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Step-on scanner lets air passengers keep shoes on

Sun Oct 12, 11:38 AM ET

LOD, Israel (Reuters) - Israel has introduced a step-on scanner that spares airline travelers the nuisance of having to remove their shoes so they can be X-rayed for hidden weapons, though the new device cannot yet sniff out explosives.

  • U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott (C) meets his friends Peter Diamandis (L), co-founder and managing director of Space Adventure, and Sergey Brin, Google co-founder, at Baikonur cosmodrome October 11, 2008. Garriott, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke are scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on October 12, 2008. (Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters)
    Google founder Brin visits Russian space cosmodrome Sun Oct 12, 5:21 AM ET

    BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Google co-founder Sergey Brin, considering going into space on a private flight, made a surprise visit to Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome on Saturday to wish good luck to a fellow space tourist.

  • A combination picture shows the Forbidden City in Beijing taken August 1, 2008 (top) and a three dimensional virtual tour of the Forbidden City October 10, 2008. Culture fans thousands of miles from Beijing can now visit its famous Forbidden City, through a three dimensional re-creation of the vast palace that also allows them to wander through the courtyards and temples, meet a courtesan and even dress up as an imperial eunuch. (Staff/Files/Reuters)
    Visit China's Forbidden City -- as a virtual eunuch Fri Oct 10, 3:28 PM ET

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Culture fans thousands of miles from Beijing can now visit its famous Forbidden City, through a three dimensional recreation of the vast palace that also allows them to dress up as an imperial eunuch and meet a courtesan.

  • FCC likely to recommend unlicensed spectrum use Fri Oct 10, 12:28 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A battle between tech companies like Google Inc and broadcasters over use of soon-to-be vacant airwaves will heat up soon as U.S. regulators release an anticipated report on the issue.

  • Cars enter and exit CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California, November 4, 2007. (Danny Moloshok/Reuters)
    YouTube starts running full-length CBS shows Fri Oct 10, 3:02 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - YouTube, the largest video-sharing Website, has started to run full-length TV shows from CBS Corp's archive, in its latest step to boost advertising revenue by adding professional programing.

  • Shoppers walk past a Dell booth at the COMEX information technology and consumers technology exhibition in Singapore in this file photo from August 28, 2008. (Tim Chong/Reuters)
    Dell expands music tie-ins on festival circuit Fri Oct 10, 7:27 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Billboard) - At the Austin City Limits (ACL) Music Festival in Texas at the end of September, sandwiched between a stage and a small recycling center stood a white dome decorated with colorful cloud patterns. Inside the air-conditioned structure, visitors could get customized T-shirts, temporary tattoos and a mixtape of songs by artists performing at the festival.

  • People browse web at an Internet cafe in Madrid May 23, 2008. (Andrea Comas/Reuters)
    Kazakh bloggers say can't access popular website Fri Oct 10, 10:15 AM ET

    ALMATY (Reuters) - Internet users in Kazakhstan complained of censorship Friday after being unable to access the popular blogging service Livejournal, but the state-owned telecoms company denied it was blocking it.

  • Mobile gaming firms eye Nokia, Apple boost in 2009 Fri Oct 10, 7:33 AM ET

    HELSINKI (Reuters) - Mobile gaming companies say they will book few new sales from Nokia's N-Gage phones or Apple's iPhone, but are betting on a market boost next year as more phones of these kinds are taken up by consumers.

  • Apple's iPod Touch is seen in an undated handout photo. (Courtesy of Apple/Handout/Reuters)
    Apple iPod Touch named T3's gadget of the year Thu Oct 9, 6:53 PM ET

    LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Apple has swept the board at Britain's T3 technology magazine's annual awards, winning four top prizes, including gadget of the year for its iPod Touch.

  • Carphone, Best Buy to unveil Europe expansion plan Fri Oct 10, 8:55 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Carphone Warehouse and U.S. partner Best Buy could signal plans for over 100 new UK shops on Tuesday, as the first step of their assault on Europe's electrical goods market, analysts believe.

  • A flying gecko is displayed during a live reptile exhibition in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, May 19, 2007. (Nikolay Doychinov/Reuters)
    Gecko-like glue is said to be stickiest yet Thu Oct 9, 3:47 PM ET

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new type of dry glue designed to mimic gecko feet is 10 times stickier than the gravity-defying lizards, and three times stickier than other gecko-inspired glues, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

  • Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs displays a redesigned iPod Nano at Apple's 'Let's Rock' media event in San Francisco, California in this file photo from September 9, 2008. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)
    Apple shares surge, investors like valuation Fri Oct 10, 8:27 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Inc. rallied more than 9 percent Friday, as investors saw a newly attractive valuation in the battered stock and anticipated new laptop computers.

  • Apple Corporation CEO Steve Jobs speaks during his keynote speech at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California June 9, 2008. (Kimberly White/Reuters)
    Apple to unveil new or updated laptops on Oct 14 Thu Oct 9, 4:44 PM ET

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc will unveil its updated laptops on October 14 and they may cost less, but analysts say the company's drooping stock has already taken any change into account.

  • In this May 21, 2008 file photo, U.S. Billionaire investor Warren Buffet speaks during a news conference in Madrid. Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is investing at least $5 billion in Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Goldman announced Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Paul White, file)
    Buffett boosts wealth to top Gates on Forbes list Fri Oct 10, 2:28 PM ET

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is again the richest American, deposing Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, after Forbes magazine recalculated the fortunes of some of the 400 wealthiest Americans.

  • A satellite image of South Ossetia showing track marks and possible munition craters, taken after the Georgia-Russia conflict. (American Association for the Advancement of Science/Handout/Reuters)
    Georgia villages "torched," satellite study shows Thu Oct 9, 6:14 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hundreds of houses in ethnic Georgian villages in South Ossetia were torched in August, after Russian troops took control of the area, according to an analysis of satellite images released on Thursday.

  • Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks during a rally in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 8, 2008. (Carlos Barria/Reuters)
    Tennessee man indicted for hacking Palin e-mail Thu Oct 9, 10:02 AM ET

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Tennessee man has been indicted for hacking into Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.

  • Writer/director James Gunn arrives at the premiere of Halloween in Hollywood August 23, 2007. (Max Morse/Reuters)
    Web TV shows porn, without the sex Thu Oct 9, 9:28 AM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It started when three brothers joked about making pornography for fans of the genre who happen to be offended by on-screen sex. Out of that joke came an idea for a website, and they called it "PG Porn."

  • Google extends AdSense to online games Thu Oct 9, 5:28 AM ET

    (Reuters) - Google Inc on Wednesday launched technology to insert advertisements into online video games and boost revenue from the booming gaming sector.

  • U.S. judge halts sales of RealNetworks DVD software Thu Oct 9, 5:30 AM ET

    (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge temporarily halted sales of RealNetworks Inc's RealDVD software, which allows users to copy DVDs, after Hollywood studios sued the company over copyright issues, court documents showed.

  • A screen shows Internet services available through an broadband-connected TiVo digital video recorder at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 5, 2006. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)
    TiVo gets $104.6 million in damages from EchoStar Thu Oct 9, 2:23 PM ET

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - TiVo Inc said on Thursday it has received the $104.6 million in damages from EchoStar Corp that it won this week when the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal of a patent infringement case.