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USB 3.0 ready !!!

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 09:10 PM CST

That did not take long to update (just 8 years). USB will get an update to 5 Gbps.

'Jelly balls' may slow global warming

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 09:10 PM CST

VAST numbers of marine "jelly balls" now appearing off the Australian east coast could be part of the planet's mechanism for combating global warming.

The 20 Healthiest Places In America

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 09:00 PM CST

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a massive report that assesses the health of the U.S. population according to a number of measures-- from leisure time, physical activity, to smoking rates and incidence of heart disease.

Yahoo Chief Plans to Step Down

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:50 PM CST

Yahoo said Monday evening that Jerry Yang, its chief executive, would step down from that role after the company finds a replacement.

MLB.com drops Silverlight for Adobe Flash

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:40 PM CST

Adobe's Flash technology will help deliver streaming video of Major League Baseball games. MLB.com exec said Flash gave service more flexibility.

SEC Employee Accused Cuban Of Being Unpatriotic Over Movie

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST

S.E.C. employee had sent Mr. Cuban e-mails several times over the past year or so, accusing him of being unpatriotic. The bone of contention was Mr. Cuban's involvement with "Loose Change," a documentary that accuses the Bush administration of engineering the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a pretext for the Iraq war.

DO NOT Post Pictures of This Sign on the Internet

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:30 PM CST

New Way to Stop Global Warming: Turn CO2 to Rock

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:20 PM CST

A breaking study indicates that 4 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year could be locked up in rock formations that cover half of Oman—finally putting a dent in global greenhouse gases.

Race on to build world's first space elevator

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:00 PM CST

AUSTRALIA could play a key role in the 21st century space race, with competition heating up between Japan and the US to build the world's first "space elevator".

Adobe Debuts Flash Catalyst At MAX Conference

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:00 PM CST

A year ago at the annual Adobe MAX conference, the company demoed an application codenamed "Thermo" that drew plenty of praise for its ability to take static images and convert them to working RIA user interfaces with just a couple of clicks. This year, the app is official as Flash Catalyst.

Michael Jackson sued by Prince (of Bahrain) for $7M

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 08:00 PM CST

Michael Jackson is facing a $7,000,000 law suit brought by Sheikh Abdulla Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, left, who alleges the singer reneged on a recording and entertainment project

Brock Lesnar Leads the UFC’s Next Generation

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:50 PM CST

"It's getting stronger and stronger," former champ Randy Couture said. "Brock is a great indicator of where the heavyweight division is going. We're seeing guys who aren't just big guys, they're also very, very good athletes. Brock, obviously, is walking around with the title now, but more importantly, he's on the right path to completing his game"

10 Great Schoolgirl Appearances in Pop Culture

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:50 PM CST

"These girls are students in a secret spy paramilitary academy. Amy (Sara Foster) gets it on with criminal mastermind Lucy Diamond (Jordana Brewster, who has never looked better. It's worth seeing this movie just to admire her hair). Lesbian spy schoolgirls. Enough said."

APOD: Discovery of a Multi-planet Star System

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:50 PM CST

How common are planetary systems like our own Solar System? In the twelve years previous to 2008, over 300 candidate planetary systems have been found orbiting nearby stars. None, however, were directly imaged, few showed evidence for multiple planets, and many had a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting inside the orbit of Mercury.

Law professor fires back at song-swapping lawsuits

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:50 PM CST

A Harvard Law School professor has launched a constitutional assault against a federal copyright law at the heart of the industry's aggressive strategy, which has wrung payments from thousands of song-swappers since 2003.

Why I Love Transformers

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:40 PM CST

Five essential Xmas gifts for Apple iPhone lovers

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:40 PM CST

Stuck for Christmas presents? Your iPhone-loving friends will love these

Cloverfield 2: Coming Soon, Unless It Isn't. WTF?

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:30 PM CST

Never has a green-lit "go" movie been so...inert? Funny, irreverent look at the uncertainty surrounding the non-start of Cloverfield 2 -- w/some suggested plot scenarios to help kick-start things.

10 Most Accessible Foreign Films of the Last Ten Years

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:30 PM CST

In the hopes that Slumdog Millionaire could help open the door to further foreign film consumption, we present this guide to the most accessible world cinema titles from the past ten years. For every entry-level film on the list, we name a couple of more intermediate titled in the same vein — just in case you get hooked.

Stairway To Penthouse

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:20 PM CST

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Next Digg Meetup this Wednesday 11/19 in San Francisco

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:10 PM CST

The Digg team is heading back to Mighty in San Francisco for our last Digg Meetup of the year this Weds, 11/19. We're also excited to announce some more dates and cities for future Meetups. In the first few months of 2009, we're heading to LA, Austin, and Seattle - details on the venues and other 2009 events coming soon. -Kevin

Pirates Seize Massive Oil Tanker

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 07:00 PM CST

The U.S. Navy said Monday that pirates had seized control of a Saudi-owned oil tanker off the coast of Kenya. "The total number of naval attacks off Somalia now stands at 84 for this year, with 33 ships hijacked and 12 still in pirates' hands, most notably a Ukrainian freighter." ... with more than 250 crew being held hostage!

