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Though space scientists have failed in two more attempts to confirm if Europe's first probe to Mars had safely reached the red planet, officials maintain they still haven't given up hope.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/26/mars.missions.ap/index.html
Someday soon, man's best friend could also be one of his biggest allies in the fight against noxious weeds.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/31/offbeat.weed.sniffer.ap/index.html
Over-the-hill chimpanzees will soon spend their retirement years in a Louisiana old folks home.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/26/chimps.retirement.ap/index.html
Pushing ahead with a space program that has won international acclaim, China has launched a satellite as part of its first joint initiative with the European Space Agency to help track storms in space.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/30/china.eu.launch.reut/index.html
Browsing the Web from this Southern California city may soon become an outdoor sport.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/11/sprj.ws.wifi.city.ap/index.html
A comet-chasing spacecraft has its quarry in sight, weeks before it is to swoop past the frozen ball of rock and ice to capture samples of its glittering tail for return to Earth.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/02/nasa.stardust.ap/index.html
U.S. troops battling the shadowy guerrilla insurgency in Iraq have adopted the computer-sleuthing tactics of big-city American police departments to prepare strikes against rebel fighters and their sources of money and weapons.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/23/tracking.rebels.ap/index.html
Nearly 60 years after World War II and the Holocaust, survivors who had once despaired of finding long-lost loved ones are being reunited with them with the help of computer databases and the opening of Soviet bloc archives.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/17/holocaust.reunions.ap/index.html
The secret of a Stradivarius violin's heavenly sound may actually have celestial origins.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/08/stradivarius.secret.ap/index.html
Scientists have ruled out two possible explanations for their inability to pick up signals from Europe's Beagle 2 Mars probe and discovered another -- a large crater where the vessel was supposed to land.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/29/beagle.missing.ap/index.html
Cyber blackmail artists are shaking down office workers, threatening to delete computer files or install pornographic images on their work PCs unless they pay a ransom, police and security experts said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/29/cyber.blackmail.reut/index.html
Astronaut deaths, the warming poles and a global epidemic were among the more troubling headlines in science in 2003. Genetic advances drew both criticism and praise -- as did high-risk medical operations to divide twins joined at the head.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/12/15/sprj.yir03.tech/index.html
Texas A&M University is fawning over its latest clone: a white-tailed deer named Dewey.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/22/cloned.deer.ap/index.html
NASA scientists say soot, mostly from diesel engines, is causing as much as a quarter of all observed global warming by reducing the ability of snow and ice to reflect sunlight.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/23/soot.climate.ap/index.html
What's wrong with this picture? With booming digital camera sales, one would think old-style photo developers would be going the way of glass-plate negatives and exploding flashes.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/18/retail.photos.reut/index.html
David Byrne, an accomplished composer, photographer and lead singer of Talking Heads, has evolved -- some would say devolved -- into an unlikely artistic medium: PowerPoint.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/30/byrne.powerpoint.ap/index.html
One more sign the technology sector is rebounding: An Internet domain name is again commanding seven figures.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/25/internet.domains.ap/index.html
Easter Island's isolation draws tourists fascinated with the mysteries of how humans first made their way to the globe's most remote populated island, how they developed their culture and how they erected enormous statues of faces carved from volcanic rock.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/17/easter.island.reut/index.html
Auction Web site eBay removed a listing Thursday from a British man who was attempting to sell one of his kidneys to finance medical treatment for his sick daughter.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/05/britain.kidney.ap/index.html
A small group of protesters briefly disrupted the official opening of the National Air and Space Museum's new annex at Dulles International Airport, spilling a red liquid supposed to resemble blood near the Enola Gay exhibit and throwing an object that dented the airplane.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/16/aerospace.museum.ap/index.html
The cry is rising across Europe: KEEP IT DOWN!
