NYC taxi drivers sue to stop GPS units
NEW YORK – A group of cabbies sued city regulators Wednesday in an attempt to block a new requirement that all taxis be outfitted with global positioning systems and software that will record where they drive.

Want a free phone line? Make rooma for Ooma
Ooma is the latest variation on VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), industry jargon for calls routed through cyberspace. But it is different from better-known Internet phone services such as Vonage or Skype. You can ditch the landline altogether or integrate Ooma with landline service; do so, and you can keep your phone number.

Americans giving up friends, sex for Web life
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up friends and sex for the Web.

More Americans Urged to Get Flu Shots
Vaccine supplies are plentiful this year, but inoculation rates are low, officials say.

Feel Pudgy? There’s a Shot for That
Anti-fat injections are one of the most hotly debated procedures in cosmetic medicine because they are spreading faster than the science behind them.

Hushed Genes Might Mean Higher Lung Cancer Risk
The suppression of certain DNA predicts malignancy, study finds

Stem Cells From Testes Produce Wide Range of Tissue Types
Work with mice might lead to treatments for diseases such as diabetes and Alzheimer’s

Obesity Won’t Affect Seniors’ Memory
It is tied to increased Alzheimer’s risk, however, researchers say

‘Aquanauts’ live in a scientific fishbowl
A nine-day mission that began Monday in the world’s only permanent working undersea laboratory is like living in a fishbowl in more ways than one: Anyone with an Internet connection can watch the researchers work and hang out 60 feet below the surface.

History Rewritten on Cherokee Collapse
A slow, lethal combination of external pressures including warfare, rather than a lack of natural resources, led to the demise of the Cherokee Indians, two new studies suggest.

Human ancestor had mix of primitive, modern traits
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The earliest-known human ancestors to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Early Human-Like Skeletons Are First Outside of Africa
Improved feet, legs may have spurred Homo’s spread, experts say

Dinosaur find shows early social behavior
The fossilized remains of six young dinosaurs found together in a “nursery” at a site in China show these animals had started forming social groups much earlier than previously thought, scientists said on Thursday.

Neptune has a ‘warm’ south pole, astronomers find
PARIS (AFP) – An international team of astronomers say that Neptune, long dismissed as a cobalt-blue gas giant cloaked in deathly cold, has a relatively warm south pole.