Former first lady Barbara Bush is expected to be moved out of intensive care on Saturday after she underwent a successful heart surgery on Tuesday at Methodist Hospital in Houston.
The 83-year-old wife of former President George H. W. Bush last week experienced shortened of breath and doctors detected a hardened valve in her heart, according to the hospital.
After undergoing surgery to replace her heart, she was “awake and alert. I expect her to recover fully and soon...
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NASA and JPL launched the Kepler telescope, a $590-million mission that for the next three years will search our galaxy for earth-like planets.
All went according to plan. The telescope blasted into the sky at 10:49 p.m. Eastern time from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday on the back of a Delta II rocket.
Once it settles down in Earth’s orbit, the telescope named after famed German astronomer Johannes Kepler, will scan the multitude of stars in the...
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Boxee, the freeware cross-platform media center software, and Hulu seem to be playing cat an mouse over the latter’s content. Less than a day after Boxee made some updates to access Hulu content again, Hulu again blocked it on Boxee.
Dave Mathews, an adviser to the company, expressed his frustration with the situation between Boxee and Hulu, a joint partnership between NBC Universal and News Corp.
"These guys are so shortsighted. It's an RSS reader. What our...
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The case of Cook County sheriff Tom Dart versus Craigslist becomes weirder every day, as new information surfaces. We’ve all heard the sheriff’s side of the story, that Craigslist is one of the nation’s largest sources of prostitution that needs to be stopped.
But Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster decided to answer the accusations. According to his blog posting, the actions of the Cook County sheriff simply mystify him.
After having positive talks in 2007 with the...
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After reports of new Internet Explorer removal option surfaced earlier this week, Microsoft decided it was time to bring us a confirmation of that, and announced that based on the feedback received, they’ve made Windows 7 about choice and control.
Jack Mayo, group manager for the Documents and Printing team, who also worked on Internet Explorer 8, wrote in a blogpost that the Turning Windows Features On or Off has a long history that dates back to the 31-bit code base, but Windows...
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