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Why the Army Doesn\'t Train on XBoxes Right now, every military command post and every training center is packed with PCs. In the future, many of those machines might be replaced with game consoles - if the armed forces can ever work out their disagreements with the console-makers.
Austrian iPad Will Be Subsidized With Contract According to iPhone blog TamsIJungle, Hutchison Telecom in Austria will be selling the iPad at a steep discount if you sign up for a two year contract.
Stunningly Preserved 165-Million-Year Old Spider Fossil Found Paleontologists have uncovered fossils in China from a family of spiders that has never been found there before. And the amazingly detailed specimens are 120 million years older than any others from the family.
Apple Store Is Back Online. Little To See Here. The Apple Store was down this morning. And since this is Apple, one of the high-tech universe\'s favorite parlor games began: What\'s really going on?! As it turns out, not much, unless you\'re in the market for some new photo editing and organization software.
Feb. 9, 1870: Feds Get on Top of the Weather President Grant signs the law creating what will become the Weather Bureau and eventually the National Weather Service.
Macworld Expo 2010 Caters to Apple Fans — Without Apple The Macworld trade show goes on without Steve Jobs. But will it live another year?
Video Gallery: Lightning Reveals Its Power in Slow Motion Ultrahigh-speed video reveals six lightning strokes in startling slo-mo.
Stormy Weather Cannot Defeat Re-Engineered Umbrella Saving up for a rainy day? Consider using some of that cash on an umbrella from Blunt. This reinforced dome will hold up to gusts short of hurricane force.
Storyboard: Chris Anderson on Long Tail of Stuff Advances in product design and prototyping signal the start of a new industrial revolution, Wired\'s top editor argues in his latest cover story. Anderson and Wired Executive Editor Thomas Goetz discuss the implications of these radical changes in this week\'s Storyboard podcast.
Feb. 9, 1969:Boeing 747 Makes First Flight The world\'s first jumbo jet, Boeing\'s 747, shows that it\'s ready for service.
Audio: DIY Recordings of Awakening Sun A backyard radio astronomer and artist in New Mexico has captured sound recordings of the newly noisy sun showering the Earth with particles.
JooJoo Tablet Faces Uphill Battle Against iPad Apple\'s iPad could sound the death knell for JooJoo, a tablet from an an unknown Singapore-based startup that was once the talk of gadget blogs.
Jurors Told to Stop Tweeting The federal judiciary is being told to instruct jurors not to tweet, Facebook or perform online research for cases they are involved in. The developments follow a rash of twittering, facebooking and internet researching by federal jurors — some of which have led to mistrials.
Google Making Gmail Into a Communications Hub Google is set to turn Gmail into a communications dashboard with rolling status updates. It\'s a bid to keep up with Facebook and make Gmail the place users turn to when they want to send messages, no matter what the medium.
Boeing\'s Biggest Bird Leaves the Nest The Boeing 747-8 made it\'s inaugural flight, more than a year behind schedule.
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