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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?

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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."
Businesses

Submission + - Houses made of waste

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Roland Piquepaille
Roland Piquepaille writes: "Some engineers are more ambitious than others. Two UK engineers plan to replace the 350 million concrete blocks manufactured in the UK each year by blocks made almost entirely of waste materials such as crushed glass, pulverized fuel ash, and bitumen, a by-product of the petrochemical industry. The 'Bitublocks' are about six times stronger as concrete and will not be more expensive. These eco-friendly materials should become available in about three to five years, but a house prototype should be available soon. Read more for many additional details about the Bitublock and the upcoming Vegeblocks which will be using waste vegetable oil."
Movies

Submission + - TRON Classified "Sensitive" by Homeland Se

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ewhac
ewhac writes: "Apparently a Jeff Bridges film is now a credible threat to the Republic. Reports are emerging from Hollywood that the Department of Homeland Security has classified the film TRON as "sensitive" and ordered Disney studios to surrender all its copies. Concern reportedly surrounds the live action scenes shot at the Shiva nuclear fusion research facility, which apparently after 25 years are now considered to reveal sensitive details about nuclear technology."
Announcements

Submission + - Architect Claims to Solve Pyramid Secret

Submitted by Alreadybutnotyet
Alreadybutnotyet writes: A French architect claimed Friday to have uncovered the mystery about how Egypt's Great Pyramid of Khufu was built — with use of a spiral ramp to hoist huge stone blocks into place. The construction of the Great Pyramid 4,500 years ago by Khufu, a ruler also known as Cheops, has long befuddled scientists as to how its 3 million stone blocks weighing 2.5 tons each were lifted into place.

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