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The Push to Create 'Green' Jobs
Weatherizing homes, installing smart meters among potential future jobs.

Discovery Astronauts Prepare for Ride Home
Astronauts pack trash and surplus gear for this week's ride home.

Rare Turtle Spotted in Myanmar
A turtle thought to be extinct has been seen in Myanmar.

Congress Mulls Big Change in Web Ad Privacy
Lawmakers consider changing how Internet marketers collect personal data.

Predicting Tipping Points Before They Occur
Scientists try to detect early warning system before a system changes.

Fantasy Football Fan? How to Win
You'd be surprised at the scientists coming to your rescue

Dad's Cranky Musings Are Twitter Sensation
Son attracts nearly 250k Twitter followers by posting his dad's quips.

Copyright enforcement versus privacy
In a Calgary Herald op-ed Kris Kotarski talks about the fundamental conflict between ...

Steel velcro that supports 35 tons/square meter
Metaklett is a steel velcro-like substance created by Josef Mair and teammates at ...

Upgrade Complete: game whose objective is to upgrade the game
Upgrade Complete is an hilarious Flash-game where the objective is to complete all ...

Samoan motorists switch to driving on the left
Yesterday (Sept 7), Samoa's drivers switched from driving on the right to driving ...

Converted Toyota amphibious van crosses NZ's Cook Strait
A reader writes, "Aeronautic machinists Adam Turnbull and Dan Melling converted their ...

Gamer motto illustrated with stitch markers
This crafty little sweet from Etsy seller Proserpia illustrates my favorite gamer-slang ...

Al Franken draws map of the US
Here's Senator Al Franken drawing a surprisingly detailed map of the USA, live on ...

Slashdot
David Gerard writes "Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures doesn't sue people over ...

Microsoft, Cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw
Trailrunner7 writes "Today vendors are finally releasing patches for the TCP vulnerabilities ...

US Nuclear Power Industry Poised For a Comeback
ThousandStars sends us to The Wall Street Journal for a report that momentum for ...

Does Your College Or University Support Linux?
yuna49 writes 'Lately I've been visiting colleges with my daughter, who is a senior ...

Why Anonymized Data Isn't
Ars has a review of recent research, and a summary of the history, in the field of ...

The Magicians
stoolpigeon writes "The popularity of web site Will It Blend? is indicative of how ...

Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store
Rob Hearn sends in a piece up at PocketGamer.co.uk on why Apple suddenly pulled Manomio's ...

Intel Core i7-870 and Core i7-750 benchmarks unleashed
Benchmarks of the new Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors built upon the Lynnfield ...

The ORB Bluetooth headset
Most Bluetooth headsets doesn't look as though they are part of an extension of ...

Spiderbot shoots webs and more
The Spiderbot is one engineering marvel, and it doesn't need to be bitten by a ...

Motion Sensing 360 Tetris Game
Here's Tetris with a literal twist - the Motion Sensing 360 Tetris Game requires ...

GoGirl when you just gotta go
Ever got stuck in rush hour traffic and have a full bladder that is just waiting ...

Kinesis K3 Charger
Forget about hybrid - the Kinesis K3 Charger is a tribrid device that comprises ...

Scratch and Scroll mousepad
Just how many ways can a mousepad be designed? Community-powered product design ...

Dumped cellphone rate guide made public
A sneak peek at the government's scrapped cellphone rate calculator, which would ...

McGill neuroscientist wins $1M research prize
A world renowned neuroscientist from Montreal is one of four recipients of a prestigious ...

British cellphone firms to merge
As Canada's cellphone industry is set to expand with new players, Britain's is contracting ...

Giant rats, tiny parrots found in 'lost world'
An expedition to what's being called a lost world inside an extinct volcano in Papua ...

Space shuttle undocks from space station
Space shuttle Discovery left the space station Tuesday, ending a resupply visit that ...

Telus snaps up Black's Photo for $28M
Black's Photo Corp. and its 113 Canadian stores are now the property of Telus Corp., ...

Quiet hybrid cars may be risk for the blind
One appeal of a hybrid or electric car is its super-quiet drive. But worries are ...

Crowds gather for Oprah kickoff
More than 1,000 people have already gathered near a makeshift stage at the Michigan ...

Cops: Serial killer linked to 9 women
A Milwaukee man authorities say is linked by DNA to the slayings of nine women since ...

Report: Cubs sale clears antitrust hurdle
Tribune Co.'s sale of the Chicago Cubs to the Ricketts family has been approved by ...

Suspect charged in shooting of baseball coach
Attempted murder charges were filed this morning against a community league baseball ...

CTA bus hits light pole on West Side; 1 critical

Husband, wife killed in motorcycle accident

Obama to address school kids today (watch live here)

Kevin Smith: Connects Again, Says Pirates Lead To Converts
A few months back, I wrote about how director Kevin Smith (who's most well known ...

Glenn Beck Didn't Rape And Murder Anyone... But He Doesn't Want Websites ...
Ok, first off, I'll say this: I don't watch 24-hour cable news shows. In the rare ...

Newspaper Proudly Announces It Will Only Cover Political Candidates Who Buy Ads
There's been a lot of talk lately about claims that blogs are somehow posting stories ...

Andy Grove On Patents: You Should Use 'Em Or Lose 'Em
Earlier this year, we wrote about a rather thoughtful analysis of the problems of ...

How The UK Gov't Extrapolated 136 Self-Reported File Sharers Into 7 Million
A year ago, Julian Sanchez took the time to dig into the numbers that the US gov't ...

Is There Any Innovation That Hollywood Won't Try To Kill?
It's well known how the MPAA tried to kill of the VCR (well, Betamax, originally), ...

Recording Industry, Japanese Gov't Work To Break Your Mobile Phone If You Listen ...
You would think that the entertainment industry might look back at its rather long ...

Fans wish for more from Apple iPods
Once again, it's time to peer into Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs' cup and try to read ...

Astronauts pack Buzz Lightyear for ride home
The astronauts aboard the orbiting shuttle and station packed up Buzz Lightyear on ...

Predicting tipping points before they occur
Say you're in a canoe on a lake, dry and firmly seated. A fish swims by and you lean ...

'Rock Band' wraps 'new piece of art' around The Beatles
Visually rich, 'The Beatles: Rock Band' (out Wednesday, $60-up, on Xbox 360, PlayStation ...

Speculation ramps up as Apple event nears
Apple, as usual, has said almost nothing about the new products it plans to unveil ...

Astronauts complete final spacewalk of mission
Two spacewalking astronauts took on cable and antenna work at the international space ...

Amazon offers to replace Orwell books on Kindles
Amazon.com Inc. is offering free books or $30 to Kindle customers whose copies of ...