Using a method typically used in vision research, scientists have found a way to determine the authenticity of certain works of art by comparing mathematical representations of authentic works to possible imitations.

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Saracens director of rugby Brendan Venter is charged with conduct prejudicial to the game for comments made about referee David Rose.

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Barence writes with some more information on a device mentioned in passing earlier today: “The enTourage eDGe eBook reader was the highlight of the CES Unveiled event, which gives journalists a sneak preview of what’s set to appear this year’s show. It has a 9.7in e-paper display on one side and a 10.1in LCD screen on the other, both of which are touchscreens, allowing you to annotate eBooks with handwritten notes or scan through web pages (more…)

A high security insane asylum in the UK called Broadmoor Hospital has been lavished with 22 Wii systems, valued at 5,000 Euros, thanks to the good British taxpayers. The hospital is home to the criminally insane and the video game systems are supposedly part of the patients’ “treatment.”

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In 2004, the CIA sent a team from the private security firm Blackwater, now Xe, to Hamburg to kill an alleged al Qaeda financier who was investigated for years by German authorities on suspicion of links to al Qaeda.

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