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Submission + - Jobs Recommends Ditching DRM

Submitted by bizard on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @04:25PM

bizard writes: As more and more european companies have piled on the anti-ITunes bandwagon in the past few months, people have been wondering what Apple's strategy would be. Many assumed that Apple was enjoying too much of a benefit from the DRM and that they would never get rid of it. Well, today Steve Jobs said that getting rid of DRM would be the best option for consumers and that if the record labels can do it for CDs then why not downloads.

Submission + - Purdue Univ. Makes Trash to Electicity Generator

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musicon

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @02:29PM

musicon writes: "A group of scientists at Purdue University have created a portable refinery that efficiently converts food, paper and plastic trash into electricity. The machine, designed for the U.S. military, would allow soldiers in the field to convert waste into power and could have widespread civilian applications in the future. Researchers tested the first tactical biorefinery prototype in November and found that it produced approximately 90 percent more energy than it consumed"

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