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• September 3: Microsoft releases Windows Phone 7 to manufacturing
• September 2: Study suggests 'sleeping sickness' parasite mutated to evade immune system defences
• September 2: Apple unveils new iPods, Apple TV; updates iOS, iTunes
• September 1: Telstra becomes the first in the world to switch to HSPA+ wireless Internet technology
• August 31: As increase in digital music sales slows, record labels look to new ways to make money
• August 30: Tobacco attracts predators with chemicals in response to caterpillars, a study finds
• August 29: UK scientists discover multiple antibiotics used by fungus-farming ants to protect colonies
• August 29: Japanese researchers create smell sensor using genetically engineered frog eggs
• August 28: Wikinews interviews William Pomerantz, Senior Director of Space Prizes at the X PRIZE Foundation
• August 28: Oil-eating microbe found in the Gulf of Mexico

Did you know...

• ... that both the Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer Web browser design ideas descended from the Mosaic web browser?
• ... that a Coherer, Hot wire barretter, Electrolytic detector, Cat's whisker and Vacuum tube were all types of radio detectors?
• ... that in 2008 Hewlett-Packard created a Prototype of the theoretical fourth and last Passive circuit element, the Memristor, that may one day revolutionize Electronics, although the Theory was devised in 1971?
• ... that a Mercury arc rectifier converts Alternating current to Direct current by means of an Electric arc through mercury Vapor?
• ... that only one of the 266 1076 Class steam locomotives built for the Great Western Railway was named, and the rest had only numbers?
• ... that the six Charles Tayleur locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway were unsuccessful?

• ... that the intensity of a Tropical cyclone (pictured) is usually determined by the Dvorak technique using only visible and infrared satellite images?
• ... that the technique of Double-balloon enteroscopy allows any position along the Gastrointestinal tract to be visualized in real-time?

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