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New Evidence to the Creation of the Grand Canyon

clipped from www.nature.com Visitors are often told that the Grand Canyon formed 6 million years ago, when the Colorado River assumed its current course. But a new study indicates that a large chunk of the Grand Canyon may have taken its shape from a far more ancient gorge, carved out 55 million years ago by a [...]

A Chink in the MS Armor?

clipped from www.techcrunch.com Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald told a conference audience yesterday that Microsoft’s Windows product is collapsing and must make radical changes to its operating system or risk becoming a has-been. They specifically pointed out the slow adoption rate by businesses - just 6% to date - and the fact that the Vista [...]