With one bottle of drinking water and four hours of sunlight, MIT chemist Dan Nocera claims that he can produce 30 KWh of electricity, which is enough to power an entire household in the developing world. The key to this claim is a new, affordable catalyst that uses solar electricity to split water and generate hydrogen.

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Bath sign England flanker and World Cup winner Lewis Moody from Leicester on a three-year deal.

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Perhaps most well known for their netbook innovations with the Eee PC, Asus is at it again with their latest rollout at CeBIT Germany. The “Waveface Light,” a new concept laptop, can be used as a conventional laptop or converted to a tablet by removing the keyboard and opening it to a completely flat position. Sounds like either a stroke of genius or a “small widget broke and now it’s worthless” design issue.

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Yoshida is in the United States to pitch in the independent Arizona Winter League and pitched four scoreless innings for Yuma on Feb. 12, the report said.

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Sony has announced the latest in their line of SOCOM games for PS3

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Bangladesh make steady progress chasing 285 to beat England in the final ODI after Craig Kieswetter’s 107.

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At an upcoming Cleveland Cavaliers game on Friday, March 6th, with a sold out crowd of 20,562 each fan will be given a Snuggie to be worn precisely at 7PM. Cavs management is asking that everyone arrive on time before the game’s scheduled tip-off since a Guinness Worlds Record official will be on hand to authenticate the event.

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Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton contributes the following piece on trying to get some measure of satisfaction in the struggle against pop-up adds, writing

“The most annoying thing about some pop-up ads, is that you have no way of knowing which ad-serving network served them or who the responsible parties are. Could we reduce the incidence of illegal or deceptive pop-up ads, by giving users an easier way to trace their origin and figure (more…)

eaked Ingame Exploration of the Ruby Sanctum – World of Warcraft’s new raid instance! The instance is intended to be a prelude to Cataclysm and should provide some advancement for the new expansion’s storyline before the 4.0 patch. Video provides high definition footage of the zone and Blizzard’s under development testing areas surrounding it.

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Nets are the worst team in the NBA and are having trouble convincing fans to come to games. So Roni Deutch Tax Center will provide all New Jersey residents who attend the Nets game on Friday, March 5 with preparation of a free state tax return. Wow.

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