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Joomla! is moving to ensure the future of the project by committing to compliance with the GNU/GPL licence. This decision reflects a lengthy introspection combined with legal considerations to properly secure the project in the spirit of Open Source. For us, for everyone, Open Source does matter.

Silver Surfer replica makes its way onto the London Eye; gets darker, more mature feature spinoff.

The number of consumer products using nanotechnology has more than doubled, from 212 to 475, in the 14 months since the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies launched the world’s first online inventory of manufacturer-identified nanotech goods in March 2006.

The high priests of free software have congregated at Google Inc. headquarters this week to debate the future of the movement and face down recent patent threats by Microsoft Corp.

And to think, America's only been around for about 400 years.

BOSTON -- Massachusetts lawmakers blocked a proposed constitutional amendment Thursday that would have let voters decide whether to ban gay marriage in the only state that allows it.

I've noticed a wonderful trend happening at universities these past few years: projects that integrate sex and technology in innovative ways to improve human health and well-being.

Game will include new features such as perks and create-a-class, a new game engine with advanced physics, dynamic lighting, and other special effects. In game missions with heavy use of plot, cinematic full video load screens, and amazing cut scenes.

The FBI has found networks of zombie computers being used to spread spam, steal IDs and attack websites.The agency said the zombies or bots were "a growing threat to national security".

Wil Wheaton talks about why he thinks that it is a good year to be a Trekkie

This is a very well written, and in my opinion very accurate, oped piece on the current state of these United States. Everyone needs a little reminder each day why they shouldn't be complacent.

If your looking to build a custom PC soon you should definitely check out arstechnicas' PC building guide. In it they'll help you build any level of hardware from a 'Budget Box' to a 'Hot Rod' or for those with the cash a 'GOD MACHINE'.

Viva Piñata's charmingly rendered online safety message, it's dual control (so a parent can help out a struggling youngster via a second pad), its colourful and characterful creatures - all seemed to be in place to ensure its success as Microsoft's trailblazing high definition kid-friendly Trojan horse.

Here it is. Many improvements of GUI and internals made their way into this build, so take a deep breath and chat with your frieands ;)

The engine works by stripping electrons from hydrogen atoms and accelerating the resulting plasma in an electric field. Expelling the plasma out of the back of the engine generates thrust

8 Ghz using Liquid Nitrogen, Pentium 4 631 and an Asus motherboard. Great project with lots of pictures.

Over 10 years ago, during the transition from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X (Rhapsody), Apple promised write-once, deploy everywhere functionality to developers in the then upcoming Mac OS X platform. Yellow Boxes for Intel and Mac OS would in theory make the Yellow Box the premiere choice for cross-platfor...

Courtesy of the new issue of Game Informer comes a ton of new info on Harmonix's mega-rhythm-game Rock Band.

Are Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's days numbered? Almost certainly. Is it too soon to start picking a successor? Not at all -- and you can help! You can nominate and vote on the executives you think would make the best Yahoo CEO. Send a message to Sunnyvale: Who's got the best chance of turning Yahoo around and taking on Google?

The idea behind Justin.tv is simple: a video stream, anytime, anywhere. The hardware behind the idea wasn't so easy to make, so Justin called up a friend, Kyle Vogt, to hand build version 1.0 from some off the shelf and homemade parts, a grip of EVDO cards, and some "borrowed" tools from MIT.

Fatah leader and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will dissolve the Palestinian government, allowing him to form an emergency government, a source close to Abbas told CNN... "Gaza is now officially out of our control as the Palestinian Authority," said Erakat, who is aligned with the Fatah party.

This is apparently a scan from the newest Entertainment Weekly where they premiere the first shot of Batman sporting his new suit in THE DARK KNIGHT. Not much has changed, but there are a few new things you can spot pretty easily.

President Bush's security operation was launched Feb. 14th, but casualties have worsened.

A thirteen-year-old boy who became an elective mute at the age of three has spoken his first words for over a decade. Ben Grocock was just three-years-old when he threatened to stop talking if his parents brought him into hospital for a tonsillectomy. But he remained true to his word and didn't speak again for the next ten years.

The new small update will be out tomorrow but will only fix RGB FULL color mode...

With upcoming releases of Ubuntu, expect to see a new Dualview UI for using two monitors.

The reason the catastrophe will be so immense is because our nuclear missiles will be vaporizing nuclear sites. When these sites are vaporized, all the enriched uranium and plutonium stockpiled there will be shot into the atmosphere as "weaponized" particles, along with the radioactive particles from the warheads themselves.

A West Coast scientist who believes it may be possible to transmit information backwards through time has been funded by individual donations after established mad-scientist groups refused to cough up.

This story is straight out of Taiwan, this child's body is actually magnetic and so is his fathers. Watch as they hang silverware and an iron off of their bodies. Apparently it all started after he was in the army. I wonder what the hell they were working on?

The Compenion is a sleek concept laptop designed by Felix Schmidberger. It certainly looks like the kind of portable PC we might be carrying around in 2015, made more futuristic by its OLED touchscreen, which serves as both monitor and keyboard.

According to Gizmodo, those blue-shirts at Best Buy might just be onto something! If you've just bought yourself a PlayStation 3 and want to set it up 20 feet away from your gigantic 1080p display, a Monster cable will show a much more highly defined picture than the "cheap cable" (Monoprice). I can't believe it - see for yourself!

The report said as many as 13 million deaths could be prevented yearly by reducing the environmental risks. All preventable. Tackling air pollution, contaminated drinking water and other environmental problems could save millions of lives annually around the world, the World Health Organization said in a report Wednesday.

The study, which was carried out on just 1% of our DNA code, challenges the view that genes are the main players in driving our biochemistry. The Encyclopaedia of DNA Elements (Encode) study was a collaborative effort between 80 organisations from around the world.

Ingenious "See both sides of the story" banners being displayed as part of the "BBC Now in America" advertising campaign.

In a tragic and unexpected turn of events, Daniel Robert Epstein, master of pop culture and the art of the interview, passed away Tuesday night at his home in Astoria, New York. At this time the cause of death is unknown. He was 31.

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A former Dell kiosk manager writes us to share helpful tips about doing business with Dell. He has no particular problems with Dell, he just wanted to share some helpful tips for consumers looking to get the best deal. He includes info on getting the best deal from the website, different kinds of promotions the Dell offers, insider details

From Marvel's President of Production, Kevin Feige, that after The Incredible Hulk the next Marvel film will be Captain America! “Well I think we'll certainly have to play with that and play with Captain America being this patriotic propaganda machine on one hand but also being a very human Steve Rogers â€" interesting, fascinating hero in his own...

The federal judge who oversaw I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby’s CIA leak trial said Thursday that he received threatening letters and phone calls after sentencing the former White House aide to prison. "I received a number of angry, harassing mean-spirited phone calls and letters," U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said. ...

US PRESIDENT George W. Bush's approval rating has dropped to 29 per cent in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released today.It is his lowest mark ever in that survey, which also found only 23 per cent approved of the job the US Congress is doing.