Where does the Apple TV hardware and software go from here? Jason Snell has a few ideas.

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Apple gets its hands on a special Clovertown processor for its Mac Pro systems.

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Astronomers using data from several X-ray satellites have caught a magnetar -- the remnant of a massive star with an incredibly strong magnetic field -- in a sort of giant cosmic blench.
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As the United States looks to alternate fuel sources, ethanol has become one of the front runners. Scientists studied the greenhouse gas emissions and bioenergy of corn, hybrid poplar, switchgrass and other crops to determine the efficiency of various biocrops in terms of energy consumption and energy output.
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Starting to breed late in life is a bad idea if you want to maximize the number of offspring that you produce -- or so the theory goes. But doubt has now been cast on this hypothesis -- one of the biggest assumptions in behavioral ecology -- by researchers from the universities of Bristol and Cape Town and published in Current Biology.
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Scientists have discovered a new role for sugars on proteins that may lead to new drugs or improvements on current medications.
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Terry Lovejoy became the first digital photographer to have a comet named after him. Comet Lovejoy can be seen with the help of binoculars this month.
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