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  • Xbox 360 gets a makeover — and avatars

    Before you go anywhere in the New Xbox Experience, you'll need to create an avatar that represents you. Put on shades, rock a faux-hawk and sport that Fu Manchu beard you wouldn't be caught dead with in real life. Will “Halo 3” players want to make cute little avatars on their Xbox 360? Well, guess what? They’ll have to. It’s the first thing you’re prompted to do in the New Xbox Experience, the shiny new makeover to the Xbox interface that rolled out on Wednesday.




  • Quit your job and make your game

    In the fantastic and fantastical puzzle game "World of Goo," players must use sticky balls of goo to build various structures (towers, bridges, etc.) and triumph over outlandish obstacles. The game’s two creators have spent no money marketing their game. Instead, word of mouth has made “World of Goo” a holiday season sleeper hit.Created by two guys with a big idea and little money, "World of Goo" is proof that small-time game developers fueled by nothing more than a unique vision and a willingness to take big risks are coming up with some the year's most compelling, distinctive and buzzed-about games.




  • What a trip! Space station turns 10

    Backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the international space station is seen from the space shuttle Discovery as the two spacecraft begin their relative separation, during the latter days of a mission in June. The 10th anniversary of the international space station's birth provides a good opportunity for NASA to celebrate its successes — and learn from its mistakes.




  • Astronauts venture out for spacewalk No. 2

    In this image from NASA TV, a tool kit bag, center, as seen through the helmet camera of astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, floats away from the International Space Station.Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check, to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during a spacewalk Thursday so it doesn't float away like one did earlier this week.




  • New BlackBerry is good iPhone challenger

    The BlackBerry Storm costs $199.99 after committing to a two-year contract with Verizon Wireless and a $50 mail-in rebate.Review: BlackBerry fans can rejoice: the Storm, Research In Motion’s first all-touchscreen Blackberry will make even iPhone users salivate just a little bit over some of the features of this very slick and sophisticated smartphone.




  • Copernicus' remains, grave found

    Swedish DNA expert Marie Allen speaks at a news conference to announce the identification of remains believed to belong to Nicolaus Copernicus, in Warsaw, Poland.Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books.




  • 6,500-year-old village found in Greece
    Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a 6,500-year-old farming settlement in an antiquities-rich area of central Greece.

  • European history, culture and art goes digital

    Items have been collected from 1,000 museums, national libraries, galleries and archives — including the Louvre in Paris and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam — so users can scour for books, paintings, audio files, maps, videos and other artifacts in one Web site. Attention all culture-craving couch potatoes: Cultural riches from over 2,000 years of European civilization are going digital.




  • Cyberscams befriend social networks
    Remember the associate of that deposed dictator who needed your help transferring a few million dollars from a Swiss bank account? Well, he's back. And he — or one of his ilk — may show up soon posing as your "friend" on Facebook.

  • Woolly mammoth task: Critter's DNA mapped

    A computer-generated illustration of a woolly mammoth shows a DNA-style double helix uncoiling from the creature's hair. Scientists used mammoth hair to reconstruct the near-complete nuclear genome of the long-extinct animal.Scientists for the first time have unraveled much of the genetic code of an extinct animal, the ice age's woolly mammoth, and with it they are thawing Jurassic Park dreams.

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