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Windows: AquaSnap is a free multifunctional tweaking application that brings Aero-style effects to Windows XP and enhances Aero in Vista and Windows 7. More »

Canada will not extend its mission in Afghanistan beyond 2011, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday.

Rumors of a “deeper partnership” between Google and Adobe have come to pass: the Chrome browser will soon ship with Flash built in. No installation, no traditional plugins, no separate updates. It’s just there, like, well, HTML5. This is cunning! More »

Researchers involved in the world’s largest scientific experiment in Geneva have broken the record for the most powerful particle collisions with their first results.

Is Will Smith preparing to defend the earth again?  Will Jeff Goldblum help him out again?

The record price for a comic book, already broken twice this year, has been shattered again. A copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comics No. 1 sold Monday for $1.5 million US.

World leaders are condemning the suicide bombings that occurred in Moscow’s subway system Monday morning, killing 38 people and injuring dozens more.

Over at the Google Blog today they’ve announced new file transfer capabilities in iGoogle and orkut. That’s fun! But what I’m most excited about is their promise of file transfer in Gmail Chat. More »

Curious, possibly weird: ZDNet editor-in-chief Larry Dignan says Adobe and Google are planning to announce tomorrow that they’re bundling Flash with Google’s “Chrome browser and or operating system.” I’m not sure how much it move would really change the current Flash/no-Flash internet calculus, since Chrome still has just a tiny (but growing) portion of the browser market, you can already get Flash on Chrome (presumably everybody with Chrome has Flash already) and there are other forces at work in the internetosphere. More »

Windows only: vSubst lets you assigns drive letters to any local folder on your computer, letting you turn it into a virtual drive. It’s a good way to organize files or simulate environments. More »

Windows: Windows desktop customization tool Omnimo takes the look and feel of the upcoming Windows Phone 7 user interface and brings it to any Windows desktop in an attractive and functional form that’s fresh, useful, and full of eye candy. More »

After failing in its first attempt to popularize two-wheeled transportation in large urban areas, Segway has partnered with General Motors (GM) to introduce a new concept car. According to Wired, the Electric Networked Vehicles, or EN-Vs, will be revealed to the public at the World Expo 2010 this May in Shanghai. The two-wheeled cars have a carbon-fiber shell and can run at about 25 mph, on a single charge, for about 25 miles. Although the EN-V is currently in the concept phase, what really makes it unique is its ability to communicate with other vehicles around it. Also, every EN-V has a GPS device housed inside and features an adaptive cruise control, meaning that you could practically sit back and relax during the morning commute. Able to seat two passengers, it’s about one-sixth the size of a conventional car, and weighs only 1,000 pounds.

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That outage you BlackBerry BIS users may have experienced last night was the March 28 BIS 3.0 upgrade happening—in real time! More »

The Calgary Flames, who have watched their playoff hopes evaporate after consecutive losses to the New York Islanders and Boston Bruins, could be in for a front-office makeover, CBC Hockey Night in Canada’s Scott Morrison told the Hotstove segment.

According to Ford, an estimated 60 percent of the company’s computers remained on after business hours resulting in wasted energy. The new managed shutdown will eliminate waste to the tune of over a million dollars in savings for the company and reduce its carbon footprint by an estimated 16,000-25,000 metric tons per year.

Millions of Canadians participated in Earth Hour on Saturday evening, once again joining a global campaign designed to bring attention to climate change by turning off their lights.

After eight seasons, Fox’s “24” is coming to an end.

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