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CES 2006, Day 2: Entertainment tech to flood consumers

If Day 1 at the Consumer Electronics Show was all about high-definition content, then Day 2 can be described as "Hollywood gets its day," as the show was about portable media centers, mobile entertainment content ...

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Greek temple discovered in Albania

Researchers from the University of Cincinnati’s Classics faculty are preparing to make their first public presentation of details surrounding their find of one of the earliest Greek temples in the Adriatic ...

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Briefs: Google remains most popular search engine

Google remains the most popular Internet search engine, according to a report Friday.

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Population threat linked to global warming

Global warming cannot be addressed without the international community addressing the problem of population growth, a British scientist says.

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Briefs: Yahoo! to offer television service

Yahoo! said Friday it will launch a television integration service in the near future.

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Designers to the stars: TEES engineers CRAVE redesign of out-of-date space suits

Astronauts don't care much about fashion: They've been wearing essentially the same space suit for almost 40 years. But they care a lot about the technology in the suit that keeps them alive.

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Samsung Shows World's First Mass-Market Blu-Ray Disc Player At CES

Samsung Electronics formally kicks off the era of Blu-ray, as it demonstrates its BD-P1000 Blu-ray disc (BD) player here at CES. The new device will let consumers take full advantage of high-definition displays, ...

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New disease strikes horse chestnut trees

British and Dutch researchers say a new tree disease is attacking horse chestnuts trees -- striking some 40,000 trees in Britain last year.

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Filling 'Nanocontainers' with Liquid

In research that may help advance many emerging nanotechnologies, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, together with research groups from Harvard University and IBM, ...

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Lenovo's Newest ThinkPads Unplug the Need for Power Cords from Dawn to Dusk

Lenovo today introduced two new ThinkPad models that bring a new level of performance and portability to the world’s most recognizable notebook brand, extending the battery life of its notebook computers to ...

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Wireless World: Carriers losing focus?

Wireless carriers have lost their focus and are concentrating on the wrong priorities, like trying to recruit as many new subscribers as possible, rather than properly serving those customers they have already contracted ...

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Analysts hail Palm's move to Microsoft OS

Palm's decision to market a wireless phone equipped with a Microsoft operating system is drawing positive reviews from tech analysts.

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Briefs: AOL, Intel tie up on home entertainment

AOL said Friday its digital entertainment services will be tailored to Intel's latest platform to make content viewing easier on TV sets and other devices.

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Briefs: Yellowpages.com to be on Yahoo! Local

Yellowpages.com said Friday it signed a distribution agreement with Yahoo! Local.

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Briefs: Kodak, Motorola ink deal on mobile imaging

Motorola and Kodak Friday entered a cross-licensing and marketing alliance in mobile imaging.

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