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NASA has been forced to delay two manned launches it has scheduled before the end of the year
NASA was forced to delay two manned shuttle launches because it has taken longer than expected to finish building the shuttle’s external fuel tank, which must undergo additional safety checks because of the shuttle Columbia disaster.
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Hans Reiser will spend at least the next 15 years behind bars for murdering his wife
Former computer engineer Hans Reiser was today sentenced 15-to-life after a first-degree murder conviction after he strangled his wife and buried her in a ravine.
Reiser’s claim to fame in the computer world is the ReiserFS file system, a [...]

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Given the Democratic and Republican conventions and the Labor Day holiday stealing everyone’s attention, I expected this week to be a quiet one when it came to product announcements. But those distractions really only apply to folks in the States, and overseas manufacturers pushed out plenty of new laptop models to keep us busy. [...]

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Yahoo calls it quits on its second social network attempt in just two years
With Yahoo stock at all time lows, Carl Icahn, proud owner of part of Yahoo’s board and strong advocate of a sale to Microsoft, has been remarkably silent.  Meanwhile, Yahoo fell from the public eye.  It did receive a bit of good [...]

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Just in time for the fall semester, we’ve gone and reviewed more than two dozen new back-to-school laptops. For this particular roundup, we stuck to relatively recent configurations that were available on the shelves of big consumer electronics stores (so, for example, you’ll find the in-store version of Dell’s 1525, rather than the configurable version [...]

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For years now, Samsung has made laptops for pretty much every market except the US, and generally, we’ve been pretty fine with that arrangement (the Q1 Ultra UMPC is as close as they’ve gotten here).
But now, we’re eager to get our hands on the just-announced Samsung X360. This 13-incher apes the super-slim [...]

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Fujitsu had previously said it was staying away from netbooks
We can thank ASUS for kicking off the netbook craze with its Eee PC line. Originally, it looked like the netbook class would be mostly aimed at schools and developing nations along the lines of the XO notebook.
Contrary to that initial belief, the netbook has been [...]

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DailyTech’s roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday
Notebooks ASUS Eee PC 1000H - Windows XP Edition @ Trusted Reviews ASUS Eee PC 901 @ Phoronix
Motherboards Gigabyte MA78G-DS3H Motherboard @ Digit-Life Asus Maximus II Formula Motherboard @ Rbmods Foxconn A79A-S vs. MSI K9N2 Diamond - NVIDIA vs. [...]

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Game Key Revealer’s interface is simple.
(Credit: CNET)
Lifehacker pointed us to a handy PC gaming tool this morning. Game Key Revealer is a free download that can tell you the security key for any PC games (of roughly 500 titles, according to its unspecified, presumably Turkish creator) you may have installed on your system. This could [...]

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Apple iPhone 3g owners, look out… there’s another flaw you need to know about!
Apple has promised to fix an iPhone security flaw that lets people bypass a password designed to protect personal information on a user’s phone.  
First discovered by MacRumors and confirmed by Gizmodo, the flaw also affects iPod Touch owners.  Specifically, users simply [...]

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