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  1. Tetris Creator Claims FOSS Destroys the Market
  2. EU Funds P2P-Based Internet TV Standard
  3. RIAA Expert Witness Called "Borderline Incompetent"
  4. Comcast Gets Hard Up At FCC Meeting
  5. Reactor Shutdown Darkens South Florida
  6. If IP Is Property, Where Is the Property Tax?
  7. Gmail CAPTCHA Cracked
  8. Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth
  9. Gaffes That Keep IT Geeks From the Boardroom
  10. Encyclopedia of Life Launches First 30,000 Pages
  11. Asteroid Mission Competition Announces Winner
  12. EU Fines Microsoft $1.3 Billion
  13. EFF, UCLA Back WikiLeaks
  14. Microsoft Trying to Appeal to the Unix Crowd?
  15. Feds Block EFF Look at Google/DoJ Contacts
  16. The Beckoning Promise of Personal Fabrication
  17. Diebold Leaks 2008 Election Results
  18. Giant Sheets Of Dark Matter Detected
  19. Alaskan Village Sues Over Global Warming
  20. Mac OS X Leopard Edition: The Missing Manual
  21. German Court Abolishes German Snooping Law
  22. Nanoparticles Could Make Hydrogen Cheaper Than Gasoline
  23. Killer Military Robot Arms Race Underway?
  24. How Do You Find Programming Superstars?
  25. NASA Looking For "Diamonds In The Sky"
  26. EFF, ACLU Back WikiLeaks
  27. Firefox 3 Performance Gets a Boost
  28. FreeBSD 7.0 Release Now Available
  29. Former FBI Agent Calls for a Second Internet
  30. The U.S. Patent backlog
  31. Correcting Misperceptions About Evolution
  32. NASA Plans to Smash Spacecraft into the Moon
  33. Wave Powered Boat to Sail From Hawaii to Japan
  34. Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps 2550km
  35. McNealy Says Telcos Falling Behind in Net Race
  36. IBM Measures Force Required To Move Atoms
  37. NASA to Demonstrate Moon Rover
  38. The U.S. Patent Backlog
  39. Where's Our Terabit Ethernet?
  40. Adobe To Port AIR To Linux
  41. Microsoft Internal Emails Show Dismay With Vista
  42. Bank Julius Baer Issues Statement On WikiLeaks
  43. Critical VMware Vulnerability, Exploit Released
  44. Military Steps Up War On Blogs
  45. Researchers Expose New Credit Card Fraud Risk
  46. Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched
  47. EU Views Net Censorship As a "Trade Barrier"
  48. RIAA Not Sharing Settlement Money With Artists
  49. Proposed Bill in Tennessee Penalizes Schools for Allowing Piracy
  50. Creditor Objects To SCO's Plans
  51. Mac OS X Secretly Cripples Non-Apple Software
  52. New Wave of Fusion and Robot Innovation at MIT
  53. DARPA Funds Development on Modular Satellite Network
  54. University of San Francisco Law Clinic Joins Fight Against RIAA
  55. Time To Abolish Software Patents?
  56. US Virtual Border Fence Doesn't Work
  57. Blu-ray In Laptops Could Be Hard On Batteries
  58. Microsoft Cuts Vista Price In 70 Countries
  59. More Spacecraft Velocity Anomalies
  60. Feds Seize $78M of Bogus Chinese Cisco Gear
  61. Sony Says Eee PC Signals "Race To the Bottom"
  62. How Open Source Has Influenced Windows Server 2008
  63. Ask the Air Force Cyber Command General About War in Cyberspace
  64. Teen Phone Phreak Targeted by the FBI
  65. A Good Style Guide Under the Creative Commons?
  66. Facebook Moderator Gets Subpoena in Wikileaks Case
  67. Steve Ballmer on MS Server, Linux, Yahoo & More
  68. New Radar Maps of Moon
  69. Family Guy Spins off Cleveland
  70. Supercomputer Adds Credence to Standard Model
  71. Wikileaks Gets Domain Back, Injunction Dissolved
  72. Customer Loses Xbox 360 Artwork During Repair
  73. IBM Optical Chip Zips Huge Files Using Little Power
  74. Janus Particles as Body Submarines?
  75. D&D 4th Edition Details Released
  76. 185 Pages of Microsoft's Dirty Laundry
  77. Mayor of Florence Sues Wikipedia
  78. Key Step In Programmed Cell Death Discovered
  79. Japan Seeking to Govern Top News Web Sites
  80. Demiforce Releases "Trism", New Game for iPhone, iPod Touch
  81. Researchers Discover Gene That Blocks HIV
  82. Acer Ferrari 1100, One Large Disappointment
  83. Jury Finds Spamming Not Protected By Constitution
  84. End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging
  85. Tellme Founder Tells Yahoo Not to Worry Over Microsoft Takeover
  86. OCZ Prepares Neural Impulse Actuator for Shipping
  87. Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
  88. Court Finds Spamming Not Protected By Constitution
  89. 158 Pages of Microsoft's Dirty Laundry
  90. Intel Researchers Consider Ray-Tracing for Mobile Devices
  91. Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens
  92. Robots Entering Daily Life in Japan
  93. Large Sheets of Carbon Nanotubes Produced
  94. MSI Develops a Heat-Driven Cooler
  95. Mozilla Hitting 'Brick Walls' Getting Firefox on Phones
  96. Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?
