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20 February 2008
google sky is worth $25 million?
20-02-08
08:15
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Google certainly has become quite a target for lawsuits lately. The latest one involves a former Google contractor who claims that the idea for "Google Sky" (a sky layer for Google Earth) was his idea -- so he's now suing the company for $25 million. First of all, who knows how many people at Google (and outside of Google) probably had the same idea. For this guy to claim that he can be the only person to have come up with that idea seems a bi
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right-wing groups threaten japanese filmmakers
20-02-08
07:53
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BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - The director and producers of a documentary about Tokyo's Yasukuni Shrine, where convicted war criminals are among the 2.5 million venerated souls, have received multiple death threats from right-wing groups that want to prevent the movie's local release.
china state newspaper lambastes spielberg on darfur
20-02-08
07:53
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A top Chinese state newspaper has lambasted Hollywood director Steven Spielberg for quitting the Beijing Olympic Games over Darfur, saying "childish" vanity politics lies behind Western criticism of Beijing policy.
china state newspaper lambastes spielberg on darfur
(reuters)
20-02-08
07:39
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Reuters - A top Chinese state newspaper has
lambasted Hollywood director Steven Spielberg for quitting the
Beijing Olympic Games over Darfur, saying "childish" vanity
politics lies behind Western criticism of Beijing policy.
style network crazy for more "kimora"
(reuters)
20-02-08
07:39
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Reuters - The Style Network has
designs on more of Kimora Lee Simmons. The cable channel has
given a second-season pickup to the model-mogul-mother's
reality series "Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane," which ranks as
Style's highest-rated original series ever.
"a-team" and "kojak" get new life on nbc sites
(reuters)
20-02-08
07:39
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Reuters - NBC Universal said Tuesday
it will stream full episodes of old TV shows, including "The
A-Team" and "Kojak," on its Web sites.
black eyed peas singer joins "wolverine" cast
(reuters)
20-02-08
07:39
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Reuters - Black Eyed Peas singer
Will.i.am will make his feature acting debut in "X-Men Origins:
Wolverine," the "X-Men" spinoff starring Hugh Jackman.
indies take the cake at game developers conference
20-02-08
07:39
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2008 looks like a good year to be an independent videogame developer, as Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft fish for the next big hit. Look for little games to steal the show at this year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
trio creates rock iband with modded iphones
20-02-08
07:39
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A couple of musical iPhone apps and a Nintendo DS game take the place of guitar, keyboards and more in the hands of tuneful gadget freaks.
with fidel gone, will cuba become a global ethanol player?
20-02-08
07:39
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Cuba has the potential to make 3.2 billion gallons of ethanol a year, a figure that would make it the world's third-biggest producer. Reaching that target would require a massive infusion of foreign capital, but with Cuba quietly modernizing its ethanol infrastructure, is the country preparing to jump into the ethanol game?
physicist neil turok: big bang wasn't the beginning
20-02-08
07:39
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Physicist Neil Turok discusses his theory that the Big Bang is just one in an endless series of universal expansions and contractions -- a theory that has provoked the ire of many physicists, as well as the Catholic Church.
alt text: test your brain with trivial security questions
20-02-08
07:39
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Imagine the simple queries that separate you from your online bank accounts forming the basis of a nightmarish game show. Let the interrogations begin! Commentary by Lore Sjöberg.
feb. 20, 1934: a huge step toward atomic energy
20-02-08
07:39
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Ernest O. Lawrence patents his cyclotron, which helps earn him the nickname "Atom Smasher" and paves the way to the atomic age.
stuck with a stack of hd dvds? here's how to convert them to blu-ray
20-02-08
07:39
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Just because one media-storage format suffers a merciless death, it doesn't mean the media itself still can't be enjoyed in some other form. Follow Wired's How-To Wiki guide to rip, convert and burn your now-obsolote HD DVDs to the Blu-ray format.
today in joystiq: february 19, 2008
20-02-08
07:37
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Thought we'd show off the PlayStation "In-Shirt XMB" tee again, which we think is wickedly hilarious. Check out the highlights for today:GDC08GDC08: The bean bag loungeGDC08: Telltale's party of the living deadOverheard@GDC: crack and the mobile games businessGDC08 exclusive: Mova brings lifelike motion capture to Unreal Engine 3GDC08: XNA booth tourGDC08: going baaa-listic for iSheepGDC08: Follow us on TwitterGDC08: The PlayStation Bloggers' Lo
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wilson to begin work on 'marley & me'
20-02-08
07:37
GMTOwen Wilson is going back to work for the first time since his reported suicide attempt last summer.
china bans foreign cartoons
20-02-08
07:25
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China is extending a ban that virtually locks out all foreign cartoons from airing between 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. in a bid to protect its fledgling domestic cartoon industry
obama wins wis. for 9th straight triumph
20-02-08
07:25
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Barack Obama cruised past a fading Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Wisconsin primary Tuesday night, gaining the upper hand in a Democratic presidential race for the ages. 




