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Is USA losing its grip on technology? - Andy Grove seems to think so.
- 437 views | 12 Oct 2003 |
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Underwear that can "detect heart attack and call ambulance" - The Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven has developed bras, vests and pants that register and analyse the wearer's heartbeat.
- 356 views | 11 Oct 2003 |
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Missing Genitals? - A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery has been beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia.
- 470 views | 11 Oct 2003 |
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The modern "quickie divorce" - Getting a quickie divorce has taken on a whole new meaning in Malaysia after it was decided that a man can divorce his wife with a text message.
- 465 views | 11 Oct 2003 |
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HIV strikes a "juvenile" every 14 seconds! - Isn't this the making of a catastrophe? A young person is infected with HIV every 14 seconds, a report from the United Nations Population Fund reveals. Around 6,000 people between the ages of 15 and 24 catch the disease every day.
- 432 views | 10 Oct 2003 |
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More planets like Earth? - Japanese scientists in Hawaii have found another star like sun, surrounded by sandy particles which could suggest the formation of more planets like earth, only 160 light years away!
- 389 views | 10 Oct 2003 |
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Honda reduces cost of building fuel cell cars - Honda Motor has brought the mass production of zero-emission hydrogen vehicles a step closer to reality by developing a cheaper-to-make, high-performance fuel cell stack needed to power the cars.
- 447 views | 10 Oct 2003 |
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Something's stinking in Chicago - (And it's not their baseball team!)
- 8,555 views | 10 Oct 2003 |
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Generate a 3D display from your laptop screen and cellophane - These guys present a "novel, inexpensive, stereoscopic" technique for generating 3D displays from cellophane and a laptop computer screen. Stereoscopy requires independent manipulation of the left and right eye views.
- 168 views | 08 Oct 2003 |
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SUPERB! Arnie is back - Turn on your speakers and listen to the Governator!
- 52,106 views | 08 Oct 2003 |
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North Korea wants to dump Japan from talks - This is quickly becoming a text book negotiations case study. A statement from the North Korean Foreign Ministry, carried on the official KCNA news agency Tuesday, said "Japan had been dumped from future negotiations."
- 8,699 views | 08 Oct 2003 |
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Warning Bells for Sun - A prominent technology analyst for Merrill Lynch is urging Sun Microsystems to slash as much as 15 percent of its workforce and focus on being a niche player in mission-critical computing, or risk being a part of IT history.
- 10,142 views | 07 Oct 2003 |
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Measure the speed of light with a chocolate and a microwave - Before Galileo people believed that light traveled at an infinite speed, i.e., it could travel any distance in no time. How this doozy notion was turned around on his head..
- 6,579 views | 07 Oct 2003 |
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Carving pumpkins - Some of the most popular "extreme pumpkin" photos.
- 30,857 views | 07 Oct 2003 |
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The Cheese formely known as Parmesan - The E.U. says regional delicacies need international protection. But will other countries swallow the idea?
- 8,824 views | 07 Oct 2003 |
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Source code for video game stolen - In one of the highest-profile cases of cybercrime to hit the gaming industry, the source code for Half-Life 2 -- one of the years most-anticipated games -- was stolen and released over the Internet..
- 9,179 views | 06 Oct 2003 |
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The making of M&Ms - Ever wondered how those pesky little addictions are made? What their colors are? An interesting FAQ.
- 411 views | 05 Oct 2003 |
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The Baby Selling Website - Can we get more ridiculous than this?
- 475 views | 03 Oct 2003 |
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And again, no WMDs after all? - "We found nothing, despite Saddams ambitions". Prime Minister goes on the defensive but CIAs report to Congress appears to undermine arguments for the conflict..
- 8,490 views | 03 Oct 2003 |
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Had them....had them not....had them too....had them not... - The latest in the debate over Iraqs possession of WMD. Unofficial statement of David Kay.
- 8,865 views | 03 Oct 2003 |

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