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New European Union rules on battery recycling and disposal came into force across the 27-member bloc on Friday in what officials described as an "important step" in the fight to protect the environment and human health.
The new system "represents another important step towards our goal of making Europe into a recycling...
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The French presidency of the European Union said Friday there would be no delay to a planned ban by 2012 of the tiny "battery" cages used by many producers for laying hens.
"I would not like us to go back on that date. I would not like to see it postponed. The council position is that battery farming should cease on...
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Poland and the United States on Wednesday signed a deal to set up a missile defence base on Polish soil, part of a planned US system in eastern Europe that has inflamed tension with Russia.
After more than a year of tough bargaining, Poland formally agreed to host 10 US missile interceptors in return for a pledge of American military...
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prepared to sign an agreement Wednesday with Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski to station US missile interceptors in Poland, in a deal that caps a year of hard bargaining and has also infuriated Russia.
Rice arrived in Warsaw Tuesday night and was slated to sign the deal in a ceremony in the...
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An agreement to set up a US missile defence site in Poland will be signed Wednesday, the top Polish diplomat said.
Foreign Minister Radowslaw Sikorski and US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will sign the deal in Warsaw after negotiators agreed last week that Poland would host a battery of missile interceptors, the Dziennik daily...
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 Jose A. Cruz, 34, from Clarksburg, West Virginia has been charged with battery on a police officer after he passed gas and fanned it toward a policeman. The man had been pulled over by a police officer on Tuesday because he was driving without headlights.The policeman reported that Cruz smelled of alcohol. Besides this, he wasn’t talking...
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted Wednesday that a planned US missile shield in eastern Europe is defensive, just before she was to sign a deal to station part of the system in Poland.
Rice's remarks after meeting Polish President Lech Kaczynski were a renewed attempt to persuade Russia that the system - 10 missile...
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 Clark Rockefeller, who was accused of kidnapping his 7-year-old daughter, was charged with felony custodial kidnapping, assault and battery, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, after he was detained Saturday in Baltimore.The girl, Reigh Boss, was found inside his apartment. According to Noreen Gleason, FBI's assistant...
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Reigh Rockefeller was kidnapped by her father during a
supervised visit, while she was accompanied by a social worker. Clark
Rockefeller pushed the social worker and kidnapped the 7-year-old girl, forcing
her to enter his SUV on Marlborough
Street, in Boston.
Rockefeller kidnapped his girl at about 12:44 p.m. on
Sunday. The...
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 A San Francisco jury found a New Jersey man guilty of felony hate crime charge of false imprisonment on Monday in the assault on Holocaust survivor and Boston University professor Elie Wiesel in 2007. Other charges were crime allegation, battery and elder abuse for pulling the 79-year-old Nobel laureate from a hotel elevator in February...
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, by a 7-2 vote, that states may demand a mentally ill defendant who wants to lead his own defense to accept the assistance of a lawyer.
The decision nullifies an Indiana Supreme Court pronouncement that stipulated a criminal defendant who is found sufficiently capable to stand trial should be allowed to...
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 State prosecutors dropped charges against three of the eight teenagers involved with the horrible videotaped beating of a 16-year-old girl in central Florida. Kidnapping and battery charges were dropped against Cara Murphy, 16, Stephen Schumaker, 18 and Zachary Ashley, 17. The State Attorney's Office said there was not enough evidence to...
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 A bride, a groom and two other people were wounded in a
shooting at a creekside wedding in rural Pope County,
the Associated Press reports. The stranger who shot them was arrested after
being chased by outraged guests, a sheriff’s official said Sunday.
The shooting happened at Piney Creek on Rushing Road, just north of...
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Saturday, May 17, shortly after 4 p.m., Battery Park City.
Out of a sudden, a 30-inch-square sheet of steel lands vertically in the middle
of the outfield where children in the Little League were playing baseball.
The sheet of steel flew from the 18th story of the Goldman
Sachs building from an outdoor work elevator. It belonged...
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 A state audit found that there were 49 cases in which convicted
sex offenders appeared to have the same address with child-care facilities. Los Angeles County officials announced Thursday
their intention to begin checks.
One of the conclusions of the audit was that even though child-care
employees must submit to criminal...
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 The six girls and two boys who have beaten a 16-year-old
teenager leaving her with several injuries were tried today for the first time.
