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‘Modern Warfare 2’ not so modern?
Video: The single-player campaign is intense, multiplayer is sleek, but game stumbles.
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Microsoft bans up to 1 million Xbox Live users
Up to 1 million players who use Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service will be cut off from the service because they have modified their game consoles. Full story
Dating site: Britons among ‘ugliest people’
Fewer than one in eight British men and just three in 20 women who have applied to BeautifulPeople.com have been accepted, a statement from the site showed. Full story
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Huge space rock buzzes past Earth
Cosmic Log: Asteroid-watchers say a space rock about as big as a garage came with 9,000 miles of Earth, just 15 hours after it was detected.
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Chimps don’t talk: Experts know why
Our nearest relatives don't talk. We do. Now scientists have pinpointed a mutation in a gene that might help explain the difference.
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Chimps don't talk: Now experts may know why
Chimps, our nearest relative, don't talk. We do. Now scientists have pinpointed a mutation in a gene that might help explain the difference.
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Cosmic Log: Asteroid buzzes past Earth
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Asteroid-watchers say a space rock about as big as a garage came with 9,000 miles of Earth, just 15 hours after it was detected.
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Newsweek: Can Apple avoid mistakes of the '90s?
Will Apple do with the iPhone what it did with the Mac? Will it leap out to a technological lead and then find a way to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory? Or has the company learned from its previous experience and figured out a way to turn its superior design and wonderful technology into market domination?
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Facebook hit by ‘Control Your Info’ intruder
Facebook was hit on Tuesday by a well-meaning intruder who took over some of the site's online groups as a way of sending a message to tighten up security.
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Review: New BlackBerry Storm improves on original
Review: The first touch-screen BlackBerry phone, the Storm, got a few things right, but generally it was a chore to use. The new Storm is better.
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Microsoft bans up to 1 million Xbox Live users
Up to an estimated 1 million players who use Microsoft's Xbox Live gaming service will be cut off from the service because they have modified their game consoles.
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IntelliDrive program blends technology, safety
The Department of Transportation’s IntelliDrive program brings together government, industry, academia and others to specify, develop and produce technology for safer driving.
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