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Phillips just released their new iPod docking entertainment system. It’s got a clean, stylish design with a built-in iPod charge and play dock.

LONDON (AP)—The moon darkened, reddened, and turned shades of gray and orange Saturday night during the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years, thrilling stargazers and astronomers around the world.
The Earth’s shadow took over six hours to crawl across the moon’s surface, eating it into a crescent shape before engulfing it completely in a [...]

Hot Technologies in ‘07
1. Ruby on Rails
2. NAND drives
3. Ultra-Wideband
4. Hosted hardware
5. Advanced CPU architectures

3. Ultra-Wideband: 200x personal-area networking

As it currently stands, personal-area networking via Bluetooth is useful for telephone conversations, data syncing between mobile and stationary devices and, in extreme cases, music. But it doesn’t take much to imagine a type of usefulness—think video, [...]

From next-gen CPU architectures to high-powered personal-area networks, we name the five hottest trends in developing technology.

It seems like every month a new technology emerges with the potential to change everything. Technology writers and analysts get hyperexcited. Everyone starts patting one another on the back and hugging. And two years later, we’re still talking about [...]

A user interface that tracks eye movement may provide an alternate way to use a computer.

The eyes have it: Logo from the Gaze-enhanced User Interface Design (GUIDe) project at Stanford. The project’s goal is to use information about where a person is looking in order to develop applications that make interacting with computers easier.
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A user can apparently crack Windows Vista’s activation process by applying brute force to come up with valid product keys.

A Web site posted a tool Thursday that can apparently crack Windows Vista’s activation process by applying brute force—and lots of time—to come up with valid product keys, circumventing one of Microsoft’s most important antipiracy methods.

Anna Nicole Smith collapsed in her hotel room today at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino (which is on an Indian reservation) and was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida where she was pronounced dead. The cause of her death was an over dosage of sleeping pills.