In ten years the X Games have become, pound for pound, one of the most valuable enterprises in television sports--and a favorite venue for Sony, Gillette and other marketers eager to reach an elusive audience: 12- to 19-year-olds.

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The United States has also concluded agreements with the governments of Poland and the Czech Republic that will allow the fielding of ten land-based interceptors and an X-band radar, respectively, in the two nations.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: America's commitment to freedom

That's right, you no longer have to be jealous of your friends who've all been group video calling using Skype 5.0 for Windows for months -- Skype's new Beta 5.0 for Mac finally brings the ability to video chat with up to ten of your Skype contacts to OS X client.

ENGADGET: Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac finally available, includes group video calling

Being a Windows 8 rig, it's not surprising that the 18.4-inch, 1, 920 x 1, 080 IPS display has ten-point multitouch, but it gets even more interesting when you free that screen from its desktop restraints.

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The summer of 2000 was among the last summers to feature a variety of mainstream releases led by women, be it Coyote Ugly, What Lies Beneath, or even X-Men, where four of out of its ten star mutants were female.

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Ten years ago, Apple introduced the first major release of its OS X operating system, Cheetah.

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X-43C to fly for up to five minutes, rather than a mere ten seconds.

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