Ericsson buys Nortel's wireless unit for $1.13 billion. (Reuters)
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 reach the Release to Manufacturing milestone. (ArsTech)
Moon landing 40th anniversary.
New terahertz radiation detectors could make body scanning as cheap as conventional video. (TechReview)
Ununbium is given the name Copernicium. (BBC)
Organic light-emitting diode's that can accurately replicate the entire color-temperature range of sunlight have been designed. (Physorg)
Washington University's Genome Center can now sequence a human genome in a week. (O'Reilly)
H1N1 can infect cells deep in the lungs, making it far more potentially dangerous than previously thought. (Physorg)
Google announces they will release a new operating system called Google Chrome OS. (CNet)
Scientific papers are published on the Mars Phoenix Lander, one of which describes night time snowfall on Mars. (Ars)
Michael Jackson related internet scams increase rapidly. (CRN)
A likely candidate for the first medium-sized black hole called Hyper-Luminous X-ray Source 1 (HLX-1) is found. If confirmed it would lend support to the theory super massive black holes are made from small ones. (Wired)
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