Posted on July 8th, 2008 by ElectroGeek
Google debuted a free service Tuesday in which three-dimensional software enables people to congregate in fantasy rooms and other computer-manufactured versions of real life.

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A special-purpose supercomputer is intended to offer more than a thousandfold increase in performance for complex molecular simulations.

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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Nine environmental groups said Tuesday they plan to sue the federal government if wolverines aren’t granted protection under the Endangered Species Act within 60 days….
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Bush administration’s decision to let oil companies unintentionally harass or harm polar bears and walruses off the northwestern Alaska coast….
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TOYAKO, Japan (AP) — World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming. Unimpressed environmentalists called the effort too slow and too uncertain….
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CHICAGO (AP) — Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine….
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In the latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world’s information, Internet search leader Google Inc. hopes to orchestrate more fantasizing on the Web….
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Executives from major Internet players - Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. - are due for a grilling about online privacy in a Senate committee Wednesday, but the company likely to get the most scrutiny is a small Silicon Valley startup called NebuAd Inc….
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — More than a year after they were introduced, federal rules intended to keep cell phone towers operating during natural disasters remain in limbo….
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