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Apple CEO has just six weeks to live

Seeded on Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:42 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

London, Feb 17 (IANS) Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs has terminal pancreatic cancer and may live for just six more weeks, a media report said Thursday.

Earliest weapons-grade plutonium found in US dump

Seeded on Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:03 PM EST (newscientist.com)

An old glass jar inside a beaten up old safe at the bottom of a waste pit may seem an unlikely place to find a pivotal piece of 20th century history.

plutonium, weapon, us-news, dump, ww2

Only the Rich Can Afford It. Should Taxpayers Back It?

Seeded on Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:24 PM EST (The New York Times)

THE Tesla Roadster is an electric car that goes fast, looks sensational and excites envy. The seductive appearance, however, obscures some inconvenient truths: its all-electric technology remains woefully immature and don't-even-ask expensive.

fed, us-news, loan, roadster, electric-car, tesla-motors

US officials flunk test of Amerian history, economics, civics

Seeded on Fri Nov 21, 2008 3:56 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 percent, the group that organized the exam said Thursday. Skip related content

us, economics, us-news, civics

AIG subsidiary parties in style in OC, two weeks after bailout

Seeded on Fri Oct 3, 2008 3:43 PM EDT (Freedom Blogging : Freedom Politics)

Financial crisis? What financial crisis?

finance, aig, party, us-news, bailout, load

Slovakia's women's ice hockey pummels Bulgaria 82-0

Seeded on Tue Sep 9, 2008 7:59 PM EDT (CNN)

With more goals than minutes in the game, Slovakia's women's ice hockey team claimed an amazing 82-0 victory over Bulgaria in Olympic qualifying.

sports, women, hockey, bulgaria, slovakia

First animal to survive space vacuum

Seeded on Tue Sep 9, 2008 6:21 PM EDT (space.newscientist.com)

Tiny invertebrates called 'water bears' can survive in the vacuum of space, a European Space Agency experiment has shown. They are the first animals known to be able to survive the harsh combination of low pressure and intense radiation found in space.

space, radiation, water, bears, science, sun, esa, vacuum

Don LaFontaine, the voice of movie trailers, dies at 68

Seeded on Tue Sep 2, 2008 1:15 PM EDT (National Post)

You may not recognize the name Don LaFontaine but you definitely know the voice. LaFontaine, who passed away Monday at the age of 68, was THE voice of movie trailers for almost 30 years.

entertainment, movie, trailer, announcer, don-lafontaine

Cup PC concept

Seeded on Fri Apr 4, 2008 5:31 PM EDT (dvice.com)

Sure, we're all about the futuristic designs around these parts, but the Cup PC concept take futuristic design to a completely new level. This idea takes the average PC and tries to make it as simple as drinking a cup of tea.

technology, cup, high-tech, computer, share, cp

VeriSign ups cost of .com, .net domains second year in a row

Seeded on Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:25 AM EDT (Ars Technica)

Exercising its contractual right to raise prices, VeriSign is once again increasing the base registration fees for .com and .net domain names. It's the second increase in as many years since the company extended its control of those two TLDs in 2006.

technology, icann, fee, verisign, registration, net, com, tld

The Rush to Patent the Atomic Bomb

Seeded on Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:24 AM EDT (NPR)

The U.S. atomic bomb was such a secret, scientists and engineers sometimes talked in code. It was the Manhattan Project, not "The Atomic Bomb Project." Plutonium was referred to as "copper," and the bomb itself as "the gadget."

technology, us, bomb, plutonium, patent, project, atomic, the-gadget

Meet the laptop you may use in 2015

Seeded on Wed Mar 26, 2008 3:56 PM EDT (Computerworld)

A lot has changed in the 20 years since the first laptop computers appeared, including gigahertz processors, color screens, optical drives and wireless data.

technology, notebook, intel, computer, led, laptop, compenion

Dangerous wheat-killing fungus detected in Iran

Seeded on Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:37 PM EDT (UN News Centre)

A dangerous new fungus with the ability to destroy entire wheat fields has been detected in Iran, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported today.

un, iran, wheat, wind, world-news, fungus, rust, fao, spores

AI researchers think 'Rascals' can pass 'Holy Grail' of AI tests

Seeded on Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:13 PM EDT (eetimes.com)

