[Medianews] Military Covering Up Fireballs From Space

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[Medianews] Firefox 3.5: How Soon and How Big a Deal?

By Sean Michael Kerner June 5, 2009 http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3823661/Firefox%2B35%2B How%2BSoon%2Band%2BHow%2BBig%2Ba%2BDeal.htm Firefox 3.0 is not quite a year old, but users are already clamoring for Firefox 3.5. So where is it, and what is it all about? In an interview

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[Medianews] State looking into whether 'Jon & Kate Plus 8' is complying with child labor laws

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[Medianews] NASA faces hurdles to launch Endeavour in June window

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[Medianews] Time Warner to Spin Off AOL, Ending Ill-Fated Deal

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[Medianews] Study: Kids sickened playing video games after Ike

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[Medianews] Can the Zune HD Trump the iPod Touch?

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[Medianews] Hubble more powerful than ever since repairs

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[Medianews] Computer Maker In Apple Copyright Suit Files For Bankruptcy

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Three astronauts aboard the capsule will double the ISS crew when it docks on Friday Computerworld - The three astronauts onboard the International Space Station will see their ranks double on Friday. Their new companions were aboard a Soyuz TMA-15 rocket that blasted off at 6:34 a.m. EDT today f

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[Medianews] Vatican Radio to carry advertisements

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[Medianews] John Lennon's message of peace to Calgary retiree destroyed in rubble of World Trade Center towers

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[Medianews] Democrats seek financial rescue of minority-owned broadcasters

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[Medianews] Microsoft may unveil new search engine

Software maker testing version of service internally under name Kumo Reuters updated 10:26 a.m. ET, Wed., May 20, 2009 Microsoft is likely to show a new version of its Internet search engine publicly for the first time next week, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the matter

[Medianews] Briton Major Timothy Peake named as Europe's latest astronaut

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[Medianews] Arizona UFO identified as NASA balloon

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[Medianews] Foreign Policy: Brave New World Of Slacktivism

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[Medianews] Scientists team up with B.C. firm to build biggest-ever optical telescope

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[Medianews] Astronauts Use Brute Force to Rip Handrail Off Hubble

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[Medianews] Google: A 'natural monopoly'?

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[Medianews] Hubble Telescope Repairs Bedeviled

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[Medianews] Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker

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[Medianews] Hackers 'destroy' flight sim site

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[Medianews] Police evict squatters in shuttered Channel 13 studios on La Brea

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[Medianews] Astronauts inspect Atlantis while chasing Hubble

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[Medianews] Hubble Celebrates Its 19th Anniversary with a "Fountain of Youth"

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2009/18/ April 21, 2009: Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when you thought thes

[Medianews] Hackers Threaten to Expose Va.'s Privates

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[Medianews] Concerns Raised Over Makeup of 'Diversity Committee' at FCC

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[Medianews] Windows 7's "XP Mode" Won't Run on Some CPUs

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[Medianews] Dodge County Sheriff Sets up Volunteer Posse

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/01/fired_it_manager_rampage/ Revenge served coldly By Dan Goodin in San Francisco * Get more from this author Posted in Crime, 1st May 2009 21:32 GMT Free whitepaper - An improved architecture for high-efficiency, high-density data centers A former technolo

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New reflective solar panels could give that appearance, though http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-ufomay05,0,39899 24.story John Keilman May 5, 2009 As a public service, Art Maurer would like you to know that the bright light you might see skimming across the early-morning sk

[Medianews] For political comedians, the joke's not on Obama

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/05/for-political-comedians- the-jokes-not-on-obama/ What's so unfunny? That's what some comics - citing the scarcity of satire directed at President Obama and his administration - want to know. Claiming that his peers are "panicky" about "being called

[Medianews] Rogue black holes may roam the Milky Way

HARVARD-SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS NEWS RELEASE Posted: May 3, 2009 http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0905/03blackhole/ It sounds like the plot of a sci-fi movie: rogue black holes roaming our galaxy, threatening to swallow anything that gets too close. In fact, new calculations by Ryan O'L

[Medianews] U.S. military's experimental tactical satellite to launch

BY STEPHEN CLARK SPACEFLIGHT NOW Posted: May 3, 2009 http://spaceflightnow.com/minotaur/tacsat3/preview.html A military satellite designed to demonstrate inexpensive user-friendly space technologies is being readied for launch from Virginia's Eastern Shore on Tuesday night. TacSat 3 is tucked ins

[Medianews] Space Debris Risk Refined for Shuttle Mission to Hubble

By James Dean FLORIDA TODAY posted: 30 April 2009 01:34 pm ET http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft-090430-sts125-space-debris.html Atlantis astronauts face an increased risk of a deadly strike from space debris during their upcoming mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. But NASA has tak

