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  Defending against
  bio-chemical war

  road trip Researchers at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Grounds learn how to protect soldiers from "bugs" that could kill or sideline them.
  • More from Road Trip 2009

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  The Sony Walkman turns 30

  photos CNET looks back at the last 30 years of Sony Walkmans and the pop music that went with them.

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• Marc Andreessen launches new venture fund

  $300 million Andreessen Horowitz fund to back companies large and small, but only Internet-focused.

  (Posted in Rafe's Radar by Rafe Needleman)

• Fun with numbers a boon for StatCounter

  The Web-tracking service claims IE market share has dropped off since March, but should we believe the numbers?

  (Posted in Digital Media by Larry Dignan)

• Spiral Jetty, earthwork extraordinaire

  road trip On the north edge of the Great Salt Lake, Robert Smithson's masterpiece sits peacefully, awaiting visitors willing to make the long trek to see one of the world's great land art pieces.
  • Photos: Wondrous art
  • Where the Transcontinental Railroad finally joined
  • Photos: The golden spike
  • More from Road Trip 2009

  (Posted in Geek Gestalt by Daniel Terdiman)

• Wife exposes chief spy's personal life on Facebook

  The wife of the new head of MI6 reveals details of their vacations, their children, their celebrity friends, and even how he looks in swimming attire.

  (Posted in Technically Incorrect by Chris Matyszczyk)

• 4chan may be behind attack on Twitter

  The micro-blogging site's trending topics is siege attack by Internet message boards.

  (Posted in The Web Services Report by Harrison Hoffman)

• Report: Problems stymie U.S. cyberspy protection

  Technical and privacy issues are plaguing the U.S. government's work on the overarching system to protect federal computer networks from cyberspies, according to The Wall Street Journal.

  (Posted in Security by Natalie Weinstein)

• Apple MacBook Air: Cooler graphics

  Is there a downside to squeezing a real graphics processor into in a 3-pound, ultra-thin laptop?

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Employee shot, wounded at Virginia Apple store

  The victim, a 26-year-old woman, is in serious but stable condition with a wound to the shoulder. Some media outlets are reporting robbery as the motive, but police say it's too early to tell.

  (Posted in Apple by Leslie Katz)

• Fire knocks out service to Bing Travel, other sites

  At least two dozen sites experience protracted outage following a Thursday night electrical fire at a Seattle data center. Verizon's local DSL service also gets temporarily disrupted.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Leslie Katz)

• Photos: Top-rated reviews of the week

  Here are a few of CNET Reviews' favorite items from the past week, including the BlueAnt S1 Bluetooth speakerphone, Canon PowerShot A2100 IS, and HTC Touch Pro2.

• iPhone 3GS jailbreak, 'purplera1n,' hits Web

  Hacker who originally unlocked the iPhone has let loose a jailbreaking app for the iPhone 3GS ahead of the iPhone dev team. For now, it's Windows-only, but a Mac version is supposedly on the way.

  (Posted in Crave by Leslie Katz)

• Week in review: A speedier new Firefox

  Mozilla's latest version plays catch-up with the browser competition. Also: the latest in Windows 7 news, and a Yahoo data center in a new shade of green.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Michelle Meyers)

• DOJ opens formal probe in Google Books settlement

  Government investigators will probe whether or not Google's agreement with publishers over the digital rights to index books violates antitrust laws.
  • Google finally sued by makers of Finally Fast

  (Posted in Digital Media by Tom Krazit)
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