HILVERSUM, Netherlands (AP) -Vandals damaged four greens at the Hilversum Golf Club, briefly delaying the start of play at the European Tour's KLM Open on Thursday morning.
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Medicinal Genomics has just finished sequencing the cannabis genome.
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Google wants Voice Search to master the Tower of Babel. So Linne Ha travels the world, gathering the language samples used to train it
Read More »Dutch Court Suspends Major Gas Storage Project
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The top court in the Netherlands on Monday ordered the suspension of the Bergermeer gas storage project, the largest in Europe, citing objections by environmentalists and local residents who fear earth tremors. The storage project, along with the soon-to-be-completed liquefied natural gas terminal in Rotterdam, is an important part of the Netherlands' plan to become a European hub for natural gas once it stops exporting gas in 2025. [More]
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Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik's extensive Internet presence gives us a look inside the inner workings of a madman. Meet a young man obsessed with Muslims, liberals, commercial techno music, and World of Warcraft. Oslo terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, like most nutjobs, had a substantial Internet presence.
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Foursquare partners with AmEx, an 'Anonymous' group of hackers, the Winklevosses back down, social innovation, and more.
Read More »iFive: Google Offers Debut, Cell Phones And Cancer, Nokia Shuts Online Stores, Schmidt On Macs vs. PCs, Lodsys Sues Developers
1. Google offers, the business model backbone behind Google Wallet NFC credit cards, kicks off tomorrow
Read More »Why Dow Is Burning Plastic For Energy
Plastic doesn't have to end up in landfills or the ocean.
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African Anopheles mosquitoes find us by our carbon-dioxide-rich exhalation. But when they get close they turn away from our heads and dive for our feet--apparently their preferred snack spot
Read More »Openmargin Lets The World See Your Book-Margin Scribbles
A public digital forum in every book is the Dutch startup Openmargin's aim. It even thinks it can make money at it.
Read More »Hacking the WiiMote To Make a Mini Segway on the Cheap
A young hacker has built a mini Arduino-controlled self-balancing robot that looks for all the world like a mini Segway. It's remote-controlled by a WiiMote, it's cheap, and the chap in question is just 17 years old
Read More »Jesting Our Limits: Do April Fools’ Day Pranks Alienate or Engage People?
Cellophane over the toilet bowl. Decaf coffee in the "regular" carafe.
Read More »1896 X Ray Machine Shows How Far We’ve Come
X rays are so common today you probably never stop to think about them. They help check a broken wrist, a sprained ankle, the state of our teeth. But a little more than a century ago, x ray machines provided a revolution in medicine, allowing doctors to look inside the body.
Read More »The Best Time of Day to Make a Big Decision
Wondering when's the best time of day to make a big decision? Forget the astrology charts and drink a cup of coffee—or four. You make better decisions when you have a full bladder, or so says a study to be published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
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