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/08/quiet.europe.ap/index.html
Technology executives are trying to convince the Homeland Security Department that costly new computer security rules aren't needed, arguing their companies are already taking aggressive steps to defend against hackers.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/12/03/computer.security.ap/index.html
Police from Britain, Australia and the United States are to launch a crackdown on Internet pedophiles with a sting using fake Web sites, UK police said on Thursday.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/18/porn.sting.reut/index.html
The nation's first genetically altered household pet -- a fish that glows in the dark -- is set to begin appearing in stores next month everywhere except perhaps California, the only state with a ban on lab-engineered species.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/02/fluorescent.fish.ap/index.html
Cable and phone companies are hustling to offer new services that route calls over the Internet, a technology that eventually will make the 125-year-old telephone system seem about as advanced as sending smoke signals.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/12/voiceover.internet.ap/index.html
Japanese companies are developing ovens that can cook dishes after downloading recipes, and home-heating systems that can be adjusted from mobile phones.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/12/26/japan.hometech.ap/index.html
A former Miss South Africa has been attacked by a wild hippopotamus and bitten on the leg, local media reported on Wednesday.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/25/hippo.beautyqueen.reut/index.html
The fossil of a tiny creature found in Northeast China is helping scientists determine when mammals split into different groups: those with babies that develop inside their mothers and those that raise their offspring in pouches.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/11/marsupial.fossil.ap/index.html
The manufacturer of a video game that has been harshly criticized for its portrayal of Haitians has agreed to remove dialogue that encouraged players to kill all Haitians.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/12/10/video.game.protest.ap/index.html
Germany has only a small amount of its own natural oil reserves, but an enterprising power plant chief believes it has found an alternative source of energy with a bright future in an aging nation -- used incontinence pads.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/12/23/offbeat.germany.energy.reut/index.html
A public interest group had a holiday warning and a new word Monday for parents of video game users: Beware of killographic, defined as the graphic depiction of brutal violence.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.games/12/09/warning.videogames.reut/index.html
A 133-pound tome about the Asian country of Bhutan that uses enough paper to cover a football field and a gallon of ink has been declared the world's largest published book.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/16/largest.book.ap/index.html
Digital video disc (DVD) recorders armed with hard disk drives are at the heart of a digital electronics boom sweeping Japan and, if consumers can overlook their hefty price tags, they may soon replace the 50 million VCRs a year being sold globally.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/15/dvd.drives.reut/index.html
Hewlett-Packard Co., one of several computer companies pushing into the consumer electronics market, plans to launch an HP-branded online music store in the first quarter, most likely at a January trade show, an HP executive said.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/12/03/hewlettpackard.music.reut/index.html
IBM Corp. plans to move up to several thousand skilled software jobs from the United States to India, China and other countries, which could amount to one of the biggest such actions yet in the technology industry.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/12/15/ibm.offshoring.ap/index.html
Iceman, the 5,000-year-old man found frozen in the Italian Alps, has moved into some chilly new digs.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/04/italy.iceman.ap/index.html
Efforts to develop high-tech versions of the branding iron to track cattle from ranch to dinner table are expected to take on more urgency now that a suspected case of mad cow disease has been found in the United States.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/12/25/tracking.cows.ap/index.html
Investment bank Goldman Sachs said it would create a nature reserve in Tierra del Fuego in southern Chile in a stretch of rare forest acquired from a U.S. forestry company which had planned to harvest the timber.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/15/chile.forest.reut/index.html
A group of developing nations wants to put control of the Internet into the hands of the United Nations, an issue that likely will overshadow a summit on information technology.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/09/un.tech.summit.ap/index.html
Japan's Mars probe is in trouble. Its weather satellites are breaking down. And its latest attempt to put a pair of spy satellites into orbit ended last weekend in a $92 million fireball.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/02/japan.program.ap/index.html
Japan abandoned its troubled mission to Mars Tuesday, after space officials failed in their final effort to put the Nozomi probe back on course to orbit the Red Planet.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/09/japan.mars.ap/index.html
Digital broadcasting was launched in Japan Monday -- a step the government is hoping will provide a much-needed boost to the country's laggard economy.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/01/japan.digital.tv.ap/index.html
In a rare police crackdown on Internet file-sharing, two Japanese men were arrested for allegedly disseminating movies and games with software that claimed to protect users' identities.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/08/sharing.arrests.ap/index.html
A British High Court judge has ruled against plans to dismantle a fleet of old U.S. Navy ships in the UK.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/08/ghost.fleet.court/index.html
Keiko, the killer whale star of the Free Willy movies, was buried Monday in a snow-bound pasture during the deep darkness of Nordic winter in a ceremony kept secret from the public.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/15/keiko.buried.ap/index.html
The prospect of life on Mars has charged the public imagination for more than a century, ever since astronomers first spied what they thought were canals dug to irrigate the planet's ruddy surface.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/12/22/mars.life.ap/index.html
Physicists say they have brought light to a complete halt for a fraction of a second and then sent it on its way, an achievement that could someday help scientists develop powerful new computers.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/11/frozenlight.advance.ap/index.html
A small screw missing from a tool used to refuel a 35-year-old nuclear power plant led technicians on a fruitless two-day search and has delayed the facility from coming back on line, regulators said Tuesday.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/23/offbeat.missing.screw.ap/index.html
An invention by a man seeks to eliminate litter box odor by toilet training household cats. As head of Evolve Products, manufacturer of The Feline Evolution CatSeat, Kevin Rymer accepted an award Monday from a national trade magazine.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/30/offbeat.cat.seat.ap/index.html
Measurements of ancient air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice offered evidence that humans have been changing the global climate since thousands of years before the industrial revolution.
http://cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/12/10/prehistoric.climate.ap/index.html
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