  97. The X300 Could Usher in a New Generation of ThinkPads
  98. Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet?
  99. Akamai Wins Lawsuit to Protect Obvious Patent
  100. How to Stop a 500-Foot Monster, Continued
  101. The Future of Robots in Japanese Society
  102. Appeals Court Upholds Limits on Navy Sonar
  103. Bush Nominates Three to Empty Privacy Board
  104. Study: Robot and Dog Comfort Elderly Equally Well
  105. Tellme Founder: Sale to Microsoft Has Worked Out Well
  106. How To: Make Your Own Flavored Vodka
  107. First Look: New Dungeons & Dragons Stats Leak to Web
  108. Giugiaro Build's the World's Ugliest Prius, But Boy Is It Quick
  109. Leap Year Code Glitch Shutters South Carolina DMV
  110. Prolific Spammer's Conviction Upheld in Virginia
  111. Airborne Bacteria Make It Rain, Researchers Find
  112. Judge Allows WikiLeaks to Resume U.S. Operations
  113. California Snags Another Half Billion for Stem Cell Labs
  114. Want to Win Google's Love? Pony Up the Cash
  115. TED 2008: Scientist Gives Riveting Account of Her Own Stroke
  116. Worth the Wait: Chumby Lands at a Desk Near You
  117. Baidu.com Sued Again, This Time by One of Its Own
  118. Microsoft, After Some Wrangling, Cuts Price of Vista
  119. Technical Problems, Cost Overruns Plague Mars Project
  120. Microsoft Wants Sync to Control More Than Gadgets
  121. Facebook Launches Band Pages
  122. Rock Star-Turned-Physicist Trades Keyboard for Atom Smasher
  123. Teenage Hacker Is Blind, Brash and in the Crosshairs of the FBI
  124. Feb. 29, 45 B.C.: Julius Caesar Takes the Leap
  125. TED 2008: Humans Are Just Machines for Propagating Memes, Susan Blackmore Says
  126. The Cold War-Era Assault on Comic Book Culture, Revisited
  127. Alt Text Video: Link's Weapons in Zelda
  128. Akamai Wins Lawsuit to Protect Obvious Patent
  129. Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet?
