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A milestone flight: SpaceShipOne sets a date for first piloted space shot -- By Alan Boyle, MSNBC.com

The wireless world
Newsweek: Wireless isn't just for high-tech hubs anymore. • FULL STORY

ALSO IN THE NEWS
• Virtual real estate boom pays off
• Microsoft offers new media player
• Google soups up its search toolbox

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WEBLOGS

• Cosmic Log: Handicapping the space race
Competitors chase $10 million suborbital prize

• Practical Futurist: The China puzzle
Dangerous it may be, but China is also, in one Silicon Valley venture capitalist's view, "the biggest equity opportunity in my lifetime."

INSIDE NEWSWEEK

• SOMETHING IN THE AIR
Here's what we're learning with our cell phones, sensors and Wi-Fi: losing the wires is only the beginning. What happens next is unpredictable, empowering and sometimes a bit unnerving.

• Your Next Computer• Making the Ultimate Map• The Wireless World• Let Your Gadgets Go• A Few Who Got Us Here• A Future With Nowhere to Hide?

SCIENCE

MYSTERIES OF UNIVERSE | MORE

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• EXPLORERS’ PRIZES SHARED WITH THE WORLD
The Royal Geographical Society is making a treasure trove of artifacts and documents from explorers such as Charles Darwin and Edmund Hillary available to the public.

• Two guillty of ancient rock-art theft• Danish student finds dinosaur footprints• New type of gene found in junk DNA• Ancient Afghan riches will go on tour

SPACE

MARS | COLUMBIA TRAGEDY | MORE

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• PRIVATE SPACESHIP SET FOR HISTORIC FLIGHT
SpaceShipOne's team has made a date with history for June 21, setting the first full day of summer as launch day for the first piloted spaceflight in a privately developed craft.

• Cosmic Log: Handicapping the space race• Space tug designed to extend satellite life• Mars team excited about rover routes• Could astronauts fix Hubble after all?

GAMES & GADGETS

• VIRTUAL REAL ESTATE BOOM DRAWS REAL DOLLARS
The concept of virtual home ownership has captured the imagination of a growing number of online gamers, who are plunking down real cash for their own slice of the digital frontier.

• Krakow: Nextel phones enter 21st century• A vision -- literally -- of what's to come• California adopts cell phone 'bill of rights'• ARCHIVE: More games & gadgets

HACKS, VIRUSES, SCAMS & SPAM

• SIMPLE PASSWORDS NO LONGER SUFFICE
As more Web sites demand passwords, scammers are getting more clever about stealing them. Hence the need for “passwords-plus” systems.

• Drug discount site a scam, FTC says• Spammer gets up to 7 years in prison• Yahoo adds anti-spyware feature• ARCHIVE: More hacks, spam & scams

TECH TOOLS

• MICROSOFT OFFERS NEW MEDIA PLAYER
Microsoft Corp. released Wednesday a preliminary version of its newest software package for playing video and audio on personal computers that will also allow online music stores to sell songs over the Web.

• Google soups up its search toolbox• U.K. watchdog orders cell phone connection price cuts• Dot-travel? Dot-xxx? New domains mulled• News Corp. ends Net-by-satellite plans

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NASA

• Russians to submit bill for spacewalk
Payment would come in the form of ‘crew work time’

OQO / Transmeta

• U.S. CeBIT show means business
In its second year, show improves in size and focus

• Spammers hop on gas price crisis
But e-mail offers for porn decreasing, company says

JP Aerospace

• Airship groomed for flight to edge of space
Developer says ‘baby steps’ will someday lead to orbit

• ID theft usually an inside job
Up to 70 percent of cases start with employee heist

SPECIAL REPORTS

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• Genetic Genealogy

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