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Mark Pagel, head of the evolutionary biology group at the University of Reading in England and editor of The Encyclopedia of Evolution, fills us in:

29th of June will be a historical day for every Apple fan and it seems Apple is trying hard to have full warehouses for the first shipping day.

I don't know why this is so eye-catching, but I can't stop looking at it.

Are there any Republicans at all that would make even a tolerable president? I don't see any here. Anti-science, anti-gay, anti-immigrant, anti-intellectual anti-truth.

Ars Technica goes to look at the new Creation Museum to see what the fuss is about.

This guy was brought up on child pornography charges, yet, enough people bought his album to make it number 1. Boggles the mind.

Apple is poised to deliver its third Mac revision in less than a month next week when the company takes the wraps off its new iMac line. Sources with reliable track records report the new iMac, wrapped in a brushed aluminum enclosure, is currently tracking for release at or around Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11.

So you were looking forward to an Xbox Live style headset with your shiny new Wii? Well fear not! We've uncovered that the Speech recognition chip, discovered last week, just isn't there for show, as a customer services representative lets on more than he should have!

Playstation Portable will have a much slimmer design, new LED screen that will deliver an ultra-crisp image, battery life which can last as much as four times longer than the original PSP, much faster load times, 8GBs of internal flash and redesigned controls.

Two senators have proposed an amendment that would restrict companies from hiring more foreign workers if they are planning "mass layoffs" that will reduce the US workforce. Such an amendment could affect a number of big tech companies that are still pushing for an increased H-1B cap.

Maybe he was the Lizard King.

While robots certainly come in many shapes and sizes, they tend to be, by and large, masculine. Seeing the lack of representation of the fairer sex, Tomotaka Takahashi took on the task of creating a robot that didn't just look female, but moved in a feminine way as well. Thus the FT (female type) robot was born.

When the qualifying round had ended and all the legalities had been sorted out, ten competitors were flown to New York City to play for the Pac-Man World Championship title and, with only a few practice hours beforehand, forced to compete within the new and unfamiliar settings of Pac-Man Championship Edition. Meet seven of them.

If you've ever tried copying and pasting a multi-line address into Google Maps just to realize that an input box will only take one line at a timeâ€"meaning that you have to copy and paste each line individuallyâ€"there's a simple Firefox tweak that will solve this problem

"The Nintendo Wii really is a versatile piece of hardware. I mean, when it comes to controllers, there are pretty much four different types."This, is, exciting.

When Steve Jobs takes the stage Monday at Apple's programmers conference, he's likely to give the world a glimpse of an upgraded Mac operating system that could herald the biggest changes to the machine's interface in 30 years.

At the Republican debate last night, almost all the candidates said that they would not rule out a nuclear attack on Iran Only Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said he opposed a nuclear strike on moral grounds and because he believed Iran "has done no harm to us directly and is no threat to our national security."

A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat's nest of cables needed to power today's electronic gadgets has come one step closer to reality. US researchers have successfully tested an experimental system to deliver power to devices without the need for wires.

The return of wildlife to the region near the world's worst nuclear power accident is an apparent paradox that biologists are trying to measure and understand. Wildlife has returned despite radiation levels in much of the evacuated zone that remain 10 to 100 times higher than background levels, according to a 2005 U.N. report _ though they have

Its finally official,Assassin's Creed will be hitting both the PC, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 worldwide this November.

MIT researchers report the identification of a mechanism in the brain that's tied to the experience of déjà vu, French for "seen already." The neuroscientists studied how subregions of the hippocampus--a part of the brain responsible for creating memories--contribute to our ability to differentiate between distinct places that are very similar.

The company has changed its strategy in an effort to dominate the newest generation of video game consoles. Nintendo is known for turning out hits with memorable characters like Donkey Kong and the Super Mario Bros., but it has had a reputation for cold-shouldering game software developers because it preferred to do things internally.

Bud Selig dropped this ultimatum on Jason Giambi yesterday - 'Fess up or else. The baseball commissioner issued a statement late yesterday afternoon that he had requested Giambi to cooperate with George Mitchell's probe into steroid use in baseball within two weeks. If he doesn't, the Yankees slugger could face disciplinary action from Selig.

Neighbors of convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown reported police SWAT teams and at least one armored vehicle converging on a field near their Plainfield home this morning.

"Cell-phone and laptop batteries could last up to 50 percent longer, thanks to a new type of display technology. It could allow cell-phone, digital-camera, and laptop makers to develop power-saving displays that could dynamically adjust their backlight and color intensity based on the color and brightness of the content."

The people at Full Circle Magazine (on digg a bit earlier, too) have released Issue 1 of Full Circle Magazine, an Ubuntu e-magazine. Take a look!

Marine scientists in Canada and abroad are puzzled by bizarre photographs that appear to show the skeleton of a large mammal jutting out of an iceberg that recently drifted past Newfoundland's east coast. The six pictures show what looks like a brown rib cage and spinal column, slightly bent, sticking out of a crust of ice.

“I thought long and hard about it, and if anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an `Indiana Jones’ film. I love working with Steven and George, and it goes without saying that it is an honor to have Harrison as my son,” he said. “But in the end, retirement is just too damned much fun.”

The Committee on Science and Technology is losing its patience with file sharing on US college campuses, but witnesses at a hearing warned against entering into a technology arms race with students and the purveyors of piracy tools.

The HD DVD combo disc may look like an innovative and interesting idea at first glance, but in reality, it simply adds more cost to an already higher priced HD DVD movie title. The worst part of this deal is that most combo format titles are not available as a ’standard’ HD DVD, which means that you are forced to cough up the extra $5-$10.

From the largest bank robberies in the world, to art-stealing con men, to backwoods bull semen theft, to fishermen jealousy -- here are 13 of the biggest, most profitable, strangest -- but most importantly, real -- heists from around the world -- one for each of Ocean's new crew.

A laptop for those of us who just want to take notes and surf the web while in class. The price? $199 USD

How Japan Sees the USA ...

"Many of us are lusting after the iPhone, but are all of us? Are you one of the people most likely to buy a phone when it's released on June 29?"

Hours after Paris Hilton was sent home under house arrest Thursday, the judge who put her in jail for violating her reckless-driving probation ordered her into court to determine whether she should be put back behind bars.

Here’s the story behind one of the most peculiar (and most popular) grave sites in the entire United States. More than 60 years after it was completed, it still attracts tens of thousands of visitors a year.

Windows Vista has seen significant changes to its security model, networking capabilities, storage support, and more. In our continuing technical exploration of Vista, we explain and assess these improvements, plus we look at what didn't make the cut, and why.

A group of Moscow geeks have opened a museum of Soviet-era arcade games. The physical design of these things is incredible -- heroically ugly, radiating un-fun like a potato studded with razor-blade splinters. I want a laptop that looks like this.

We always knew Tesla was right: MIT physics professor Marin Soljacic and his team of researchers behind the latest wireless electricity scheme have reportedly demoed their magnetically coupled resonator technology on a 60-watt lightbulb that wasn't plugged in.

Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.