Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but for aspiring musicians, there's new evidence that genes may influence one's ability to get there, as well.

OMGIGP was the acronym of one of Microsoft’s latest advertisements, and despite the presence of Superman, Dean Cain, the ad (which is really Oh, my God, I’m Gonna Puke” has been removed from from the IE8videos channel on YouTube, and also from the BrowsefortheBetter.com site, which is part of the ad campaign.

 

A new class of black hole, more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, has been discovered.

When Windows 7 pricing was announced, the half-price promotions they announced for upgrades to Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional were applauded, while at the same time the question emerged: what, no Family Pack? While there's still no official announcement, there is evidence that such a pack may exist.

When Japan started to produce goods, many said they marveled at how well they could copy things. Now many such knock-offs come from China. In terms of the iPhone, such replicas could easily spotted. Now, not so much.

Warner and the other researchers at the UAB Spam Data Mine began tracking the celebrity-focused spam early on Tuesday, June 30.

An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria.

 

I’ve written about China’s Green Dam censorware a couple of times, and there’s no doubt it’s drawn a great deal of criticism. On Tuesday, China announced it would be indefinitely delaying the rollout of the product, which it had earlier said would have to be installed (or at least provided) on all PCs sold in the country as of July 1st.

 

<Mozilla has confirmed that the next release of their browser, Firefox 3.5, will go live on Tuesday, June 30th. The versioning on the new release was originally set to be 3.1, but was bumped once it became apparent just how many changes were going into the product.