Passing the Turing test--the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI), whereby a human conversing with a computer can't tell it's not human--may now be possible in a limited way with the world's fastest supercomputer (IBM's Blue Gene), according to AI experts at Rensselaer Poly …

technology, robot, human, computer, ibm, ai, turing, conversation, super-computer, blue-gene

1 in 4 U.S. teen girls have STD, study suggests

Seeded on Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:50 PM EDT (CBC)

At least one in four teenage girls in the United States has a sexually transmitted disease, according to a new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

girl, sex, united-states, std, us-news, prevention, teenager, cdc

Canada's frigid north a diamond miner's paradise

Seeded on Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:49 PM EDT (Reuters)

Once a hotbed of gold mining, Canada's far north is now unearthing riches from a different precious commodity: diamonds.

canada, gold, north, mine, science, arctic, paradise, diamond, tundra

John McCain runs for George Bush's third term

Seeded on Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:47 PM EDT (Salon.com)

The most important thing about the endorsements proffered to John McCain by George W. Bush and evangelist John Hagee last week was McCain's reaction to them.

politics, president, john-mccain, endorsement, third, george-bush, republican, term, policies

Wiki boss 'edited for donation'

Seeded on Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:44 PM EDT (BBC News)

Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales has been accused of agreeing to edit a page on the online encyclopaedia in exchange for a donation. Former Novell chief scientist Jeffrey Merkey says he donated $5,000 to the Wikimedia Foundation in exchange for changes to his Wikipedia entry.

technology, donation, novell, wiki, edit, jimmy-wales, encyclopaedia, jeffery-merkey

Hackers could skew US elections

Seeded on Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:06 AM EDT (technology.newscientist.com)

The web may not deserve its reputation as a great democratic tool, security experts say. They predict voters will increasingly be targeted by internet-based dirty tricks campaigns, and that the perpetrators will find it easier to cover their tracks.

technology, campaign, internet, threat, spam, computer, zombie

What we don't know about Obama hurts him

Seeded on Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:03 AM EDT (Chicago Tribune)

She threw the kitchen sink at him. Accused Barack Obama of plagiarism. Mocked his eloquence. Questioned his truthfulness about NAFTA.

texas, ohio, phone, clinton, politics, obama, sink, nafta

Cats Help Shield Owners From Heart Attack

Seeded on Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:57 AM EDT (US News & World Report)

Whether it's a frisky kitten or a tubby tabby, a cat at home could cut your heart attack risk by almost a third, a new study suggests. The finding, from a 10-year study of more than 4,300 Americans, suggests that the stress relief pets provide humans is heart-healthy.

study, health, human, cat, dog, stress, kitten, heart-attact

Hong Kong wild bird tests positive for H5N1

Seeded on Fri Mar 7, 2008 9:43 AM EST (Reuters)

A wild magpie robin in Hong Kong has tested positive for the H5N1 birdflu virus, the government said in a statement on Friday. The bird was found and collected on February 29 near the Tai Po Kau nature reserve in the New Territories.

china, hong-kong, bird, bird-flu, science, virus, h5n1

Controlling Most Atoms Now Possible

Seeded on Fri Mar 7, 2008 9:42 AM EST (Science Daily)

Stopping and cooling most of the atoms of the periodic table is now possible using a pair of techniques developed by physicist Mark Raizen at The University of Texas at Austin.

physics, chemistry, science, stop, atom, cooling, coil-gun

UN agency lashes Canada over crack-pipe programs

Seeded on Fri Mar 7, 2008 9:38 AM EST (CBC)

The United Nations has denounced programs in three Canadian cities that provide safe crack pipes to drug addicts with the aim of curbing disease.

canada, un, drugs, disease, pipe, world-news, toronto, vancouver, crack, ottawa

Pentagon Explores 'Human Fear' Chemicals

Seeded on Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:09 PM EST (Wired News)

American military researchers are working to uncover and harness the most terrifying chemical imaginable: that most primal odor, the scent of fear. Scream Pheromones are chemicals released by animals as signals to their own kind: for sex, for territorial marking, and more.

army, terror, chemicals, america, military, research, us-news, scent, pheromone

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