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• Tour de Tweet: Follow Lance and the Boys Online
  The Tour de France begins Saturday, July 4, in Monaco. Here's how to follow the three-week bike race using streaming audio and video, Twitter, Google Earth and other online tools.

  
  

  
  
• Penguin Parents Won't Chip In to Help Handicapped Spouse
  Penguins, famous for the lengths they go to to protect their eggs and rear their young, may not be the most supportive couples around. When one member of a penguin couple is handicapped, the other doesn't step in to pick up the slack.

  
  

  
  
• Solar Racing Champs Roll Out New Car
  Delft University is back, ready to take a fifth consecutive title with Nuna 5.

  
  

  
  
• Judge Overrules Jury, Acquits Lori Drew in MySpace Cyberbullying Case
  Federal judge throws out Lori Drew's three misdemeanor convictions.

  
  

  
  
• Lunar Probe Sends First High-Res Images
  NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has begun producing high-resolution and wide-angle images of the moon's surface.

  
  

  
  
• We Drive BMW's Electric Mini E
  Sticking a battery and a motor in the Mini makes it a sweet little EV we could live with if it weren't for the stratospheric price tag.

  
  

  
  
• Why You Can't Keep Your Foot Out of Your Mouth
  When your brain is overloaded, it will often get stuck on exactly the thing you are trying to avoid thinking about, leading you to blurt out things you never meant to share.

  
  

  
  
• Bomb-Detection CEO Named New Darpa Boss
  Regina Dugan is the new top gun of the Pentagon research arm.

  
  

  
  
• Video: Pentagon's Robo-Hummingbird Flies Like the Real Thing
  A tiny drone looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. It could inspire other bio-imitative mini spies.

  
  

  
  
• $4 Billion in Broadband Stimulus Grants Tied to Strict Net Neutrality Rules
  Two federal agencies are now ready to hand out $4 billion in grants and loans to help bring broadband to the people and stimulate the economy, but applicants have to promise to play fairly with whatever devices, applications and services users want to use.

  
  

  
  
• Astrophysicists Discover New Class of Black Hole
  Only two sizes of black holes have ever been spotted: small and super-massive. Scientists have long speculated that an intermediate version must exist, but they?ve never been able to find one. Until now.

  
  

  
  
• Video: Roast Weenies With Infrared Grill, Wireless Meat Thermometer
  To celebrate Independence Day, Wired.com editors Danny Dumas and Steven Leckhart roast dogs with 14,000 Btu of infrared heating power. They review the an infrared portable grill and a wireless meat thermometer.

  
  

  
  
• July 2, 1982: Up, Up and Away in 42 Balloons
  If bad eyesight ends your dreams of becoming an Air Force pilot, well, there are other ways to fly....

  
  

  
  
• Hot Gear for a Cool Summer
  Want to make your summer really sizzle? Make sure you've got the right gear first. Wired highlights the best tech for fishing, golfing, beach reading and uh, whittling. Why? Because warm weather comes but once a year.

  
  

  
  
• Featherweight Olympus Is a Fine Entry-Level DSLR
  The Olympus E-620 is an inexpensive digital single-lens reflex camera that won't weigh your shoulder down, is easy to use and takes fine pictures in a wide variety of conditions. And it's

  
  

  
  

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• Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules (AP)
  AP - In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.
  
• Companies pledge more openness about Web tracking (AP)
  AP - Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed.
  
• PC makers voluntarily supply Web filter in China (AP)
  

  AP - Several PC makers were including controversial Internet-filtering software with computers shipped in China on Thursday despite a government decision to postpone its plan to make such a step mandatory.

  
  
  
• Facebook plans to simplify privacy settings (AP)
  AP - Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site.
  
• Sony struggling as Walkman hits 30th anniversary (AP)
  

  AP - When the Sony Walkman went on sale 30 years ago, it was shown off by a skateboarder to illustrate how the portable cassette-tape player delivered music on-the-go — a totally innovative idea back in 1979.

  
  
  
• Review: New guide gives Twitterific advice (AP)
  

  AP - Sometimes Twitter can make newcomers feel like twits because the online messaging service isn't as simple as it sounds.

  
  
  
• Conviction reversed in web hoax that led to suicide (AFP)
  

  AFP - A woman who was convicted of computer fraud in an Internet hoax that led to the suicide of 13-year-old girl was tentatively acquitted Thursday by a federal judge.

  
  
  
• Mac News Briefs: BenVista releases PhotoZoom Pro 3 photo enlarger (Macwo...
  Macworld.com - BenVista has released the latest version its photo enlargement sofware, PhotoZoom Pro 3.
  
• Hybrid Cellular Satellite Will Boost Rural Coverage (NewsFactor)
  NewsFactor - European space transportation provider Arianespace launched its largest satellite ever on Wednesday on behalf of TerreStar Networks -- a Virginia-based company that intends to inaugurate a hybrid satellite/cellular service in the United States and Canada later this year.
  
• Paisley: 'Hard to ignore' serious themes on new CD (AP)
  

  AP - As much as he enjoys singing about the double lives of computer geeks ("Online") and amorous country boys ("Ticks"), Brad Paisley says there's too much going on in the world to be too lighthearted on his new album, "American Saturday Night."

  
  
  
• "Asteroids" lands at Universal (Reuters)
  Reuters - Universal Pictures has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids."
  
• Preview: Facebook's Upcoming New iPhone App (PC World)
  PC World - The folks at Facebook don't seem to be taking much downtime this summer. After announcing a revamped approach to user privacy control this week, the Facebook team is now preparing to launch a new and improved Facebook application for the iPhone.
  
• Oracle plans to lay off up to 1,000 in Europe: AFP (Reuters)
  Reuters - Oracle Corp plans to lay off up to 1,000 workers in Europe, or about 1 percent of its global staff, as the recession erodes the giant software company's earnings, French news agency AFP reported on Thursday.
  
• MySpace, Web servers not liable for assaults: court (Reuters)
  

  Reuters - Internet servers like MySpace cannot be held liable when minors are sexually assaulted by people they first meet on a website, a California appeals court ruled in an opinion filed late on Tuesday.

  
  
  
• Conficker: Forgotten but not Gone (PC World)
  PC World - Conficker may not dominate the headlines any longer, but it's still going strong, according to Trend Micro's Malware Blog and stats from the Conficker Working Group.
  

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