The eight teenagers were said to be treated just like the adults, considering the
seriousness of the situation. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said that "the
piece that you are seeing on...
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As they attended Easter services at the Holy Name Cathedral
in Chicago on
Sunday, March 23, some parishioners were surprised to see six people with fake
blood on themselves. They were anti-war protesters and they wanted to show in
this way what war could bring.
They called themselves Catholic Schoolgirls Against the War
and...
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 According to the Pentagon, a recent success in a test
conducted by the nation's missile defense system could boost support for the
controversial project, which is designed to protect America
from missiles fired by countries such as North
Korea and Iran.
The Pentagon says last Friday a missile launched from
Vandenberg Air Force...
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 According to Transportation Security Administration
officials(TSA), one concourse and a security checkpoint were closed on
Wednesday at he Indianapolis
International Airport
after a federal security officer left
his vest inside.
The vest containing inert training materials was mistakenly
left by the officer after overnight...
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 Star Simpson, MIT student was arrested inside a terminal at Boston's Logan
Airport where she was
waiting for her boyfriend, after police noticed she was carrying a bomb-like
device.
The 19-year-old sophomore from Hawaii first aroused suspicions when she
approached an airport worker inside the terminal.
Her “home-made” device...
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 It seems incredibly complicated to be an astronaut in love.
The three-cornered NASA love story has reached a new stage: apologies. More specific, Lisa Nowak expressed her regret
about what she has done to her romantic rival, Colleen Shipman. Even more
specific, they were in court, Nowak under charges of attempted kidnapping,...
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 Steven Zegrean, 51, has opened fire with his 9mm handgun at the Las Vegas casino New York-New York, wounding four people. Zegrean, reportedly an out-of-work painter with family problemes, allegedly fired 16 shots from a balcony before being tackled by military men, law enforcement officers on holiday and the casino's security...
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Polish and US officials planned to sign a deal Wednesday to station US missile interceptors in Poland, fuelling conflict with Russia in a region once dominated by Moscow.
Poland agreed last week to host part of the US missile shield in return for military aid, including a battery of Patriot air defence missiles in Poland, capping more...
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 A Florida judge has given a rather surprising sentence when he made the two YouTube pranksters upload a video apology on the same website that made them famous. As they thought what they did was hilarious, the two boys, aged 15 and 16, posted a video of themselves throwing a soft drink at a Taco Bell employee, at a restaurant in Merritt...
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 Metallica performed at the annual “Weenie Roast” festival
sponsored by Los Angeles
radio station KROQ-FM. The show, which took place last night (Saturday, May 17)
at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Irvine,
California, also featured The Raconteurs,
The Offspring, The Bravery, The Offspring, Pennywise, Scars on Broadway...
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 There have been rumors that the rest of the tour Van Halen
commenced in September would be canceled. The official statement claims that
some of the gigs have been postponed due to the fact that the band’s guitarist,
Eddie Van Halen was undergoing medical tests.
The rockers postponed some concerts at the end of February
and also...
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 After making the first successful landing on Mars after a 422 million miles journey, the Phoenix Lander sent some images on Monday, showing that the spacecraft is in a very good condition.NASA's Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars on Sunday and it will begin a three months mission in which it would be examining...
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 A team of American researchers unveiled
on Thursday a robot that had been exploring the undersea environment of the Virgin Islands Basin
between St. Croix and St. Thomas by using the
heat energy of the ocean to propel itself. The robot is the only one of its
kind because of the fact that it doesn’t pollute the ocean and it...
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 Health officials have stated that New Jersey this week
launched one of the most ambitious efforts in the country to control
mother-to-child transmission of HIV, making screening tests mandatory for all
pregnant women in the state beginning next year.
A bill signed into law Wednesday by the Senate president,
Richard J. Codey, in...
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 Texas official reports on Tuesday that a syrup candy
imported from Mexico is being recalled after state health officials found
excessive levels of lead.
San Antonio-based Villa-Mex Imports Inc. is asking customers
to discard the dark brown syrup sold as "Barrilito" _ named for its
little glass barrels with bright yellow...
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 According to American medical researchers, the cattle
prod-launching stun weapon or as they are know on the street, Tasers, are in
few words safe to use.
The study was funded by the US
Justice Department and took into consideration almost 1,000 cases where
American plods meted out electric enforcement, and found that 99.7 per cent...
