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Planet-finding telescope blasts off.

The COROT space telescope, designed to search for planets not much bigger than Earth, launched into space at 1423 GMT on Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The mission is expected to provide a better understanding of planets smaller than Saturn, of which only a small number of examples are known so far. (New Scientist)

Parental controls get a boost with Windows Vista - UPDATE - Video added.

Westlake Village (CA) - With all the games on the market, how do parents ensure their children will only play the appropriate games at the appropriate times? The upcoming Windows Vista will include a slew of parental game controls that will please parents and perhaps annoy their children who want to sneak in some World of Warcraft before finishing their homework. The new OS can track, limit and even stop game usage for little Johnny or, as Microsoft calls him, Toby. Chris Donahue, Microsoft"s Group Manger for Games for Windows, stopped by our Westlake Village, California office to show us exactly how the new controls work and how to set them up.

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Microsoft Puts Limits on Windows 7 Netbook Specs.

According to several reports, Microsoft plans to limit which netbooks can run Windows 7 and which canтЂ™t with a list of maximum hardware specs for little machines running the OS.

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