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This will give the internet company a "relationship for life" with students - who can carry on using these e-mail addresses after graduating.

To the alarm of Washington, Hamas has seized the advantage in the increasingly vicious war between Palestinian factions. It's bad so that gangs have tossed their enemies alive off 15-story buildings, shot down one another's children, and burst into hospitals to finish off wounded foes lying helplessly in bed. Revenge alone could fuel the conflict

If you've been anxiously awaiting the day that you could analyze your DNA in the comfort of your own home, then you wait is over. Plop down 15 grand and get your analyzing on!

Italian police have arrested a Russian "ninja" who had been spreading fear across farmlands in the north of the country. The man, camouflaged in an all black suit, had robbed farmers and their families at knife point, police say. Ninjas were trained for stealth. They first appeared in 14th Century Japan and were famed as assassins and spies.

"The rich, after all, are supposed to be champsions of the free market, believers in survival of the fittest, and enemies of government involvement that reduce incentives. Why is Gates â€" and Buffett and so many other billionaires â€" suddenly worrying about the wealth gap?"

To say "they don't make 'em like that anymore!" would be one hell of an understatement. This movie has it all... Schwarzenegger in his prime, plenty of sci-fi action, gobs of blood, mutants, one-liners galore and a great story to top it all off. So sit back, relax and enjoy your virtual vacation on Mars. Any of you Quaids got a Smint?

A 50-ton bowhead whale caught off the Alaskan coast last month had a weapon fragment embedded in its neck that showed it survived a similar hunt â€" more than a century ago.

A list of the different ways you can convert your mountain bike from tubed tires to tubeless. Wheels, conversion kits, and different manufacturers are listed. Pretty good if you've ever considered switching to eliminate flats and improve traction.

"A cheap, highly addictive drug known as "cheese heroin" has killed 21 teenagers in the Dallas area over the past two years, and authorities say they are hoping they can stop the fad before it spreads across the nation."

Gaming Target has updated their monthly look at the battle of the console exclusives. The Xbox 360 continues to lead with 91 exclusives, with the Wii in second with 76 and the PS3 in last with 44. The list now also includes publisher information, release dates and Metascores.

Television networks see this as pure theft. They argue that shows downloaded illegally are hurting ratings in Australia and are responsible for lost revenue in advertising. They also claim that people will not download television at a price when free versions exist all over the web. Hmmm, doesn't that sound familiar?

The Apple Design Awards are officially over for 2007. What is the ADA? Simply told, Apple select and reward the developers they see raising the bar the very most in the Mac software world. Winning developers receive prizes 2008 WWDC passes, MacBook Pro’s and other great hardware. So who took home the glory at the 2007 ADA’s?

Soldiers returning from combat are twice as likely to commit suicide as men who have not served in a war, a new study reports.

Let's vote for Ron Paul and get rid of the I.R.S.

Someone really really examined the Windows Vista DVD and found these three guys, who are they?

Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones withdrew the appeal of his suspension Tuesday and will serve the one-year term imposed by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

"When you go out with your child and watch the movie, the children and the adults will say, 'I just don't get it. He speaks another language.' He's using Parisian slang that we just don't get."

MizPee finds the closest, cleanest toilet and gives you entertaining reading material once you get there. Since the service is cell phone-based, it's always with you, when you really need it.

A brief trailer gives a glimpse of the next Soul Calibur game.

The Double Slit Experiment is considered the quintessential quantum mechanics experiment. It succinctly illustrates the counter-intuitive properties of the quantum world in a clear concise manner.

Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays. Today, both companies are using sub-pixel rendering to coax sharper-looking fonts out of typical low resolution screens. Where they differ is in philosophy.

No restarting to use Bootcamp. Just select "Switch to Windows" from OS X, and your machine goes to sleep. Wake it up and your in Windows. You can do the same thing once in Windows to switch back to mac. VERY VERY NICE feature, no reason to use virtualization for me at least.

These days, “framework” is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a lot of attention and web application frameworks like Rails and Django getting even more, it seems like everyone is using some kind of framework to build their sites.

Details and a graph of the results after the jump.

The first official pic of Agent 47 from the much anticipated Hitman video game adaptation. Looks like 12 Monkeys meets THX-1138 with more silent killing.

More than a year after shocking allegations emerged about Duke University's lacrosse team, prosecutor Mike Nifong was back in court Tuesday -- this time, as the defendant.

SCOOOORE!Following in the footsteps of Connecticut's Legislature, New York State lawmakers are expected to approve legislation allowing the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

Roughly 50 percent of the power delivered from a wall socket to a PC never actually performs any work, according to Urs Hölzle, Google fellow and senior vice president of operations. Half the energy gets converted to heat or is dissipated in the AC-to-DC conversion. Around 30 percent of the power delivered to the average server is also lost.

New research indicates that children who receive antibiotics before their first birthday are significantly more likely to develop asthma by age 7. The study, published in a peer-reviewed journal, reports that children receiving antibiotics in their first year of life were at greater risk for developing asthma by age 7 than those who did not.

For our morning dose of WTF!, we turn to O.J. Simpson, who says that Paris Hilton is less newsworthy than an astronaut in space, and that television is now "all about the ratings." Like it wasn't when O.J. decided to ride the white Bronco?

The Grand Theft Auto titles have been considered to be some of the best sandbox games yet, although as you'll find out, 2 Days 2 Vegas is a more than worthy competitor...

AUDIO: Today on his radio show, Bill O'Reilly defended his lack of Iraq war coverage, stating, "CNN and MSNBC are actually helping the terrorists by reporting useless explosions. Do you care if another bomb went off in Tikrit? Does it mean anything? No! It doesn’t mean anything."

Porn is all around us, even in the woods.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. on Wednesday will announce his intent to drive the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in 2008, multiple sources with intimate knowledge of negotiations told ESPN.com Tuesday on condition of anonymity.

A dozen entrepreneurs, a dozen success stories: proof that you don't need a lot of money to make a go of it, but you do have to be smart about how you invest your energy.

More than a million animals, including elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, giraffes and a rare type of stork, have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region.

Justin Verlander pitched the first no-hitter in Comerica Park history, mixing 99 mph heat with crazy curveballs to lead the Detroit Tigers over the Milwaukee Brewers 4-0 on Tuesday night.

Why wait for a movie adaptation? Here are five novels that deserve the video game treatment.

At the time, the Soviet news agency TASS called Reagan's visit to the Wall "openly provocative, war-mongering." But listen closely to a recording of it today: the speech sounds as much like an invitation as it does a challenge. In the speech, Reagan would call on Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, but that language was opposed strongly

Mr. Wizard, the man who taught science to millions of geeks when we were kids, died today of cancer.