The holy grail of cancer detection is a simple blood test that would spot signals of cancer early enough to cure it. Now genetics researchers report a surprising discovery that could lead to such tests.

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Google Gadgets for Linux provides a platform for running desktop gadgets under Linux, catering to the unique needs of Linux users. Google said that their gadget is compatible with the gadgets written for Google Desktop for Windows as well as the Universal Gadgets on iGoogle. Following Linux norms, this project is open-sourced under the Apache License.

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In a recent report told that granite counter tops could endanger your family. A physics professor at Rice University is warning of a radioactive threat found in some kitchen countertops.

Some granite countertops contain levels of uranium high enough to be dangerous to humans, said Rice professor W.J. Llope.

Using a spectrometer, Llope tested 25 varieties of granite bought from Houston-area dealers. In some cases, he said, he found countertops that could expose homeowners to 100 millirems of radiation in just a few months — the annual exposure limit set by the Department of Energy for visitors to nuclear labs.

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Ramji, who made the announcements at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) Friday, promised "a lot more" PHP patches in the coming months now Microsoft had established processes he said clarified how employees can contribute to open source.

In a further move towards greater support of open source, Microsoft is becoming a platinum member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), paying $100,000 annual membership. The move follows work between the two to support the Office Open XML file formats in Apache's POI project.

Microsoft's new love for FSF licensing and PHP is not exactly unselfserving. The decision to work on PHP fits with the overall strategy of improving the language's interoperability with Windows and stemming the loss of PHP application deployments to Linux. LGPL allows code to be used with proprietary programs - such as SQL Server - unlike its GPL cousin.

Recent report of NASA's fleet of five THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms) satellites have discovered what turns on the Northern Lights. Researchers say "an explosion of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon powers substorms, sudden brightenings, and rapid movements of the aurora borealis" or Northern Lights.

The key to the auroras is magnetic reconnection, which NASA describes as "stressed magnetic field lines that suddenly snap to a new shape, like a rubber band that's been stretched too far," causing a burst of light and movement near the northern and southern poles. "We discovered what makes the Northern Lights dance," said UCLA's Vassilis Angelopoulos, who is the principal investigator for the THEMIS mission.

These are one of the best wallpaper collection from gnome-look.org for Linux and can also be used for windows.

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AMD announced during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany that its AMD Opteron™ processors have helped deliver many of the top performing supercomputers in the world. AMD technology plays a role in the number one supercomputer in the world and this same processor technology that helps drive the number one supercomputer.

AMD said that:

The AMD Opteron processor-based “Ranger” supercomputer at TACC made its first appearance on the TOP500 list, ranking fourth with a score of 326 teraflops. “Ranger” is based on Sun Microsystems’ Constellation blade system and is the most powerful supercomputing system in the world for open science research, helping solve massive computational problems from weather prediction and climate modeling to genetics and medical research.

“The Sun Constellation System at TACC delivers an open, petascale-capable architecture through cost-effective, off-the-shelf components and state-of-the-art technologies,” said Bjorn Andersson, director, HPC Marketing, Sun Microsystems. “Through the combination of Sun’s innovative design principles for server, switch and interconnect technology and the performance and energy-efficiency of multi-core AMD Opteron processors, Ranger is helping to achieve breakthrough discoveries across domains and disciplines and is poised to grow with the demands of open science research.”

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Microsoft released Hyper-V bare metal hypervisor platform for Server 2008. Hyper-V is just plain less expensive to implement than VMWare ESX Server.

Microsoft Says " The update to the Hyper-V role provides improvements to security, stability, performance, user experience, forward compatibility of configurations, and the programming model."

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Wordpress recently announce that the new version of Wordpress 2.6 is now available for download. The release is named after the famous Jazz Pianist McCoy Tyner. With the new feature that you can track changes to every post and page easily. I've been using blogger and I am having second thoughts of using this new version of Wordpress.

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