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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.

Get it while you can.

Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restore habeas corpus, the sacrosanct Constitutional right to challenge government detention in court, by a vote of eleven to eight.

The RIAA's campaign contributions are hard at work this week as members of Congress threaten to cut off federal funding to educational institutions if they don't stop file sharing on their networks.

What do you think â€" meat grows on trees? Maybe not, but how about in Petri dishes? Scientists in the Netherlands and the United States are working (separately) to create edible meat in the lab from animal stem cells.

Wellington Grey, tired of what he's seen done to his subject of physics, has written up his complaints.

Looks like the upcoming verison of Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon has reached Alpha 1, the wiki page contains information and also download links for people to try out. Here is the link to the screen shot tour: http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=833&slide=1

Boeing has just completed their firing tests for the stunning X-51A WaveRider Scramjet and if you want to know what hell looks like, this is it.

Capable of detecting both the concentration of motile sperm as well as a hormone which indicates egg quality, Fertell promises to give fairly accurate results for both him and her in under a half-hour

Parallels is a Windows virtualization software that allows you to seamlessly run Windows applications on Mac OS X without rebooting your machine. Version 3.0 allows you to open both Windows and OSX applications from within either OS: both OSX and Windows! It also supports 3D hardware graphics acceleration, making it way more compatible with games.

Transformers producer Tom DeSanto has secured the film rights to NCsoft and Cryptic Studio's video game City of Heroes, Variety reported.

Gentlemen and gentlemen, there is an evil upon us. A perversion of everything just and right in the world that threatens to invade our very homes and shake our gender to its very foundation. This threat â€" this thing that poses such danger to our race of men â€" is simple. Small. Seemingly innocuous. It is guyliner. That’s right â€" eyeliner for guys.

Hopefully, these specific examples will spark your imagination so you can build up your blog subscriptions. But first, let’s hit the beer.

For millions of people, Google is an indispensable search tool that they use every day, in all facets of their lives. From work or school, research, to looking up movies and celebrities to news and gossip, Google is the go-to search engine. There are a number of ways to make your searches more efficient.

Podcast of Grant Robertson and Alex Hung, two guys with a boatload of Windows and Mac experience, who have been trying out Ubuntu Linux. We hope to offer you a little insight and advice. But mostly, we hope that you can learn from our mistakes.

The disgraced criminal defense attorney facing prison for leaking grand jury testimony in the BALCO steroids investigation blamed alcohol, drugs and depression for his downfall, according to court documents filed by prosecutors Wednesday.

Finland is attracting species better-acquainted with warmer climes, including a moth (Calyptra thalictri) that binges on human blood. The bloodsucker is the first moth species in the world with the proven ability to fill its stomach with human blood; a puncture by a vampire moth can cause your skin to swell, turn reddish, and ache for several hours

… The Origins of the Illustrious Judge Dredd! I will forewarn you now and say that this is NOT a spoiler. Moreover, an opinion on what is potentially the story that fans have been waiting a long while for.

"From a journalistic point of view, news junkies should feel reassured by the success of ABC's less-is-more style. There has been too much clamor over "fake-news" shows like "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," and the trend favoring in-your-face hosts such as Bill O'Reilly, Lou Dobbs and Keith Olbermann."

This is really cool â€" astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile and Hubble have discovered the most massive star ever found… and it’s a bruiser, weighing in at 114 times the mass of the Sun. This blows away the previously most massive known star, which had a mere 83 solar masses. Cripes. That’s a whopping huge star!

Take the test -- You may be surprised.

I feel that if you sit under this table and rub your legs against this the wrong way, you're going to get stabbed.

It's a little scary to think of how games may have developed if this product had been successful. Instead of the 3D boom, would we all be playing FMV games now? Or 2D platformers with really good music?

Those are some pretty good reasons. This is looking to be a damn good movie.

Imagine this: You take a drug test. Six months later, the lab gets back to you and says that your urine contains trace amounts of a club and date rape drug even though you prefer to spend weekends with your Xbox.

Puts the nuts and bolts of the most popular video codecs under the microscope; then pits the codecs against eachother.

"Cable subscribers will soon have the option of buying their own TV set-top box rather than renting one. That new freedom may soon trigger an old question: Is it better to own or rent?" When I got DirecTV the only way I could get an HD box with DVR (which sucks BTW) was to buy it....

Along side the "Worlds Fastest Talking Female", "The Numa Numa Guy", "The Red Paperclip Guy", and other Internet Stars, MyBowlAd is seemingly signing up everyone to act in their ad not scheduled to air for Months...

In a dramatic case of microbial sleuthing, US scientists said they have discovered a new, potentially deadly strain of bacteria previously unknown to medicine.

The ESRB's online database reveals that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is destined for not only the Wii's Virtual Console service -- no big surprise there -- but the Xbox 360 as well.

It may be perfectly normal for a parent to give a child a piggyback ride, but for Lindsay Lohan and her mother that practice is inverted -- the child is doing the heavy lifting while the mother appears happy to go along for the ride.

Creative advertising put dripping paint on the walls of buildings. But wait, are the cars below it part of the ad?

WTF! This has got to be the weirdest story ever. The wheel chair of a 21-year-old man became lodged in the grill of a semi truck as the vehicle pulled out of a gas station. The semi then began driving down Red Arrow Highway, with its new and unusual hood ornament still attached. Speeds of 50 mph were reached, picture included.

"The result looks and feels like paper but has electronic, interactive features," says Gulliksson. Changing a display is as simple as removing the two outer paper layers, and adding new ones that also connect to the power supply and electronics." You can even add printed speakers, too cool.

"If money could buy happiness, how much would it take to bring it back after the death of a partner, child or spouse? Most of us would be loathe to assign such a value, if not offended by the question, but two economists have attached such dollar values to deaths by comparing the way that lost loved ones lower scores on happiness surveys.."

This little kid will kick your butt in Halo 2.

The Walt Disney Studios has entered into an exclusive multi-year first look deal with "Spider-Man" creator and producer Stan Lee and his production company POW! Entertainment, it was announced by Dick Cook, chairman, The Walt Disney Studios.

By releasing a development platform, Facebook's enabled developers to create some amazing applications riding off their social network. It's not too hard to get an application of your own up and running, but it's nice to have some help, as the documentation's not complete. Here are a few tips to help you get started!

The adult industry has grown alongside the Internet for so many years, it may come as a surprise that it has suddenly hit a wall... at the whim of the Internet itself. Now, the industry is fighting to maintain growth.