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European telescope detects oxygen in space - AFP
Aug 2, 2011 - WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency's Herschel telescope has found the first confirmed evidence of oxygen molecules in space, according to a report published this week in the Astrophysical Journal. The traces, which have long eluded astronomers,
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Suspended arctic scientist to be questioned over research contracts - The Guardian
Aug 2, 2011 - US authorities have denied that Charles Monnett's suspension is linked to his work on polar bears. Photograph: Paul Souders/Corbis A government investigation of a leading Arctic scientist has moved on from his five-year-old paper on drowning polar
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Texas: More Debris From the Columbia Is Found - New York Times
Aug 2, 2011 - By AP A piece of the space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart and burned up on re-entry more than eight years ago, has been found in a drought-stricken East Texas lake, NASA officials said Tuesday. The spherical object, about 40 inches in diameter,
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Google Chrome web browser second most popular in UK - Telegraph.co.uk
Aug 1, 2011 - Google's internet dominance in Britain shows no signs of abating after figures showed its Chrome product was the country's second most popular web browser. By Andrew Hough Nearly one in four British internet users now use Google Chrome as their web
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Space Needle wants to send a person to orbit - The Associated Press
Aug 1, 2011 - SEATTLE (AP) — To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Seattle's iconic Space Needle, organizers want to go beyond Earth. "We went back to 1962 and questioned why the Space Needle was built," said Ron Sevart, President and CEO of the Pacific Northwest
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Amazon halts Android Appstore submissions - Telegraph.co.uk
Aug 1, 2011 - Amazon has suspended submissions to its Android application store in Germany, following a lawsuit from Apple. Amazon began offering apps for Android mobile devices earlier this year. Photo: CORBIS By Shane Richmond, Head of Technology (Editorial) Apple
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In This Video Game, You Can Make Real Cash Through Virtual Trading - New York Times
Aug 1, 2011 - An image from Diablo III, an online fantasy game that should be available by early 2012. By SETH SCHIESEL How much would you pay for a magic sword that leached the life force from your enemies? Or an eldritch staff that let you unleash tempests of
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A Patent Fever Over Smartphones - New York Times
Jul 31, 2011 - A battle has recalibrated the market for smartphone DNA. With Apple, Google and Microsoft jostling for control of the mobile market, each needs or desires more and better patents for supremacy. Without them, their devices are vulnerable
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Data Centers' Power Use Less Than Was Expected - New York Times
Jul 31, 2011 - SAN FRANCISCO — Data centers' unquenchable thirst for electricity has been slaked by the global recession and by a combination of new power-saving technologies, according to an independent report on data center power use from 2005 to
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Dell Streak 10 Pro Spotted In The Wild - Techtree.com
Jul 30, 2011 - Google's Honeycomb operating system is yet to make an impression in the tablet market with manufacturers reporting fewer sales than expected. That being said, a recent survey has suggested that the droid tablets will end the iPad's dominance by 2016
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Can Microsoft Make You 'Bing'? - New York Times
Jul 30, 2011 - The team behind Microsoft's Bing search engine includes, from left, Qi Lu, Brian MacDonald, Harry Shum and Yusuf Mehdi. MIKE NICHOLS has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston,
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A Search Engine Match-Up: How Different Are Google and Bing? - New York Times
Jul 30, 2011 - Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in Bing, its search engine. But it faces a daunting rival in Google, the giant in search. To compete, Microsoft has focused on aggregating and presenting specific kinds of information in areas like travel,
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Neanderthals' demise caused by modern human invasion - The Guardian
Jul 29, 2011 - An exhibit at the Neanderthal Museum in Krapina, Croatia. Neanderthals may have been vastly outnumbered by Homo sapiens. Photograph: Nikola Solic/Reuters/Corbis Neanderthals died out in Western Europe after a surge of modern humans arrived from Africa
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Samsung Galaxy S II To Be Launched In White - Techtree.com
Jul 29, 2011 - The Samsung Galaxy S II has been widely successful wherever it has been launched. To improve on the current sales, the company will introduce a new white variant of the "Superphone" starting from the United Kingdom. The white variant has been put up
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Google Buys IBM Patents - Wall Street Journal
Jul 29, 2011 - Google Inc. said Friday that it has purchased technology patents from International Business Machines Corp. as the Web-search giant stocks up on intellectual property to defend itself against lawsuits. Associated Press "Like many tech
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