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BMW announces the MINI E electric - Examiner.com


Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 5:12 am PST
 Examiner.com BMW announces the MINI E electric Examiner.com - 43 minutes ago by Rick Trawick, DC Auto Industry Examiner BMW, the parent company of MINI, introduced the MINI...

Solar Wind Rips Up Martian Atmosphere


Slashdot Nov 23, 2008 | 5:12 am PST
IHateEverybody writes "Scientists have found evidence that the solar wind is ripping off chunks of the Martian atmosphere, which could possibly explain why Mars has such a thin atmosphere today. The c...

Verizon fires workers who snooped on Obama cell records - ZDNet


Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 5:11 am PST
 PC World Verizon fires workers who snooped on Obama cell records ZDNet - 45 minutes ago Red-faced Verizon Wireless has fired an undisclosed number of employees who couldn’t...

iPhone OS 2.2 update doesn't fix key business flaws - InfoWorld


Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 5:11 am PST
 New York Times iPhone OS 2.2 update doesn't fix key business flaws InfoWorld - 45 minutes ago By Galen Gruman The iPhone 3G and its iPhone 2 OS propelled Apple's lead...

MacBooks take performance nosedive on AC power alone


The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) Nov 23, 2008 | 5:00 am PST
Filed under: Portables, Macbook Pro, MacBook  Here's a curious thing. Gearlog is reporting that in testing a MacBook Pro, they found substantially lower performance while running on AC power...

Red Hat Fedora Claims It's the Leader in Linux


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 4:50 am PST
On the eve of its next major release, the distro produces new figures showing that it's ahead of rivals in total users.  

How To: Disable Google SearchWiki from Firefox and Opera


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 4:30 am PST
Do You Hate Google's New SearchWiki that tried to copy and make a Digg like Interface? Google currently provides NO option to Disable it from your account! Use this quick hack to Turn off SearchWiki f...

Facebook Etiquette: Five Dos and Don'ts


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 4:10 am PST
Balancing your work and personal life on social networking tools such as Facebook has become more complex than ever -- and the dangers go beyond the well-publicized examples of posting party pictures...

4 fancy phones are here, but ... - Bend Bulletin


Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 4:02 am PST
 Telegraph.co.uk 4 fancy phones are here, but ... Bend Bulletin - 1 hour ago The Apple iPhone relies on roaming to work in Central Oregon - what about its touch-screen competi...

Ubuntu Usplash Smooth


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 4:00 am PST
Time-based usplash package that makes the bootup bar go smoothly instead of jumping about. Makes the boot process look nicer and gives a more accurate time prediction :)  

Google Turns On User-Tweakable Search Wiki


Slashdot Nov 23, 2008 | 3:51 am PST
Barence writes "Google has launched a new service that allows users to tailor to their own search results. Called SearchWiki, the service allows Google account holders to move results up or off the ra...

How to Make the Best Torrents


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 3:30 am PST
Making a torrent properly is one of the most overlooked aspects in torrenting. Most users of bittorrent only create the .torrent files occasionally, if at all, and others make bad choices and mistakes...

The Shadows Are All Wrong! [PIC]


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 3:20 am PST
Somebody explain this witchcraft!  

Scientists reconstruct genome of extinct woolly mammoth - Business Mirror


Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 2:56 am PST
 DailyTech Scientists reconstruct genome of extinct woolly mammoth Business Mirror - 2 hours ago An international team of scientists has reconstructed about two-thirds of the...

Kernel vulnerability found in Vista


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 23, 2008 | 2:30 am PST
A flaw in Vista's networking has been found that can crash the system, but no fix is expected until the next service pack.  

NVIDIA's $10K Tesla GPU-Based Personal Supercomputer


Slashdot Nov 23, 2008 | 1:25 am PST
gupg writes "NVIDIA announced a new category of supercomputers — the Tesla Personal Supercomputer — a 4 TeraFLOPS desktop for under $10,000. This desktop machine has 4 of the Tesla C1060 c...

The Bay Area in pictures for the week of November 16 — November 22 - San Francisco Chronicle


Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 23, 2008 | 12:11 am PST
 guardian.co.uk The Bay Area in pictures for the week of November 16 — November 22 San Francisco Chronicle - 5 hours ago Pacific Union College senior Desiree Quijano grieves...

Astronauts Wrap Up Spacewalk for Repairs - Washington Post


Google News - Sci/Tech Nov 22, 2008 | 11:27 pm PST
 ABC News Astronauts Wrap Up Spacewalk for Repairs Washington Post - 6 hours ago CAPE CANAVERAL -- Spacewalking astronauts completed almost all of the greasy repairs on a gumm...

Zimbra Desktop Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack


Slashdot Nov 22, 2008 | 10:31 pm PST
tiffanydanica writes "For all the flack Mozilla gets about its new security warnings for https sites, at least it warns the user when a mismatch occurs. Sadly the new Yahoo! Zimbra Desktop (released i...

10 Things You Need To Know About In Flight Wi-Fi


digg.com: Stories / Technology / Popular Nov 22, 2008 | 10:10 pm PST
I'm live from Virgin America's Beta run of their Wi-Fi service, over San Francisco, and there are a few things you should know about how its going to work when most airlines go live in 2009. And yes,...

 

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