Daryl Murphy scores his first goal for Celtic from the penalty spot as they defeat stuffy Motherwell to go top of the Scottish Premier League.

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An anonymous reader contributes this snippet from Medical News Daily, which begins a story of some interesting medical detective work: “After more than a decade of research, Scripps Research Institute scientists have pieced together the structure of a human adenovirus—the largest complex ever determined at atomic resolution. The new findings about the virus, which causes respiratory, eye, and gastrointestinal infections, may lead to more effective (more…)

siliconbits writes “Chinese manufacturer Lenovo will build a video gaming console for the Chinese market and has already spun off a company called Eedoo Technology, including a team of 40 engineers, with the task of developing the platform. It will be called the Ebox, and will be specifically designed to recognize shapes and movement without the need for a dedicated game controller, not unlike Microsoft’s Kinect.”

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Premier League leaders Chelsea keep up their 100% start to the season with an efficient display against dogged Stoke.

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TuurlijkNiet writes with this excerpt from Linux for Devices: “Eat your heart out, ‘Retina display.’ A new technology unveiled yesterday will allow creating pixels eight times smaller than the ones on Apple’s iPhone 4, eliminate the need for polarizer layers, and allow screens to make much more efficient use of available light, say University of Michigan researchers. … The pixels in the nanoresonator displays are about ten times smaller than those (more…)

Fulham complete the signing of Mexico international left-back Carlos Salcido from PSV Eindhoven.

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DeviceGuru writes “Although it won’t help Linux run Windows-specific software applications, this easy hack produces an Ubuntu desktop that looks and feels a lot like Windows 7. It’s particularly suitable for reviving older PCs or laptops on which the main activities will be web-browsing, email, document writing, and streaming music and videos from from the web. The process installs a Windows 7-like GNOME theme on an otherwise standard Ubuntu 10.04 (more…)

British teenager Laura Robson stuns former world number four Jelena Dokic with a 6-1 6-4 victory in the opening round of qualifying for the US Open.

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Newcastle book their place in the third round of the Carling Cup after seeing off the challenge of Accrington.

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An anonymous reader writes “Elliptic Labs is set to debut their Touchless Gesture User Interface technology which uses ultrasound to let the user navigate through a device’s commands simply with the motion of their hands. From the article: ‘Elliptic plans to showcase their “Mimesign” technology at IFA in Berlin from the 3rd to 8th of September 2010. Mimesign will bring intuitive ways for people to interact with devices. The possibilities (more…)