Windows Weekly: New TWIT.TV Podcast

The latest podcast from TWIT.TV – the first episode covers: the real Vista ship date, Windows security, the new Office ribbon, and more…

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Lame 3.97 (not beta) available now

Lame 3.97 is here. Speed improvements, among many other goodies.

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Resurrected virus shows how 1918 flu strain committed mass murder

In an experiment never seen before in medicine, US researchers went to Alaska to recover tissue samples from a woman victim of Spanish flu whose body had been preserved in permafrost. Teasing out fragments of the virus, they painstakingly recreated the H1N1′s eight genes. They brought back to life a killer last seen more than three generations ago.

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Intel to ship 1M quad-core chips before AMD ships first

Pat Gelsinger has stated that Intel is set to ship more than one million quad-core chips before AMD ships its first. Wonder how AMD is going to combat this.

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‘Wag the Dog’: MPAA Embarassment Over Pirated DVD Sniffing Labradors

The Motion Picture Association of America will stop at nothing to prevent the international trafficking of pirated movies. The film industry lobby is enlisting the help of two Labradors, Lucky and Flo, that have been trained to smell chemicals found in DVDs. The problem: Pirated DVDs smell just like regular ones!

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CableTV without a Tuner – Free HBO, FOX on your PC!

With the beta release of the TVU Player, you can get live Digital cable, streaming over the Internet to your PC, for FREE. Watch HBO, Disney, FOX, ABC, all the big networks and more for no charge!

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Microsoft Sues Hacker

The world’s largest software maker is suing the developer of a program that allows users to circumvent digital rights protection from Microsoft’s Windows Media Audio (WMA) song format.

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54 Geeky Tutorials in one spot

Personal nerdy obsessions is the name of the game: from home networking, Firefox, and data security to personal finance, netiquette and web publishing. A lot happens in the course of a year, so today go back.

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Project Orion: NASA’s Next Spaceship Takes Shape

The pieces are coming together for NASA’s next spaceship Orion as space agency engineers begin working with lead contractor Lockheed Martin to shape the vehicle’s cockpit.

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Doctors Have Performed First Zero Gravity Surgery

French doctors carried out the world’s first ever operation on a human in zero gravity today, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.
During a 3-hour flight from Bordeaux in southwest France, the team of surgeons and anaesthetists successfully removed a benign tumour from the forearm of a 46-year-old volunteer.

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