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  • Taipei has announced plans to create the world's largest Wi-Fi grid, connecting nearly all its residents living in the Taiwan capital to the internet. The service has been announced to cost a user roughly $4.50-$12.00 U.S. per month for use, with the entire construction of the grid to cost the government $70 million U.S. dollars. It is due to be completed at the end of 2005, connecting 90% of the city. (Yahoo)

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  • Privacy International, a London-based privacy watchdog group is calling for all new camera phones to be built with mandatory flash when taking a picture. (BBC)

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  • At 2100 GMT, NASA will launch its air-breathing X43-A Hypersonic Scramjet craft from on top a B52A at 12km where a rocket booster will take the X-43A to 33.5km at which point the experimental craft will be on its own to attempt Mach 10 speed. The craft will splash down into the ocean and it wont be recovered. This is the third launch by NASA of a scramjet. In June 2001, the first mission, the craft went off course and had to be disabled. In March 2004, the craft set a speed record of Mach 6.83. BBC NASA space.com
    • Update: The mission has been scrubbed for today due to technical glitches with X-43A instrumentation. When the issues were addressed, not enough time remained in the launch window. Another flight attempt will be made tomorrow. Tomorrow's launch window for the X-43A/Pegasus combination will be from 2-4 p.m., PST. NASA

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  • Six party talks in Vienna came to a deadlock over where to place the ITER international fusion project. The 12 Billion USD cost will be a joint undertaking. Two final locations are on the table: one in France, the other in Japan.

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  • Jean-Pierre Maillard (Institute of Astrophysics in Paris, France) have identified a possible second black hole in our galaxy with an estimated mass of 1,300 suns. Infrared data from the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii and data from the European Southern Observatory in Chile was used with Chandra providing X ray evidence. The object, called IRS 13E, is very close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A. Nature space.com

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Researchers at Toin University in Yokohama have created a working solar energy device called a photocapacitor. Unlike previous Solar cells, this device stores energy internally making it more efficient. physicsweb

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  • In an early phase-1 trial, Six of ten renal failure patients with an 86% chance of immediate death survived more than 30 days on an implantable bioartificial kidney replacement which includes working human cells. med.umich.edu bbc

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