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  • Sep 16, 2011

    Cure for Tinnitus?

    Researchers think they've found a new way to cure tinnitus, the constant ear-ringing that some people suffer from. It's believed that the ringing…

  • McAfee has released its annual list of the most dangerous celebrities on the internet. Heidi Klum is #1. Not because she blows stuff up or hacks…

  • White space. Sounds like something from a sci-fi novel. But, it's real. We talked about this last year when the FCC voted to open this part of the…

  • Sep 15, 2011

    Designer heater

    Dyson released a heater that it says can't burn you. The company claims it can also heat a room faster than any heater currently on the market, and…

  • Tomotaka Takahashi's tiny, green and white robot has already scaled the Grand Canyon and raced for 24 hours at Le Mans. So why not modify the…

  • PayPal showed off its new payment system yesterday to a select group of retailers.. The company is betting that merchants will be more likely to…

  • Sep 15, 2011

    Broadband grumbles

    Sure, everyone likes the IDEA of improved rural broadband. How to roll it out and pay for it? Well that's a bit of a sticky issue. Politico is…

  • In July, Netflix said it expected to have 25 million customers by the end of the third quarter. But now the company says it will be more like 24…

  • At a conference yesterday, Microsoft honcho Steve Ballmer admitted for the first time that the Windows Phone hasn't been selling all that well. No…

  • Google = Pac Man. Patents = little white pellets. Google's hope = some of those patents are the big blinking white pellets. Everyone Google's…

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