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Sony unveils motion-sensing controller for PS3 consoles

Sony on Wednesday unveiled a hotly anticipated motion-sensing controller that it hopes will fuel new interest in its PlayStation 3 videogame consoles.

2 hours ago from The Independent

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Half-cock chicken mystery solved

Researchers in Edinburgh say they have solved the mystery of why some chickens hatch out half-male and half-female.

7 minutes ago from BBC News

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Fossilised egg gives clue to fate of ancient birds

Scientists are hopeful of finding out more about ancient birds and why they died out after extracting DNA from a fossilised elephant bird egg.

Wed 10 Mar 10 from The Independent

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Huge 'botnet' amputated, but criminals reconnect

The sudden takedown of an Internet provider thought to be helping spread one of the most promiscuous pieces of malicious software out there appears to have cut off criminals from potentially ...

2 hours ago from The Independent

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Endangered listing eyed for US loggerhead turtles

(AP) -- The federal government on Wednesday recommended an endangered-species listing for the loggerhead turtles in U.S. waters, a decision that could lead to tighter restrictions on fishing ...

2 hours ago from PhysOrg

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Conquering the chaos in modern, multiprocessor computers

Computers should not play dice. That, to paraphrase Einstein, is the feeling of a University of Washington computer scientist with a simple manifesto: If you enter the same computer command, ...

16 hours ago from PhysOrg

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Global agency reconsiders '.xxx' for Internet porn sites

A global Internet oversight agency is reopening discussions about whether to create a ".xxx" domain name as an online red-light ...

16 hours ago from USA today

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48 Hawaii-only species given endangered listing

(AP) -- Wildlife officials lauded Washington's "holistic approach" to conservation in Hawaii after the Obama administration declared 48 species as endangered and announced plans to set aside ...

2 hours ago from PhysOrg

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Students' perceptions of Earth's age influence acceptance of human evolution, says study

High school and college students who understand the geological age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) are much more likely to understand and accept human evolution, according to a University of ...

15 hours ago from PhysOrg

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Motorola and Microsoft in deal to put Bing on phones

Motorola has reached a deal with Microsoft Corp that will put Bing search and mapping services on its phones that use Google's Android operating system.

3 hours ago from The Independent

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