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“The official unemployment rate rose to 6.1 percent last month, according to a report released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In addition to the net loss of 84,000 jobs last month, the agency revised its figures for June source...

“Dropbox is one of those infuriating startups that just won’t show us much of what they’re up to beyond the basic user experience (see video). We first saw them at Y Combinator demo day in August 2007, and talked to source...

“Coming hot on the heels of Apple’s latest iPhone, the Google Android handsets are among the most anticipated new electronic gadgets of 2008. They will be made by different electronics companies and based on an open-source software platform known as source...

“ The researchers figure the body reacts to these fluctuations by demanding food to restore glucose, a sugar that is the brain's fuel. Glucose is converted by the body from carbohydrates and is supplied to the brain via the bloodstream. source...

“ If ever there was a car made for the times, this would seem to be it: a sporty subcompact that seats five, offers a navigation system, and gets a whopping 65 miles to the gallon. Oh yes, and the source...

“The US Air Force is wasting no time in testing their new synthetic jet fuel. Just yesterday they marked another milestone when the 50/50 blend of JP-8 and fuel derived from the Fisher-Tropsch method was transferred via aerial refueling from source...

“By the numbers, the Piedmont Highlanders should not have won so many football games. The squad at the Piedmont, Calif., high school was cobbled together from slim pickings—thanks to an 800-person student body that's half the size of the other source...

“Browsing the web is typically a very solitary activity, even if the Web 2.0 revolution has given us easy tools like FriendFeed or SocialMedian to share our online activities. However, a different breed of services like Browzmi or the Y source...

“I recently got involved in trying to improve performance of a large customer application.  Azul's JVMs come with an always-on profiling tool - RTPM - so it was easy to spot where the time was going.  The name has been source...

“However, that is not true of shadows. According to Dr Adrian Stoica of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, video from space could provide enough data to confirm a suspect's identity  -  as long as details of the person's walking source...

“For those of us who have been fighting with the credit card companies over the years, this may come as bittersweet news. The truth is that "trouble" is an understatement. The obvious problem is that the credit card loans are source...

“More than three decades ago, Commodore introduced the PET, the world's first personal computer, apparently so-named to take advantage of the '70s craze for pet rocks. My ever-doting and education-obsessed parents brought home a PET for me and my siblings, source...

“Just download a piece of software from us. It’s going to have a browser, it’s going to have Google Earth, it’s going to have Google Desktop, all of the applications you need. You don’t have to worry about what’s in source...

“ Just last week, the Census Bureau released its annual study of household incomes, poverty and health insurance -- often called the nation's "economic report card." Its hard numbers seemed to confirm how many Americans feel. Sure, we're prosperous, but source...