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 Yesterday, at the CanSecWest security conference, IPhone
hacker Charlie Miller managed to successfully hijack a MacBook Air laptop in
only 2 minutes. The prizes offered by show organizers included a Sony Vaio,
Fujitsu U810 and the MacBook.
During the first day of the contest, nobody was able to hack
into the systems, as...
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 After several weeks of intense
negotiations it seems that Apple Inc. and three top European companies have
reached the final agreements: iPhone has been reported to hit three of Europe’s largest markets to its fans’ delight.
So the first lucky European
markets that are to welcome Apple’s iPhone will be the United Kingdom,...
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 Even though during the World Wide Developers’ Conference it was announced that the iPhone’s price would not be more than $299 anywhere in the world, nobody expected it to drop this low. T-Mobile said today that it would make the 8GB 3G iPhone available for 1 euro (around $1.50 USD) in Germany. Of course, this only goes for a two-year...
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 Nokia, the world's largest manufacturer of mobile telephones, with a global device market share of approximately 38%, announced that 46 million batteries used in its phones are predisposed to overheating and the company would swap them free to consumers. Finland’s biggest company is currently discussing with Japan's Matsushita Battery...
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 DaimlerChrysler will unveil the first prototype of the diesel-electric hybrid bus this year, the company has announced.
The prototype, based on the Citaro G bus, will enable emission- free operation in battery-only mode. Series production is planned for 2009.
"The new hybrid drive Citaro is an important step towards cost...
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 General Motors Corp. reportedly flexes its muscles to speed up develpment of its Chevrolet Volt electric-drive concept vehicle. The Detroit Free Press reported that GM could start producing the fuel cell vehicle as early as 2010."We don't build cars in research labs," Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research, development...
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 On Monday, Palm Inc. said its very popular Palm Centro smartphone can also be found by US residents in the unlocked version. Within the same announcement it was also mentioned that the Google Maps for mobile with My Location service is to be made available on the Centro, starting today. The unlocked edition of the Centro comes in a new...
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 On Thursday, Palm Inc officials announced that the company is well on its way to shipping two million Centro smartphone units. The phone has been doing quite well since its debut with Sprint and AT&T. In a move that will surely significantly increase sales, Brodie Keast, Palm senior vice president of marketing, said the smartphone...
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 On Tuesday, Canon announced the EOS Rebel XS, which is part
of the company's DSLR line.
When compared to the previous model, the XT, the camera
doesn't have all that much to show for; however, the size of the LCD screen has
changed from 1.8 to 2.5 inches,
the resolution has been improved, jumping from 8 to 10 megapixels and it...
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 On Wednesday, Pure Digital Technologies Inc. released the new Flip Mino, which is the smaller version of the Flip digital camcorder series, launched last year. The new device was made more pocketable, as it is about 40 percent smaller than the initial model.The device features a built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery and 2GB of...
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 On Thursday, the new Aliph Jawbone was made available in AT&T retail and online stores for the price of US$129.99. When compared to the previous model, it presents several improvements, some focused on size and design. It is 50% smaller and comes in gold, silver, and black. Hosain Rahman, CEO and cofounder of Aliph, said that people,...
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 On Tuesday, Creative Labs announced the launch of the new Vado Pocket Video Cam; the words small, light and low come to mind when considering the camera’s 3.9 by 2.2 by 0.6 inch dimensions, 84 gram weight and $99 price. The Vado features a 2-inch color LCD screen with 40-by-480 VGA resolution, 2GB of memory and comes with a built-in USB...
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 This week, Apple Inc.’s Canada-based division started offering $45 worth of credit to all Canadian residents who purchased Apple iPod players before June 24, 2004. Since this will cost the company around $36 million, it’s quite obvious that Apple had a very serious reason for making such a move, a class-action lawsuit, to be more...
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 The Japanese officials announced on Wednesday that they began an inquiry regarding iPod nano devices, following the incidents in which the music player has sparked and burst into flames.One of the popular iPods nano has given off sparks while being recharged in Japan in January. The incident, which occurred at the Kanagawa Prefecture...
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 The internet and radio company Slacker Inc., has finally announced that it is ready to launch its portable media player, which allows users to hear their highly customized radio stations anywhere they are.The Slacker Portable Player is a storage and playback device that can refresh its content from stations that the users create online...
