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In a video interview with Swedish game site Press2play.tv, lead producer Chris Sigaty and lead designer Dustin Browder discussed in depth the decisions and thinking that went in to the development of StarCraft 2. One of the key bits of information revealed was that Blizzard is aiming for a 2009 release as long as the [...]

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The premier fighter jet in the U.S. Air force arsenal is the F-22 Raptor. The radar evading fighter jet has been seen at air shows before, but has yet to see combat. Reuters reports that the Air Force has pulled the F-22 from the Paris Air Show and stated that the plane would not fly [...]

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Microsoft’s Bing created waves when it launched a couple weeks ago.  The new search engine from Microsoft reportedly even had Google a bit nervous.  Many users took it for a test drive.  One thing that some noticed was that upon turning SafeSearch off, pornographic results, including video clips began showing up — like in Yahoo [...]

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Often research into one thing leads to a discovery of another substance or process that benefits other areas the original project never considered or intended to investigate. This is the case with a group of researchers from MIT who were doing research on stickers.
The researchers were studying delamination, which is what happens when bubbles [...]

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California is a state that is deep into the world of energy savings.  From its alternative energy initiatives that have helped the state gain numerous solar installations, from private rooftops to large farms, to hybrid car efforts, to programs to stomp out “power guzzling” television sets, California has taken the effort to lower our power [...]

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Universal Music chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge said, “We see this as completely ground breaking. We’ve listened to our customers, our fans and our artists and we think that this is an opportunity to bring music to a wider audience.”
Reuters reports that Virgin Media and Universal Music have announced a new music service that will [...]

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If you haven’t been following the saga of the RIAA versus single mother Jammie, here’s a quick recap.  The RIAA alleges that on February 21, 2005 its agent MediaSentry detected 1,702 songs being shared by a Kazaa user with the IP address 24.179.199.117 and the screen name “tereastarr@KaZaA”.  Logging a complaint with internet service provider [...]

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An unexpected hydrogen leak aboard NASA shuttle Endeavour forced the agency to delay the shuttle’s scheduled Saturday launch until Wednesday at the earliest.
“Our crew is taking things in stride and will be ready to go when called,” Canadian astronaut Julie Payette said in a message posted on the Canadian Space Agency web site.  
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Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin has left his post as the official lead man for the U.S. space agency, but remains skeptical of his replacement appointed by President Barack Obama, Charles Bolden.
Even though Griffin believes Bolden is qualified for the job, he’s concerned regarding Bolden’s decision to study and review the NASA manned spaceflight [...]

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Yesterday Microsoft announced that in Europe it would not be shipping Internet Explorer 8, its market-leading browser offering, with Windows 7, its new operating system which launches October 22.  Despite the fact that its primary competitor, Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard will ship with a proprietary browser (Safari), Microsoft felt it necessary to unbundle the [...]

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