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Astronaut who lost tool bag admits making mistake - AP

The astronaut who lost her tool bag on a spacewalk admitted Wednesday that she made a mistake by not checking to see if the sack was tied down, and said she's still smarting over the whole thing...

Asus Launches World's Fastest Smartphone - TrustedReviews

We have a new smartphone speed king folks. The ever resourceful Asus is perhaps the not altogether unlikely top dog now...

Jerry Yang to Step Down As Yahoo CEO - BusinessWeek

Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang will step down as CEO as soon as a successor is found, the embattled Internet company just announced...

First Pictures of Extrasolar Planets Taken - DailyTech

One of the central themes both to science fiction and to real-life space progress was the drive to find and eventually travel to extrasolar plants...

Sony unveils 12Mp cameraphone sensor - Register Hardware

Sony has developed a 12.2-megapixel CMOS sensor for use in mobile phones, which will become available to mobile makers early next year...

How do avatars have sex? - BBC

A couple have divorced after the wife saw the husband having online sex in the virtual world of Second Life. So how do avatars have sex?...

Chinese Fraudsters Use High Tech Gear To Cheat Immigration Tests - ITProPortal

Two UK citizens of Chinese origin have been caught using high end spying technology to help Chinese candidates cheat UK immigration "Life in The United Kingdom" tests...

Robot Kicks Balls In One Utama - MyCen Buzz

ASIMO the robot, would you believe it, performed a robot dance like how Michael Jackson did when he was in KL. Sadly, like Mike, it is stuck with an annoying shrill voice. With that kind of voice, it won't be commanding RM 8000 an hour for lectures...

My God, it's full of K's! What the RED announcement means for the industry - CrunchGear

For the last couple weeks, Jim Jannard of RED Camera has been teasing everybody on the REDuser forums with vague promises and outrageous claims of revolutionizing the industry...

Spam plummets as gang leaves net - BBC

The closure of a web hosting firm that is believed to have had spam gangs as clients has led to a drastic reduction in junk mail. Two US internet service providers have pulled the plug...

Red faces and royal farewell for Dubai-bound QE2 - Guardian

It was hardly the most regal moment in the QE2's glittering career when the luxury ocean liner ran into a sandbank off Southampton yesterday...

Gmail Adds Video and Voice Chat - ChannelWeb

Google's Gmail has quickly become one of the most popular Web-based e-mail applications available -- and it just added video and voice chat capabilities...

Consumer groups air their discontent - The Star

Some may find it useful to call home via the new inflight mobile phone service introduced by Malaysia Airlines (MAS) but consumer groups feel that it is more of a nuisance than a convenience...

What's Lewis Hamilton's road car? - What Car?

Ever wondered what car Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton drives to and from work in?...

Spammers make profit with only one sale in every 12.5 million messages sent - ComputerWeekly.com

Even though the experiment saw a poor conversion rate, the researchers said that by sending out many more messages, the owners of the Storm network could be earning £4,500 a day, or £1.6m a year...

Nasa Mars mission declared dead - BBC

Nasa says its Phoenix lander on the surface of Mars has gone silent and is almost certainly dead...

Drunk journalist covering Obama quits with the f-word and, oh, it's on YouTube - CNET

Adam Smith has a headache today. And it's nothing to do with the world economy...

Penang WiFi project to go ahead - The Star

The Penang Government will proceed with a free state-wide WiFi initiative under its Wireless@Penang project...

HTC Launches HTC Touch HD and Touch 3G - MyCen Buzz

Large, 3.8 inch wide-screen VGA display, HTC TouchFLO 3D, desktop-class broadband browsing and a 3.5mm audio jack and more provide the ultimate entertainment combination...

Stop the insanity: CNN's 'hologram' was horrendous - CNET

...Now, I know what you're saying: "But Don, you see, by using its 'hologram,' CNN is embracing technology and taking news reporting one step further." Sorry, but I think that if you believe that, it's time for you to stop drinking Wolf Blitzer's Kool-Aid...

Blind pilot guided to land by RAF - BBC

A pilot who suddenly went blind while flying his plane at 15,000ft (4,572m) was guided in to land by an RAF plane...

Hackers cracked McCain and Obama networks - vnunet.com

Foreign hackers infiltrated the networks of John McCain and Barack Obama during the US presidential campaign, according to reports...

WPA Encryption Broken In 15 Minutes By Researchers - ITProPortal

Raising security concerns over the usage of wireless networks for transferring crucial data, a team of researchers have purported that they have developed a method to crack the Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) encryption standards...

Ex-Intel Engineer Indicted For Alleged Theft Of Company Secrets - ChannelWeb

The trade secret information was alleged to be worth $1 billion in research and development costs. Pani was reportedly a designer with the Itanium processor team...

Shang-Highed: On Top of the World's Tallest Observatory - Gizmodo

...When it was first envisioned—by a Japanese construction company, The Mori Group—it was to reach 97 floors tall, surpassing the spires of the Petronas Towers in Malaysia...

Nokia announces layoffs with flowery language - Engadget

Hiding behind a press release titled "Nokia continues its change and renews some of its activities," the woodsmen of Espoo are swinging a corporate axe of woe...

Google ditches Yahoo search ad deal - Guardian

Google has confirmed it is scrapping its proposed search advertising deal with rival internet company Yahoo after the US Department of Justice indicated that it would block the agreement on competition grounds...

'Help me, Wolf Blitzer. You're my only hope' - Chicago Tribune

The weirdest image of the election night was the Jessica Yellin hologram on CNN. If you were watching, you may have seen correspondent Yellin chatting with Wolf Blitzer—well, a version of her...

Logo to end piracy and make the world a safer place for the tiny children - The Inquirer

Music download sites have obviously had enough of people not realising how compatible the MP3 format is, which is why seven of them have clubbed together to promote a new logo.

Astronauts Vote From Orbiting Space Station - AHN

Two astronauts aboard the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) have cast their votes for the U.S. presidential elections...