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Barnes and Noble Nook: Tantalizing but Unfinished: Sluggish performance that may or may not be owing to an as-yet-unresolved software issue makes an unqualified recommendation of this attractive, innovative device impossible. (PC World, December 22, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Montgomery tries to incubate resurgence in biotech industry: Entrepreneurs sought for burgeoning field of personalized medicine (Post, December 22, 2009)
Despite recession, crime keeps falling (AP, December 21, 2009; 5:47 PM)
Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning (AP, December 21, 2009; 4:11 PM)
Fewer high school students taking computer science classes: Decline in course offerings worries education officials (Post, December 21, 2009)
Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning (AP, December 20, 2009; 3:15 PM)
Obituaries: Obituaries (Post, December 20, 2009)
E-mail furor doesn't alter evidence for climate change (By Michael E. Mann, December 18, 2009)
Robot records deepest erupting undersea volcano (AP, December 17, 2009; 9:39 PM)
Merck buys British maker of biotech medicines (AP, December 17, 2009; 1:32 PM)
Nixon backs plan for biotechnology incentive fund (AP, December 16, 2009; 8:08 AM)
My Virtual Head Would Look Great On Your Virtual Body! Gizmoz Merges With Daz 3D (TechCrunch, December 15, 2009; 5:45 PM)
Our devices will spin denser webs of data in 2010s (AP, December 15, 2009; 3:33 PM)
Richard Cohen on how the Mumbai attacks reflect that humans can be killer robots (By Richard Cohen, December 15, 2009)
Submersible glider spent months collecting data on Atlantic waters: The first robot to cross the Atlantic offers new possibilities for ocean and climate research (Post, December 15, 2009)
Satellites eye dwindling water in central Calif. (AP, December 14, 2009; 7:51 PM)
Hollywood hopes an ensemble cast boosts Blu-ray (AP, December 14, 2009; 12:49 AM)
AP IMPACT: Science not faked, but not pretty (AP, December 12, 2009; 8:22 PM)
Two weeks that shattered the legend of Tiger Woods (AP, December 12, 2009; 3:01 PM)
Tech blog, Singapore startup feud over tablet PC (AP, December 11, 2009; 4:30 PM)
Use Virtual CD...And Never Completely Lose a CD Again: Make and use virtual copies of CDs and DVDs on your hard drive with Virtual CD. (PC World, December 11, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Michael Gerson on undermining the authority of climate science (By Michael Gerson, December 11, 2009)
Harem management (By Howard Kurtz, December 10, 2009; 10:26 AM)
How to Optimize Your HDTV: Have a new HDTV? Here are five settings that you can tweak to enhance your viewing experience. (PC World, December 11, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Marissa Mayer Talks Google Search, Chrome, Online News And More At Le Web (TechCrunch, December 9, 2009; 7:07 AM)
Tom Shales: Blu-rays poised to take lead as best viewing format (By Tom Shales, December 8, 2009)
Live From The Google Search Event (TechCrunch, December 7, 2009; 7:48 AM)
A New Virtual London Arrives Slowly, Like The Traffic (TechCrunch, December 7, 2009; 3:14 AM)
The last chance for Earth -- until the next one (By George F. Will, December 6, 2009)
In e-mails, science of warming is hot debate: Stolen files of 'Climate-gate' suggest some viewpoints on change are disregarded (Post, December 5, 2009)
An In-Depth Look At Pivot, Microsoft's Newest Data Visualization Tool (TechCrunch, December 4, 2009; 5:30 AM)
Planned Comcast-NBC merger ignites TV access battle (Post, December 4, 2009)
New stem cell lines approved for federal funding: NEW LINES APPROVED
'Today's announcement is the first wave' (Post, December 3, 2009)
The Fall Of Bing (Seasonal Release, That Is) (TechCrunch, December 2, 2009; 8:11 AM)
Scientist steps down during e-mail probe: Hacked messages about global warming caused controversy (Post, December 2, 2009)
Get Real Business Results From Social Media: Learn how to develop a social media marketing strategy that actually brings in revenue, and see how to measure your success. (PC World, December 1, 2009; 1:19 AM)
Freebie Disk2vhd Creates Virtual Hard Drive Images: Create virtual hard drive images with Disk2vhd, a free and handy utility from Microsoft's Sysinternals group. (PC World, December 1, 2009; 1:19 AM)
Prince George's weighs biotech center that could bring 1,900 workers: Report affirms quest for 1,900 jobs, $23 million in taxes (Post, December 1, 2009)
Value Added: Catching up with the D.C. business world's titans of 1998 (By Thomas Heath, November 30, 2009)
California moves to restrict TVs' power usage; others may follow (Post, November 27, 2009)
Local Digest: Local Digest: Computer Sciences lands $2.9 billion job (Post, November 26, 2009)
Va. Tech to help decode the turkey's genetic gobbledygook: Va. Tech research could lead to 'happier' birds, bigger breasts or legs (Post, November 26, 2009)
ALBERT V. CREWE, 82: Albert Crewe, physicist who shed light on atoms, dies at 82 (Post, November 26, 2009)
HDTV Buying Guide: Select the Right Flat-Panel Technology: Before you drop hundreds or thousands of dollars on the wrong flat-panel HDTV, read our comprehensive breakdown of everything you need to know. Our HDTV buying guide might just help you save some money. (PC World, November 25, 2009; 1:19 PM)
