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Hot Links: Teens Sue Feds over Climate Change, Iran Bans Gmail, 170 Year Old Beer

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Image of Alec Loorz via the Atlantic.

Awesome: A group of high school teenagers have sued the federal government over climate change in the U.S. District Court in D.C. It gets better: Alec Loorz and company are being represented pro-bono by the law firm of former U.S. Republican congressman Paul McCloskey, a co-founder of Earth Day.

This is somehow related to the Matrix: researchers have now developed a method for producing electricity from viruses.

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Iran has forbidden Iranian banks and other firms from contacting users of Gmail and other foreign email services. It’s a move to push all Iranians onto a national ’net.

GoDaddy is apparently going to give up those idiotice ‘UNRATED!’ boob-filled tv commercials to focus on, you know, developing a respectable company image. Does this mean the Web really has gone soft?

Yum: a few thirsty scientists are planning on recreating a 170 year old beer discovered, sealed and bottled, in a shipwreck.

When country clubs aren’t enough: The island utopia for the super-rich is still being built off the coast of San Francisco.

Microsoft has funded a Russian startup called Pirate Bay that aims to completely eliminate BitTorrent traffic.

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is out after résumé improprieties surfaced, and now he’s announced that he has thyroid cancer.

The latest in tech lawsuits: Apple claims that Samsung destroyed evidence. At what point do lawyer bills outweigh any potential benefits of litigation?

Quantum teleportation gets real-er: Scientists transported photons 60 miles, one hell of a distance.

Here’s a lovely bit of research to finish things off: Manta rays were tracked using satellites for the first time, and it turns out the peaceful, gliding giants tend to roam over massive ranges.

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