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Halloween is coming

Today in history

Today, in 1968 October 11th,
the NASA successfully launched Apollo 7 in space, the first manned Apollo mission with onboard R. Walter Cunningham, Donn Fulton Eisele and Wally Schirra.

In memory of Steve Irwin

Funny moments with the crocodile hunter Steve Irwin.

Blind dogs recover their sight

A team of french scientists gives 7 dogs a second chance.

The 7 dogs were affected with the Leber congenital amaurosis's disease, which is a disease affecting millions of people around the world starting at an early age and causing the lost of their sight. 8 genes that may be responsible for the disease are known by scientists.

The team of scientists, based in Nantes at Hotel-Dieu hospital, used a revolutionary genetic therapy for 18 month now and recovered the sight of 7 out of 8 dogs submitted to this therapy.

Google gets more videos

Google announced monday that they will be buying YouTube.com for 1,65 billions dollars and will be paid in Google shares.

According to the company, the 67 employees of YouTube.com will keep their job including founders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. YouTube.com will manage and supply Google's video section.

Even if since its debut in 2005 YouTube.com haven't made no sugnificant profits, 100 millions videos are watched every day on YouTube.com and they have 47% of the video search market on the internet compared to 22% for Google, according to HitWise Inc. So this will put Google at first spot with 69% of the internauts looking for videos landing on Google's video pages.