com - 2 hours ago
by Politico.com WASHINGTON - There is an 800-pound gorilla sitting at the table as President-elect Barack Obama plans his transition to the White House.
Google's Schmidt: Innovation Must Come First PC World
Schmidt Talks Google's Policy Wish List, Not Obama PC Magazine
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Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in … - ZDNet

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ITProPortal
Microsoft-hosted Online security-service for business users due in
ZDNet - 2 hours ago
Company officials made a passing reference at their SharePoint Online/Exchange Online launch earlier this week to a new Microsoft-hosted service that will be part of the Online family.
Microsoft Moves Closer to Cloud Computing PC World
Microsoft Slashes at Google Apps Price Point With A Rapier of eWeek
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Alleged MySpace Hoaxer on Trial Today - ABC News

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ABC News
Alleged MySpace Hoaxer on Trial Today
ABC News - 2 hours ago
By SCOTT MICHELS Opening statements could begin as early as this afternoon in a potentially landmark trial of a suburban mother accused of organizing an online hoax that ended in the suicide of her teenage neighbor.
Video: MySpace Suicide Trial Starts AssociatedPress
Jury Selection Begins In MySpace Suicide Case Escapist Magazine
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IBM Expands Virtualization Push With Transitive Acquisition - CRN

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CNET News
IBM Expands Virtualization Push With Transitive Acquisition
CRN - 2 hours ago
By Rick Whiting, ChannelWeb IBM is acquiring Transitive Corp., a developer of cross-platform virtualization technology that allows applications written for one type of microprocessor and operating system to run on multiple platforms.
IBM To Acquire Virtualization Specialist Transitive InformationWeek
Virtualization Journal: IBM Buys Transitive SYS-CON Media
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American Nerd

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Adam Jenkins writes “This book seemed to have potential, particularly since the image of nerds has changed in recent times. Once objects of derision and schoolyard bullying, nerds are now acknowledged as having a place in society. The Lord of the Rings became a multi-million dollar movie trilogy, the internet is now used by an incredible number of people, and computer games are no longer seen as being ‘just for kids.’ Around the years of the dot-com boom, successful nerds were driving Ferraris and going to cool parties. So it’s not so surprising that the definition of a nerd has changed over time, nor that a society which has generally become better at accepting people who are different, has accepted nerds.” Read below for the rest of Adam’s review.

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iPhone calls up No. 1 ranking on mobile metrics report - CNET News

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CNET News
iPhone calls up No. 1 ranking on mobile metrics report
CNET News - 3 hours ago
Apple's iPhone jumped to the top spot on the AdMob Network for the month of October, with 4.1 percent of the mobile ads requested from the network, according to the AdMob Mobile Metrics Report released Wednesday.
iPhone Now #1 Mobile Handset in the World by AdMob's Count Washington Post
AdMob: Mobile ad requests grow to 5.8B in October Fiercemobilecontent
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Microsoft e-mails detail internal fight over 'Vista Capable' changes - Computerworld

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Computerworld
Microsoft e-mails detail internal fight over 'Vista Capable' changes
Computerworld - 3 hours ago
By Gregg Keizer cerebral_but_dull says: Sure Intel pressured Microsoft. So? They caved instead of behaving with integrity. So now they have nothing.
Microsoft Co-Prez Warned Colleagues 'Vista Capable' Was Misleading InformationWeek
HP's Fury At Vista Capable Downgrade Slashdot
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Judge Dismisses Psystar Antitrust Suit Against Apple - InformationWeek

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Palluxo! - Mac Dose of All Things Apple
Judge Dismisses Psystar Antitrust Suit Against Apple
InformationWeek - 3 hours ago
The clone manufacturer failed to prove that the Mac OS is a market unto itself. By Paul McDougall A judge has rejected Psystar's claim, filed as a contersuit to Apple's ongoing copyright infringement case against the unauthorized Mac cloner,
Psystar Loses Apple Antitrust Suit in Court DailyTech
Psystar Loses Antitrust Shield in Mac Clone Battle CIO Today
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Astronaut Loses Tools While Performing an EVA

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tpheiska writes “NASA press release states that ‘At approx. 3:33 p.m. EST, Piper reported that one of the Braycote lubrication guns had released grease into her toolbag. As she was cleaning the bag and wiping the tools and equipment inside, the bag floated away. Another bag carrying identical equipment is now being shared by Piper and Bowen.’ Luckily they had a spare.”

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Amazon CloudFront turns S3 into content distribution network - Ars Technica

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ITProPortal
Amazon CloudFront turns S3 into content distribution network
Ars Technica - 3 hours ago
By Ryan Paul | Published: November 19, 2008 - 08:21AM CT Amazon announced Tuesday the launch of its new CloudFront content delivery network (CDN) service.
Amazon Bolsters Its Cloud With Content Delivery InformationWeek
Cloud Computing Journal: Amazon Launches CloudFront SYS-CON Media
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Ray Kurzweil Wonders, Can Machines Ever Have Souls?

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Celery writes “There’s an interview with Ray Kurzweil on silicon.com talking up the prospects of gene therapy as a means to reverse human aging, discussing different approaches to developing artificial intelligence, and giving his take on whether super intelligent machines could ever have souls. From the interview: ‘The soul is a synonym for consciousness … and if we were to consider where consciousness comes from we would have to consider it an emerging property. Brain science is instructive there as we look inside the brain, and we’ve now looked at it in exquisite detail, you don’t see anything that can be identified as a soul — there’s just a lot of neurons and they’re complicated but there’s no consciousness to be seen. Therefore it’s an emerging property of a very complex system that can reflect on itself. And if you were to create a system that had similar properties, similar level of complexity it would therefore have the same emerging property.’”

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Fewer Than 1% Arrested From TSA’s "Behavior Detection"

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An anonymous reader writes “Fewer than 1% of airline passengers singled out at airports using the much vaunted ’suspicious behavior detection’ techniques are arrested, Transportation Security Administration figures show. The TSA program, launched in early 2006, looks for terrorists using a controversial surveillance method based on behavior detection and has led to more than 160,000 people in airports receiving scrutiny, such as a pat-down search or a brief interview. It has resulted in only 1,266 arrests, often on charges of carrying drugs or fake IDs, the TSA said. The TSA has not publicly said whether it has caught a terrorist through the program.” In related news, the odds of sanity coming to the TSA plummeted today when Schneier said he’s not interested in the top job there.

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Dynasty Warriors 6 Review

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Dynasty Warriors 6 (PS2)
These swordsmen should consider retirement.

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Dynasty Warriors 6 Screens

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Dynasty Warriors 6 (PS2)
A thousand men. One true warrior. A dozen screens.

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