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Delft (Netherlands) - A PhD student at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has constructed what he says is the world's most advanced walking biped robot.

San Francisco (CA) - A Bay Area air pollution board has voted to levy an annual greenhouse gas tax on area businesses.

Baltimore (MD) - NASA and Johns Hopkins University engineers and scientists are developing a new spacecraft that will fly closer to the Sun than any other man-made object.

Washington DC - Researchers are saying some nanotubes can be just as deadly as asbestos.

Chicago (IL) - American IT workers have horrible eating habits and a new survey shows that most of them gain weight.

New York (NY) - The world's largest Bittorrent tracking website is now one of the top 100 most popular sites on the Net.

Seoul (South Korea) - South Korea-based Mtron has announced the fastest solid state drives in existence.

San Jose (CA) - Adobe has released a beta version of their upcoming Flash Player 10.

Pittsburgh (PA) - Two not-so-smart criminals are lucky to be alive after being shocked by the very wire they tried to steal.

Taipei (Taiwan) - Asus has partnered up with Device VM to produce millions of motherboards with almost instant on technology.

Miami (FL) - Ok here we have the dumbass of the day, maybe of the week.

London (England) - Sure you expect walk-through metal detecting scanners at airport, but now they are coming to London's city streets.

San Francisco (CA) - People are salivating over rumors of the new Apple iPhone and have purchased tickets to the upcoming Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in droves.

Detroit (MI) - Honda's 4-foot tall ASIMO robot recently conducted the Detroit Symphony.

Los Angeles (CA) - AWS Truewind will release a 200-meter resolution wind map of the United States.

Cupertino (CA) - Apple in number one in technical support, according to the Consumer Reports magazine.

Beijing (China) - The Chinese government is chastising several online providers, including Google maps, for providing "illegal" satellite imagery of the country and neighboring islands.

Santa Clara (CA) - Apple's announcement of its updated iMac line has fueled rumors that the company will be the first to use Intel's upcoming Montevina chip.

Miami (FL) - It appears that one lucky customer has finally received his Psystar Open Computer and he made a video to prove it.

Miami (Florida) - Psystar is a company that just continues to be on the news.

New York (NY) - Torrent aggregator The Pirate Bay has reached 12 million users, according to peep-to-peer news site TorrentFreak.

Buffalo (NY) - Scientists at the Andrei Roswell Park Cancer institute in Buffalo New York say they successfully stopped radiation damage with a new drug.

New York (NY) - For New Yorker Willie Yee a Prius isn't futuristic enough and he's modified the hybrid-engine car into a Federation shuttlecraft (sortof).