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Fulham recruit Salcido from PSV
By admin on August 27, 2010 | No Comments
Fulham complete the signing of Mexico international left-back Carlos Salcido from PSV Eindhoven.
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‘Leap Seconds’ May Be Eliminated From UTCBy admin on August 24, 2010 | No Comments
angry tapir writes “Sparking a fresh round of debate over an ongoing issue in time-keeping circles, the International Telecommunications Union is considering eliminating leap seconds from the time scale used by most computer systems, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Since their introduction in 1971, leap seconds have proved problematic for at least a few software programs. The leap second added on to the end of 2008, for instance, caused Oracle cluster (more…)
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How a Criminal Conspiracy Made Millions From Stolen iPhonesBy admin on August 19, 2010 | No Comments
Police have shut down a global criminal conspiracy suspected of milking millions of pounds from stolen iPhones through premium phone lines.
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Powering Music Player With Kinetic Energy from PantsBy admin on August 14, 2010 | No Comments
Talk about a dance, dance revolution: The Dancepants Kinetic Music Player, a shortlisted entry in Designboom’s Green Life competition, makes you work for tunes. Designed by Inesa Malafej and Arunas Sukarevicius from Lithuania, the Dancepants converts kinetic energy from running or dancing into electricity for your MP3 player.
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Surf Video shot from a mini helicopterBy admin on August 2, 2010 | No Comments
Smooth overhead footage of the surf at Broken Head (Byron Bay) – shot from a mini rc helicopter. Very smooth.
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5 Unwinnable Situations from Classic 80s GamesBy admin on July 23, 2010 | No Comments
It was once common practice to have situations in which it becomes impossible to complete a videogame. To add insult to injury, the games in question rarely mentioned that fact to the player, leaving them to lurch around forever without knowing that the only way to succeed was to turn off the game and start from scratch.
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Five Things We Learned from Legend of ZeldaBy admin on July 19, 2010 | No Comments
Playing a good videogame can be, in some respects, like reading a good book: you can take themes, ideas and feelings from fiction and carry them with you into real life. Somewhere, in some senate subcommittee meeting, this claim made Joe Lieberman take a dump in his pants. But it’s true. And we’ve got the proof.
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Muralitharan to retire from TestsBy admin on July 6, 2010 | No Comments
Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan will retire from Test cricket after the first Test against India in Galle starting on 18 July.
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