Trend Micro Antivirus + Antispyware: Lackluster Protection: Trend Micro Antivirus + Antispyware's nice user interface can?t make up for its lackluster malware detection. (PC World, November 25, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center: Scientists' e-mails deriding skeptics of warming become public (Post, November 21, 2009)
RealTime CrunchUp: Filtering The Stream Roundtable (TechCrunch, November 20, 2009; 7:46 AM)
Scientists have high hopes for corn genome (Post, November 20, 2009)
American Express to enter market for online payments: Purchase of Steve Case start-up takes firm past premium credit cards (Post, November 19, 2009)
Crashed satellite detects water at moon's pole (Post, November 14, 2009)
Google Announces Acquisition of Gizmo5. They Now Have A Soft Phone For Google Voice (TechCrunch, November 12, 2009; 12:54 PM)
Mount Disk Images as Virtual CD/DVD Drives With Gizmo Drive: This handy--and free--component of the Gizmo suite mounts and burns image files. (PC World, November 12, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Discovery Communications launches science news Web site: As print publications cut coverage, company sees an opportunity (Post, November 10, 2009)
Exclusive: Google Has Acquired Gizmo5 (TechCrunch, November 9, 2009; 7:30 AM)
Holiday sales could launch e-book readers as mass-market must-haves: As sales soar, digital works face season's crucial test (Post, November 5, 2009)
Which Windows 7 is Right for Your Business?: Now that Windows 7 is here, you have some decisions to make. Microsoft has a virtual smorgasbord of options to choose from and it can get a little tricky trying to figure out which flavor of Windows 7 you should choose. (PC World, November 5, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Great white sharks coming closer to shore than thought, researchers find: Shark experts surprised by research in Pacific (Post, November 4, 2009)
India's space ambitions taking off: Nation plans astronaut-training center, manned space mission as it seeks higher profile (Post, November 4, 2009)
Joel Achenbach: Gary Smith and the endangerment of detailed, long-form stories: In our modern click-and-skim world, there's dwindling time and space for the expertly crafted narrative (Post, October 29, 2009)
Acer Aspire One D250-1613 (Android) Netbook: Acer adds a second OS to its Aspire One D250 netbook without adding to the price--but that still doesn?t feel like enough. (PC World, October 29, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Diagnose a Bad WiFi Connection: B2CAC asked the Answer Line forum why his laptop couldn?t connect wirelessly to his router (PC World, October 28, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Scientist accused of espionage described as gifted, ambitious: Astronomer is described as brilliant, ambitious (Post, October 28, 2009)
Consumer Review: The Best Smartphones On The Market (TechCrunch, October 27, 2009; 1:35 PM)
Live Gamer Looks To Capitalize On Virtual Goods Boom (TechCrunch, October 27, 2009; 3:50 AM)
RIM BlackBerry Curve 8520 (T-Mobile) Smartphone: Though it lacks high-speed 3G support, the Curve 8520 smartphone is a solid messaging and multimedia device. (PC World, October 27, 2009; 12:19 AM)
D.C. hipsters Brightest Young Things become event planners: A D.C. blog's creators go from spectators to taking over the party (Post, October 27, 2009)
Rep. Visclosky and lobbying firm can be swift path to earmarks: Democrat supported funds for tech companies, many of which supported him (Post, October 26, 2009)
Insignia NS-L42X10A HDTV: The Insignia NS-L42X-10A has lots of features and a temptingly low price--but also poor image and audio quality. (PC World, October 26, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Web 2 Summit: Tim Armstrong On AOL Spin Off, Content, And A Mysterious New Tech (TechCrunch, October 22, 2009; 2:02 PM)
Get Started With Windows 7 XP Mode: Here's the quick way to set up and use XP Mode on your Windows 7 PC. (PC World, October 20, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Beware The Reverse Brain Drain To India And China (TechCrunch, October 17, 2009; 5:30 AM)
Skype In Negotiations To Acquire Gizmo5 (TechCrunch, October 13, 2009; 12:29 PM)
Nobel Prize for Physics Went to Scientists Behind Colonoscopies, Digital Cameras (Post, October 12, 2009)
Montgomery County Lab Visit Stirs Interest in Science: Middle Schoolers Pronounce Science 'Cool' After Lab Visit (Post, October 11, 2009)
Congress gets a chance to codify sensible NIH rules for stem cell research.: Congress can codify sensible NIH research rules. (Post, October 10, 2009)
NASA, Searching for Water, Is Going to Crash Spacecraft Into the Moon: NASA Craft, Booster Shot To Crash Into Polar Crater (Post, October 9, 2009)
A Conversation with Sergey Brin (TechCrunch, October 7, 2009; 7:20 AM)
Sony PSP Go: Costly and compatibility-conflicted, Sony's PSP Go marries design elegance and disc-free gaming with worrisome pricing and upgrade uncertainty. (PC World, October 8, 2009; 12:19 AM)
Ancient Skeleton Could Rewrite the Book on Human Origins: 4.4 Million-Year-Old Primate Helps Bridge Evolutionary Gap (Post, October 2, 2009)
Scientists: 'Ardi' Fossil Sheds Light on Origin of Human Species (Post, October 1, 2009; 10:33 AM)
Federal Diary: Workers Face Big Hike in Health-Care Costs (Post, September 30, 2009)
The VC, The Professor, And The Valley Of Death (TechCrunch, September 29, 2009; 12:20 PM)
Firm to Acquire SkyTerra, Take It Private (Post, September 24, 2009)
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