As big as life

WASHINGTON -- In a whale-sized project, the world's scientists plan to compile everything they know about all of Earth's 1.8 million known species and put it all on one Web site, open to everyone. ...ClickHere
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Final Fantasy IV officially DS-bound

Tokita, Asano, Ito and the rest of the FFIII DS development team are back for another 3D remake. By Hirohiko Niizumi, GameSpot. TOKYO--Square Enix is reviving yet another classic Final Fantasy title on the Nintendo DS. ...ClickHere
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Creating a canon for science

In Grade 11 chemistry class, I sat beside a certain Greg Gibson, quarterback on our high school football team, who had recently arrived from Georgia and walked in a way - languidly, I suppose - that Canadian boys did not. ...ClickHere
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TSA Hard Drive Missing

The airport security agency acknowledges it can't find an external drive storing personnel records. The US agency responsible for securing the nation's airports says it can't find an external hard drive packed with the personal records of about 100000 ...ClickHere
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Monster supernova puts on a show

A massive star about 150 times the size of the Sun has exploded in what is the brightest supernova ever seen. The extraordinary discovery, announced yesterday by NASA, prompted astronomers to suggest a similar fate could be imminent for a ...ClickHere
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Website to catalogue 1.8m species

SCIENTISTS from around the world plan to collaborate on a free website aimed at providing information on all 1.8 million known species of animals, plants, and other living creatures on the planet. ...ClickHere
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Queen evokes gravity at NASA

GREENBELT // Even in a breakaway ex-colony, the queen of England drew thousands to the barricades to gawk and cheer and wave the Union Jack ...ClickHere
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Sun Finishes Freeing Java, Debuts JavaFX

"We are now, with regard to the open sourcing of Java, done," Sun Microsystems software head Rich Green proclaimed is his opening keynote at JavaOne, the annual Java developers' conference running this week in San Francisco. ...ClickHere
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Disable Fly-out

The founders of Kazaa and Skype believe their new product, Joost, can be just as revolutionary for the TV industry. By Steven Levy. ...ClickHere
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Recalling Wally Schirra, Tommy Newsom and Tom Poston

Walter Schirra as a Mercury 7 astronaut, in a pressure suit with a model of Mercury capsule behind him. NASA photo (AP Photo ). Walter "Wally" Schirra Jr. ...ClickHere
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Yahoo To Shutter Yahoo Photos

The site will phase out this fall in favor of Yahoo's Flickr photo sharing service or to another online photo service such as Photobucket. ...ClickHere
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Premier League sues YouTube

The organisation said the video-sharing website had "knowingly misappropriated" its intellectual property by encouraging footage to be viewed on its site. ...ClickHere
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RIM Announces the 'BlackBerry Curve'


Research In Motion (RIM) has announced its newest 'BlackBerry Curve,' calling it the smallest and lightest full QWERTY BlackBerry smart phone yet. ...ClickHere
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Webbles—and Mercury—wobble but they don’t fall down


After being sent to the planet Mercury, radio waves bounced off its surface and then traveled back to two ground-based telescopes, one in California, and another in West Virginia. ...ClickHere
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IBM Creates Self-Assembling Chips Modelled After Nature


IBM is taking a cue from nature to build the next generation computer chips. IBM borrowed the natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes and tooth enamel to help create next-generation chips.
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Gamers Shoot It Out in LucasArts' Fractured Future World


n the new shooter game "Fracture," melting of the polar ice caps has caused the Mississippi River to flood, wiping out the middle of the United States, leaving two battling groups. ...ClickHere
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Snowflakes, seashells and IBM's next generation of chips

IBM is using lessons learned from naturally-forming patterns that create seashells, snowflakes and tooth enamel to build its next family of computer chips. ...ClickHere
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RIM, Nokia Unveil High-End, Low-End Phones

Research In Motion is taking its second stab at the high-end consumer market with the new BlackBerry Curve, even while Nokia unveils some of the least expensive handsets in its line-up. ...ClickHere
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Digg.com: Site Is 'Aligned With the Users'

Company stopped removing AACS code blog posts because it sides with users on copyright issues, says CEO Jay Adelson. Digg.com, the popular site where users determine the placement of new stories by voting, Wednesday found itself in the center of what ..ClickHere
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Online Video Deals


By REUTERS. Joost, the online video network, has landed programming deals with Turner Broadcasting System, Sony Pictures Television and Hasbro as it prepares to introduce its service to the public this month. ...ClickHere
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Dell to Go with Ubuntu Linux for Some!


Ending months of speculation regarding which Linux distribution Dell should or would go with, the company along with Ubuntu commercial sponsor, Canonical, yesterday announced that it will preinstall Ubuntu Linux on some of its machines. ...ClickHere
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Viacom suit attacks net freedom, says Google

In response to media firm Viacom’s US$1.1bn suit against YouTube, the video sharing site’s parent company Google described it as an attack on internet freedom and contravenes the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. ...ClickHere
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Veiled Information Unveiled by Google


Finding certain public information on state sites have always been a problem to the common public. ...ClickHere
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Google prepares to defend YouTube use


Google agrees with Viacom on two points: Google spent $1.65 billion to buy YouTube last year and YouTube is popular. ...ClickHere
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