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	Data from Disk Drive Recovered After Shuttle Columbia's Accident
Jon Edwards recovered precious data on a melted disk drive that was destroyed when it fell down from the sky during the collapse of shuttle Columbia back in 2003.
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	New Powerful Weapon from Pentagon's DARPA Was Inspired by a Novel
In his novel, entitled "Earthlight," the famous Arthur C. Clarke brought fame to a new type of weapon. Today this weapon is being developed by Pentagon's DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency). The weapon that will most probably turn the writer's dangerous ideas into reality is entitled Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition (MAHEM)
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	A MacBook Gets Hacked in Less Than 2 Minutes
Charlie Miller - the man who first hacked into an iPhone last year - needed only about 2 minutes to hack into a MacBook Air using a fake web site, a software flaw and an exploit code.
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	Microsoft Cautions of New Hacker Attack on Word Files
Microsoft believes that hackers may use an unpatched hole in order to install malicious code in Word documents as well as in any system that opens these documents.
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	Microsoft and Intel to Spend $20 million on Parallel Computing Development
Microsoft and Intel work to create parallel computing to make computers work faster by dividing tasks over numerous microprocessors, rather than having one processor to perform one task at a time
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	The Amount of Digital Information Reached 281 Exabytes (281 Billion Gigabytes)
A study performed by IDC and sponsored by EMC offers detailed information regarding the fast increase of digital information
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	Sony and Microsoft Talk about Blu-ray Drive Incorporation in Xbox360
According to the Financial Times, competitors are currently discussing about adding the Blu ray high-definition technology to consoles that formerly were aligned to HD DVD format
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	Apple's iPhone 2.0 Software Beta is Out for Testing
Apple invites IT companies and departments to test the new iPhone 2.0 Software Beta with Enterprise networking support.
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	Vulture - The Unmanned Aircraft Able to Stay in the Air for 5 Years
Officials from Flight Glogal stated that DARPA will probably sign a contract to create an unmanned aircraft that is able to stay in the air for about 5 years at a time.
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	Microsoft Signs Up Autodesk, Blockbuster, Coca-Cola and Ingersoll-Rand to its New Service
For some time, the software giant, Microsoft, has been administering the desktops of Energizer Holdings and XL Capital.
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	NASA to Strike the Moon with a Double Sledgehammer
Two spacecrafts are going to be launched by NASA in hope of slamming into the South Pole of the moon and find out if the double explosion on the surface of the moon will be able to reveal the hidden water ice.
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	Google Purchases a 10,000km Undersea Fiber Optic Cable
Google's officials state that the company is not going to enter into the telecom business.
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	HD DVD Lost the War Against Blu-ray, Toshiba Gave Up
The officials from Toshiba Corporation on Tuesday announced that the Japanese company would stop the campaign meant to promote its HD DVD format for the follow-up generation DVD
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	Apple Introduces the Multi-Touch Touchpad with the New MacBook Air
Apple introduces its new multitouch touchpad, which is to use three-finger manipulations for a wider functionality.
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	Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft Fined for Advertising On-line Gambling
Such companies as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft will always enjoy too much attention. However not always "enjoy" is the most suitable word.
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