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HD-DVD Death Is Official; Downloads to Kill Blu-Ray Next
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 8:30pm EST by Gadget Lab Blog
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Reuters confirms Toshiba will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, which leaves Blu-Ray as the presumptive victor in the irrelevant optical disk format war. Rob Beschizza reports in his Gadget Lab blog.
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Flu Vaccine Is a Poor Match for Current Strains
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 4:45pm EST by Associated Press
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It's shaping up to be a bad flu season, and U.S. health officials say it's partly because the current vaccine doesn't protect against most of the spreading flu bugs. The flu shot is a good match for only about 40 percent of this year's flu viruses.
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Digital TV Shift Will Affect Millions of Consumers
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 4:15pm EST by Associated Press
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The switch from analog to digital TV broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them. What exactly do they need to make the transition?
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The Problem of Scale in Environmental Solutions
Posted: February 16th, 2008, 3:30pm EST by Wired Science
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With several panels dedicated to biofuels at the AAAS annual meeting, the sustainability of growing a large percentage of our transportation fuel is emerging as a major theme of the conference. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston.