

The notion of “driving while distracted” and text messaging while behind the wheel brought a lot of outrage and disbelief from msnbc.com readers. "Come on!" wrote one, who contends it's not physically possible. Unfortunately, it is.
Days before recessing for the year, the Senate has at last passed the Broadband Data Improvement Act. It directs the FCC to gather far more detailed (and useful) information about the US broadband market, including better deployment maps and price information.
A paper set to be published in an upcoming edition of Physical Review Letters postulates that dark energy may not exist. In order to explain this, however, researchers reject the longstanding Copernican principle which says that Earth does not exist in a "special" location.
LOLOLOL. Somebody actually believing that the U.S. has more freedom of speech/expression than "socialist" countries like Europe and Japan, hahaha. That's so funny.
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Muxtape was killed off by the RIAA, and now the site's founder is going into gruesome detail over the development and demise of the "old" Muxtape. The new Muxtape, however, will be making a triumphant return in the form of a site that lets bands showcase their music and embed it anywhere on the web—kind of like MySpace already does.
Rail service resumed Tuesday along the tracks where a Metrolink train collided head-on with a freight train and left 25 people dead four days earlier.
The first cell phone running Google Inc.'s mobile software looks something like Apple Inc.'s iPhone and has a large touch screen, but it also packs a trackball, a slide-out keyboard and easy access to Google's e-mail and mapping programs.