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Human blood stem cells engineered to kill HIV. Amazing, but it does sound allot like a zombie film plot, I am Legend?

Nissan is going electric, with the leaf. With an engine output of 80kW/280Nm and range of 160Km it might just be a commuters dream.

NISSAN | NISSAN UNVEILS “LEAF” – THE WORLD’S FIRST ELECTRIC CAR DESIGNED FOR AFFORDABILITY AND REAL-WORLD REQUIREMENTS.

Duke Nukem Forever, is probably the most overly hyped and long awaited game in history. 3D Realms, the developer has closed its doors, so it seams like the rumours and teasers are now over, or are they? Take 2 is looking to buy the rights and hopefully finish it!

Fudzilla.

This guy stuck a video cam at the end of his amateur telescope and captured some very nice pictures of the International Space Station. Awesome Considering that the ISS orbits 350 km over the surface of the Earth.

Shuttle and station imaged from the ground! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine.

The controversy surrounding stem cells may soon be a thing of the past, as Canadian researches may have found a way to harvest stem cells from the skin. Soon treatments to diseases, including Alzheimer’s, diabetes and Parkinson’s may be found.

Canadian stem cell breakthrough.

Wireless users groups, or community wireless networks are growing at a very high rate, it seems people are fed up with high internet costs, and are opting to connect to peers using wireless community driven networks. How do they work, how to join, what does it cost, read more for all the answers Read the rest of this entry »

Web 2.0 as you may or may not, know is the latest buzz word on the Interweb, well actually it is getting quite old now, but nevertheless it still is all the rage, think facebook, think twitter think well this very blog! So web2.0 is, from the wikipedia: “enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users”. I have started to read some stuff by Tim O’Reilly and it is just, excellent because Tim has a unique and very expert view on everything tech and all the latest trends… Anyway back to the point, I recently read an article about web2.0 written by Tim in 2005 and it was very good and thought provoking, it made me think, what if I took the game industry and made the same web1.0 VS web2.0 comparison? Read the rest of this entry »

Napster, the notorious file sharing P2P, application from the early 00’s has gone legit for some time now, but now, they are offering customers, music which is free form all Digital Rights or copy protection. They also claim to hold the largest collection of DRM free music in their catalogue.
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The Piratebay, has broken into the Alexa Top 100 most popular websites… At no 97
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