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SPACE.com – After a
two-day orbital chase, space shuttle Discovery linked up with the International
Space Station late Sunday to deliver a new crewmember and a cargo pod full of
vital supplies.
AP – Goofy videos weren’t on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the Internet. Neither was social networking, for that matter, nor were most of the other easy-to-use applications that have drawn more than a billion people online.
PC World – Add open-source BI (business intelligence) vendor Pentaho to the list of vendors rolling out financial incentives to lure customers during the global recession.
Reuters – The Prius hybrid automobile is popular for its fuel efficiency, but its electric motor and battery guzzle rare earth metals, a little-known class of elements found in a wide range of gadgets and consumer goods.
AFP – Japan’s weather agency issued storm and flood warnings Monday as a typhoon approached the east of the country bringing heavy rain and strong winds to Tokyo and the Pacific coast.
AP – Soups, stews and pies flavored with chunks of sea turtle meat will soon be illegal across the 700 islands of the Bahamas, environmental activists and scientists said Sunday.
Reuters – As a student activist in Jakarta, Avelino Coelho da Silva sought refuge in the Austrian embassy to avoid capture by Indonesian troops. Now as East Timor’s Secretary of State for Energy Policy, he installs solar power in villages.
Macworld.com – When you first take a look around OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), you might think Apple has done away with some of OS X 10.5âs applications and utilities. What, for instance, happened to the Exposé application? It used to be in the Applications folder. Is it really gone?
PC World – After months of headlines about the phenomenon known as Snow Leopard, it has hit the streets and reality has set in. It turns out that the updated Mac OS X is…..well, it’s simply an updated Mac OS X.
AP – Sun Microsystems Inc. recorded a $147 million loss while sales eroded 31 percent in the April-June period, likely the server and software maker’s last full quarter as an independent company.
AP – India’s national space agency said communications with the country’s only satellite orbiting the moon snapped Saturday and that its scientists were no longer controlling the spacecraft.