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After a 40-year virtual ban on research involving psychedelic drugs, scientists look anew at their potential in treating pain and anxiety

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Users running illegal copies of Windows XP are being offered discounted purchase prices

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A tiny biosciences company is developing a promising drug to fight diarrhea, a scourge among babies in the developing world, but it has made an astonishing number of powerful enemies because it grows the experimental drug in rice genetically engineered with a human gene.

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Besides the obvious pleasure kissing brings to so many, research shows this activity to be healthy, especially to those suffering from allergies.

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For years, MTV Networks Inc. sat on the sidelines while Apple Computer Inc., RealNetworks Inc. and others racked up sales of music downloads. Now the cable network group that helped popularize music videos two decades ago is entering the online music fray with URGE, a new service that makes its public beta debut on Wednesday.

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The first zero energy home costing less than $200,000 has been built in Oklahoma. This house produces as much energy as it consumes in a year and combines “renewable energy technologies with advanced energy-efficient construction.” This environmentally friendly house is just a prototype and not yet available for sale.

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Many enterprises use a mix of open source and proprietary software. But there’s one place where Linux in particular threatens to impinge on Windows’ dominance. Quocirca’s Bob Tarzey explains.

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It’s another first for adult film companies that pioneered the home video market and rushed to the Internet when Hollywood studios still saw it as a threat. Direct download to DVD starting Monday.

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Nearly one in four (24 per cent) listens online compared with 21 per cent who tune in to analogue broadcasts. Seventeen per cent use digital (Dab) radio and nine per cent get the programmes via their TV. The remaining 29 per cent represent the proportion of Virgin regulars who do not tune in at all on a given day.

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With more people turning to the Internet to get their TV experts are suggesting that the demand could be too much for ISPs to cope with.

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Two days ago, I received an inquiry from a Fortune 500 company looking for a contractor to perform system administration work. I read the email and sat befuddled trying to figure out what this employer wanted an applicant to do. Perhaps you an figure it out. Here�s the job requirements.

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Responding to popular demand, Statistics Canada has removed the restriction against Linux. Java 1.5 required. Effective May 13th, 2006.

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If you aren�t familiar with the concept of singularity, here is the elevator pitch: Since technology is the product of cognition, the Singularity is an effect that snowballs once it occurs - the first smart minds can create smarter minds, and smarter minds can produce still smarter minds

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Moderate consumption of the popular drink, or aspirin, could delay the onset of age-related deafness and reduce hearing loss caused by loud noise

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Some very interesting things about Leonardo da Vinci including some theories about the Mona Lisa, sodomy charges, and sexual innuedo. A fun little read.

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TomCat, King Kizer, RunBot and many others. This is a round-up of the top 10 strangest robots. Lots of videos included

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A powerful earthquake on the southern San Andreas fault, which hasn’t ruptured in over three centuries, is capable of producing prolonged periods of strong shaking in the greater Los Angeles region, a new study finds.

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“The level of advance trust we put in Google is incredibly high. Iâ��m not sure another company could just come and say: I read your emails; Iâ��m watching your surfing behavior; Iâ��m checking where you click and what you search for… and Iâ��ll save all that data till 2038. And just what Iâ��ll do with all that data is none of your business.”

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