Amazon is currently in negotiations with book publishers, trying to work out the details for a "book rental" program. Unlike the library, renting books from Amazon would cost money.
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Genetically Modified, Glowing Cats are Resistant to AIDS
Scientists have genetically altered several cats by using a combination of monkey genes and jellyfish genes. According to test results, these cats have developed a resistance to feline AIDS.
Read More »Facebook More Important than Toilets, According to Survey
Researchers conducted a survey of 3,000 adults, asking them to rank things that "they couldn't live without". Facebook ranked fifth, while having a toilet ranked ninth.
Read More »Nike MAG Shoes from Back to the Future II Being Sold on eBay
Before now, the Nike MAG was the "greatest shoe never made", featured in Back to the Future II. Nike is now selling 1500 pairs of these amazing shoes on eBay -- for a limited time.
Read More »Netflix Now Live on Gingerbread and Froyo Android Phones
The Netflix App that's available for Android has finally been updated. This update allows the app to run on all devices that are running Android 2.2 and 2.3.
Read More »Is Steve Jobs Dead?
Today, a tweet from the CBS News account "What's Trending" set off an internet panic -- they tweeted that Steve Jobs had passed away. Though the tweet was deleted from the account moments later, the internet is still in a panic. CBS has apologized, calling the news "completely unconfirmed".
Read More »Twitter Now Has 100 Million Active Users
Remember when Twitter was launched in 2006, many analysts predicted that it would be "a passing fad"? Well, looks like they were very, very wrong. Twitter has just passed 100 million active users.
Read More »Cleverbot Tricks Test Subjects Into Thinking It’s Human
At a tech festival in India, almost 60% of people believed that they were speaking to a human, when in fact they were speaking to Cleverbot.
Read More »Facebook May Launch Music Service Next Month
There's a rumor that Facebook will be launching its own online music service on September 22nd, which may be announced at the f8 conference.
Read More »Victims of Hurricane Irene Reflect on Life Without Internet
You really haven't experienced boredom until you're suddenly cut off from the internet. At least, that's the main consensus among people who have had their internet service interrupted due to the outages caused by hurricane Irene.
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