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Posted on July 08, 2008 by Jonathan Hensley

Quick Links for Jul 7th

Here are some interesting links from today:

  • Solar Prius reportedly in the works
    The problem with hybrid and electric car technology has always been that you still have to get the energy to charge the battery from somewhere. Even a plug-in electric car may use no gasoline, but it still requires electrical power, and the vast majority
  • Gmail’s Mysterious Grey Box
    There’s a small grey box rendered in an iFrame in the top left hand corner of Gmail, and TechCrunchIT is trying to figure out what it is. The icon is a ten by ten pixel graphic with a diagonal line across it, with one half in black and the other in gray
  • More reasons to switch to Firefox?
    With Firefox, you can actually see how much work is done finding and fixing flaws. You really can't say that about any of the other vendors — Microsoft, Apple, and Opera only disclose the flaws found by third-party security researchers so you really have
  • Minn. teen charged with offering his vote on eBay
    University of Minnesota student Max P. Sanders, 19, was charged with a felony Thursday in Hennepin County District Court after allegedly asking for a minimum of $10 in exchange for voting for the bidder's preferred candidate.

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