Worldwide PC sales drop by 7.1% in the first quarter of this year, even with netbook popularity propping the figures up:
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE53E7LC20090415
Microsoft's Zune HD, Windows Mobile 6.5 and it's "Pink" device from recent aquisition Danger all start to meld in the rumour mill:
http://www.betanews.com/article/Microsoft-still-thinks-Pink-in-its-Zune-ad-hunt/1239826934
The Icelandic krona is alive and well - as a currency used in an online gaming environment called EVE:
http://technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=2233
MIT Unleashes their robotic gardeners in an attempt to grow, tend and harvest tomatoes with precision agriculture. Enter Robocrop:
http://singularityhub.com/2009/04/14/mit-and-the-constant-robotic-gardeners/
And finally. Studies of a fossil coral reef in a Mexican theme park suggest the sea has risen as fast as 3m in 50 years in the past:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090415-sea-levels-catastrophic.html
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