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Foursquare: The new Facebook?
This hipster-habituated social network lets you tip friends to hot (or not) locations and earn merit badges. Trouble is, not enough people are on it.
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Canon City Daily Record
Horses not only remember people who have treated them well, they also understand words better than expected, research shows. Full story
Prehistoric dads helped with child care
The males among our earliest human ancestors may have helped jumpstart the modern human population explosion by being hands-on fathers.
Cosmic Log
Tales from the quantum frontier
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The quantum world may seem so small and weird that there's no connection with everyday reality. That couldn't be further from the truth.
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Cosmic Log: Tales from the quantum frontier
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: The quantum world may seem so small and weird that there's no connection with everyday reality, but that impression couldn't be further from the truth.
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Top headlinesAlien planet discovered
Alien planet discovered
in not-so-alien setting
A newly discovered exoplanet is the first such alien world to resemble the planets in our own solar system, researchers announced Wednesday.
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Is Foursquare the new Facebook?
Foursquare, if you don’t know yet, is a hipster-habituated, location-based social networking Web site in which you can tip your friends on hot (or not) locations and earn virtual merit badges by punching your coordinates into your iPhone (or whatever) whenever you hit a bar, brunchery — or hook up with other Foursquare participants.
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Man accused of disabling 100 cars over Internet
A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday.
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Sprint to support Google's Nexus One phone
Google's Nexus One smartphone will soon be available to subscribers of Sprint, the second U.S. wireless service provider in two days to announce an agreement to support the touchscreen phone.
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Study: Video games can hurt schoolwork
Parents who fear that buying a video game system will hurt their kids' schoolwork might be right.
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Funky flies offer model for surgical adhesive
An underwater fly that builds a covering of pebbles and sand by gluing them together could point the way for developing a glue that works while wet.
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