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With Quantum of Solace about to release in the U.S., the time is right to ask: Who is the real James Bond?

"Dude, Gmail works in the test shell on Linux!" said programmer Dan Kegel in a note to the Chromium developers mailing list on Tuesday. It's pretty crude, though: the "enter" key doesn't work, for example.

James Kochalka has been keeping a sketchbook diary for years and years and years. About ten, probably. Until recently you could only see his current daily strip on his website for free, while the archives were kept for paying subscribers.

It's confirmed: The atomic missile team at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana "failed its nuclear surety inspection" earlier this week, Air Force Times is reporting.

German doctors say marrow transplant may have cured patient's AIDS; method still questionable. An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said Wednesday.

Two companies are doing two very different things to address the energy problem in America. How about a mini-reactor giving your neighborhood nuclear power? Or would you like thin fuel cell chips to give your gadgets juice?

Amazing article on robot fighting technology, "Founded by serial entrepreneur/dot com millionaire Ben Way, WAR is set to cash in on future robo-assaults with a range of weapon and detection systems that would blow your mind if you could only imagine them. We probed Ben's visions and glimpsed a horrible future filled with inhuman killing machines."

Metre-wide cracks in the ground suddenly split open, as red-hot rock and ash are thrown violently into the air amid searing temperatures. It’s like a vision of how the Earth behaved in prehistoric times. Except these events have happened within the last three years in Ethiopia’s Afar region.

Dinosaurs are roaming the earth once again - in a spectacular £10million show that will conquer London next summer.

This is the first in a four part series which I hope gives buyers, sellers, shareholders and dare I say management a platform for discussion.

Stormtroopers taking a sick day.

In an interview with Matt Lauer, Sarah Palin said, “if there is a door open in 2012 or four yeas later…then I’ll plow through that door.” If Palin tries to run for president against Barack Obama in 2012, she’ll get plowed over. She likely wouldn't even make it out of the GOP primary. Palin-watchers can pick from a plethora of reasons as to why.

After the secret source code for its then-unreleased shooter Half Life 2 showed up on BitTorrent in 2003, game maker Valve Software cooked up an elaborate ruse with the FBI targeting the German hacker suspected in the leak, even setting up a fake job interview in an effort to lure him to the U.S. for arrest.

Realize the full potential of your Apple iPhone smartphone without touching your bank account. These free downloads will keep you up to date on news and sports, connect you with colleagues, ensure you've got an endless supply of free music and even provide a birds-eye-view of most of the globe.

Here are 10 incredibly accurate impersonations by people you wouldn’t recognize.When someone gets it right, you definitely have to give them credit. And sometimes you’re even amazed at how accurate their representation of the imitated character is.

Director Baz Luhrmann says he has yet to finish his $130m (£84.2m) epic film Australia, despite the fact it is due to have its world premiere next week.

Truly amazing set of photos.

Getty Images photographer John Moore spent some time recently in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, near the Pakistani border, with Viper Company of the 1-26 Infantry, and brought back these images, documenting what he saw.

Original design created without research. Looks like a homage to bots in Aliens and the Matrix.

The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for iron is 18 mg for adult women, and 8 mg for men. Here are the top 10 food sources of iron, according to the USDA's Dietary Guidelines for Americans.