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 SanDisk Corp. is the second
largest company from the United
States that is
selling MP3 players and it has today introduced its brand new Sansa Clip
device. The new product is a very small MP3 player that features many new
improvements for such a device.
First of all, one should know
that the Sansa Clip features a four line...
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 Microsoft has introduced on the market its Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel
with the occasion of last year’s E3 Media and Business Summit. And now, after
more than a year since the device’s release, Microsoft has announced it is to
provide the Racing Wheel’s users with a free retrofit for the product.
Microsoft’s decision comes...
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 The Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute has been just announced of having created a new quite innovative
device. The project at which the institute has been working over for some time
is nothing else than an energy storage device. But although a battery is
something common and simple, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s...
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 Fujitsu has just made public its
launching a new convertible powerful tablet, called LifeBook T2010. The brand
new product will be the latest item added by Fujitsu in its already popular
tablet/mini-notebook PC series and its features seem to be quite outstanding.
First of all and maybe the most
impressive feature of the new...
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 In a buzz-worthy launch worthy of Apollo 11's blast off to the moon, Apple's iPhone hits US stores on Friday, hoping to eliminate world poverty, eradicate disease, and put a kabosh to war.
OK, that's a slight exaggeration. The new-fangled must-have gadget is only a cell-phone, albeit a really cool one, but judging from the amount of...
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 The hype around the craved gadget that will launch at the end of this week is getting bigger and bigger as the term approaches: the Cupertino PR department has announced an upgrade to the phone’s battery life, which now works longer.Compared to what has been announced in January at the Macworld expo in San Francisco, the increase is...
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 The new Ultra Mobile Device (UMD- an acronym also used by Sony to designate the mini-DVDs inserted in PlayStation Portable) from VIA Technologies aims to compete with the recently launched Palm Foleo.The UMD is built in collaboration with design partner First International Computer Inc. (FIC) and is called NanoBook. It features an almost...
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 Already renowned for phone models that use materials such as leather, chrome, cloth and even gold and diamonds (in the high end Vertu line), Nokia has announced that its 8800 Luna cellphone will use an exquisite combination of glass and steel.8800 Luna’s hardware will come encased in a combination of nearly opaque smoked glass and steel....
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 In March, Jeff Hawkings, the founder of Palm Computing, told palmaddicts.com that the company is preparing something new and spectacular. Following yesterday’s announcement, the “new and spectacular” part is overestimated."We’re going to be announcing something…but I won’t tell you what it is…we will be launching this year, not in...
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 On Monday, The Nikkei, the most important business newspaper in Japan, talked about Toyota’s 2009 plans for its Prius hybrid model. According to the popular publication, the company will use solar panels for the upcoming generation of automobiles.It seems the new Prius will feature rooftop solar panels, which will be used for partly...
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 On Tuesday, Toshiba introduced its new Portégé R500-S5007V laptop. As it weighs only 2.38 pounds (1.08 kilos), the company claims it is the lightest laptop (packing a 128-GB solid-state drive and a DVD drive) on the market.The Portégé, at 0.77 inches, is one of the thinnest laptops out there as well. According to the company, the...
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 Yesterday, the highly anticipated Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) finally started and along with it came the new iPhone. This version is said to be faster and cheaper, as the problems that users have complained about with the existing models mainly focused on the device’s slow Internet browsing and high price....
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 Technology seems to be evolving
towards a new era of solar power. MacRumors.com brings out a recently published
patent that Apple is investigating to use in some of its handheld devices and
even portable computers. By integrating solar panels in its mobile devices, the
battery will no longer be the only one to generate power and...
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 On Tuesday, A123 Systems announced that it has started taking online orders from those Toyota Prius owners who want to switch from hybrid to plug-in hybrid. This can now be done by getting the new L5 battery module. However, it isn’t the cheapest of operations, as the battery and installation cost $9,995, to which $400 are added for...
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 Apple chief executive Steve Jobs unveiled what he called the world's
thinnest notebook computer Tuesday in his annual Macworld address that
also outlined upgrades to the iPhone, iTunes Movie Rentals and a
wireless gadget that automatically backs up data from Mac computers and
laptops.
The MacBook Air laptop is less than 2...
