Archive for October 14th, 2011

Google working on iTunes and Amazon MP3 music store challenger

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Everybody has an MP3 store now. Google, always late to the party is said to be negotiating with record companies to create its own music store that’ll offer MP3s for download, not just for streaming.

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Hulu isn’t gonna be sold after all

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After all sorts of hullaballoo over who was going to buy the for-sale Hulu, it looks like the answer is nobody. Hulu is no longer for sale.

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Google kills Buzz, embraces Google+ for all your sharing needs

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So long Buzz, you won’t be missed! Joining the likes of Wave, Google’s first whack at creating a unified online sharing service will be replaced by the 40 million strong Google+. Better get +1-ing, because all those old Buzz buttons have to go.

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Toyota Hybrid Off To Le Mans in 2012

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Toyota announced Friday that not only would it participate in the brand new FIA World Endurance Championship’s inaugural season next year, but that it would be bringing a prototype hybrid to the races.

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New transplant technique could remove need for immunosuppressant

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One of the biggest downsides to organ transplants is that once someone receives a transplant, they’ve gotta stay on immunosuppressant drugs for life. Those powerful drugs prevent the recipient’s body from rejecting the new organs, but they have some pr…

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Protest Infrastructure: How Much Trouble Are Protesters, Really?

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AP Photo/Andrew Burton In the staring contest between the Occupy Wall Street protesters and New York City, Mayor Bloomberg blinked first , deciding that the occupiers didn’t represent the kind of safety crisis Brookfield Office Properties, the…

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Green Chemistry’s Real Roots [Video]

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Plants mastered chemistry a long time before humans, billions of years actually . In fact, we humans and most of the rest of the life on Earth can thank tiny cyanobacteria for mastering/evolving the molecule known as chlorophyll. Chlorophyll–a pigm…

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Opinion: Now Jobs belongs to the ages, for better or worse

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Today has been proclaimed Black Turtleneck Friday as an homage to Steve Jobs, timed to coincide with today’s launch of the iPhone 4S. I’ve washed my black turtleneck and am wearing it as I test the 4S.

Silly, perhaps, but it’s my way, our way, a way, …

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Sony leaves dumbphones behind, will only make smartphones now

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If you haven’t made the switch to a smartphone yet, your days are numbered, because the future won’t have any cellphones in it. Sony Ericsson is the first major cellphone company to stop making “dumbphones.” From here on out, its Xperia brand of smartp…

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Watch these crazy guys fly up on top of an elevator and jump

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These three guys decided that they wanted to jump off the top of the Gran Hotel Bali in Benidorm, Spain. The easiest way up? On top of the exterior elevator, naturally.

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Can Coral Nurseries Bring Reefs Back from the Brink? [Slide Show]

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The wind tosses Gaby Nava’s hair as the small fishing boat skims across the glassy water just off the port of Veracruz, Mexico. She smiles at the shallow bay and the Gulf of Mexico sprawling across the horizon."We are very lucky today. Hardly any …

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Video: iPhone 4S HD video recording is as steady as a tripod

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The iPhone 4S is officially out today in stores and naturally, everybody who’s picked one up is putting it through tests. Here’s a video showing just how much better the iPhone 4S’s video recording is than the already great iPhone 4′s HD video recording.

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A Scientific Argument for Intervening in Nature

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Editor’s Note: The following is an edited and expanded excerpt from Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris. Copyright  © 2011 Emma Marris. Jessica Hellmann, an ecologist at Notre Dame University in Indiana…

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Stem cells successfully treat genetic disease for the first time

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We’re not even at the point where we’re allowed to get all up in people’s stem cells to help cure diseases, but researchers are already thinking ahead to how we can use stem cells to treat genetic diseases, which should be impossible. Or, it was imposs…

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10 free scary stories to haunt your e-book reader

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The Witching Season is upon us, when things go bump in the night and every shadow hides unspeakable terror. You know what helps me get into the spirit of the season? Reading some classic horror stories by the masters, back when horror meant true terror…

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Poshtots Treasure Cove Pirate Bed with murals

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Wrik Sen: Even while sleeping, the
kids don’t seem to like anything out of the ordinary. Their beds and rooms need
to be done up in the style they like, and looking at the requests, the demand
for hi-tech stuff seem to be on the rise. Poshtots, one of the known b

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Yes – Tesla Model S Will Run on Panasonic Batteries

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Tesla’s Roadster is one of the sexiest electric cars on the road, and their new sedan looks pretty sweet, too. Not only does it seat up to 7, there’s also a performance model available (0-60 in 4.5 seconds!). Helping keep costs down so more of us can ride in this sweet silent sedan is Panasonic, providing the lithium-ion battery cells.

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Green News Roundup: Friday, October 14th

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Happy Friday! Sorry about no news roundup yesterday morning…I had a uh, long night, shall we say. But that is behind me, and in front of me are a whole bunch of news items for your enjoyment! Some of today’s highlights include Honda’s Chinese EV, German trains going green, and the electric Edison2 gets 245 MPGe.

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Kaweco AC Sport Carbon fiber fountain pen

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Wrik Sen: Most of the times, we have noticed in the past that carbon
fiber has generally been used to create high-end racing cars, luxury yachts,
and even watches. But now we see a sophisticated yet sporty writing instrument
in the Kaweco AC Sport fountain pen, w

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Tulip (Babworth Rescue, Nottinghamshire)

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Tulip is feeling much better since she was found straying, emaciated and with hardly any fur due to a severe flea allergy. She’s a special girl who has lots of licks and cuddles to give, but it’s not known whether she could live with other animals or …

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Surveys Find No Sign of Endangered Vietnamese Pheasant

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Are we looking at Asia’s first pheasant extinction? The endangered Edwards’s pheasant ( Lophura edwardsi ) has not been observed in the wild since 2000, and now surveys conducted by the World Pheasant Association (WPA) in the bird&#821…

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