US plans to respond to international pressure over the use of cluster bombs by phasing out the amount of unexploded bomblets they contain, were today branded as "outrageous" by campaigners. A three-page Pentagon memo pledges that after 2018, more than 99% of the explosives in cluster bombs must detonate on impact

Officials say they have "sufficient evidence" to indicate that Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the bombing which killed 41 people

This remote-control car has an infrared follower system built in, so you steer it simply by pointing the IR beam from the controller somewhere ahead of the car, and it works out where you want it to go. So yes, it's a simple remote control for those who can't be bothered to learn how to steer their toys with a joystick or wheel and throttle remote. Or kids. Ah... now I understand. The "magic dot" can be up to five feet ahead of the 9-inch car and
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Among the rush of Apple patents relating to touchscreens over the last year came one on tactile feedback touchscreens, and Nokia seems to have been thinking along the same lines. Almost exactly the same lines, since Nokia's Haptikos tech is a system of fluid-cells driven by piezoelectric actuators that push up through a flexible touchscreen. And that sounds a lot like Apple's sub-surface, adjustable tactile "keys." But apparently the Nokia tech i
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The scientist at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have decided to delay the ignition of the massive particle accelerator. The LHC countdown shows now 30 more days, so you can enjoy July to its full potential. In case you don't know what a Large Hadron Collider is, it's the thingamajig that is supposed to find the Force that binds all things or?according to some morons?was supposed to kill us all yesterday. Wait, hold on a moment here.
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Coincidence of coincidences? Remember how I was talking that noise yesterday about wanting to spot a Google Street View car and Earthmine being the next best thing? Well that wasn't the next best thing, but this is: A Google Street View car (Prius, to be responsibly exact) was snapped ? while being pulled over! No word on why he was being pulled over, but something tells me that cop had an ounce of curiosity and a few minutes to kill. Source

AP - Prince Harry says his mother would be proud of the work he and his regiment are doing to revamp a school for disabled children in the impoverished African kingdom of Lesotho.

AP - The worst monsters in your most terrifying dreams probably would run and hide from the creatures Guillermo del Toro puts on a movie screen.

AP - The producer of the hit reality series "Survivor" and "The Apprentice" has been sued in Los Angeles by his former business partner.

Stocks headed for a lower open as investors, anxious about the nation's stumbling mortgage lenders, awaited a speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke

Congress should repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law because the presence of gays in the military is unlikely to undermine the ability to fight and win, according to a new study released by a California-based research center

A call from the world's most powerful nations to establish the goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions worldwide by 2050, was criticized by environmentalists Tuesday.

Hurricane Bertha -- the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic season -- began a shift in direction Tuesday morning, a day after growing to Category 3 status, according to the National Hurricane Center.

U.S. stocks were poised to fall deeper into bear market territory at Tuesday's open amid nervousness about corporate profits and mounting woes in the financial sector.

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Leading industrial nations endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term targets.

Communist allies withdraw support for prime minister's coalition government.

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, iPod Family, Software, Apple Square Enix has released their new game for the iPod, called -- wait, hold the iPhone. Say what again? Square Enix has apparently been hiding a huge secret, and the word is out already in iTunes. They've developed an iPod classic game called Song Summoner, and if the video above is any indication, we don't actually have to wait for the iPhone's App Store to come out, we might h
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