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Soon the beige-box desktop PC will be a thing of the past. The ever-fashionable folks who design PC cases, inspired by Coco Chanel’s “little black dress” trend (of 1926), have decided to drop the tired beige cases in favor of grey, black and silver ones. This fall, Compaqs, Gateways and Dells will all be sporting [...]

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Researchers at UC Berkeley, in a finding that is rocking the toxicology world, found that up to 20% of male frogs develop multiple sex organs - “sometimes both male and female” - when exposed to very low levels of the common weed killer atrazine. Although this story is pretty interesting, I’m posting it in order [...]

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Steve Mann, a professor at the University of Toronto who wears a web of wires and computers as part of an ongoing experiment on Wearable Computing, was recently subjected to a three-day interrogation and strip search after trying to board a plane in Newfoundland. Apparently, Dr. Mann refused to put his equipment through the x-ray [...]

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Feminism has reached the virtual world. In an attempt to battle cyber-sexism, a hacker, claiming to be a 17-year-old girl, wrote a web worm that targets Microsoft’s .Net platform. Responding to sexism in the male-dominated anti-virus industry, the hacker, going by “Gigabyte,” wrote and released the “Sharpei” worm in order to prove that women can [...]

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Scientists at Texas A&M have successfully cloned a cat. The little calico kitty, named Cc:, represents science’s first great advance towards the perpetuation of our pets. Although it took 188 tries, two-month old Cc: is reportedly healthy and “cute as a button.” No mention of what happened to the other 187 attempts, but at least [...]

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