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1. Robot Can Replicate Itself
English researchers have developed a robot that can not only create 3-D replicas of objects like shoes and door handles - it also can replicate itself.
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2. iTunes sells 5 billion songs; serving 50,000 movies per day
Apple announced Thursday that customers on its iTunes Store have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs to date.
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3. Streamlined Firefox 3 makes browsing safer, more productive
Desktop users, developers, and reviewers all had their download managers aimed at the Firefox Web site Monday to grab Firefox 3 as soon as it launched and also help Mozilla set a world record. World record or not, the latest Firefox release is a world-class Web browser.
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5. Home-Brewed Entertainment the Open Source Way
There are plenty of companies offering to sell you the latest set-top box or media server for your home theater. However, many of them are tied up with proprietary technologies that limit what a true-hearted tinkerer can do with them. There are other ways. Open source software exists for those with the courage to do it themselves.
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6. Why is Microsoft sponsoring the Open Source Census?
The Open Source Census, a collaborative project endeavoring to quantify the use of open-source software in enterprises, got a new sponsor on June 16: Microsoft.
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7. Sun: Java will be free this year
Following the announcement of Sun's plans to make Java free and open under the General Public License (GPL) at JavaOne 2006, there have been a few struggles on the path to open source. At the time of the OpenJDK release in May last year, around five percent of the code--the portion not owned by Sun--was still closed.
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9. Google Code Jam is back
If you're a great sprinter, you've probably been in a few races. And if you're a great chess player, you've probably had your share of matches. But what do you do if you're a great programmer?
More @ Googleblog