Another Storm Threatens Last Day of Holiday Shopping It was bad enough that a huge snow storm hit the East Coast the last weekend before Christmas. There are not any accurate figures about how much damage the blizzard did to store sales, but it’s widely assumed the snow kept many shoppers at home. Experts...
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In Christmas Eve Vote, Senate Passes Landmark Health Care Bill WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill in a climactic Christmas Eve vote that could define President Barack Obama’s legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country’s history. The 60-39 vote on a cold...
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Tekken movie poster teased on official Japanese site Film blog Twitch has spotted the teaser poster for the upcoming Tekken movie on the official Warner Bros. Japan site for the film. We don’t want to be overly cynical, but we’ve had our hearts broken so many times before that it’s hard to get excited...
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Will House be as sarcastic as a game character? Filed under: Casual, Puzzle If you are a fan of the TV series House M.D. (and if not you really should be) you know that the title character throws out sarcastic one liners about as quickly as some people eat popcorn. Legacy Interactive has already...
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Review: Gran Turismo 5 Demo requires serious skill Filed under: Videos, Toys/Games Click above to watch the video after the jump We’re waiting with baited breath for the arrival of Polyphony Digital’s Gran Turismo 5. It’s getting more difficult to sit on our hands all the time, so it’s a good thing that...
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What Is This? When I first saw this abstract image, I thought I was looking at some weird crystals, or maybe some snowflakes under the microscope using polarized light. The answer was much more amazingerest and surprising than that. These are the new solar cells developed at Sandia National Laboratories, the guys who...
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Criminal Escapes Prison, Taunts Police Via Facebook Say hello to Craig Lynch. He’ll give you the finger. The police has been hunting him since he escaped from prison last September, and now he’s using Facebook to taunt them. He seems like a very charming man: About me: You’ll have a laugh with me...
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I Don’t Think You Understand How Cheap Blu-ray Really Is The downward trajectory of Blu-ray player prices matches DVD almost to the dollar—actually, Blu-ray’s cheaper. And that’s not considering inflation, or that the best players do a whole lot more than Blu-ray. It’s not what Blu-ray makers wanted. Sony was firm for...
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Panasonic and new best friend Sanyo plan one week storage battery for the home One of the big obstacles in alternative energy is that some of its primary gathering mechanisms — solar, wind, reclaimed heat — aren’t continuously available, so no matter how much of a science lab you have bolted to your roof,...
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Citibank Loses Millions Thanks to a Cyber Security Breach Filed under: Other issues, Rumors, Citigroup Inc. (C) The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that the FBI is looking into a potential computer-security breach that resulted in the theft of tens of millions of dollars from Citibank by computer hackers. These hackers appear to...
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