iPhone worm creator lands software job

Seeded on Thu Nov 26, 2009 2:11 PM EST (BBC News)
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The 21-year-old hacker who wrote the first iPhone worm has landed a job developing software for the phones. Ashley Towns wrote Ikee, a self-propagating program that changed the phone's wallpaper to a picture of 80s pop singer Rick Astley.

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Spotify plans to rock the U.S. digital music landscape early next year

Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:13 PM EST (The L.A. Times)
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Spotify is a program similar to iTunes that lets users listen to just about any song on demand. For free. The application takes a page from the Google model -- give a fantastic product away and plan to make money from ads.

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Women now 'better with gadgets than men'

Seeded on Wed Nov 25, 2009 7:59 AM EST (Telegraph)
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Technological household chores like tuning a new television were once considered men's work but new research suggests women have become more gadget savvy than their male counterparts.

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Modern-day cattle rustling alive and well in southeast Oregon

Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:22 PM EST (OregonLive.com)
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JORDAN VALLEY -- They were spotted from a small airplane, two cattle rustlers on horseback hazing 125 white-faced cows across Malheur County's forbidding "empty quarter" in Oregon's far southeast corner.

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Reports of dead and damaged Core i7 iMacs on the rise

Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:59 AM EST (Boy Genius Report)
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Apple forums the world wide web over are filling up with reports of computers showing up with broken displays an/or simply not booting up.

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Scientists Discover that Dinosaurs Taste Like Chicken

Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:44 AM EST (National Geographic)
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Ancient collagen—the main protein component of bone—has been extracted from the remains of a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex, according to two new reports.

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Obama Will Host National Science Fair - ""Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models, and here at the White House we're going to lead by example."

Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 9:29 AM EST (Welcome to the White House)
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And today, I'm announcing that we're going to have an annual science fair at the White House with the winners of national competitions in science and technology. If you win the NCAA championship, you come to the White House.

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Microsoft Tries to Pay Content Providers to 'De-index' from Google

Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:45 AM EST (OSNews)
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It is no secret that Microsoft is doing whatever it can to eat away at Google's immense market share of the search market, with Bing being its most ambitious effort yet.

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50 Amazing Realistic CG Portraits

Seeded on Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:51 AM EST (noupe.com)
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3-D computer graphics (CG) art is capable of generating the most eye-catching and incredible effects, and that's why we love it.

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NASA Invites You to do real Mars research at the same time you are playing a video game

Seeded on Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:10 PM EST (discovermagazine.com)
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With NASA's manned space flight program in tumult, it's an open question when/if human boots will tramp on Martian soil. But the space agency has provided a virtual way for humans to explore the red planet, with its new "Be a Martian" program.

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