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Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen

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miller60 writes "Web servers hosting musician Peter Gabriel's web site have gone missing from their data center. "Our servers were stolen from our ISP's data centre on Sunday night — Monday…

Sailing Robots To Attempt Atlantic Crossing - Slashdot

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Sailing Robots To Attempt Atlantic CrossingSlashdot - 13 hours agoOne of them, 'Pinta the robot sailing boat,' has been designed at Aberystwyth University in Wales. Pinta is expected to sail for three months…

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Eric Lerner's Focus Fusion Device Gets Funded

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pln2bz writes “Eric Lerner, author of The Big Bang Never Happened, has received $600k in funding, and a promise of phased payments of $10 million if scientific feasibility can be demonstrated to productize Lerner’s…

GE Microbes Make Ersatz Crude Oil From Many Sources

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polymath69 writes “According to The Times Online, genetically modified microbes have been developed capable of turning surplus material such as wood chips, sugarcane, or others, not into ethanol, but into a substance…

Toshiba Going After Blu-Ray?

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Swifty Nifty has an adventure submitted a link to a story about Toshiba’s new High Def Disc Format. No I’m not kidding- apparently Blu-Ray has a new contender. This is apparently intended as a DVD backwards compatible…