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Next Up, Your Soul

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Stocks, bonds or Steen? That’s a question that 19-year-old Ron Steen of Anaheim Hills,Calif., hopes investors will wrestle with. In August, Steen put himself on eBay (Charts) to pay for his college education, offering 2 percent of all future earnings to the highest bidder, with a minimum $100,000 bid. “I am the real deal” and [...]

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Love Is In the Phone

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Match-making companies are creating new services that allow people to post their dating profile online and then automatically receive a text message on a GPS-enabled phone when a match is nearby, say, at a coffee shop around the corner. More

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This Just In

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Sure looks like fun but it’s going to rain for the next two days!!! Sunday should be a hoot.

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Looking at the Sky from the Moon

Thursday, November 30, 2006

The most powerful radiotelescope yet devised is to be built on the Moon, under plans being put together by Nasa for its 2018 lunar mission. Mike Griffin, the head of the US space agency, said the construction of a telescope is being “factored into” the mission. More

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Seeding the Earth

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Meteorites rich in carbon and water fall to Earth once or twice every few decades. But when a truck-size meteorite crashed on frozen Tagish Lake in western Canada in 2000, researchers received a specimen speckled with stardust that promised to offer clues about the chemistry of our early solar system. Now NASA space scientists have [...]

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It’s All About the Power

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Following the debut of Intel’s quad-core chips two weeks ago, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) submitted its initial answer to the marketplace on Thursday with the release of its Quad FX platform of Athlon 64 FX-70 processors. This new enthusiast platform, as AMD is describing it, features Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) architecture and is AMD’s [...]

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Big Zune

Thursday, November 30, 2006

An 80GB version of Microsoft’s Zune media player can be all yours, if you’re not afraid to do a little surgery. The folks at iPod Mods have posted a completed illustrated guide on how to crack the Zune open and replace the original 30GB hard drive with something more ginormous. The procedure doesn’t look all [...]

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Please Cross Your Legs.. Oh. And Enjoy Your Flight

Thursday, November 30, 2006

A Chinese airline has calculated that it takes a liter of fuel to flush the toilet at 30,000 feet and is urging passengers to go to the bathroom before they board. As Chinese airlines come under increasing pressure to cut fuel expenditures, China Southerns latest strategy is to encourage passengers “to spend their pennies before [...]

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All About Vista SP1

Thursday, November 30, 2006

From All About Microsoft: I thought I understood Microsoft’s plan of record for Windows Vista Service Pack (SP) 1 … until I heard CEO Steve Ballmer’s Vista business-launch keynote on November 30, that is. In response to a press question about SP1, Ballmer told attendees of the “New Day for Business” Vista/Office 2007 launch in [...]

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And You Want a Quad FX Why?

Thursday, November 30, 2006

AMD’s Quad FX is finally here, and the easy questions about what it is have been answered. The tricky questions are why you would want one, and what for. These machines are expensive to say the least, with pimped out models breaking $3000 without trying very hard. You can get low end FX-70s for $599, [...]

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15 Suggestions To Microsoft

Thursday, November 30, 2006

I think there are some very simple updates to XP, IE, and Office 2003 that could drastically improve the overall computing experience. In no particular order… 1. Internet Explorer should automatically fix incorrect domain extensions. Ever go to Google.ocm? Or Yahoo.co.k? Why doesn’t IE just auto-fix (or at least auto-suggest) the entry? 2. Outlook should [...]

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Rumpelstiltskin Scientists Spin Human Brain Cells With Silicone

Thursday, November 30, 2006

British scientists say they have succeeded in spinning fine threads of biocompatible silicone that contain viable living human brain cells. “This has far-reaching implications and will enable significant advances to be made in technologies ranging from tissue engineering to regenerative medicine,” said Suwan Jayasinghe, Andrea Townsend-Nicholson and colleagues at University College London. “The ability to [...]

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CNET’s Deal of the Day

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Titanium II 250GB USB drive for $60 (after rebates and if you use Google checkout). More

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Kodak EasyShare V705

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Kodak’s EasyShare V705, the follow-up to its highly innovative, decently performing dual-lens/dual-sensor EasyShare V570 ultracompact digital camera, is not going to set the world on fire. Though it’s true that the new 7.1-megapixel V705 is now available in three colors (pink, black, or silver), Kodak didn’t otherwise deviate much from the original design. Worse, because [...]

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Pretty Dumb Flaw

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Adobe on Thursday acknowledged in a security advisory that critical security vulnerabilities have been found in its Acrobat and Adobe Reader programs. The issue affects versions 7.0.0 through 7.0.8, and the company says it is working on a fix. More

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