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• SATURN MOON ‘A FROZEN TIME CAPSULE’
Images snapped by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show that Saturn’s moon, Phoebe, is not an asteroid but a 4.5-billion-year-old primordial body from the solar system’s outer reaches.

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• City installs 100-block WiFi 'hot zone'• Hotmail follows rivals and boosts storage• Where does ‘outer space’ begin?• How much habitat for vanishing species?• NBC: Internet as a terror tool

WEBLOGS

• Cosmic Log: Space history for sale
Wanna buy a rock from Mojave spaceport?

• Practical Futurist: Readers on Lifetime Storage
Some wonder why we'd want to remember everything.

SCIENCE

MYSTERIES OF UNIVERSE | MORE

• ANCIENT INDIAN SETTLEMENT FOUND IN UTAH
Archaeologists say a network of preserved prehistoric villages in Utah ranks as one of the most spectacular finds in the American West.

• How genetic diversity affects honeybee heat• How much habitat for vanishing species?• Most expensive glass up for auction• Stinky flower blooming after 60 years

SPACE

MARS | COLUMBIA TRAGEDY | MORE

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• JUST WHERE DOES ‘OUTER SPACE’ BEGIN?
Space.com: The SpaceShipOne rocket plane made it to an altitude of 100 kilometers — but whether that counts as a spaceflight depends on your definition.

• Russians block space passenger's trip• Risky spacewalk gets last-minute go ahead• Saturn moon ‘a frozen time capsule’• Cosmic Log: Space history for sale

GAMES & GADGETS

Creative

• IPOD ALTERNATIVES SHAKE UP MARKET
Electronics makers trying to compete with Apple's iPod are creating a new market in lower or comparably priced skip-proof digital music players.

• Senate bill targets file-sharing services• Digital home advocates work on compatibility• Philips launches world's fastest DVD burner• RIAA sues hundreds more over file-sharing

HACKS, VIRUSES, SCAMS & SPAM

• AOL CUSTOMER LIST STOLEN, SOLD TO SPAMMER
A former AOL employee was charged Wednesday with stealing the Internet provider's entire subscriber list and selling it to a spammer.

• Spam-sending PCs could be kicked offline• Microsoft's security strategy stirs up industry• IBM offers anti-spam, anti-virus service• House panel OKs anti-spyware bill

TECH TOOLS

• CITY INSTALLS 100-BLOCK WIFI 'HOT ZONE'
City of Spokane, Wash., flips switch on a 100-block wireless Internet area that they claim is the largest suchWi-Fi "hot zone" in any urban area in the United States.

• Oracle’s PeopleSoft bid rattled Microsoft• AOL to buy Advertising.com• Once mighty Comdex canceled for 2004• Hotmail follows rivals and boosts storage

MSNBC.COM ORIGINALS

• Spam-sending PCs could be kicked offline
Nation's largest ISPs propose new guidelines

NBC News

• Private rocket ship breaks space barrier
Pilot forced to deal with serious control problem

Reuters

• NBC: High-tech jihad
Use of DVDs and video advance bloody message in Iraq, S. Arabia

MSNBC.com

• Science Fiction Museum goes back to the future
First such center examines interplay of fact, fantasy

• Gaming tries to shed boys' club image
Number of women game creators small, but growing

Maverick Marketing

• Solving the overheated pillow problem
Chillow stays cool without electricity, refrigeration

• Survey: 2 million bank accounts robbed
Online banking security holes blamed

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