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If you’re serious about rescuing all your analog memories before it’s too late--before the recording media or playback devices fade away--one thing is for sure: the task ahead will be either time-consuming or expensive. In each case, you can either do the digitizing yourself, or you can send your recordings away to a company that does it for you. If you’re committed, though, it’s a very satisfying project.

Sooner or later every format goes digital.

Tough new law forces tobacco companies to replace brand art on packs with gruesome images of cancer patients

Two years ago , I had a million-dollar idea. Or at least, a couple-hundred-thousand-dollar idea

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The Motorola Xoom has been out for about two months now and has sold an estimated 100,000 units. Whether this is considered a success or not is a matter of debate. For example, Business Insider is declaring it a flop , while BetaNews is declaring it a good thing .

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"Every 30 seconds, a Latino turns 18 years old." Marketers, take note. Univision, the Spanish-language network, outperformed NBC in primetime last week, which makes twice in four weeks that it achieved the feat against the so-called "Big Four"--ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS.

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After years in decline, more U.S. kids are partying with drugs and alcohol, starting as early as age 12

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A giant softshell turtle known as Cu Rua that has been living in Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam, for more than a century is one of the last four members of its critically endangered species, Rafetus swinhoei . The freshwater animal weighs about 200 kilograms and is worshiped as a deity that protects the city, but neither its size nor its stature has prevented it from being injured recently by fishermen and an aggressive invasive species.

During the morning of April 6, our colleagues at Nature ran a live, online question-and-answer event about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis . Visitors posted questions for Jim Smith, an environmental physicist from the University of Portsmouth, U.K., and Geoff Brumfiel, Nature’s senior physical sciences correspondent. Brian Owen served as moderator.