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Cosmic Log: The wired White House

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The tech-savvy campaigners who helped put Barack Obama in the White House say the nation is in for a historic four years of tech-savvy governance.Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The tech-savvy campaigners who helped put Barack Obama in the White House say the nation is in for a historic four years of tech-savvy governance.




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Puppy Cam wranglers: 'No, you can't have one'

Who's a sleepy puppy? Is it you? Is it you? Yes you is a sweepy puppy!Four million Puppy Cam fans worldwide gained inner peace watching the real-time exploits of six adorable pups. But who do these dogs belong to? And ... can I have one?




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US hopes to develop bug-sized, flying spies

This photo, taken from computer animation video and released by the U.S. Air Force, shows the next generation of drones, called Micro Aerial Vehicles, or MAVs. The MAVs could be as tiny as bumblebees and capable of flying undetected into buildings, where they could photograph, record, and even attack insurgents and terrorists. If only we could be a fly on the wall when our enemies are plotting to attack us. Better yet, what if that fly could record voices, transmit video and even fire tiny weapons?




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Report: Teen commits suicide online

Nov. 21: A 19-year-old Florida man who committed suicide by overdosing, broadcast the incident on the Internet, where he was egged on by viewers who thought it was a hoax. MSNBC's Tamron Hall reports. (MSNBC)Authorities say a South Florida teen committed suicide in front of a live online Webcam audience after blogging about his plan to kill himself.




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Top 5 best sleeper games of 2008

These are the best Cinderella games of 2008. If it's the new and innovative you seek, don't overlook these hidden gems.




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Mini nuclear reactors to power remote areas

An illustration of a shed-sized nuclear reactor being developed by Hyperion Power Generation. Many modern nuclear facilities moderate their reactions with control rods. Hyperion instead adds hydrogen atoms to the uranium in their mini nuclear reactors, which take the place of the control rods to moderate the reaction Using technology originally developed by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Hyperion Power Generation is creating mini nuclear fission reactors that will provide electricity and hot water to remote locations, nearly all outside the United States.




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Second Life bank crash foretold financial crisis Alan Greenspan admitted last month that lending institutions could not always be trusted to regulate themselves. He could have taken a cue sooner by looking at the 2007 collapse of Ginko Financial, a virtual investment bank in the online game Second Life.

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Pentagon bans computer flash drives The Pentagon has banned, at least temporarily, the use of external computer flash drives because of a virus threat officials detected on Defense Department networks.

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Would-be Japanese space tourist wants $21M back Japanese millionaire Daisuke Enomoto had planned to dress up as his favorite cartoon character in outer space and spent $21 million to make it happen. Now he claims the company that was supposed make his dream come true brushed him aside with little more than a "sorry, no refunds."

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Google's virtual world to die next month Lively, a virtual reality service from Google Inc., is dying.

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Watch Jupiter and Venus hook up

Look to the southwest after sunset on Dec. 1 for a close conjunction between three bright solar system objects: the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter. If you have binoculars, you might even be able to fit all three of them in the field of view. Between now and then, you can see Jupiter and Venus getting closer together each evening. The most spectacular celestial sight during these final days of November is reserved for the early evening sky, as Jupiter and Venus, the two brightest planets, draw closer together.




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1,800-year-old bronze chariot unearthed

Bulgarian archaeologists work near a Thracian bronze chariot discovered near the village of Karanovo.Archaeologists have unearthed a well-preserved 1,800-year-old bronze chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Friday.




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Urban growers go high-tech to feed city diners

Terry Fujimoto , plant sciences professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, checks his students' hydroponics agriculture projects inside a greenhouse on the campus in Pomona, Calif. on Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Fujimoto's program is at the forefront of an effort to use hydroponics —  a method of growing plants in water instead of soil —  to bring farming into the urban areas where consumers are concentrated. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Terry Fujimoto sees the future of agriculture in the exposed roots of the leafy greens he and his students grow in thin streams of water at a campus greenhouse.




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Space station’s urine recycler has hiccups

Nov. 21: NASA is reporting problems aboard the international space station with the newly installed machine that is supposed to turn urine into clean water. MSNBC's Christina Brown reports. (MSNBC)The $154 million device for turning astronauts' urine and sweat into drinking water aboard the international space station shut down again Friday, and engineers on the ground were scrambling to figure out why.




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Cosmic Log: A galaxy far, farther away

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The Hubble Space Telescope helps scientists figure out why a galaxy seemed unusually active. It turns out they had the galaxy in the wrong place.Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The Hubble Space Telescope helps scientists figure out why a galaxy seemed unusually active. It turns out they had the galaxy in the wrong place.




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