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Submission + - Dark energy lurks in hidden spatial dimensions? (newscientist.com) 1

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Magdalene
Magdalene writes: "According to Stephen Battersby of the NewScientist.com news service; The mysterious cosmic presence called dark energy, which is accelerating the expansion of the universe, might be lurking in hidden dimensions of space. This idea would explain how the dimensions of space remain stable — one of the biggest problems for the unified scheme of physics called 'string theory'. In the NewScientist.com article, Brian Greene and Janna Levin of Columbia University liken the extra dimensions, including our our own 3d universe to membranes in higher dimensional space, they suggest that a "sterile neutrino" could exist in the extra dimensions, making its presence felt only as the source of dark energy.

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Feed Mold By-product Kills Multiple Myeloma (sciencedaily.com)

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Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researchers have found that chaetocin, a by-product of a common wood mold, has promise as a new anti-myeloma agent. Results of their study show the by-product to be more effective than currently used therapies at killing multiple myeloma cells.
Democrats

Submission + - GEEK SQUAD GONE FREAK SQUAD

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ssintercept
ssintercept writes: "A "Geek Squad" tech support guy making a house call in Southern This story was gleaned from the Raw Feed...California's City of Industry (near Los Angeles) was caught using his camera phone to video the daughter of a customer while she was IN THE SHOWER. The geek in question, named Hao Kuo Chi, used the customer's bathroom before fixing a broken PC. He left his camera phone on "record" in the bathroom. One of the two girls who lives in the house (a minor) took a shower. When she saw the phone, she told her sister, who grabbed the removable flash card and RAN TO THE NEAREST VERIZON STORE to see the video Hao Kuo Chi had recorded. They called the Sheriff, and the rest is history (especially Hao Kuo Chi's job and freedom — he's facing two counts of invasion of privacy, and one count of child molestation). link to story- http://www.therawfeed.com/2007/04/geek-squad-tech- caught-taping-girl-in.html"
Space

Submission + - Water Found in Exoplanet's Atmosphere

Submitted by anthemaniac
anthemaniac writes: Astronomers have long suspected that water should exist in the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. Now they have evidence. Water has been discovered in a planet called HD209458b, which was previously found to have oxygen. From the article: 'The discovery ... means one of the most crucial elements for life as we know it can exist around planets orbiting other stars.' But don't go looking for little green men. You might remember HD209458b as a 'hot jupiter' that boils under the glow of its very nearby star.
The Internet

Submission + - Hong Knog to Offer Free Internet

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "The Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region says that they will allocate HK$200 million in the next two years to provide free Internet service at government-run establishments and sites like public libraries, parks and government office buildings."
Story avaiable at
http://www.chinatechnews.com/2007/04/10/5233-hong- kong-to-offer-free-internet-service/#more-5233
Google

Submission + - Google mistakenly disables email accounts

Submitted by little hacksaw
little hacksaw writes: In an attempt to curb spammers operating with google mail accounts, Google has disabled an undisclosed number of email accounts of innocent civilians. The problem manifests as a "sector 6 lockdown error", but variations exist — sudden influx of spam, and inability to view or download attachments. Although claims of fixédness were made as early as April 7, the problem appears to be persisting.
KDE

Journal Journal: Dolphin all set to be included in KDE4

Journal by b1ufox
ArsTechnica carries an article on Dolphin, the new file manager which will debut with much awaited KDE4.The screenshot definitely looks promising.As dolphin will be the default file manager for KDE4, it certainly does not mean Konqueror has been displace.Knoqueror is still one of the most advanced file managers out there, among the FOSS community. More at http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/po
Businesses

Submission + - What is your experience with offshore outsourcing?

Submitted by
walterbyrd
walterbyrd writes: "Overall, does the "Dehli discount" really cut costs all that deeply? Or, by the time you write, and re-write, the specs, etc. do you end up spending more? Will the present obstiticles to offshoring be overcome, and thereby totally decimate technology jobs in the USA? Or, will rising costs associated with offshoring cause the practise to level out? What technical specializations do you consider especially vulnerable, or invulnerable, to offshore outsourcing?"
Upgrades

Submission + - Asus Builds Hybrid NVIDIA Chipset Motherboard

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TrackinYeti
TrackinYeti writes: "Filling the price gap between the high-end nForce 680i SLI and more affordable 650i SLI chipsets, without sacrificing any advanced features, motherboard manufacturer Asus has created a hybrid motherboard chipset in cooperation with NVIDIA, dubbed the "Dual X16 SLI". This chipset is employed on the company's P5N32-E SLI Plus and offers true, dual PCI Express x16 electrical connections for graphics, dual gigabit LAN support and a slew of other features found on high-end 680i boards. This article at HotHardware pits the P5N32-E SLI Plus up against an nForce 680i SLI to see if Asus' hybrid chipset approach truly offers all of the performance of the more expensive 680i SLI for a fraction of the cost."

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