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Google Kills Yahoo Ad Deal 79

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 06, 2008 @01:47AM from the sleep-with-the-fishes dept.

mytrip writes "Google has pulled the plug on on a search-ad partnership with Yahoo that would have given Yahoo major new revenue but that raised antitrust concerns. 'After four months of review, including discussions of various possible changes to the agreement, it's clear that government regulators and some advertisers continue to have concerns about the agreement,' said David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer in a blog post Wednesday."

Magnetic Levitating Trains Get Go-Ahead In Japan 425

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @11:29AM from the futureworld-is-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "They've been on the drawing board for 40 years but the politicos have finally approved routes for the 500kph maglev trains to replace bullet trains." I wonder if they'll let me test out maglev rollerblades on the track.

Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia 424

Posted by timothy on Friday October 17, 2008 @05:51AM from the unarmed-populace dept.

sparky1240 writes "While Americans are currently fighting the net-neutrality wars, spare a thought for the poor Australians — The Australian government wants to implement a nation-wide 'filtering' scheme to keep everyone safe from the nasties on the internet, with no way of opting out: 'Under the government's $125.8 million Plan for Cyber-Safety, users can switch between two blacklists which block content inappropriate for children, and a separate list which blocks illegal material. ... According to preliminary trials, the best Internet content filters would incorrectly block about 10,000 Web pages from one million."

CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident 149

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 16, 2008 @08:07PM from the training-exercise-was-too-trite dept.

sash writes "From the fresh press release: 'Investigations at CERN following a large helium leak into sector 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider tunnel have confirmed that cause of the incident was a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator's magnets. This resulted in mechanical damage and release of helium from the magnet cold mass into the tunnel. Proper safety procedures were in force, the safety systems performed as expected, and no one was put at risk. Sufficient spare components are in hand to ensure that the LHC is able to restart in 2009, and measures to prevent a similar incident in the future are being put in place.'"

Comment Spelling error: Endeavour instead of Endeavor (Score 1) 209

by stevenrieder on Friday August 17, 2007 @05:34PM (#20268175) Attached to: NASA Decides No Fix Needed for Endeavor's Tiles

The shuttle's name is Endeavour, spelled in the British way, instead of Endeavor. The shuttle is named after HM Bark Endeavour, the ship commanded by James Cook, and the name also honors the Command Module of Apollo 15, which was also called Endeavour.

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