[Medianews] Pentagon Using Social Networking Sites To Recruit

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/19340541/detail.html FORT MONROE, Virginia -- The Pentagon is looking to online social networks like Twitter and Facebook to seek recruits and spread the military's message. Lt. Gen. Benjamin Freakley, who heads the Army command that oversees recruiting, says

[Medianews] Eta Aquarid meteors before dawn May 5

http://www.earthsky.org/skywatching/star-hop-to-the-radiant-of-the-eta-a quarids The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is expected to peak in the predawn sky on Tuesday or Wednesday morning - May 5 or 6, 2009 - from roughly two hours to one hour before sunrise. Look on our almanac page for your sunrise ti

[Medianews] Facebook: Walking the Cyberbeat

http://www.newsweek.com/id/195621 To make Facebook advertiser-friendly, its 'porn cops' delete risqué content and enforce decorum. It's just before lunchtime in the sunny, high-tech headquarters of Facebook in Palo Alto, Calif., and Simon Axten is cuing up some porn. A photo of a young couple

[Medianews] Microsoft mum on Vista plans after Windows 7 launch

http://www.thestandard.com/news/2009/05/03/microsoft-mum-vista-plans-aft er-windows-7-launch How long does Microsoft plan to keep selling copies of its Windows Vista operating system after the upcoming launch of Windows 7? The company isn't saying. With previous versions of Windows, Microsoft use

[Medianews] An invention that could change the internet forever

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/an-inventi on-that-could-change-the-internet-for-ever-1678109.html Revolutionary new web software could put giants such as Google in the shade when it comes out later this month. Andrew Johnson reports Sunday, 3 May 2009 The biggest

[Medianews] Wanderer's last trail found after 75 years

After Everett Ruess vanished in Utah's wilds in 1934, relatives tried to retrace his steps. But a few overheard words are what have now led to his bones. http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12268007 By Kevin Vaughan The Denver Post Posted: 05/01/2009 12:30:00 AM MDT Updated: 05/01/2009 08:46:05 AM MDT

[Medianews] Mobile toilet seat wins award for wacky warning

By Ben Leubsdorf, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/04/29/9294636-ap.html DETROIT - A toilet seat that can be attached to a trailer hitch has gained national recognition - for a warning label that says you'd better not use it while the vehicle is moving. Organizers o

[Medianews] 'Alien skull' spotted on Mars

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5255 394/Alien-skull-spotted-on-Mars.html UFO spotters are claiming they have spotted an alien skull on Mars after NASA beamed back satellite images from the planet. At first glance it looks like a rocky desert - but this image o

[Medianews] The FCC's Real F-Word: Freedom

http://reason.com/news/show/133187.html Why did the Supreme Court just uphold government censorship? Steve Chapman | April 30, 2009 Anyone who has ever dealt with attorneys has come to the realization that the law does not always make perfect sense. Even so, it comes as at least a mild surprise t

[Medianews] FCC calls WY radio station illegal, closes it

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/04/30/news/wyoming/45-pirat eradio.txt By JARED MILLER Casper Star-Tribune CHEYENNE - After blasting alternative tunes across downtown Cheyenne airwaves for six years, a tiny radio station went off the air with a whimper Tuesday, forced to stop broadca

[Medianews] Five 'world's largest' roadside attractions

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/getaways/04/30/five.worlds.largest.attrac tions/index.html?iref=t2test_travelthur [And here all this time I thought the biggest ball of twine was in Minnesota... - GW] (CNN) -- The fiberglass head weighed 600 pounds and resembled Clarabell the Clown from the 1950s "

[Medianews] NASA's New Spaceship to Carry Fewer Astronauts

http://www.space.com/news/090429-orion-crew-slashed.html By Tariq Malik Senior Editor posted: 29 April 2009 05:50 pm ET NASA has cut the crew size for its new Orion spacecraft down from six seats to four in order to keep the space shuttle replacement on track for a March 2015 debut. The space ag

[Medianews] Novel effort in Minnesota seeks ISP gambling block

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Novel-effort-in-Minnesota-apf-15071832.htm l?.v=2 Minnesota asks ISPs to cut access to gambling sites, treading new legal ground Minnesota officials are trying a novel tactic to block online gambling sites -- using a federal law that enables restrictions on phone cal

[Medianews] FAA Memo: Feds Knew NYC Flyover Would Cause Panic

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/air.force.one.2.996457.html Threatened Federal Sanctions Against NYPD, Secret Service, FBI & Mayor's Office If Secret Ever Got Out Furious Obama Apologizes: "It Will Never Happen Again" A furious President Barack Obama ordered an internal review of Monday's low-flyin

[Medianews] Clear Channel cutting 590 radio jobs

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Clear-Channel-cutting-590-apf-15062591.htm l?.v=4 Clear Channel cutting 590 jobs in radio division in second mass layoff this year SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Clear Channel Communications Inc., the largest owner of U.S. radio stations, said Tuesday it is cutting 590 jobs, in

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