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Google in Talks to Allow Movie Rentals Over YouTube!

According to the Financial Times:

Google YouTube video site is in negotiations with Hollywood’s leading movie studios to launch a global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010, putting it head-to-head with Apple in the race to dominate the digital distribution of film and television content.

This is a major play for the tech giant.  And another sign of the future of movie consumption.  We’re sure there’s going to be a lot more about this in the hours and days ahead.

Update: Reward for Finding Canadian Meteor!

From the Canwest News Service:

Those who find [the meteor] first could be richly rewarded — but their search is at the mercy of Mother Nature.

Famous American meteorite collector Robert Haag is offering a $10,000 US reward to anyone who can locate the first one-kilogram chunk of the meteorite. But after the first snowfall that may get a lot harder.

“As soon as the snow falls, there’s no chance of finding anything until springtime,” says Frank Florian, community astronomer at the Telus World of Science. “If we had a lot of snowfall anywhere, trying to find a rock that gets sucked up by the snow that’s underneath all this white cover, unless it was large enough to leave a large enough crater visible from the air, it is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Read the rest of the story here.

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