  130. The X300 Could Usher in a New Generation of ThinkPads
  131. Why Is Less Than 99.9% Uptime Acceptable?
  132. Mozilla Hitting 'Brick Walls' Getting Firefox on Phones
  133. MSI Develops a Heat-Driven Cooler
  134. Large Sheets of Carbon Nanotubes Produced
  135. Robots Entering Daily Life in Japan
  136. Government Mistakenly Declares Deaths of Citizens
  137. Intel Researchers Consider Ray-Tracing for Mobile Devices
  138. Sneak Peek at Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope
  139. OCZ Prepares Neural Impulse Actuator for Shipping
  140. Tellme Founder Tells Yahoo Not to Worry Over Microsoft Takeover
  141. End Software Patents Project Comes Out Swinging
  142. Court Finds Spamming Not Protected By Constitution
  143. HP Looks To Improve Power Management Coordination
  144. This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize
  145. March 3, 1879: Birth of the B's (Thought for Food)
  146. Algebra, Geometry, Functions: At 38, Taking the SAT Is Tough
  147. Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos
  148. Strict Order Boarding Would Get Planes in the Sky Faster
  149. Eliot Van Buskirk's Listening Post: Put Your Money Where Your Indie Rock Is
  150. A Lesson in Internet Anatomy: The World's Densest Meet-Me Room
  151. Web Videos Show Off the Wonders of Chemistry
  152. Drinkable Languages Offered At LA Time-Travel Mart
  153. Canadian University Puts Tech Whiz Kids in 'Dormcubator'
  154. One in Ten Americans Are Chronically Sleep Deprived
  155. Pirates Find Proper Way to Crack Vista's Activation Schema
  156. United Tech Bids $2.6B for Diebold
  157. Reznor Follows Radiohead, Offers Free Album
  158. Woz Dumps on MacBook Air, iPhone, AppleTV
  159. The Law and Politics of Battlestar Galactica
  160. CeBIT Trade Show Takes On a Decidedly Greener Cast
  161. Americans Working More, Sleeping Less to Compensate
  162. 7 Secure USB Drives Reviewed
  163. Anti-Botnet Market is Black Eye for AV Industry
  164. Johann Sebastian Bach, as His Friends Knew Him
  165. Higher-Resolution YouTube Videos Currently In Testing
  166. Gateway P-6831 FX Gaming Laptop Leaves You With Money to Burn
  167. Live Blog: Murder Defendant Hans Reiser Takes the Stand
  168. The Ruby Programming Language
  169. Comparing the OLPC, Classmate and Eee
  170. A Virus that Attacks Brain Cancer
  171. Inside Obama's Online Grass-Roots Campaign
  172. Revealed: Volkswagen's 69.9-MPG Diesel Hybrid
  173. Dell Documents Reveal Microsoft's Pre-launch Vista Errors
  174. 70% of P2P Users Would Stop if Warned by ISP
  175. Steve Wozniak 'Disappointed' With the iPhone
  176. Nine Inch Nails Gets Creative With Radiohead-Style Release
  177. MIT's Nano Storage Could Replace Hybrid Batteries
  178. Babies See Pure Color, but Adults Peer Through Prism of Language
  179. Scientists Unearth Fossils of One-Ounce Primate in Mississippi
  180. Hydrogen Sulfide May Kill Us, Bring Us Back to Life, Paleontologist Peter Ward Says
  181. Cyber-Goggles Record and Identify Every Object You See
  182. Lightning GT: The World's First Green Supercar?
  183. Informal Conference Borrows TED's Big Ideas, Not Its Pretense
  184. DHS Doesn't Want to Monitor Net, Chertoff Tells Bloggers
  185. Paypal Advises Users To Stop Using Safari
  186. Hands On: GPC Mini Gives Mac Mini Run for Its Money
  187. Wikipedia Founder Hit With Allegations of Excessive Spending
  188. Industry Group Sponsors College Course To Create Fake Blog
  189. Building an IT Infrastructure Around Mars
  190. March 4, 1890: Bridge Tech Takes a Great Leap Forth
  191. How To: Optimize A Fresh Ubuntu Installation
  192. IE8 Will Be Standards-Compliant By Default
  193. Dealing With a GPL Violation?
  194. The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam
  195. Dear Hollywood Studios: Let My Video Go
  196. Daylight Saving Time Wastes Energy
  197. Identity Theft Rates Among Top Banks
  198. Obituary For the Sony Trinitron
  199. Sun Hires Two Key Python Developers
  200. OLPC Mesh Networking Tester Explains How It Works
  201. Aging Security Vulnerability Still Allows PC Takeover
  202. Experiment Shows Traffic 'Shock Waves' Cause Jams
  203. Iran May Shut Down Internet During Election
  204. Robotic Orbiter Captures Image of Martian Avalanche
  205. Future of Solar Energy May Go Through New Mexico
  206. PHP Optimised for Windows Server 2008
  207. Google Street a Slice of Dystopian Future?
  208. Bill Allows Teachers to Contradict Evolution
  209. D&D Co-Creator Gary Gygax Has Passed Away
  210. Lessons from the HD Format War
  211. Hamas Replaces Rocks With Rockets
  212. Microsoft Backs Down: Internet Explorer 8 Will Embrace Web Standards
  213. Dear Diary: 'Wii Fit' Says I'm Fat
  214. 'Death Star' Aimed at Earth
  215. AMD's Hybrid Graphics Unveiled, Tested
  216. 'Puppy Torture' Video Sparks Outrage, Military Investigation
  217. A Beginner's Guide to Muslim Bioethics
  218. Gary Gygax, 'Father of D&D,' Dies at 69
  219. DARPA Fractionated Spacecraft Program Starts
  220. Facebook Scrabble Rip-off Capitalizes on Mattel's Lethargy
  221. PhotoShelter Protects Your Pics From Would-Be Flickr Thieves
  222. Popularity of iPod Causing a Spike in Crime, Study Says
  223. Should RIAA Investigators Have to Disclose Evidence?
  224. Did The Clinton Campaign Doctor Its TV Ad To Make Obama 'Blacker'?
  225. A Good Read Is Always Great, Especially When It's Free
  226. Probe Captures Avalanche on Mars
  227. D&D Co-Creator Gary Gygax Has Passed Away
  228. New ARG's Special Sauce? McDonald's
  229. Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist'
  230. PHP Optimized for Windows Server 2008
  231. Hackers Target MySpace and Facebook
  232. Supercharge Your Wireless Router With Open Firmware
  233. March 5, 1872: Westinghouse Gives Railroads a Brake
  234. Alt Text: Powerbocks Steal Dork Prize From Segways
  235. Psychologist Beating Math Nerds in Race to Netflix Prize
  236. Psychologist Beating Math Nerds in Race to Netflix Prize
  237. Clive Thompson on How DIYers Just Might Revive American Innovation
  238. Frame That Spam! Data-Crunching Artists Transform the World of Information
  239. Security Holes in Google's Android SDK
  240. UN Makes Its Statistical Data Free and Searchable
  241. NIN's Music Experiment Sells Big Numbers
  242. Statue of Galileo Planned for Vatican
  243. Clinton Takes Ohio, Texas; McCain Seals The Deal
  244. Air Force Emails Sensitive Information to Tourism Site
  245. D&D's Story Manager Answers Your Questions on Camera
  246. Levitating Haptics Joystick Gives Good Feedback
  247. Microsoft Singularity Now Open Source
  248. UN Makes Its Statistical Data Free and Searchable
  249. Security Holes In Google's Android SDK
  250. Domains Blocked By US Treasury 'Blacklist'