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Body-wired Headphones

Sony’s Tokyo research lab has found a way to connect headphones to portable music and video players without the need for fiddly wiring. They simply feed an audio signal straight through the listener’s body.

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Leet Speak On The News – Very Dangerous Online Code

Warning to parents: You child may be using a very complicated and dangerous language called “Leet”.

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Do humans explode in the vacuum of space?

In scores of science fiction stories, hapless adventurers find themselves unwittingly introduced to the vacuum of space without proper protection. The ill-fated adventurers rapidly swell like over-inflated balloons, ultimately bursting in a gruesome spray of blood. Neat. But what REALLY happens if the human body is exposed to the vacuum of space?

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The WOW signal

“Wow” remains the strongest and clearest signal ever received from an unknown source in space, as well as the most fascinating and unexplainable.

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101 Things You Do NOT Want Your System Administrator To Say

A little bit of old-school packetstorm humor ;)

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MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations

The MPAA is lobbying congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. The group feels that all theaters should be sanctioned, whether they be commercial settings or at home.

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13 things that do not make sense

What scientists still don’t understand about the universe and life.

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The largest superconducting magnet ever built

The largest superconducting magnet ever built, in the Atlas detector at the Cern lab, has been powered up successfully. Engineers sent a current of 21,000 Amps round the coils. Atlas will analyse collisions in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which will recreate conditions just after the Big Bang.

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EFF: New DMCA Exemptions Granted

The Copyright Office/Library of Congress issued its determination in the latest triennial DMCA exemption rule-making. Six exemptions were granted, the largest number so far. Persons making non infringing uses of the following six classes of works will not be subject to the prohibition against circumventing access controls.

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