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The Minnesota Timberwolves and Houston Rockets, who have been discussing a Mike James-for-Juwan Howard swap in one form or another since the February trade deadline, have finally completed the deal.

A teenager who hit on the idea of dialling random numbers and offering drugs for sale really got a wrong number when he called a policeman.

Rising violence spins out of control, Hamas vows to create Islamic Republic in the Gaza Strip.

Gigabyte Technology, one of the largest motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan, hosted a factory tour at its facility, inviting journalists out to give them a brief overview of the company and explain how their factory worked.

Demographic and lifestyle shifts are among the primary reasons many cities and developers are willing to bet on transit-oriented development. A growing number of households include singles and retiring baby boomers who are opting to live in smaller homes in urban areas.

Attorneys representing Major League Baseball argued Thursday that online fantasy baseball companies cannot operate without paying license fees to MLB to compensate players for the use of their names...

According to the interview with visual effects supervisor Rob Legato, Martin Scorsese actually used Apple’s iChat to direct the final “rat shot” from The Departed.

// The same girl you saw in Digg's video section, if you're wondering. //She's never had a formal singing lesson. Instead, she has had to hone her skills on a £39.99 karaoke machine. But Connie Talbot, the six-year-old star of ITV1's Britain's Got Talent, is already being hailed as the "next Charlotte Church".

Midway has released 10 new screenshots for BlackSite: Area 51, which is set to be released on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.

"The American diet circa 2007 is a disaster - but positive change has begun. Those were the twin themes of the "Fourth Annual Nutrition and Health Conference" held in San Diego, Calif., May 14-16, 2007."

Zimbabwe will collapse within six months, possibly leading to a state of emergency, according to a report sent to aid workers in the country.

A judge has ruled that a 24-year-old Canadian man is not allowed to have a girlfriend for the next three years. | Welcome to Digg! lol

One of the "John Does" targeted by the RIAA's P2P snoops is attempting to block the music labels efforts to learn the identity of the people using IP addresses fingered by the RIAA for infringement.

On an unseasonably hot May day in Central Park, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg â€" the pint-size billionaire whose last name needs no elaboration for anyone who knows anything about finance or the media â€" was talking about saving the planet. With the mayors of more than 30 of the world's largest cities at his side, Bloomberg was opening a clim

Have you been wondering whether the new Opera browser for the DS is any good? Did you even know that it came out? Destructoid editor Dyson gives it a hands on review, and the result isn't too positive.

The Department of Energy estimates that in the average home, 40 percent of all electricity used to power home electronics is consumed while the products are turned off. Add that all up, and it equals the annual output of 17 power plants, the government says.

Terrorism is a real threat, and one that needs to be addressed by appropriate means. But allowing ourselves to be terrorized by wannabe terrorists and unrealistic plots -- and worse, allowing our essential freedoms to be lost by using them as an excuse -- is wrong. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.

Manufactured from fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion with a worldwide surplus production running in the hundreds of millions of tons each year, these new bricks are as strong and safe as the bricks we're all used to seeing, cost 20% less to make, and are far more environmentally friendly.

The fossil of an enormous "chicken-like" dinosaur has been discovered in China. The one-and-a-half-tonne beaked behemoth is the largest bird-related dinosaur yet discovered.

"It's about as powerful as the original Xbox," he said. "The video hardware unfortunately is not as powerful. There's just a couple of key things that you can do on Xbox like shaders which you just cannot do on the Wii... Overall t

From the article: "The web belongs to people, not companies. This world view that Steve gave a glimpse into betrays their thinking: it’s out-of-date, corporate-controlled, duopoly-oriented, not-the-web thinking. And it’s not good for the web."

You don't know his face (see photo) or his voice (Jones is usually dubbed), but you know his, ahem, body of work: In the 1980s, the 6' 4", 140-pound contortionist was the shades-wearing moon in McDonald's "Mac Tonight" ads. In 1997, director Guillermo Del Toro cast Jones as a humanoid cockroach in Mimic and, in 2004, as the seaweed-hued Abe Sapien

An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years. The new audit covers just 10 percent of the bureau's national security investigations since 2002.

Hopefully it's not long before these types of physics are implemented into games, because it would add a whole new level of interactivity.

Apple today announced (via a news release) that more than 1 million copies of Safari for Windows were downloaded in the first 48 hours since the free public beta was made available on Monday.

Players have been steadily leaving WoW since the release of the expansion.

Mother stopped and harassed for no good reason.....sippy cup water...

Skitch goes invite-beta!!

Destructoid looks at the pros and cons of living life in a world with video game rules.

Last week, Jim reported on the announcement that SimCity Societies is to take a greater interest in the lives of its virtual citizens than previous installments have, and today EA went further into exactly how that's going to work.

The most notable features of interest to Linux users: Fullscreen mode works on Linux, and the entire thing has been reworked as a native GTK app that communicates with the hosting web browser using the XEmbed protocol. Hopefully, your favorite Linux web browser also holds up its end of the bargain by hosting XEmbed applications.

Dont Trust the Police in Mexico. Story of an American Traveler and the Mexican Law!

In a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting Thursday morning, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) revealed that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales once again used an interim appointment authority at the heart of the US Attorneys controversy that Congress banned in a bill sent to the President for signature on June 4.

An audit has found the agency violated rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data on domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions.

Apparently, U.S. forces have not only aligned themselves with dozens of Sunni militiamen, we’re now cooperating with sectarian militias, working outside the Iraqi security forces, that include insurgents that have attacked Americans in the past.

While the two giants fight over antitrust allegations, Steve Jobs moves forward.

Froot Loops’ days on Saturday morning television may be numbered. Susan Linn, the co-founder of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, said Kellogg’s decision to stop using licensed characters on sugary food was particularly significant. “Until now the industry has absolutely dug in their heels,” Ms. Linn said.

The Jesus Christ lizards are more properly known as basilisksâ€"a colorful name referring to the legendary monsters whose breath and glances were fatal to those unfortunate enough to encounter them.

Google unexpectedly canceled the party after its officials apparently determined they had gone too far.

Researchers are turning cars into nodes that 'talk' to each other, forming a new type of wireless network. As cars enter the mobile network, drivers can download multimedia - including movies, images and songs - or get real-time information about traffic.