10 Crazy Celebrity Websites With Good/Bad Design Elements

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:50 PM CST

Most major celebrities have websites and they should, since well being a celebrity is a lot about branding. Many celebs spend millions on publicists and stylists and a website is a fundamental part of branding for any celebrity trying to make it big! So I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the websites of 10 people celebs known to be

Open Radar: using social networking to squash Apple bugs

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:40 PM CST

This weekend Open Radar introduced open source bug tracking for Apple software. Ars looks at this new site.

The Top 7 Game bad guys you didn't want to kill

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:30 PM CST

The gaming murders that left a bad taste in our mouth

Turkey for Dummies: Thanksgiving Dinner in 24 Easy Steps

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:20 PM CST

Not everyone (and certainly not every guy) is Julia Child on the ultimate food holiday. So why complicate things? Here's to roast the turkey and make the gravy in very basic, easy-to-follow steps.

MySpace hoax jury to hear about suicide

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 06:01 PM CST

Evidence from the suicide of a Missouri girl can be used by prosecutors against a woman charged with helping to create a false Internet identity that was used to harass the teenager, a federal judge has ruled. Meier, 13, who was being treated for depression, hanged herself after receiving messages saying the world would be better off without her.

8 Great Alternative Desktop Managers For Linux

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:50 PM CST

Most of the Linux users should be familiar with Gnome and KDE since both of them are the most commonly used desktop managers in the various Linux distros. Now, if you are using an old PC with low hardware specs, you might find that the above two desktop environments are too heavy for your computer to handle.

Top 26 Comicbook Movie Babes

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:30 PM CST

There's no doubt that comic book movies have included some of the hottest actresses around. So much so, that crunching them down into just 26 was one of the hardest tasks we have ever done. But it was worth every minute. Enjoy.

The Morning After (COMIC)

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:30 PM CST

Mmmmm....sacrilicious!

Adobe answers cries for 64-bit Flash on Linux

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:20 PM CST

Starting to answer the clamorous demand from open-source fans, Adobe Systems plans to release an alpha version of its Flash Player technology on Monday for those using 64-bit Linux software.

99% of Texas Science Professors Discredit Intelligent Design

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:10 PM CST

Of the 1,019 faculty members to whom the surveys were sent, 464 responded -- and fewer than 1 percent checked off the box marked, "Modern evolutionary biology is mostly wrong. Life arose through multiple creation events by an intelligent designer, although evolution by natural selection played a limited role."

Google SketchUp 7 Released

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST

SketchUp is software you can use to build 3D models of anything: your house, killer robots, furniture, trees, abstract art — anything. Architects and engineers use it to design buildings and other structures. Woodworkers use it to plan their projects. And lots of people use it to figure out where to put their furniture.

25+ Images That Might Give Geeks a Hard On

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST

We like to be called geeks ourselves but contrary to the popular belief, geeks are not nerds. Geeks are good looking and nerds are well, nerdy.

Wilpena Pound Aerial, Australia

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST

Home to a variety of animals, including kangaroos and wallabies, the rock basin known as Wilpena Pound was carved from ancient mountains by erosion. The high walls of rock are made of weather-resistant quartzite.

6 Ways Pushing Daisies Made Your Inner Nerd Cry Tears of Joy

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 05:00 PM CST

Nerds are renowned the world over for our extensive knowledge of possibly useless trivia, our obsessive devotion to our favorite books and films, and our resulting difficulties communicating with non-nerds. Thanks to modern internet culture, however, these days everyone is a nerd. And nowhere is that more evident than in Pushing Daisies.

New Star Trek Trailer in HD

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:30 PM CST

It's finally here!!

Battlefields and bikes: blogging from the edge

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:30 PM CST

Meet the people who post from near-impossible locations "Get yourself set up with a Twitter account. It's a nice, low-cost way of letting people know if you get into trouble or are kidnapped. You can agree on a keyword with friends to use if they need to start mobilising help for you and then you can just text that word when you are in such a ...

Seeking Clean Asian Air

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:20 PM CST

Good and bad news on urban snarls and smog in Asia. Lee Schipper, a specialist on cities, transportation and pollution diving time between Stanford and Berkeley, is a frequent presence on Dot Earth and a source for me when pondering how the world heads toward nine billion mainly-urban humans with the fewest traffic jams and smog alerts.

GOP Sen says Paulson may have given bailout $ to his friends

Posted: 17 Nov 2008 04:20 PM CST

U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe said Saturday that Congress was not told the truth about the bailout of the nation's financial system and should take back what is left of the $700 billion "blank check'' it gave the Bush administration.

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