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Submission + - Microsoft, Bungie Drop the Ball for Halo 3 Beta

Submitted by

portege00

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:39PM

portege00 writes: "I got up this morning thinking that I'd be able to play Halo 3 Multiplayer Beta on my day off because I purchased Crackdown. Guess not. Apparently Microsoft and Bungie really screwed up. While those that managed to secure a code through the rule of three program are happily playing away, the rest of us are left in the dark waiting without any answer as to when it will be available."

Submission + - UCLA student fixes iBook G4 logic board problem.

Submitted by iBookUser on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:34PM

iBookUser writes: Apple refuses to acknowledge logic board soldering problems in many iBook G4s. This guide explains how to fix your iBook G4 if you are experiencing the "fan of death". Over a hundred people have posted that this hack has worked for them. http://coreyarnold.org/ibook/

Submission + - Ring Provides Evidence For Dark Matter

Submitted by

GoogleRuinedMyLife

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:33PM

GoogleRuinedMyLife writes: "A team of US researches from Johns Hopkins University has observed some of the strongest evidence to date of the existence of Dark Matter in the universe (requires free registration). From the article: "A ring-shaped distribution of mass in a galaxy cluster five billion light-years from Earth is the strongest evidence yet for the existence of dark matter. This is the claim of physicists from the US and Europe, who have used data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to see how gravity is bending the light around the cluster. Unlike previous searches in other galaxy clusters, this would be the first time dark matter has been seen isolated in its own separate structure.""

Fake E-Mail Results in Angry Apple Shareholders 193

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:25PM from the solid-gold-stock-tips-buy-buy-buy dept.

drhamad writes "Apple stock dropped 2.2% today in mid-afternoon trading as Engadget published news based on a faked e-mail inside Apple. 'Apparently an internal memo was sent to several Apple employees--and forwarded to Engadget--around 9am CT today saying that Apple issued a press release with the news that the iPhone was now scheduled for October, and Leopard was delayed until January. About an hour and a half after that e-mail went out, a second e-mail was sent--this time officially from Apple--saying the first e-mail was a fake, and that the delivery schedule for the iPhone and Leopard had not changed.'"

Bookmark SPAM: How to make a Million Dollars - Step Six

by minksie on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:21PM

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Submission + - Amazon.com to launch DRM-free music download store

Submitted by Arthur Pilkington on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:15PM

Arthur Pilkington writes: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060 &p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1003003&highlight=

Submission + - Interesting mobile touch screen adaption

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:06PM

An anonymous reader writes: A paper was recently published about Shift at the Computer Human Interaction Conference earlier this month. The authors [Daniel Vogel, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto and Patrick Baudisch, a research scientist at Microsoft Research] developed the technology to solve several problems with mobile-phone touch screens, and also created a short video with a demonstration of how Shift works. Shift builds on existing technology already developed and known as Offset Cursor. Offset Cursor displays a cursor just above the spot a user touches on the screen. That allows users to place their finger below the item they wish to choose so that they can see the item, rather than hiding it with their finger.

Submission + - Halo 3 to Surface in September

Submitted by

mrneutron2004

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @06:03PM

mrneutron2004 writes: "The public beta test of the new Halo's online system begins this week and wraps up on June 6. Microsoft says it will then finish the game and have it ready for store shelves in the last week of September. http://www.siliconnews.net/top-stories/halo-3-to-s urface-in-september.html"

Submission + - Scientists Change Belief in Global Warming

Submitted by

Rommel

on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @05:56PM

Rommel writes: "If you are going to post links to "pro" Global Warming Sites such as the Top Myths dispelled you should present the counter-points as well... Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming ....Geophysicist Dr. Claude Allegre, a top geophysicist and French Socialist who has authored more than 100 scientific articles and written 11 books and received numerous scientific awards including the Goldschmidt Medal from the Geochemical Society of the United States, converted from climate alarmist to skeptic in 2006. Allegre, who was one of the first scientists to sound global warming fears 20 years ago, now says the cause of climate change is "unknown" and accused the "prophets of doom of global warming" of being motivated by money, noting that "the ecology of helpless protesting has become a very lucrative business for some people!" ".... http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction= Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=927b9303-802a-23ad -494b-dccb00b51a12&Region_id=&Issue_id="

Submission + - Amazon to Sell Music Without DRM

Submitted by whiteknight31 on Wednesday May 16, 2007 @05:55PM

whiteknight31 writes: Amazon has announced that they will soon enter the digital music business by selling MP3's without any DRM.

Submission + - Water generating electricity

Submitted by

Fun house

on Friday April 20, 2007 @11:32AM

Fun house writes: "Using just 3 metal buckets and two metallic tubes connected in a smart way, this professor demonstrates how static electricity can be generated. This can be considered a simple (yet very efficient — 10kV per discharge, perhaps even more) electric battery."

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