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A police investigation is under way in Florida after a teenager appeared to kill himself live on the internet after being goaded by other web surfers.The 19-year-old, from the city of Pembroke Pines, was found dead by police on Tuesday night after apparently taking an overdose....(more)
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Reuters - Internet search giant Google Inc is known for hosting the most extravagant holiday parties in Silicon Valley, often drawing crowds of over 10,000 and prompting some employees to post ads for party dates on classifieds Website Craiglist.
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Dumb criminals status update: Ashlee Hutchens, 18, stopped to reorient herself while driving through an unfamiliar Cincinnati neighborhood this fall. A young man swaggered over. First he tried to hit on her. When Ashlee, who is deaf, didn't respond, he stole her cellphone. Police said...(more)
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ NASA's revolutionary new space water recycling system is having serious hiccups. The $154 million device for turning astronauts' urine and sweat into drinking water aboard the international space station shut down again Friday, and engineers on the ground were scrambling to...(more)
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) -- Japanese millionaire Daisuke Enomoto had planned to dress up as his favorite cartoon character in outer space and spent $21 million to make it happen. Now he claims the company that was supposed make his dream come true brushed him aside with...(more)
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, CALIF., Nov. 21 -- The windows of the moss-covered wood cabins are dark now, the white canvas tents still. Rows of benches sit like ghosts before the amphitheater, its summer music now hushed by windy gusts and swirling leaves. Such emptiness is...(more)
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The answer to a Martian riddle -- where did all the water go? -- may lie in debris-covered glaciers found by ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. In a discovery that partly answers the question of where all the water went on Mars, scientists...(more)
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D.C. police, frustrated that a teenage robbery suspect they have arrested kept getting released, took to cyberspace yesterday in an unusual effort to lobby judges and city officials to keep him off the streets. Exasperated by the third arrest of the same suspect in a...(more)
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Several Verizon Wireless employees stumbled upon the Pandora's Box of personal cellphone accounts, that of President-Elect Barack Obama, and couldn't help sneaking a peek. Luckily, the account was old and out-of-use, there's no indication that email records, voicemails or call contents were monitored, and at...(more)
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Do you think of your MP3 player as the well from whence music springs forth like so much cool, pure H2O? Neither do I, but that didn't stop some brainy (that is, totally insaney) designers from coming up with a painfully elaborate music-player concept based on...(more)
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Oh, wow. Apparently, in May, a Brit and a Frenchman snuck on to the under-construction Burj Dubai and BASE jumped from it at 650 meters up. Now, there's video available of their infiltration, jump and subsequent escape. The footage from up top and the jump...(more)
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When we first wrote about this comically huge Walgreens LED sign — the largest of its kind in the world — construction was just getting under way. That was May, and now they're done. D3 LED, the firm behind the sign, finally turned on this 17,000...(more)
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