For those who only know Amy Ray as half of the Indigo Girls, her venture into rock 'n' roll territory as a solo artist might come as a surprise. With crunchy guitars and a solid backbeat, Ray showcases a more playful side of her musical personality.
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Fueled by Twitter's rise, services that scrunch Web addresses are taking off. They bring a host of problems, but some are working to fix them.
road trip At the massive Utah Test & Training Range, the Air Force runs 15,000 sorties a year to ensure that pilots and weapons are on the mark.
• Photos: Training and testing
Business Tech
EMC raises bid for Data DomainIn the battle for Data Domain, EMC increases its bid to $33.50 per share in cash and says its offer is "clearly superior" to NetApp's bid.
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Photos: 'Train warriors, test weapons'
The Open Road
Former Red Hat execs aim to open-source health careWhat happens when you mix a big problem like the U.S. health care system, Red Hat executives, and an open-source technology approach? The Axial Project.
Beyond Binary
Will Windows 7 be finalized next week?Microsoft has said that work on the OS should be done by the end of the month, but some enthusiast sites think it could happen as early as July 13.
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Video: iPhone 3G S launch in New York City
Digital Media
CompuServe Classic laid to restAOL has shut down the historic Internet access service, which got millions on the Internet for the first time in the 1980s and 1990s but has grown obsolete.
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A recipe for high-tech chocolate
Geek Gestalt
Stopping by the woods with an iPhoneOn Road Trip 2009, Daniel Terdiman has a phone conversation that stays active from the forest to a hotel, and through shifts from wired headset to Bluetooth car integration and back.
Cutting Edge
Large Hadron Collider grid stress-testedThe tests, which were deemed a success, threw huge amounts of data at the grid that will process information from the collider.
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Photos: Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson's wondrous earthwork
Crave
Recycling for shutterbugs: Turn lenses into flowerpotsPhotojojo suggests you turn defunct cameras into flowerpots and grow plants in them. It's a cool idea for the environmentally conscious.
Green Tech
Report: Toyota to mass-produce plug-ins in 2012The first plug-in Priuses will be tested next year with plans at Toyota to mass-produce plug-in vehicles in 2012, according to a report in the Nikkei.
