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Friday, 23MAY09

Microsoft Cancels EU Antitrust Hearing

Obama Taps Charles Bolden To Lead NASA

FBI, US Marshals Hit By Virus

Russia To Save Its ISS Modules

Windows 7 Sets Direction of Low-Power CPU Market

Sunday, 24MAY09

Students, the Other Unprotected Lab Animals

Towards Artificial Consciousness

College Papers Won't Rewrite History For Alumni

Internet Giving Rise To "Citizen Spies"

What Made Those Old, 2D Platformers So Great?

Calculating Password Policy Strength Vs. Cracking

Google Earth Raises Discrimination Issue In Japan

BPA Leaches From Polycarbonate Bottles Into Humans

Microbes 100M Years Old Found In Termite Guts

Monday, 25MAY09

Don't Panic, It's Towel Day!

Robot Warfare Going Open Source

The Great Ethanol Scam

Best Way To Build A DIY UAV?

Red Hat Challenges Swiss Government Over Microsoft Monopoly

Virus Tamed To Attack Cancer, Cancer Drugs To Treat Alcoholism

Mars Robot May Destroy Life It Was Sent To Find

Tuesday, 26MAY09

A Push To End the Online Gambling Ban

Chemical "Infofuses" Communicate Without Electricity

Green GT's All-Electric Supercar Unveiled

Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Its Instant Film

Company Claims EEG Scans Can Help Identify ADHD

IBM Wants Patent For Regex SSN Validation

Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report

Nanotech Memory Could Hold Data For 1 Billion Years

White House To Appoint "Internet Czar"

Sony CEO Proposes "Guardrails For the Internet"

Wednesday, 27MAY09

Revived LHC Could Run Through the Winter

Fluorescent Monkeys Cast Light On Human Disease

EPOXI Team Develops New Method To Find Alien Ocean

SATA 3.0 Release Paves the Way To 6Gb/sec Devices

Painting The World's Roofs White Could Slow Climate Change

Bitterness To Be Classified As a Mental Illness

Wikipedia Launches a New Mobile Interface, Seeks Help

Testing So-Called 'Unified Threat Managers'

Dot-Communism Is Already Here

Pulsar Signals Could Provide Galactic GPS

How IBM Plans To Win Jeopardy!

-Oh, crap - I think this is the beginning of computers replacing reference librarians.

Phony TCP Retransmissions Can Hide Secret Messages

Thursday, 28MAY09

Wikipedia Bans Church of Scientology

Homeland Security To Scan Citizens Exiting US

Hackers Breached US Army Servers

Swiss Court Halts Non-Competitive Contract With Microsoft

Google's "Wave" Blurs Chat, Email, Collaboration Software

Cancer Patient Held At Airport For Missing Fingerprints

Conference Board Admits Plagiarism, Pulls Copyright Report

Mozilla Jetpack and the Battle For the Web

The Unexpected Patents of Steve Jobs

Google Considers Taking Beta Tag Off Gmail

Evidence For Liquid Water On a Frozen Early Mars

Understanding Addiction-Based Game Design

Is Playing a DVD Harder Than Rocket Science?

Friday, 29MAY09

Ubisoft CEO Expects Set-Top Gaming, New Apple Hardware

Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement

Acoustic "Superlens" Could Make Subs Invisible

What a Hacked PC Can Be Used For

Hulu Testing Client App; Boxee Dispute Explained

Newspaper Execs Hold Secret Meeting To Discuss Paywalls

Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor's Cyberlaw Record

Credit Crunch Squeezing Data Center Space

Time Warner Confirms Split With AOL

Saturday, 30MAY09

Human Language Gene Changes How Mice Squeak

Google Adds Scripting Capabilities To Google Docs

How Common Is Scientific Misconduct?

Electronic Gaming Monthly Coming Back

Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development

EU Wants Multiple Browser Bundling On New PCs

How American Homeless Stay Wired

Sunday, 31MAY09

When Your Backhoe Cuts "Black" Fiber

Ten Applications That Changed Computing

China and Japan Covet the Same Rare-earth Metals

Software Enables Re-Creation of 'Lost' Instrument

Why Our "Amazing" Science Fiction Future Fizzled

Comparing the Size, Speed, and Dependability of Programming Languages

Obama DoJ Goes Against Film Companies

The Psychology of Collection and Hoarding In Games

Time Warner ToS Changes Could Mean Tiered Pricing, Throttling

Mozilla and Google's "Don't-Be-Evil" Bulldozer

20 Years After Tiananmen, China Stifles Online Dissent

Monday, 01JUN09

University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy

The Real British X-Files

Should Enterprise IT Give Back To Open Source?

A Curmudgeonly Look At Google Wave

Making a Child Locating System

Laser Blast Makes Regular Light Bulbs Super-Efficient

Google Set To Tackle eBook Market

Supreme Court To Review "Business Method" Patents

Tuesday, 02JUN09

Keeping a PC Personal At School?

The Perils of Pop Philosophy

Qualcomm Demos Eee PC Running Android OS

Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail, Others Blocked In China

Tetris Turns 25

Triangular Buttons Make On-Screen Keyboards More Usable

Dinosaur Posture Still Wrong, Says Study

Firefox 3.5 Beta Boosts Open Video Standard

Wednesday, 03JUN09

Hydraulic Analog Computer From 1949

Book Review: Vintage Games

Apple Bans RSS Reader Due To Bad Word In Feed Link

Open Government Brainstorm Defies Wisdom of Crowds

Secret US List of Civil Nuclear Sites Released

Google, Yahoo!, Apple Targeted In DoJ Antitrust Probe

Google's Android To Challenge Windows?