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Movie has Kevin Spacey, Steve Wozniak, and .. KEVIN ROSE??
That's right, Digg's Kevin Rose is appearing in 2008's "Can You Hack It?", a documentary exploring the origin of true hackers vs. today's computer criminals by following the adventures of Adrian Lamo and other well-intentioned hackers, who found security holes and pointed them out so they might be fixed, only to eventually be arrested.
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Plastic brain outsmarts experts
Training can increase fluid intelligence, once thought to be fixed at birthFluid intelligence, an aspect of a person's IQ, allows people to solve unfamiliar problems by understanding relationships between various concepts independent of previous knowledge or skills.
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Astronomy study proves mathematics theorem
A gravitational lens can do more than reveal details of the distant universe. In an unexpected collision of astrophysics and algebra, it seems that this cosmic mirage can also be used to peer into the heart of pure mathematics.
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Man Scales the NY Times Building for World Environment Day
Alain Robert climbed 52 floors of the NY Times Building before being detained by police. He said he will continue to climb as emissions keep climbing. He climbed without the aid of any climbing gear or parachute.
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Peacekeeping and sex abuse - Who watches the watchmen?
Organisation that send peacekeepers and aid workers to dangerous places are usually concerned about their envoys' physical safety. But an uglier concern has recently surfaced: how to ensure the moral integrity of people who are supposed to be helping others.
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5 Job Interview Bear Traps
The 5 most painful things that can happen during a job interview.
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Coma Victim Woken By Granddaughter's Scream
A woman who was in a coma for six weeks was woken from her condition by her granddaughter's scream.
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Businessmen jailed for running a £340m scam...
An international businessman and his two deputies were jailed for 25 years yesterday for running a £340 million metal trading con from a cow shed in India.Rastogi and his co-defendants Anand Jain, 42, and Guantam Majumdar, 55, invented hundreds of bogus companies and imaginary transactions to convince banks to lend them money.
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6 Degrees of Wikipedia
A researcher at Trinity College Dublin has software that lets users map the links between Wikipedia pages. His Web site is called "Six Degrees of Wikipedia," modeled after the trivia game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Instead of the degrees being measured by presence in the same film, degrees are determined by articles that link to each other.
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Game helps paralyzed man walk again
Just by imagining he was moving his limbs again, he was able to "walk" a character around Second Life, a popular virtual world.
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End of an era? Red Wings victory last outing for...
One of this country's most familiar tunes may have been heard on CBC for the last time Wednesday night when the Detroit Red Wings defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins and won the 08 Stanley Cup. The Toronto agency representing the composer of the theme tune for Hockey Night in Canada says the CBC has declined to enter into a new licensing agreement...
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Ballmer predicts the death of all print media in 10 years
In an animated discussion with Washington Post editors and reporters yesterday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer offered his far-ranging views of upcoming changes in technology and the media.predicting that in 10 years all media will be delivered via the Internet and professed that he is confused by Google's moves in the mobile-phone market.
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NASA Image of the Day Gallery - Preparing Kibo's New Home
Astronaut Mike Fossum used a digital camera to create this self-portrait during the STS-124 mission's first scheduled spacewalk. During the six-hour, 48-minute spacewalk, Fossum and fellow astronaut Ron Garan prepared the Kibo Japanese Pressurized Module for its installation to the space station. Kibo was officially opened during a ceremony perform
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IBM cools 3D chips with integrated water channels
Water channels for your computer chips.
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What If RFK Had Become President?
It is one of history's great "what ifs." What if Robert Kennedy had not been assassinated 40 years ago and gone on to become president of the United States? It's safe to say that his presidency would have followed a different course from that of Richard Nixon.
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The Man Buried in a Pringles Can
In 1966, Baur came up with a clever way for Proctor and Gamble to stack chips uniformly rather than tossing them in a bag. He was so proud of the achievement, he wanted to go to his grave with it.
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Crysis Warhead coming to PC this Fall
EA and Crytek have officially announced the development of Crysis Warhead, "a parallel story" to hardware-taxing tropical shooter, Crysis. Built by Crytek's Budapest studio atop an optimized version of the CryEngine 2 technology, Crysis Warhead sees players squeezing into the nanosuit of Sergeant Sykes, affectionately dubbed "Psycho."
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Verizon to buy Alltell for $28 Billion
The deal catapults Verizon's wireless business ahead of AT&T Wireless, which falls to No. 2, followed by Sprint Nextel and Deutsche Telecom's T-Mobile.
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Mixing Drugs And Stock Options
A U.S. district attorney for the central district of California indicted Broadcom co-founder and former CEO Henry T. Nicholas, 48, and former CFO William Ruehle, 66, on charges of stock-options manipulation. Nicholas was also charged with using and distributing illegal drugs. Nicholas is a self-made billionaire whose wealth is around $1.8 billion.
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ASUS' Eee Monitor iMac-beater to hit $500 using Linux
ASUS today has given us its first glimpse of its Eee Monitor all-in-one PC and is promising to one-up the iMac: thanks to using Linux and an Intel Atom, the Eee will cost just $500 -- less than half the $1,200 price of Apple's box.
