Vill inte ryckas med av krigstrummorna.

S810 writes with an excerpt from an article on the X-37B in at Discovery News: "The military won't say what it has been doing with its experimental miniature space shuttle, but the pilotless spaceship, known as the X-37B, has been in orbit for a year now. The 29-foot robotic spacecraft, also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV, was launched on March 5, 2011, on a follow-up flight to extend capabilities demonstrated by a sistership during a 244-day debut mission in 2010. 'We are very pleased with the results of ongoing X-37B experiments,' Tom McIntyre, with the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office..."

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En amerikan dödade av misstag sin 33-åriga hustru när hans hemmabyggda kanon avfyrade en projektil rakt in i deras hus i länet San Diego i Kalifornien, uppgav den lokala polisen tisdagen.

angry tapir writes "Western Digital's plan to buy Hitachi Global Storage has run into US FTC resistance: The U.S. FTC will require Western Digital to sell off assets used to manufacture desktop hard drives to a competitor as a condition of its US$4.5 billion acquisition of rival Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the agency has announced." It looks like Toshiba is the competitor receiving the manufacturing assets.

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Stortingsledamoten Henning Warloe (Höyre) är misstänkt för narkotikabrott och lämnar sina uppdrag.

Träning kan påverka DNA-molekylerna i muskelcellerna positivt, visar ny forskning från Karolinska institutet.

I found myself describing what I do in an email. It came out pretty well, and thought it would make a good blog post.

I have a bunch of projects I'm working on. The thread that joins them all together is the idea of relatively normal people running their own servers.

I've been working on this idea for about three years, actually a lot longer if you include projects that weren't ostensibly about people running their own servers, but involved them running them, even though they usually didn't know that's what they were doing.

So with good docs and appropriate UI, there's nothing hard about it. And the rewards can be as important as freedom.

That's the idea.

Antalet dödsoffer för de kraftiga explosionerna i ett ammunitionslager i Republiken Kongos huvudstad Brazzaville har stigit till 200.

Ägarna till den chilenska gruva där 33 arbetare satt fast i 69 dygn 2010 kommer att stå för bortåt en fjärdedel av statens utgifter för räddningen.

En kvinnlig självmordsbombare tog i dag fyra poliser med sig i döden vid en vägspärr i Dagestan, uppger regionala källor i Kaukasien enligt ryska nyhetsmedier.

eldavojohn writes "Google has just announced Google Play to merge their existing solutions for music, movies, books and apps in the new cloud based storage system promising that you will never have to worry about losing or moving them across devices ever again. You'll be able to store 20,000 songs for free. The region breakdown is: 'In the U.S., music, movies, books and Android apps are available in Google Play. In Canada and the U.K., we'll offer movies, books and Android apps; in Australia, books and apps; and in Japan, movies and apps. Everywhere else, Google Play will be the new home for Android apps.'"

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