Microsoft sales fall; cost cuts please investors
(AP) -- Consumers may be shopping for computers again, but Microsoft Corp. still needs businesses to start doing the same.
Business
Oct 23, 2009
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SKorea's Hynix finally swings to profit
South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second largest memory chip maker, Friday announced a profit for the third quarter after seven straight quarters of losses.
Business
Oct 23, 2009
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New robot skier takes to the slopes (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new robot skier has been invented that can be fitted with off-the-shelf skis. This is not the first skiing robot, since Japanese scientists have produced their own (see PhysOrg.com article here), but is ...
Solar lantern lights up rural India's dark nights
For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar-powered lantern that offers hope to the nation's rural poor.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 23, 2009
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Poll: US belief in global warming is cooling
(AP) -- Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming.
Environment
Oct 23, 2009
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Paradigm shift: How Galileo's spy glass upended science
Today it would hardly pass muster as a child's plaything, but the telescope Galileo used 400 years ago this week to peer into the heavens overturned the foundations of knowledge, changing our perception of the Universe and ...
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2009
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Google co-founder Brin prefers Yahoo! without Bing
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has expressed amazement at resistance to the Internet giant's efforts to digitize the world's books and lamented a deal to have Microsoft handle online search at Yahoo!
Internet
Oct 23, 2009
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Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere (Update)
(AP) -- NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel told the White House Thursday.
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2009
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