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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/05/internet-piracy-bulletproof
The Slovakian government secretly placed explosives in 8 commercial passengers' luggage to test an airport's security screening. 7 out of 8 of the people with plastic explosives planted in their luggage had the explosives found by airport security...but the Slovakian man who flew to Ireland and didn't realize that he had plastic explosives in his luggage when he arrived must have been shocked when the police came for him!
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0105/breaking39.html
Research has found that up to 8% of the human genome consists of viruses that inserted themselves into our DNA for replication, including the gene that causes schizophrenia:
http://www.uta.edu/ucomm/mediarelations/press/2010/01/genome-biologist-reports.php
It looks like we do not have to worry about the published report that the Earth would be wiped out by a supernova occurring a relatively close distance away from Earth...when the research paper the report was based on was presented at a conference going on now, a Berkeley professor pointed out a serious mathematical error in his computations:
http://news.discovery.com/space/will-earth-really-be-wiped-out-by-a-local-supernova.html
This link has lots of updates for nuclear power plant development in the world, including the news that China has 21.9 GW of nuclear power plants under development right now and that US utilities have been upgrading their nuclear power plants to create a $25 billion market in that area:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/01/china-has-219-gigawatts-of-nuclear.html
Physicist is developing a microscope so powerful that it will be able to see individual molecules 100x smaller than what is visible with traditional microscopes:
http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/newsreleases/articles/97279.php
Study found that women who don't live with a mate gained 15 pounds over a 10-year period while women who were childless and lived alone gained just 11 pounds. The weight gain was 20 pounds if a woman had a baby and a mate and was basically the same whether the woman had 1 or more babies:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/health/05weight.html?em
T-Mobile is discontinuing its @Home phone service:
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/01/07/t-mobile-to-discontinue-home-service/
In addition to getting 5 Android phones this year that are exclusive to AT&T, AT&T is also getting 2 smartphones based on the Palm OS that will also be exclusive to AT&T. Motorola also announced that the Droid phone will be upgraded to support Flash 10.1, allowing it to view websites with Flash content:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/ceslive/story/t-strengthens-smartphone-portfolio-outlines-app-store-and-os-support/2010-01-06?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Motorola showed off its Backflip phone at CES--this is rumored to be one of the Android-based phones that AT&T will have:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/ceslive/story/moto-shows-newest-android-phone-backflip/2010-01-06?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
At CES Qualcomm and HP showcased the first Snapdragon Smartbook running the Android OS:
http://www.fiercewireless.com/press-releases/qualcomm-and-hp-showcase-worlds-first-snapdragon-smartbook-device-googles-android-ope?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Bank robbers without any weapons robbed an Ohio bank and eluded police (who even used helicopters and police dogs during the chase) to make their getaway...the notable thing is that the bank robbers were apparently a 12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl!
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20100105/NEWS010701/301050082/1055/NEWS/Police++Girls+robbed+bank
After 20 days, Avatar is up to #2 all time for worldwide box office:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/world/
One of Tiger Wood's mistresses is writing a tell-all book where she will REALLY be telling a lot of wild stuff:
http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/big_dreams_of_tiger_no_jbxJickjrf7TC3yQBvVFNK