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An Australian man being dubbed Milo for the sake of anonymity has volunteered to have his hand amputated in order to be fit with a bionic limb.  Wow, that's some faith in science, eh? The gentleman in question is 26-years-old and lost the use of...

You know the Winklevoss twins just loved hearing the news that investment firm General Atlantic has placed a new value on social networking site Facebook. According to the firm, Facebook is being valued at $65 billion which amazingly represents a...

Japan's largest glass maker made headlines Thursday with their new line of extra-tough, scratch-resistant glass called Dragontail. Asahi Glass Company unveiled the Dragontail gadget cover, saying the glass is more than six times as strong as...

Say hello to your new best friend, the credit card from the future by Citi Bank. Creating a next generation credit card, Citi Bank has made a card where you can choose to enable one of two tiny buttons on the surface of the card, selecting to...

The word on the street by some fly by night publication called the Wall Street Journal is reporting that Skype and Facebook could be joining forces and integrating their communication protocol. How it would work would go something like this: ...

The heyday of Blockbuster has come to an end especially with the company so late in responding to online movie rentals. A new press release reveals that Blockbuster Video has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, poor guys. Under the plan,...

As if Intel didn't already have enough on their plate, the silicon valley company has picked up Santa Clara-based security and antivirus company McAfee for a cool $7.68 billion, or about $48 per cash share if that helps bring it home. Intel informs...

Wow, and we thought it would take Mozilla a bit longer to get the new Firefox 4.0 Beta up and running, but good news, it's now available for download. It's ready to be sucked down and installed for those with Windows, Linux and OS X-based machines, and...

So if you ask a random person on the street for directions to such and such you wouldn't really sue them if you got yourself into some trouble, now would you?  Well it looks like Lauren Rosenberg is doing just that, but to Google. Last January...

Okay, how much more sci-fi can we get this week?  Apparently a bit more it would seem.  Reportedly a British scientist has had a great honor, he is the first human to contract a computer virus.  Wow, is there like a plaque for that or...

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