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 On Monday, Intel Corporation unveiled 16 new products at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, including a new line of laptop chips, which are able to run at higher speeds by using less power.The chips, which are named Penryn, combine the Intel Core 2 Duo processors with a 45-nanometer manufacturing process, making possible...
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 For Honda Motor Co. modernity
will not be represented by electric hybrid cars in any case! The popular
company has recently publicly announced that it will keep on the traditional
track with its business. Honda Motor has said it will focus on improving the
traditional, conventional gasoline-electric hybrid technology for its...
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 If one remembers, a year ago
Sony’s image had to suffer because of a massive recall of its lithium-ion
laptop batteries. But the company seems to have learned from this lesson even
too much, as it has recently announced their releasing the ultimate bio battery
made from sugar.
The Japanese company that
represents one of the...
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 Just hours after the notebook
computer-manufacturer Toshiba has started recalling for some of its laptops’
Sony-made batteries, the popular Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia has
made public a similar recall.
The company has just issued a
warning and also a recall notice related to its BL-5C batteries made by
Matsushita...
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 The popular company Toshiba has
had to recall once again some batteries from safety fears. This would be
already the fourth time in about one year that the hardware company has been
forced to this move.
Toshiba has recalled through the United States’
Consumer Product Safety Commission three of its popular notebook...
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 Nokia, the Finnish telecom giant who invented a “variant” of the Bluetooth technology called Wibree, announced that the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) will “absorb” the ultra low power wireless technology in the near future.Wibree is an open industry initiative extending local connectivity to small devices. This new radio...
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 Have you ever imagined your cellphone, laptop or PDA recharged without wires and without sockets? This is what scientists from MIT have dreamed of and the first step they’ve taken is represented by a simple light bulb.Their invention promises even more: slimmer, lighter devices that will work without ever needing a battery at all.A team...
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 After unveiling this week its first true quad core platform for high-end PCs (codenamed Barcelona), AMD also announced its plans for the mobile platform during a press conference in Tokyo.Just as the quad core Barcelona is focused on improved performance in the ever-increasing and ever-demanding video domain, so is the newly announced...
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 The mission of the paparazzi at the golden couple’s French chateau ended with a confrontation between the camouflage-wearing photographers who were trying to get pictures of Pitt’s new twins and Brangelina’s bodyguards. Both sides have filed legal complaints, accusing each other of battery and causing injury and one of the photographers...
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 Rapper Kid Rock has been sentenced to a
year’s probation and fined $1,000 for his role in an altercation at a suburban
Atlanta Waffle House last fall.
The 37-year-old rapper, whose real name is
Robert J Ritchie was also sentenced to six hours of anger management counseling
and 80 hours of community service.
Kid pleaded not...
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 It really makes one happy to realize that the world is not
always about violence, stealing and lying. As silly as it may sound most of us
have the tendency to follow a somehow childish principle: “Finders, keepers; losers,
weepers.” This wasn’t the case of a New
York taxi driver, who returned a $4 million Stradivarius
violin to...
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 Mercades Nichols, one of the eight teens arrested for
beating another 16-year-old teenager , Victoria Lindsay,while videotaping her was bailed out of jail
by some of “Dr Phil’s” staff members. A spokesman of the show, Terri Corigliano,
confirmed that the staff posted bond this weekend. So why the noble gesture?
The answer is: to have...
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 Inga Marchand, known as rapper Foxy Brown will be released
from the New York’s Rikers Island
prison after only eight months. Initially, she was supposed to spend one year
in jail for violating her probation terms. Her manager, Chaz Williams, revealed
according to the BBC News that Brown is due to be out of prison on April 18....
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 Robert Van Winckle, better known as ’90 rapper Vanilla Ice,
was arrested Thursday night after an altercation with his wife in their Palm
Beach County, Florida home. He was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on
charge of domestic battery, after his wife claimed he was hitting and kicking
her.
According to PalmBeachPost.com,...
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 Kid Rock has returned to the battle field with peace
thoughts and charity goals.
The artist, who has pleaded not guilty to a battery charge
stemming from a fight that took place at a Waffle House the last fall, took
part in a fundraiser at another suburban Atlanta Waffle House.
The entertainer
flexed his muscles this time...
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 Britney Spears’ problems do not seem to end. According to
the OK! Magazine, the troubled pop star faces a quite bad situation, being
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