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We at TheTodayNews.com love gadgets and Wi-Fi. Instant internet access from wherever you happen to be standing (or, more likely, sitting) is the best thing since sliced bread!

That’s why we were quite alarmed when we read an article in the Feb 2010 issue of GQ Magazine detailing new studies concerning cell phone and Wi-Fi radiation danger.

We’re not just talking about growing a second head after 50 years of cellular use…the article cites immediate side effects such as heart arrhythmias, headaches and immediately quantifiable health decline.

After reading that, the first thing we did was move the Wi-Fi router as far away from the office desk as possible! Click on this link to read the full article at GQ Magazine.

Russia has announced plans to launch a spacecraft to the asteroid Apophis in an attempt to knock it away from Earth.

When Apophis was first discovered in 2004, astronomers estimated the chances of it hitting the Earth in 2029 at 1-in-37.

Don’t rush off and dig an underground shelter though! More recent calculations now show the asteroid has no chance of slamming into your living room, and will instead miss us by at least 18,000 miles. Whew!

Ford has announced that select car models equipped with its SYNC system will be able to use their car as a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, allowing passengers (and the car next to you at a stoplight if you so choose) to surf the web via the customer’s USB broadband modem.

Handing the car next to you a Wi-Fi password sure beats handing them a jar of Grey Poupon!

$1 specials aren’t just for fast food menus…$1 can also buy you an HDMI cable! While big-box retailers such as Best Buy have been lightening the wallets of their customers for years by charging $40, $50, and even $70 for a basic HDMI cable, Amazon.com has offered a cheap HDMI cable with little fanfare, costing under a dollar.

It looks the inventory bean-counters at Best Buy have finally noticed the masses of customers who have purchased an HDTV but left the store without coughing up for an HDMI cable, since Best Buy now offers a $9 HDMI 3′ cable.

Although $9 is an appropriate price-point for the convenience of having it immediately, if you know you’re going to buy an HDTV this Black Friday you can still save a lot of money by getting a handful of $1 HDMI cables in advance online before backing up the truck containing your new über-TV.

This weekend scientists at CERN in Switzerland will restart the Large Hadron Collider, where they will whiz two beams of protons in opposite directions at nearly the speed of light in a 17-mile underground circular tunnel in an attempt to create new particle fragments when the protons collide.

Unfortunately, the down side is such collisions could lead to the formation of microscopic black holes, which could be caught by the Earth’s gravitational pull, attract the matter of the Earth into it and lead to Earth’s eventual collapse into the black hole’s event horizon.

The collisions aren’t scheduled to occur until around December 1 though, so feel free to use the end of the world as an excuse to gorge yourself this Thanksgiving!

We just upgraded our laptops to Windows 7 from Vista, and the process was surprisingly smooth!

One crazy random happenstance did occur during the upgrade though: the desktop shortcut icon to our favorite browser (and Microsoft Internet Explorer competitor) Firefox mysteriously vanished after the process was complete. Poof! Gone.

It was quite a coincidence that the only item to not make it through the upgrade was the shortcut to IE’s number one competitor, wasn’t it?

Need a cheap word processor? How does FREE sound?

The folks at OpenOffice.org (which is sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Google, Novell, IBM, pretty much everybody who is NOT Microsoft) have available for download a full office suite containing a great word processor, a spreadsheet tool, a drawer, a presentation maker, etc. on their website free for download at www.OpenOffice.org . It’s just like Microsoft Word or Works. We’ve been using it for years!