NEW YORK - Google Inc will offer Internet developers an open system to create applications across Web sites, a move that could challenge the features behind the explosive popularity of social network Facebook.
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Source: NZ Herald
Tags: Google, Google tools, dev tools, social network, OpenSocial
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LONDON - EBay division Skype and mobile phone group 3 have launched a mobile handset that allows Skype users to make free internet calls to each other while on the move.
The companies said on the new 3 Skypephone could also send free Skype instant messages, and that they hoped to sell “several hundred thousand” units [...]
On Friday, October 26, 2007 the FREE ENERGY TRUTH published an exclusive interview with Sean McCarthy - CEO of Steorn.
FE Truth: Sean McCarthy CEO of Steorn is with us today. Welcome Sean! Well, it’s not exactly Letterman, but perhaps we can ask a few searching questions of you nonetheless.
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“I have built “Lost Continent of Atlantis: Myth or Reality?” with the purpose of bringing together news, discoveries, and theories related to the lost continent of Atlantis. Some people look for the the lost city of Atlantis, which in Plato’s view, is only part of the Atlantean empire. However, we will discuss this issue [...]
Marylanders won’t see it until the skies clear - maybe Sunday. But backyard stargazers elsewhere are buzzing about Comet 71P/Holmes, which suddenly brightened by a factor of a million this week, becoming visible to the naked eye, even in urban areas.
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Source: baltimoresun.com
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PASADENA, Calif. - Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away.
The massive, growing black holes, discovered by NASA’s Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes, represent a large fraction of a long-sought missing population.
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Source: NASA
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The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
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World Health Organisation Confirms Bird Flu Virus Now Spreading From Human To Human
Is this how the pandemic begins? With a small story that barely grabs headlines finally confirming that the H5N1 virus has ‘learned’ how to spread from one human to another?
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Source: THE BIRD FLU BLOG
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“The legend of Mu is found on islands all over the Pacific Ocean. For thousands of years the Polynesians have handed down the story of a continent in the Pacific that was motherland of mankind.
The name of Mu somehow sounds like an uninteresting contraction of a more exotic name. In contrast, the word Lemuria invokes [...]
Is this the Future of Humanity? Does humanity have a future?
World Wide Mind
This work proposes that the construction of advanced artificial minds may be too difficult for any single laboratory to complete. At the moment, no easy system exists whereby a working mind can be made from the components of two or more laboratories. This [...]
Electronics giant Samsung has shown off what it claims is the world’s most powerful chip for use in memory cards.
The 64 gigabit (Gb) chips could be used to make flash memory, commonly used in MP3 players, capable of holding the equivalent of 80 DVDs, the firm said.
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Source: BBC News
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TOMORROW’S world, today. Towering wind turbines and solar panels generate endless supplies of clean green energy, robots glide around gleaming industrial plants while rockets take man into space.
This astonishingly accurate vision of a modern, mechanised society was made almost 75 years ago.
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Source: News.scotsman.com
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” It was a hot night so a man decided to take a walk along the beach. Soon after setting out, he felt a soft crunch under his foot. He stopped to inspect the soles of his shoes in the moonlight, and scraped off the remains of the unfortunate creature he had squashed. Unconcerned, he [...]