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Video: Students design solar car

Aug. 14: Canadian engineering students have designed a solar-powered car that will compete in the World Solar Challenge in Australia. Msnbc.com’s Dara Brown reports. (msnbc.com)

Is your Palm Pre spying on you?

A mobile application developer claims the phone is sending your GPS coordinates and more back to Palm on a daily basis.

Study finds most Twitter posts ‘Pointless Babble’

A study reveals that more than 40 percent of Twitter’s tweets are “Pointless Babble.” So what were we expecting?  Why should self-published content to be different than, for instance, conversation?

With video games, it’s feast or famine

During the summer months, the flow of video game launches slows to a trickle, but during the winter months, a flood of new games greets players. This endless cycle of feast or famine isn’t good for game consumers or the games industry.

Like humans, monkeys appear to prefer mimics

We humans often imitate the body postures or mannerisms of people we meet, usually without either person realizing it.

Timber structure older than Stonehenge found

Archaeologists have unexpectedly uncovered London’s oldest timber structure, which predates Stonehenge by about 500 years.

Study: Fire used to make tools 75,000 years ago

By heating up stones in a fire before chipping away at them to make blades, early humans could make tools sharper and produce them more efficiently.

Boy Scouts hunting the tech-savvy generation

Surviving in the wilderness once relied on little more than a compass, map, and hiking boots. But add an iPhone or laptop and you’ve got the new direction of the Boy Scouts.

Star adoption helps fund Kepler mission

A new program offers people a chance to “adopt” one of the stars in a catalogue of targets where scientists hope to find Earth-like extrasolar planets.

E-mails from public overload Congress Web site

Amid a boisterous debate on health care reform, people flooded members of Congress on Thursday with so many e-mails that they overloaded the House’s primary Web site.

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