August 21, 2008 (Thursday)
- Jerry Seinfeld will anchor a $300 million dollar Windows Vista campaign in an attempt to renew the OS's poor public image. (ArsTechnica)
- By creating brown fat that burns calories and increases the metabolism, unlike white fat which simply stores calories, researchers hope to combat obesity. (ScienceDaily)
- Using new algorithms called P4P researchers have shared files over the internet 20% faster and using 5 times less bandwidth than current P2P programs. (Forbes)
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