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China warns Google as Internet row deal seen soon

BEIJING (Reuters) - China warned Google, the world's largest search engine, against flouting the country's laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security.
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NASA’s New Jumbo Jet Keeps Giant Eye on Heavens

With a 45,000-foot cruising altitude, the world's biggest airborne telescope will begin collecting data this spring.
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Intel’s 6-Core Gulftown Gets Tested, Blows Us Away [CPUs]

Six cores. That's how many are in Intel's ridiculous new Core i7-980x. MaximumPC takes us deep inside the world's fastest CPU, with full, mind-searing benchmarks. More
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9 Best Shooters on the iPhone (PC World)

From arcade classics like Space Invaders to first-person shooters like Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies, here are nine of the greatest shooters available on the iPhone today.
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Giz Explains: How You’re Gonna Get Screwed By Ebook Formats [Giz Explains]

"We use the epub format: It is the most popular open book format in the world." That's how Steve Jobs announced the iPad. And wow, that sounds like all the ebooks you own will just work on anything. Um, no. More
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World’s largest solar-powered vessel

Mar 9 - The world's largest solar-powered boat aims to be the fastest such vessel to cross the Atlantic Ocean and the first to cross both the Pacific and Indian Oceans when it embarks around the world in 2011. Natalie Armstrong reports.
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At conference, iPhone game development breaks out (CNN)

If you had any doubts that the iPhone must now be considered one of the world's most important gaming platforms, this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco will try to put them to rest once and for all.
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Dell Precision M4500 Workstation Has Superman Guts In a 15.6" Body [Laptops]

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Remains of the Day: Google’s Amazing Branching Suggestions Edition [For What It's Worth]

Watch the internet spread throughout the world, see how Google's suggestions guess what you're thinking, and learn why one web content editor believes ad blocking is a pretty bad idea for keeping quality content alive. Mapping the growth of the internet Really intriguing graphic that shows the world as it catches onto the web, accompanied by neat infographic explaining the mechanics. [BBC News] Exploring Google Suggest See how Google branches out its auto-completing suggestions, and learn whole lot more about humanity's searches, at WhatDoYouSuggest.net . [Google Operating System] Apple's New Stance On ‘Cookie Cutter' Apps: Add More Features Or Perish The App Store is littered with apps that do nothing more than re-publish an RSS feed or recreate a webapp—but not for long. [TechCrunch] Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs Google takes all the public records they've scanned—employment data, statistics, Census data, and more—and puts it all in one place, with lots of tools for visualizing it. [Official Google Blog] Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love Ars Technica's editor in chief lays out his thoughtful, considered case against ad blocking software and browser plug-ins. [Ars Technica] Google Buzz, Latitude May Be Integrated, Google Says Which makes good sense, really, since Buzz has a much greater shot at success than Latitude, but lacks its more useful geo-location features. [eWeek]
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Plastic boat to set sail with environmental message

What do you get when you cross thousands of plastic water bottles with an adventure-loving entrepreneur? A boat, of course, designed to carry a team of scientists, adventurers and artists halfway around the world.
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