Psystar's Open Computer might be an endangered species after its antitrust claim against Apple was dismissed Tuesday.

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A federal judge has tossed out Psystar’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple, one of its most important avenues to remaining in business.

Judge William Alsup of the U.S. …

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BOSTON–Oil giant BP and George Soros’ investment firm are putting millions of dollars into a company that has isolated a microbe that can create ethanol.

Qteros, formerly called SunEthanol, on Tuesday announced the $25 million series B round of funding, which was led by venture capital firm Venrock and Battery …

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Tanya Vlach wants to turn her artificial eye into a bionic eye.

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Three years after losing her left eye in a car accident, San Franciscan Tanya Vlach wants to make her artificial eye more useful: She’s planning to put a video camera in her eye socket …

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Lawmakers express skepticism about bailing out Detroit, citing the environment, unions and equity for workers at non-U.S. plants in their states. A vote on the issue could come as soon as today.

Chief executives of the nation’s once-mighty Big Three automakers came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to plead for $25 billion in federal aid, but the idea of bailing out Detroit has run into a wall of skepticism from a broad cross-section of lawmakers concerned about the environment, unions and Japanese auto plants in their home states.

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Microsoft’s decision to offer free antivirus software puts rivals such as McAfee and Symantec in a tough position.

To be sure, those two–and other rivals–will be able to tout products that offer a broader range of features than Microsoft plans to deliver with “Morro” next year. At the same …

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LG Prada II with Prada Link Bluetooth watch

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Not that the LG Prada II will make it stateside any time soon, but LG has recently launched a celebratory microsite for the Prada II, officially welcoming it into the world (Flash haters beware; the …

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AP - Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. “This technique has great promise,” said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. That operation used both donor and recipient tissue. Only a handful of windpipe, or trachea, transplants have ever been done.

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