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This will be fun if you have clear skies, and a dark moon:

Perseids are fast meteors and they tend to be bright. If a viewer is lucky, an occasional fireball can be seen during a Perseid meteor shower.
Perseid meteors will appear to “rain” into the atmosphere, and while all the viewer has to do is [...]

Symantec announced that they have a zero-day vulnerability that can be used by hackers to gain access to systems.
The zero-day vulnerability is do to the fact that Symantec Antivirus is susceptible to a remote code-execution wit System-level privileges.
I like how this bites them where it hurts. I am sick of all of these virus [...]

AllofMP3.com is the number two place to buy songs in the UK, behind iTunes, according to this story from the register.
What ever happened to Napster? or Real? or Yahoo Music Store? or Microsofts store?
It looks like it’s a tough market out there for anyone that isn’t Apple, and doesn’t sell songs for almost nothing (allofmp3.com).

Wow, and we always thought that the United States was all about freedom…it turns out the U.S. government doesn’t trust its own citizens very much.
When you make a phone call; think about the fact that there could be an overweight man eating potato chips listening in on you. He works for the NSA.
Cool, eh?

Did [...]

3M has set up an advertisement to promote its “indestructable” security glass. They put up a couple layers of their security glass with money sandwiched in between at a bus stop. If you can kick the glass and break it, the money is all yours. Word has it there is a security [...]

Apple has reached an agreement with Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung, and Toshiba to secure a steady supply of NAND flash memory through 2010. Apple will fork over 1.25 billion dollars over the next three months for the flash memory components.

“We want to be able to produce as many of our wildly popular iPods [...]

Over the past few days, the page impressions here at MGB have gone up by over 1000%. Well, our host wasn’t too happy with the increased bandwidth and we were forced to change hosting companies. Sorry for being down so long this morning. We should have more news up for you shortly.

JVC announced their newest hard disk camcorders, the Everio GZ-MG70, in a press release today. The GZ-MG70 includes a 30 GB hard disk drive for storing up to 10 hours of DVD quality movies.
Now you can capture your sweet home videos using two resolutions; including 16:9, and 4:3. Also, instead of carrying around [...]

Word of Google Base was leaked a couple weeks ago, and it appeared for a brief moment before it was pulled. Speculation filled rumor sites as people claimed Google was going after craigslist.com, and maybe even eBay. While Google’s motives aren’t known, here is their explanation of Google Base.

Google Base is a place [...]

In another defeat of the HD-DVD standard; MGM has announced today its support of the new high definition Blu-ray Disc format.
MGM is planning on releasing film and television titles from its library when the Blue-ray hardware launches in North America, Japan and Europe.
MGM owns the world’s largest library of modern films, approximately 4,000 titles, and [...]