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BYOG: Build Your Own Google
If you want to build a big Web 2.0-type application, you'll need to store some huge amounts of data. Aster Data's massively parallel "Beehive" approach to database storage is a compelling option.
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Some of the most detailed 3-D images of cells ever made
Using a new technique called 3-D structured-illumination microscopy, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have made some of the most detailed optical images yet of the interior workings of cells, and they are gorgeous.
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America's Medicated Army - TIME
For the first time in history, a sizable and growing number of U.S. combat troops are taking daily doses of antidepressants to calm nerves strained by repeated and lengthy tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. The medicines are intended not only to help troops keep their cool but to preserve soldiers on the front lines.
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Video shows man hit by car, no one helping
A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but do nothing.
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As 3G iPhone Awaits, Testing Apple Headphones vs 3rd Parties
As befits a gadget diva, the iPhone is picky about its companions. Most headphone plugs don't fit the phone's recessed jack. Until recently, that left iPhoners with one option: the bundled set. Now, other companies have stepped up. Here's how their products compare.
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Celtics top Lakers ... in NBA 2K8
Don't feel like staying up late tonight to catch Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and Lakers? We've got you covered. Utilizing NBA 2K8 for the xBox 360 console, we ran a computerized simulation of this year's championship series.
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Colbert Unearths New O'Reilly Douchebaggery Tape
On last night's Colbert Report, Stephen aired a snippet of never-before-seen footage from his 2007 interview with Bill O'Reilly. As Stephen says, the clip makes Papa Bear O'Reilly "[seem] like a real tool."
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Where are they now?: Key RFK figures - RFK: 40 Years Later
Sirhan Sirhan, walked up to Robert F. Kennedy early in the morning of June 5, 1968, and pumped three bullets into him, it seemed an open-and-shut case that he had committed the crime: The pantry at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel was full of witnesses. In March 2006, Sirhan was denied parole for the 13th time since his conviction
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June 5, 1833: Ms. Software, Meet Mr. Hardware
Babbage had already received funding from Parliament to build a "difference engine" that could do mathematical calculations. While that project was still unfinished, he conceived in 1834 a new and broader idea: an "analytical engine" that "could not only foresee but could act on that foresight."
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It's solar power's time to shine
The dirty little secret of the energy biz these days is that exploration executives don't want to see $130 oil, $12 natural gas or $4 gasoline any more than we do. For they fear two words that strike terror into the hearts of oilmen everywhere: demand destruction.
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Baby Miraculously Survives Abortion
Finley Crampton really shouldn't be here. Although his parents would have loved another child, they knew their baby could inherit a life-threatening kidney condition – and they couldn't take the risk.
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Convicted steroids dealer who gave names to NFL Found Dead
A convicted steroids dealer who recently met with NFL security officials and gave them names of players he said bought steroids from him has been found dead in his home.
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Gear Up! A Comprehensive Metal Gear Retrospective
With the series just past its 20th anniversary and the release of the final episode in its primary storyline mere days away, now's the perfect time to look back at Hideo Kojima's epic stealth-combat soap opera. Here's 1up's detailed look back.
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The iPhone 2.0 Wishlist
Sometimes reading rumors about the second iPhone is exactly like reading a wishlist of features people want. Whether it's subconscious or not, the rumors do get us thinking about what we want from a 3G iPhone. In short, we want an iPhone done right. Here's what we want to make the 3G iPhone faster, better and stronger.
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Egypt uncovers 'missing' pyramid of a pharaoh
Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the "missing pyramid" of a pharaoh and a ceremonial procession road where high priests carried mummified remains of sacred bulls, Egypt's antiquities chief said Thursday.Zahi Hawass said the pyramid is believed to be that of King Menkauhor, an obscure pharaoh who ruled for only eight years more than 4,000 y.
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The first photos from WWDC 2008
Some photos I took yesterday evening from the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The Banners are already up!
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Why Apple Could Kill The Nintendo DS
With third-party apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch looming, games (for once) could become Apple's killer app. There's only one company on earth that has come back from behind to wrest a multibillion-dollar market away from Sony, beat back a grasping Microsoft and delight tens of millions of customers around the world in the process.
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Star Trek TNG Rap (WARNING - EXPLICIT LYRICS)
The U.S.S. Enterprise (Is Getting P.U.S.S.Y. Tonight). By Those Aren't Muskets (feat. MC's Prime Directive and Galaxy Class)
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The 10 Worst Broadcasters in Sports
Before cable TV ushered in an era of 24-hour sports coverage and snarky, personality-driven commentary, professional play callers were endowed with a unique talent for actually enhancing the experience of watching a game. They offered valuable insight, knew how to play up a big moment, and knew when to shut the hell up.
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MySpace fights back!
MySpace attracts developers again and new initiative sees about 1,000 new applications created for MySpace in the past two months by more than 10,000 developers.
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