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Hot Click: Pet Posers
When chirpy registered users of the online community Backwash started posing as their pets, Backwash created the spin-off site Backwash Pets. As we'll show you on tonight's "Tech Live," the result is pure pet-sanity. 		RIAA lawsuits
Hot Topic: 'John Doe' Downloaders Sued
Heads up, "John Doe." The RIAA says you and 531 others are still illegally swapping too much music, and you're all getting sued. Tonight on "Tech Live," get the very latest on this new round of lawsuits and reaction from all corners of the industry.



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MikeRoweSoft v. Microsoft?
Yesterday on "Tech Live" we told you about Mike Rowe, a 17-year-old who thought it'd be cool to own a Web design service called MikeRoweSoft. Microsoft, that big company based in Redmond, Wash., didn't think it was so cool. But does Mike Rowe now have Bill Gates & Co. backpedaling? Find out tonight.

Killer Crossover
Tonight on "Tech Live," meet the Nissan Actic, a concept that's part minivan, part sedan, and part rolling jukebox.

Colorful BlackBerry
Last year the popular RIM BlackBerry took the evolutionary step from messaging device to cellphone hybrid. Several models have since hit the market. Now a color display graces the 7200 series BlackBerry.

'Torque' Bikes
The new extreme biker film Torque may be getting panned by critics, but riders all over are stoked about the bikes featured in the movie. Catch a glimpse of these two-wheeled beasts, tonight.


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  • Initial soil samplings from NASA's Spirit rover puzzled mission scientists a little. One of the Spirit's instruments picked up the presence of "olivine," a mineral associated with volcanic eruptions. But so far Spirit hasn't found deposits that would prove the ancient presence of water at the site. Scientists may use one of the rover's tools to try to split open a nearby rock as part of the Spirit's next task.
  • A 26-member board set up to review NASA's work on returning the shuttle to space says there's no telling exactly when the orbiter will be ready for launch. NASA had hoped to fly the shuttles again as early as spring, but the best guess now about renewed flights is sometime late this year.
  • The Washington Post reports that airline executives will meet Thursday to discuss developing industrywide privacy standards. The move comes after JetBlue and Northwest Airlines disclosed they turned over millions of customer records to aid research on passenger-screening systems.
  • In his State of the Union speech Tuesday, Bush spoke out against the use of performance-enhancing substances in professional sports. Bush also urged the nation's kids to refrain from using dope, and he proposed a $23 million program to pay for drug testing in schools.



Security Alert

Beagle All Bark
The Beagle, or Bagle, worm that we told you about yesterday has quickly faded. Tonight on "Tech Live," see why, and find out why you should still keep your guard up.


Cutting-Edge Consumer

  • A recent Lemelson-MIT Invention study found that 30 percent of adults say the cellphone is the invention they hate most but cannot live without. The alarm clock finished second in the survey with 25 percent of the vote, the television third with 23 percent. Among the other items that people love and loathe: shaving razors, microwaves, and vacuum cleaners.
  • Booble is branding itself as "the adult search engine." The site has more than 6,000 listings, all edited and classified by hand. Unlike most of the sites it will lead you to, Booble is free.
  • Nintendo's upcoming DS handheld gaming system will sport two 3-inch LCD screens, one above the other. The company says the dual screens would let players see the same game from two perspectives, or see game action on one screen while looking at a map of the game environment on the other. Expect to see the DS at this year's E3 show.



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  • Urinal.net has fans pissing, er, passing time on a site devoted entirely to porcelain plumbing from around the world.



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