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AMD's new Phenom II chips take on Intel
CNET News – 1 hour ago Advanced Micro Devices added new Phenom II desktop models on Monday, including triple-core processors, as it tries to outdo Intel desktop price-performance. AMD cores up with Phenom II Register AMD finally goes DDR3 Inquirer PC Magazine – ZDNet – SlashGear – WELT ONLINE all 79 news articles Langue : Français |
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Public projects boost solar power firms
Globe and Mail – 8 Feb 2009 GUILDFORD, England – John Fitzpatrick is in a buoyant niche of construction. Building subsidized homes for disadvantaged people, with solar panelled roofs for environmentally friendly power, he is funded by the government. Alternative energy Baltimore Sun The Homeowner’s Guide to Alternative Energy Earth911.com NewsOK.com – WBNG-TV all 7 news articles |
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Boss of escort business tied to Spitzer gets 2 years
Canoe.ca – 6 Feb 2009 By AP NEW YORK – The man who ran an escort business at the heart of the scandal that helped bring down former New York state governor Eliot Spitzer was sentenced Friday to 2 1/2 years in prison. Pimp In Spitzer’s Prostitution Ring Sentenced North Country Gazette all 3 news articles |
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How Darwin's ideas were twisted into 'social Darwinism'
AFP – 12 hours ago PARIS (AFP) – Charles Darwin, born 200 years ago on Thursday, upended our conception of humanity's place in Nature but also unleashed a pernicious justification of social and racial inequality. The essence of Economic Darwinism Vancouver Sun all 6 news articles |
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Samsung aims for touchscreen phone market with updated Tocco
guardian.co.uk – 53 minutes ago Samsung is making a play for the title of mass-market touchscreen handset of 2009 with the launch of an updated version of its popular Tocco device. LG Unveils Flagship Handset With 'Revolutionary' UI TrustedReviews Samsung's Ultra Touch S8300 is a Smarter Slider Fast Company Macworld – Telecompaper – ITProPortal – iGIZMO all 35 news articles Langue : Français |
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Free to learn
Globe and Mail – 5 hours ago Windsor, Ont. — In 2006, while shadowing my daughter, then a student at the University of Ottawa, I attended one of Denis Rancourt's classes (Professor Makes His Mark, But It Costs Him His Job – Feb. 6). The Two Languages of Academic Freedom New York Times Blogs all 2 news articles |
An anonymous reader writes “According to TechCrunch, Ruckus, the ad-supported music service targeted at college students, has closed down for good. Ruckus was notable for its poorly-designed client software and .wma-only DRM-laden catalog of 3,000,000 tracks, somewhat less than half the size of the iTunes catalog.”
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Ponca City, We love you writes “In England they called it the Great Frost, while in France it entered legend as Le Grand Hiver, three months of deadly cold that fell over Europe in 1709 ushering in a year of famine and food riots. Livestock died from cold in their barns, chicken’s combs froze and fell off, trees exploded and travelers froze to death on the roads. It was the coldest winter in 500 years with temperatures as much as 7 degrees C below the average for 20th-century Europe. Now as part of the European Union’s Millennium Project, Scientists are aiming to reconstruct the past 1000 years of Europe’s climate using a combination of direct measurements, proxy indicators of temperature such as tree rings and ice cores, and data gleaned from historical documents.”
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moderators_are_w*nke writes “The UK government is planning yet another database to track its citizens, this time keeping track of their movements in and out of the country for ten years. Just like all their other databases, this one ‘is essential in the fight against crime, illegal immigration and [of course] terrorism.'” I’d be very surprised if the US is not already doing this, and just not making a point to let anyone know.
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Modern day version Silver Dart makes successful test run; next …
The Canadian Press – 6 Feb 2009 HAMILTON – Former Canadian astronaut Bjarni Tryggvason barely got off the ground Friday but still declared his mission accomplished – successfully taking a modern day version of the famed Silver Dart airborne. • Magnificent flying machine Hamilton Spectator The Silver Dart Soars in Ontario Aviation.ca (press release) WFIE-TV – CKCO – Toronto Sun all 102 news articles |
