A private firm funded by Google Inc launched its Web-based DNA test in Europe on Tuesday, hoping to build on a successful start in the United States, where the $999 service went on sale in November.
Subscribers to 23andMe mail a saliva sample and, four to six weeks later, get the results online, allowing them to [...]
This is great stuff
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DENVER (Billboard) - In the two months since MTV Networks and Harmonix released the music-based videogame “Rock Band,” players have purchased and downloaded more than 2.5 million additional songs made available after the game’s initial distribution.
Source: Yahoo News
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The KDE Community is thrilled to announce the immediate availability of KDE 4.0. This significant release marks both the end of the long and intensive development cycle leading up to KDE 4.0 and the beginning of the KDE 4 era. Screenshots at The Coding Studio.
KDE 4.0 Screenshots
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I heard from LC last night and she is having a tad bit of trouble with her Text Messages and wireless is hard to get so she might not be posting as often as normal. But she is having a great time and the weather is really warm. Stay tuned for any updates that [...]
The Firefox Web browser community has created thousands of wonderful extensions that make surfing and working with the Internet fun and productive. While many extensions are homes runs, here are a few that just don’t make it out of the ballpark.
This is a good one to end the year on,Baldy
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Here is a wish from my house to yours for a safe and happy holiday season and many returns.
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The $100 notebook remains a dream but the OLPC project has inspired a new class of affordable laptops
Critics of the One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) Project like to point out that it has not yet lived up to its goal of putting US$100 notebooks in the hands of millions of kids in poor countries, but that’s a short-sighted [...]
If you’re a Canadian and you want to talk to Industry Minister Jim Prentice about his proposal for a Canadian DMCA, a copyright law that’s even worse than the ten-year-old American legislation that resulted in lawsuits against 20,000+ Americans without stopping infringement or paying artists, now’s your chance!
This Saturday, Minister Prentice is hosting an open [...]
Okay okay you say that there are no games worth playing in Linux! Well spanky here is a list of some of the most popular ones that you can download and install for Ubuntu, really almost any distro will work, most are one player shooter games and some are based on the Quake engine. Take [...]
