Google Accidently Revealed As eBay Critic 259

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 31, 2008 @12:20PM from the that-was-some-other-search-site dept.

Xiroth writes "In what could cause an escalation of tensions between the two internet giants, an anonymous critique of eBay's upcoming move to accepting only PayPal as the payment method in Australia has accidently been revealed to have been submitted by Google thanks to PDF meta-tags."

MIT Develops "Paper Towel" For Oil Spills 105

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 31, 2008 @09:45AM from the cleanup-on-ocean-three dept.

TheUnknownCoder writes "MIT scientists have created a Nanowire mesh that can selectively absorb hydrophobic (oil-like) liquids from water up to 20 times its weight. The membrane can be recycled many times for future use, and the oil itself can also be recovered. There's even a video of it in action, removing gasoline from water."

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