Cody Taylor

Barack Obama will do his first formal interview as president with an Arabic cable TV network. The interview is set to air at 11pm EST, it reports. Al Arabiya is a 24-hour Arabic news channel based in Dubai that broadcasts across five continents, according to its website. A 2003 BBC report said it was one of the top-rated pan-Arab network.

coondoggie writes with a NetworkWorld piece that begins, “Researchers at Purdue will soon experiment with an unmanned aircraft that pretty much flies itself with little human intervention. The aircraft will use a combination of global-positioning system technology and a guidance system called AttoPilot … to guide the aerial vehicle to predetermined points. Researchers can be stationed off-site to monitor the aircraft and control its movements remotely. AttoPilot was installed in the aircraft early this year, and testing will begin in the spring, researchers said.”

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Can’t help being the life of the party? Maybe you were just born that way. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego have found that our place in a social network is influenced in part by our genes, according to new findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Rescue Experts Say Obama Dog Puts Spotlight on Adoption Movement…Like fellow candidates vying to be First Dog. Bear is a born networker. He doesn’t just kiss babies, he plants big wet ones on anyone who crosses his path, and he likes to sit down (on your feet) and share a quiet moment. “There are probably a hundred shelters in the US that would

We had thought Google was all about frugality and focus now: In recent months, the search giant has been killing off failed experiments like Twitter-rival Jaiku, mobile social networking service Dodgeball and virtual world Lively.