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Science

Thorium, The Next Uranium

Wired has a fairly epic look into a material that could make nuclear power both clean and safe called thorium – named after the Norse god of thunder. Of course, scientists recognised its promise back in the 1950s.

Online

How To: Execute The Ultimate Phone Prank With Skype

Here’s an old gem of a trick for anyone feeling lonely, vindictive or very drunk: With Skype, you can connect any phones in the world and listen in on the results. Man, what a decade.

Time Warner Cable’s Genius Solution To Possible Fox Outage

PSSSSST! Hey, Time Warner Cable! If you tell everyone how to watch Fox shows from their PC, they’ll probably start doing it for all your other programming, too! Self-defeating bitterness really is the perfect way to say goodbye to 2009.

The Decade In Tech Stocks: Hope You Had GOOG And AAPL

Turns out it was a tough decade for tech companies. First the bubble they helped create burst and took the rest of the economy down with them; now the credit markets have sunk them in return – with two notable exceptions.

Gadgets

The Year In Images: Shots That Wowed Us In 2009

The internet offers an endless stream of cool pictures, but here’s a look at the best we’ve come across this year. Inside you’ll find images that both amaze and amuse.

Science

Invetech Delivers World’s First Production Human Tissue Printer

Or, as they call it, a “3D bio-printer”. Essentially, it allows scientists to build tissue cell by cell. It’s that cool sci-fi medical stuff we all dream about.

World’s Most ‘Perfect’ Speaker Gets Even Better

Every year product life cycles in the consumer marketplace grow ever shorter. On the audio side, the latest and greatest receivers become yesterday’s news faster than you can say “HDMI 1.4“.

Gadgets

Mophie iPhone Credit Card Scanner

You’d think that smartphones would have made traditional credit cards obsolete by now, but since they haven’t, Mophie’s iPhone credit card reader may be the next best thing.

Behind The Scenes Of The 2010 Times Square New Year’s Ball

The 2010 Times Square New Year’s Ball is ready to go. They saved money and didn’t add any LEDs, but they added new stunning Waterford clink-clink glass panels. Here’s the insider look on how they did it, and why.

The Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball Timeline

The 102-year history of the Times Square New Year’s Even Ball is one filled with technology, death and, of course, pretty shiny lights. See it all unfold in our historical timeline.

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