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Bragging rights, momentum at stake in tonight's 3 contests
Seventy delegates and a whole lot of momentum: That's what's at stake today when three states hold contests in the race for the GOP presidential nomination.

Calif. same-sex marriage ban rejected
The 2-1 decision is expected to be appealed, possibly to the U.S. Supreme Court, and no same-sex marriages will be granted as that process continues.

New feud over Falklands heats up
Amid escalating tensions over the Falkland Islands, Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner accused Great Britain of militarizing the South Atlantic and said Tuesday her country would file a protest at the United Nations.

Opinion: Ball is in Iran's court
There is nothing new about the tension between the United States and Iran. Relations have swung from crisis to crisis ever since the fall of the Shah in 1979. But recently, this tension is turning into outright confrontation and the threat of war.

Yemeni VP says he'll run for president
Yemeni Vice President Abdurabu Mansur Hadi kicked off his presidential campaign Tuesday, announcing he will run in the February 21 election.

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EmEditor Professional 8.0
Create macros and edit text in a scripting-oriented editor.

Iris Browser beta
Explore the Web on the go with your handheld device.

BFilter 1.1.4
Detect and block banner ads during Web surfing.

MySpeed Plug-In for YouTube Beta 2.11
Speed up or slow down the playback rate of any YouTube or other streaming flash video.

Mozilla Firefox 3.0.4
Surf the Web, block pop-ups, and keep spyware at bay with this lean and fast open-source browser.

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History Repeats Itself: KDP Select Is Amazon.com's 'Payback For Playback'

New submitter brennanw writes "Anyone who was active on mp3.com during the late 90s/early 2000's will find Amazon.com's KDP Select awfully familiar: authors who make their works exclusive to Amazon compete for a pool of money. Any time someone 'borrows' one of their books, they get a cut of a monthly sum (700K in January, 600K for February) based on how many of their books were checked out vs. how many other author's books were checked out. This is almost identical to the 'Payback for Playback' service MP3.com provided musicians a little over a decade ago. Payback for Playback effectively destroyed the original MP3.com artist community, and I don't think KDP Select is going to be much different for the self-publishing community that is growing on Amazon."

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Higgs Signal Gains Strength

ananyo writes "Today the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, submitted the results of their latest analyses. The new papers (here here and here) boost the case for December's announcement of a possible Higgs signal. Physicists working on the In the case of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, have been able to look at another possible kind of Higgs decay, and that allows them to boost their Higgs signal from 2.5 sigma to 3.1 sigma. Taken together with data from the other detector, ATLAS, Higgs' overall signal now unofficially stands at about 4.3 sigma."

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MIT Crowdsources and Gamifies Brain Analysis

MrSeb writes "There are around 100 billion neurons in a human brain, forming up to 100 trillion synaptic interconnections. Neuroscientists believe that these synapses are the key to almost every one of your unique, identifiable features: Memories, mental disorders, and even your personality are encoded in the wiring of your brain. Understandably, neuroscientists really want to investigate these neurons and synapses to work out how they play such a vital role in our human makeup. Unfortunately, these 100 trillion connections are crammed into a two-pound bag of soggy flesh, making analysis rather hard. Starting small and working its way up, MIT today launched Eyewire, a crowdsourced 'game' that tasks users with wiring up the neurons in a mouse's retina. A future stage of the game will get users to find the synapses, too."

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Saylor Foundation Awards Prizes To Free College Textbooks

Brad Lucier writes "The Saylor Foundation has a vision: Free and open materials for a complete undergraduate university education. To that end, they've announced the first winners in their Open Textbook Challenge: Four textbooks were relicensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY 3.0) Unported license, the most open of the CC licenses, and in return the authors were awarded a prize of $20,000 for each book. See the blog entries and the accompanying press releases for details. The second wave of submissions will be accepted until May 31, 2012."

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Fracture Putty Can Heal a Broken Bone In Days

An anonymous reader writes "If we break a bone it can take weeks or even month to heal depending on the type and severity of the break. In some extreme cases the complexity of the fracture can make it impossible to heal properly. Researchers at the University of Georgia Regenerative Bioscience Center have come up with a new solution for healing broken bones that cuts recovery time to days. It relies on the use of stem cells that contain a bone generating protein. These cells are injected in gel form directly into the area of the broken bone, where they quickly get to work forming new bone. The end result is very rapid recovery, possibly sidestepping the muscle atrophy that can come with long bone healing times. The gel has been proven to work on animals as big as a sheep and has funding from the DoD. Lets hope it is proven to work on humans in the coming years."

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Appeals court strikes down Calif.'s gay marriage ban
The 2008 prohibition served "no purpose other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California."

Prosecutors want Sandusky to stay in home as part of bail
The former Penn State assistant coach is under house arrest as he faces charges he sexually abused 10 boys.

Syrians reportedly fight for their lives as killings rise
As Western nations push to end the crisis in Syria, dissidents say residents are fighting furiously to prevent their own annihilation.

Paul 'optimistic' about picking up delegates
Ron Paul said he feels "positive" about his campaign and is looking ahead to Maine's caucuses for his first victory in the Republican presidential ...

Churches go less formal to make people comfortable
Pastors set out to remove the "stained-glass barriers" for people who might not be comfortable in traditional church settings.