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By - Darren Straight

Blinking switches off parts of your brain.

Parts of our brain are temporarily “switched off” when we blink, scientists have found. The team from University College London found that the brain shuts down parts of the visual system for each blink, they also say this was the case even if light was still entering the eyes. The researchers said this could explain why people do not notice

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Windows Genuine Advantage 1.0 Goes Live

Microsoft has now gone live with its blocking technology that will require people to validate their copies of Windows before being allowed download access to updates. Genuine Advantage 1.0 program will check that anyone accessing Windows Update, Microsoft Update for Windows or the Microsoft Download Center has a genuine Windows operating system before allowing any downloads. Security updates will however

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Discovery launches successfully.

NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery has finally returned to space after more than two years of hard work by the entire NASA team to get the shuttle up to the standards it needed to be, so a reoccurrence of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster that happened two years ago does not happen ever again. NASA says that the shuttle has not

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MSN Screensaver Beta

Stay on top of news, weather, and e-mail with the next step in the evolution in screen savers. With the MSN Screen Saver (Beta), you can display your photos, click news headlines, check the local weather, display photos of your friends and blogs from their MSN Spaces, and set up your own RSS news feeds. Download now

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Msn Virtual Earth

Msn has finally released their much anticipated Virtual Earth that was first announced in May 2005, Virtual Earth is a web based application very similar to that of Google Maps as it provides both street-map and satellite views of locations and provides driving directions between them. Msn Virtual Earth comes with a wide range of tools within it that you

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Countdown to Tuesday Launch.

The countdown is under way for the launch of the Shuttle Discovery on the Return to Flight mission. Launch is set for no earlier than 10:39 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 26. At noon today, countdown clocks at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida came to life at the T-43 hour mark and immediately began counting down toward a liftoff

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NASA/Columbia Disaster Music Video Essay

I was searching around the other day on Google and came across this site and found the site and the NASA/Columbia Disaster Music Video Essay to be very good, so much that I thought I would share it with you, Enjoy! 😀 Main Site Main Site of the videos Direct Link to the 70mb video (higher quality Direct Link to