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In early 2007 Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar Province, was one of the most violent war-torn cities on Earth. By late spring it was the safest major city in Iraq outside Kurdistan.

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Here are some really big holes from around the world.

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Physicists at the University of Michigan have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called “spooky.” This type of quantum communication could also usher in a new age of a hyperfast ‘quantum internet’.

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Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth talks about the new ATI fglrx Linux driver and AMD’s new open-source work. He is pleased by AMD moves and leadership. The new fglrx driver will be available as an update in Gutsy Gibbon but will be integrated with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS.

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The day before yesterday I showed the above video (it has now been viewed nearly 100,000 times), which shows some jaw dropping examples of next generation image manipulation, and said “I want this in PhotoShop immediately.” Well, that may be happening sooner rather than later. Co-inventor Shai Avidan has now joined Adobe…

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Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop linux project called Goobuntu, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software.

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“Some great news from desktoplinux.com! They recently revealed the desktop survey results. The facts are there, the number of desktop linux users has doubled the last year!”

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Researchers say regular soap kills germs as well as antibacterial soap.

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It was supposed to be the one speed limit you cannot break.

But scientists claim to have demonstrated there is the possibility of travel faster than the speed of light.

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“i’d like to take this time to list some things that are happening right now in the gnome community that have me very excited. these are the projects that are actively improving the future of the gnome desktop.”

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Levitation has been elevated from being pure science fiction to science fact, according to a study reported today by physicists.
In earlier work the same team of theoretical physicists showed that invisibility cloaks are feasible.

Their discovery could ultimately lead to frictionless micro-machines with moving parts that levitate…

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Currently no commercially viable quantum computer exists. While a usable, functional quantum computer may exist in a few months,

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