Nokia Corp. begged for forgiveness from consumers after its new cloud-based service broke down.

The Finnish manufacturer — which is striving to evolve into a mobile Internet services company — said its Contacts for Ovi offering shut down after a cooler failed, causing a server to crash. The service was down for several hours Thursday and — more importantly — all customer updates for the past three weeks were lost. Continue Reading »

Apparent slacker hackers with time to kill brought a raised eyebrow or two to the faces of motorists at a busy Austin intersection.

Electronic signs intended to warn motorists of construction near the intersection of Lamar and Martin Luther King boulevards were changed yesterday to warn of “Zombies Ahead! Run for your lives!” Continue Reading »

Swiss police said Thursday they stumbled across a large marijuana plantation while using Google Earth, the search engine company’s satellite mapping software.

Police said they arrested 16 people and seized 1.1 tons (1.2 US tons) of marijuana as well as cash and valuables worth 900,000 Swiss francs ($780,000). Continue Reading »

Environmentalists have calculated the cost of Google searches on the environment and it’s about 7g of CO2.
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It seems that when a plane crashes there are two likely outcomes for the passengers, either they live or they die. Sometimes there is a split among the passenger population and some survive while others die, but usually when a plane crashes there is little that the passenger can do in order alter their chance of surviving the crash.

In the event of a plane crash like the one in Denver this weekend, passengers might have mere seconds to save their lives. But with the proper know-how, they can increase the chances of surviving and limiting their injuries. Continue Reading »

Mice fed junk food for nine months showed early signs of Alzheimer’s disease with abnormal brain tangles in the brain.
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Pruthviraj Patil an eleven year old from India suffers from a rare condition commonly known as “werewolf syndrome” and is covered in hair.
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A 13-year-old boy Italian boy was rushed to the hospital after what was believed to be a stroke or a brain disorder.
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The pentagon’s high-tech design division known has Darpa is developing a flying car for the US military.
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Burmese poet and blogger Sam Wai was sentenced to two years in jail for writing a love poem that included references to the government.
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