An anonymous reader excerpts from an interesting article at Ars Technica, which begins “There are 3,706,650,624 usable IPv4 addresses. On January 1, 2000, approximately 1,615 million (44 percent) were in use and 2,092 million were still available. Today, ten years later, 2,985 million addresses (81 percent) are in use, and 722 million are still free. In that time, the number of addresses used per year increased from 79 million in 2000 to 203 million (more…)

France sells millions of surplus swine flu vaccine doses to other countries after finding it has more than enough for the outbreak.

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The Video Game Awards are the worst awards in the industry. Cheap production, bad celebrities all trying to cater to an audience that doesn’t even care about video games.

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The homepage for the Philadelphia Eagles has been updated with a flash animation for this week’s upcoming game to be played in Dallas against the Cowboys. In this cartoon players are seen being harassed by the giant television screen named “Jubotronicus” and respond by kicking balls at him.

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Police officers around the world often use pepper spray to restrain people who are out of control. But after a series of unexplained deaths, researchers now suspect the spray, which is derived from chili peppers, could be fatal if the subject has been using cocaine or other drugs.

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wkurzius writes “Engadget has gotten their hands a Nexus One, and have put the first impressions up for the world to see, including whether or not they think it’s the ‘be-all-end-all Android phone / iPhone eviscerator.’ Their opinion? ‘Not really.’”

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