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Unleash your inner geek at ‘Dorkbot’

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04 25th, 2006

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04 25th, 2006

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eBay sends shoppers to the express lane

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04 24th, 2006

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Hit TV show to become interactive game

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04 24th, 2006

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04 24th, 2006

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Cloudy Wi-Fi skies for Florida city

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04 24th, 2006

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Microsoft, EU face off in court

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04 24th, 2006

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Sony cuts PS2 price

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04 20th, 2006

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - As it prepares the coming out party for the PlayStation 3, Sony has taken steps to keep PlayStation 2 in the spotlight. And on Thursday, the company dropped the price of the video game machine from $149 to $129.

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02 8th, 2006

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush arrive on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after attending the funeral for Coretta Scott King Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - If President Bush gets his way, the venerable $255 Social Security death benefit will fade into history. And 16- and 17-year-old high school dropouts will lose their monthly survivor payments.


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02 8th, 2006

Actress Andrea Anders arrives at the People's Choice Awardsin Pasadena, California, in this January 9, 2005 file photo. Anders has joined the cast of CBS' comedy series 'The Class.' (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)Reuters - "Joey" co-star Andrea
Anders is not waiting for the ax to fall on the NBC sitcom,
which is on hiatus and not expected to return for a third
season.


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Presidents honor King widow (Reuters)

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02 8th, 2006

From bottom to top, President George Bush, first lady Laura Bush, former President Bill Clinton, his wife Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), former President George H.W. Bush, former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn attend funeral services for Coretta Scott King at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, Georgia, February 7, 2006. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - Speakers seized on the
presence of President Bush to attack his policies on Tuesday at
the funeral of Coretta Scott King, the first lady of the U.S.
civil rights movement.


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02 8th, 2006

Britney Spears performs at the 31st annual American Music Awards in Los Angeles in a 2003 file photo. Photographs showing pop star Spears driving a car with her infant son in her lap, in apparent violation of motor safety laws, caught the attention of child welfare authorities and ignited a media uproar on Tuesday. (Ethan Miller/Reuters)Reuters - Photographs showing pop star
Britney Spears driving a car with her infant son in her lap, in
apparent violation of motor safety laws, caught the attention
of child welfare authorities and ignited a media uproar on
Tuesday.


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02 8th, 2006

An Atlanta Police Department honor guard carries a casket containing the body of  Coretta Scott King to her tomb during a brief burial ceremony at the King Center Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006  in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)AP - Ten thousand mourners — including four U.S. presidents, numerous members of Congress and many gray-haired veterans of the civil rights movement — said goodbye to Coretta Scott King on Tuesday, with President Bush saluting her as "a woman who worked to make our nation whole."


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02 8th, 2006

President Bush and first lady Laura Bush arrive on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after attending the funeral for Coretta Scott King Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)AP - President Bush's budget calls for elimination of a $255 lump-sum death payment that has been part of Social Security for more than 50 years and urges Congress to cut off monthly survivor benefits to 16- and 17-year-old high school dropouts.


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02 8th, 2006

**FILE PHOTO** Authorities search the area around a dwelling at Sam Donaldson's Chavez Canyon Ranch near Hondo, N.M., July 7, 2004, in this image taken from video. (AP Photo/KOB-TV)AP - Jurors convicted a 16-year-old boy Tuesday of killing his family and hiding their bodies in a manure pile on newsman Sam Donaldson's ranch in southern New Mexico.


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02 8th, 2006

Darryl Travis carries his belongings down Canal Street in New Orleans Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006. Travis, evacuated from his home in the flooded ninth ward of New Orleans, was one of 90 hurricane evacuees forced to leave the Crowne Plaza Tuesday. The Federal Emergency Management Agenc cut off hotel aid to any who failed to heed warnings to register with the agency by a Jan. 30 deadline. Thousands of evacuees were expected to leave their federally-funded hotel rooms as FEMA began cutting off money to pay for their stays. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)AP - Hauling everything he owned in a plastic garbage bag, Darryl Travis walked out of the chandeliered lobby of the Crowne Plaza, joining the exodus of Hurricane Katrina refugees evicted from their hotel rooms across the country Tuesday.


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02 8th, 2006

Singer Sheryl Crow arrives at the 2006 MusiCares Person of the Year benefit honoring James Taylor, in Los Angeles, Monday, Feb. 6, 2006. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP - Lance Armstrong closed his weekly satellite radio show on a bittersweet note by playing ex-fiancee Sheryl Crow's song "Letter To God."


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02 8th, 2006

In this undated photo released by Conservation International, a golden-mantled tree kangaroo (Dendrolagus pulcherrimus) is seen after being discovered on Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) expedition to the Foya Mountains in Indonesia's easternmost Papua province in December 2005.  Scientists discovered a 'Lost World' in an isolated Indonesian jungle, identifying dozens of new species of frogs, butterflies and plants _ as well as large mammals hunted to near extinction elsewhere, members of the expedition said Tuesday, Feb. 7 2006. This was first record of the species in Indonesia and the second known site on earth where it is known to exist. (AP Photo/Conservation International, Bruce Beehler, HO)AP - Soon after scientists landed by helicopter in the mist-shrouded mountains of one of Indonesia's most remote provinces, they stumbled on a primitive egg-laying mammal that simply allowed itself to be picked up and brought to their field camp.


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02 8th, 2006

A garbage picker combs through pestilent mountains of trash for recyclable material he can sell, Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico January 16, 2006. Every day on the pestilent eastern edge of this city of 18 million, hundreds of poor families rake what they can sell to recyclers from household waste dumped at their feet by a legion of freelance dustmen in battered horse-drawn carts. An ambitious plan here to bring waste management into the 21st century is highlighting the human cost of going green. (Henry Romero/Reuters)Reuters - When Mexico City
housewives began separating kitchen leftovers from non-organic
trash to protect the environment, Juan Santos was devastated.


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02 8th, 2006

Britney Spears is up to her shoulder restraint in<br />
 controversy.E! Online - Britney Spears is up to her shoulder restraint in
controversy.


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02 8th, 2006

Actresses Keira Knightley (R) and Scarlett Johansson (foreground) pose nude with designer Tom Ford (L) for the March 2006 Vanity Fair Hollywood issue, in this undated publicity photo. Designer Ford stepped in when a third female actress bowed out due to the nudity. (Annie Leibovitz exclusively for Vanity Fair/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Rising film stars Scarlett
Johansson and Keira Knightley, better known for their work with
their clothes on, have bared all for Vanity Fair.


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