A Scooter With Everything (For Certain Values of Everything) An anonymous reader writes "The folks over at Thought Lab have produced an extremely high-density mobile computing platform in a scooter and have been kind enough to teach us all how to make our own!

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GPL vs. Skype Back In Court mollyhackit writes "Hackaday reports that the GPL vs Skype case is going back to court today. This as an appeal to the court's decision Slashdot reported last July. The original case was brought again

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Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit techmuse writes "Comcast is considering the imposition of bandwidth caps and reductions in network bandwidth to customers who, while paying for the use of a certain amount of bandwidth, dare to actual

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In Australia, XP Cheaper Than Linux On Eee 900 KrispyDollars writes "It sounds crazy to say this, but the XP-based version of the Eee PC 900 (the new version with the 8.9" screen) will actually be considerably cheaper than the Linux-based version.

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Firefox Vietnamese Language Pack Infected With Trojan An anonymous reader writes "Wired.com is reporting that the Firefox browser has been unknowingly distributing a trojan with the Firefox Vietnamese language pack. Over 16,000 downloads of the pack occu

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id Software Announces Doom 4 spoco2 writes "The id Software site has announced that work has begun on the next sequel to their most famous game, Doom. Will they be able to resurrect the series after what many considered to be a s

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NASA Offers $5000 a Month For You to Lie in Bed tracer818 writes "In order to study a person as if they were in space without gravity, NASA scientists are paying subjects $17,000 to stay in bed for 90 straight days. The study will follow the Bed Re

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China to Deploy Secure GPS by 2010 hackingbear writes "Unsatisfied by the reliance of American GPS navigation system and not feeling much security joining the European Galileo system, China will expand its 4-satellite Beidou navigation

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NASA Builds a Cheap Standardized Space Probe TangAddict writes "Dr. Alan Weston, who previously invented bungee jumping, led a team of scientists at NASA Ames Research Center to build a $4 million dollar spacecraft in less than two years. The Mo

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DOE Pumps $126.6 Million into Carbon Sequestration RickRussellTX writes "The DOE awarded $126.6 million in grants today to projects that will pump 1 million tons of CO2 into underground caverns at sites in California and Ohio. Environmental groups cal

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