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Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa?

The inside story of Matt Damon's bold yet sane plan to use his celebrity and smarts to help attack one of the globe's great crises. Matt Damon, water warrior.

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Who Are the Winners and Losers under ICANN’s New Web Site Naming Rules?

Domain name registries and marketers can rejoice now that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given its blessing to a plan encouraging the use of much more creative Web addresses. On Monday ICANN's Board of Directors voted to increase the number of Internet domain-name endings--called generic top-level domains (gTLDs)--from the seemingly ubiquitous .com, .net, .org and 19 other suffixes that most Web users have come to know over the past two decades

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Video: "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn dies in car crash

"Jackass" star Ryan Dunn died in a car crash in Pennsylvania late Sunday night. Johnny Knoxville and Dunn's other co-stars have Tweeted their condolences to Dunn's family

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Pulp, Non-Fiction: On The British Library’s Book-Digitizing Deal With Google

The British Library is making 250,000 texts available through Google's Books system, which is an admirable way to make historic books useful to the world again. Could this actually help shape the future of publishing? Last week the British Library was lauded for its impressive (and graphically extremely polished) effort at bringing 60,000 digital copies of historic books to the general public as a free iPad app.

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Genetics and Geographical Mapping Help to Crack Ecological Puzzles for Rare Species

NORMAN, Okla.-- Evolution might not sound like it would be of much use to species whose small numbers have already placed them on the endangered or threatened list. But its lessons are being applied with next-generation genetic sequencing speed to solve some of today's pressing conservation questions. [More]

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