Return of the Neanderthals – “If we can resurrect them through fossil DNA, should we?”

Happy Accident Opens Door to Cheaper, Higher-Resolution Cameras – “Thanks to this lucky mistake, a new breed of camera sensors that are cheaper, higher-resolution and have lower distortion could be on the horizon…”

Samsung – OLED laptops by 2010 and by 2015 third of all laptops will use OLEDs – “”

Nokia N97 launches latest challenge to iPhone – “The touchscreen smartphone, which has a 3.5 inch screen and both a touchscreen and a glide-out Qwerty keyboard, is the latest handset in Nokia’s N series. It follows the blockbuster N95, the handset which has so far sold 15 million, and the N96, which was released earlier this year…”

CBS “60 Minutes” on Online Poker Scandal – “The case investigating is known throughout the online poker sphere – it´s about the UltimateBet & AbsolutePoker (both pokerrooms are operated by the same company) cheating scandal, in which allegedly the boss and founder, as well as some other upper-management personal in the company used secret super-user accounts to see the holecards of all the players on their table…”

Pentagon Shoots $22 Million Into Guided-Bullet Tech – “Darpa, the Defense Department’s far-out research arm, announced a pair of contracts last Tuesday, to start designing a super, .50-caliber sniper rifle that fires guided bullets…”

Learning by heart is ‘pointless for Google generation’ – “For generations of pupils, learning key historical dates, places, and names off by heart has been the bastion of academic success…”

I’m Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq – “My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers of our generation, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the mastermind of the campaign of suicide bombings that had helped plunge Iraq into civil war. But instead of celebrating our success, my mind was consumed with the unfinished business of our mission: fixing the deeply flawed, ineffective and un-American way the U.S. military conducts interrogations in Iraq. I’m still alarmed about that today…”

Top 10 Amazing Animal Videos – “Hippo Animals have inspired countless people to study biology. Their unique behavior and amazing abilities are the impetus for fascinating research. And who doesn’t love a good animal video? Here are some of the best clips…”

Linux on the iPhone: penguin poop in Apple’s walled garden – “An iPhone hacker has successfully ported the open source Linux kernel to Apple’s popular mobile device. Although the port is still at a very early stage of development and currently only supports a slim subset of the iPhone’s capabilities, it demonstrates the versatility of the Linux kernel and the ingenuity of iPhone modding enthusiasts…”

What Your Computer Does While You Wait – “This post takes a look at the speed – latency and throughput – of various subsystems in a modern commodity PC, an Intel Core 2 Duo at 3.0GHz…”

Danish Banker to Become First ‘Affordable’ Space Tourist – “Scheduled for 2010, he will ride ‘up front’ in the Lynx, a 2 seater rocket powered suborbital space plane, on his landmark journey towards the stars. His return flight to an altitude of 200,000 feet is expected to take just 30 minutes…”

LHC Might Not Be Back Online Until 2010 or Later – “When the LHC first went down, it was believed that repairs could get the system up and running by April 2009. Then we saw repairs pushing the timeline back to summer 2009. But now, CERN has arrived at a fork in the road regarding LHC repairs…”

SkyBike – “With the revolutionary SkyBike leading the field, Samson Motorworks vehicles are as thrilling to fly on the ground as they are in the air. Utilizing our patent pending Telescoping Wing and AirLean™ systems, Samson Motorworks new product line offers motorcycle simplicity, economy and excitement, blended with the versatility of being able to fly and drive…”

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