Google said that for nearly an hour on Saturday, users got an erroneous message when they did searches on many sites, saying, “This site may harm your computer.” The problem began at 9:30 a.m. ET and ended at 10:25 a.m. ET. “What happened? Very simply, human error,” the company said on its blog. Google said it flags search results with the message when a site is known to install malicious software. Instead, many other sites were affected.

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NBC Sports scored a major victory with its record $206 million in ad revenue from Sunday’s Super Bowl game. For the full day, including the pre- and postgame shows, the network division brought in $261 million, also a record. The figures are especially significant in light of the advertising economy’s decline in the months since NBC Sports completed its coverage of the Beijing Olympics in the summer.

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“Kung Fu Panda” pulled out all its martial arts moves at the 36th annual Annie Awards, where it was named best animated feature. The DreamWorks Animation feature dominated Friday’s awards ceremony at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles, presented by ASIFA-Hollywood, the Los Angeles chapter of the International Animated Film Society.

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BEIJING (Reuters) – About 20 million Chinese rural migrants have lost jobs as the nation’s economic growth has faltered, a senior official said on Monday, promising policies to boost incomes and a softer approach to potential unrest. Chen Xiwen, director of the Office of the Central Rural Work Leading Group, told a news conference that a recent survey showed 15.3 percent of the 130 million migrants moving from villages to cities and factories had returned jobless to the countryside.

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More than 30 Tibetan monks, plus a handful of nuns, will be collaborating with a team from San Francisco’s Exploratorium to build exotic machines to create patterns from sunlight using cardboard, dowels, reflective sheets of mylar and electronic components. They will return to their monasteries and start spreading the joys of scientific exploration.

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ALIEN microbes living just below the Martian soil are responsible for a haze of methane around the Red Planet, Nasa scientists believe. The gas, belched in vast quantities in our world by cows, was detected by orbiting spacecraft and from Earth using giant telescopes. Nasa are today expected to confirm its presence in a briefing.

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An extinct animal has been brought back to life for the first time after being cloned from frozen tissue. Using DNA taken from these skin samples, the scientists were able to replace the genetic material in eggs from domestic goats, to clone a female Pyrenean ibex, or bucardo as they are known. It is the first time an extinct animal has been cloned.

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More than half of the public believe that the theory of evolution cannot explain the full complexity of life on Earth, and a “designer” must have lent a hand, the findings suggest. And one in three believe that God created the world within the past 10,000 years. The survey, by respected polling firm ComRes, will fuel the debate around evolution and creationism ahead of next week’s 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin.

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While we’re all celebrating Charter’s 60Mbps broadband access here in the US, the Korea Communications Commission is spending $24 billion to secure 1Gbps access by 2012. 1Gbps allows you to download a 120-minute film in 12 seconds.

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The worst snowstorm to hit Britain in 18 years forced the cancellation of more than 650 flights at London’s Heathrow airport Monday and shut down the city’s bus network, partially paralyzing the British capital. Heathrow, one of the busiest transport hubs in the world, closed both its runways for more than two hours Monday morning and operated with just one for the rest of the morning, according to BAA, the company which runs it.

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