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Tech thriller 'Daemon' rises from the underground
You may never have heard of Daemon author Leinad Zeraus, but get ready to hear a lot about Daemon author Daniel Suarez.
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Kids reveal a lot about themselves online
A new study shows that more than half of teenagers mention drugs, alcohol, sex or violence on their MySpace pages. Yet getting ...
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Milky Way is bigger than thought, study says
Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our ...
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Apple's Steve Jobs has hormone imbalance, will remain CEO
Apple founder and Chief Executive Steve Jobs, looking to quell rumors about his health, said Monday his doctors have discovered ...
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Digital TV subsidy program running out of money
The Feb. 17 transition from analog to digital television broadcasts looms and as many as 8 million households are still unprepared, ...
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LG, Netflix to launch TVs with instant movie viewing
Netflix and LG Electronics said Sunday that LG will soon introduce TV sets that can screen Netflix movies directly from the Web ...
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Electronics trade shows change with times
Early January is historically the biggest time of the year in consumer technology. Over the years as Microsoft (MSFT) and Apple ...
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Will brain waves help pilot future space ships?
NASA's plans to ship people to the moon and some day Mars are very much up in the air these days, with debate over Barack Obama's ...
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Shhh! Gadget racket threatens pulsar research
Of all the threats to scientific research Wesley Sizemore has stymied over the years, satellites and cellphone towers don't stick ...
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Classic games find new life on iPhone
Dozens of once-popular console, computer and arcade games are now playable on Apple's trendy smart phone, and take advantage ...
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Exploiting nature to cut mosquitoes' life short
Old mosquitoes usually spread disease, so Australian researchers figured out a way to make the pests die younger naturally, not ...
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Microsoft says Zune players working again
Many of Microsoft's Zune media players that froze up on the last day of 2008 because of a glitch involving their internal clock ...
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'ItzaBitza' brings kids' drawings to life as they learn
ItzaBitza, a new computer game for the PC, offers an exciting new way for kids to play on the computer while learning to read ...
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Classics games find new life on iPhone
Dozens of once-popular console, computer and arcade games are now playable on Apple's trendy smart phone, and take advantage ...
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Phishing attacks get personal
You know to watch for phishing attacks, which use e-mail messages purporting to be from legitimate businesses to trick you into ...
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Study links mammoth extinction, comets
A swarm of comets that smacked North America 12,900 years ago wiped out the wooly mammoth and early Native American cultures, ...
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NASA chief's wife to Obama: Don't fire my husband
Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was ...
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FCC head drops filtering from free broadband plan
Before he steps down as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Kevin Martin still hopes to win approval for his plan ...
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Hundreds of Microsoft Zunes mysteriously shut down
It is the great Zune Mystery. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the 30-GB version of the popular media player went on the fritz ...
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'GoodQuests' tie online mazes to charity
If kids are playing video games, why not do some good while they're at it? Elf Island, a virtual world created by Atlanta-based ...
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