AP - Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds ? that is, until he steps into an “exoskeleton” of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.
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LiveScience.com - The Wildlife Conservation Society has released a list of the”Rarest of the Rare,” a dozen animals most in danger of extinction.
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AP - A Missouri woman was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun — an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.
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Delays in implementing the net’s new addressing scheme could slow growth of the net economy, warns the OECD.
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BusinessWeek Online - Uniting the Virtual Workforce: Transforming Leadership and Innovation in the Globally Integrated Enterprise
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Philadelphia takes a pass on saving muni Wi-Fi network
BetaNews - By Ed Oswald, BetaNews The Mayor of Philadelphia has indicated that he will not use city funds to keep the Earthlink wireless network running in the city. Philly Won't Fight to Save Wi-Fi Network EarthLink To Pull Philly's Muni Wi-Fi, Anaheim's Days Numbed |
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Microsoft joins forces with the makers of the “$100 laptop” to make Windows XP available on the low-cost computers.
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PC World - The former chairman and CEO of PurchasePro.com, a business-to-business software broker that died during the dot-com bust, has…
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Facebook Disconnects Google Friend Connect
InformationWeek - Facebook says it denied Google Friend Connect access to Facebook user data for failing to respect its privacy requirements. By Thomas Claburn Facebook isn't feeling very social toward Google. Data Portability: It?s The New Walled Garden Facebook Bans Google’s Friend Connect |
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