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Episode 81: Scary Computers, and an iTunes alternative?

| April 24, 2006
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The Los Alamos National Laboratory, with a grant from the Department of Homeland Security, is using supercomputers to model scenarios in the event that avian flu becomes a human-to-human pandemic. Cathi's worried it may have people running scared.

http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php?fuseaction=home.story&story_id=8171

Meanwhile, Forbes has reported that there's speculation Google may be launching a music download service.  Would you buy if Google's selling?

http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/03/google-music-download-0403markets19_print.html