A sinkhole has opened in Texas, not much detail as to the cause as yet but no-one was injured. From the BBC:
A massive sinkhole has opened up in south-eastern Texas in the US, swallowing up vehicles and oil field equipment.
It is not clear what caused the collapse, but the history of the nearby community of [...]

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Oh Microsoft, when will you change your business practices? Although this is hardly a drop in the ocean for any company this will not unduly hurt MS. It will mean that MS will not turn a profit in the EU for the next five years or so. Will it change the way MS runs its [...]

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Welcome to the Greatest Games of All Time
First lets get some classic preamble in here. You know, up the word count a bit. Stick with me, this might get interesting. Video Games have been around since around 1947-52, depending on your terminology.
What game types exist? Well they break down into a few distinct categories:
Action [...]

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ORLY?
Coffee could help boost a woman’s sex drive, a US study says.
Scientists from Southwestern University found caffeine increased the female libido in experiments on rats.
The Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behaviour journal study said the effect was caused by it stimulating the part of the brain regulating arousal.
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See here.
Neat. It may have few games, little industry support and be in third place by far; but at least it has a use now. Hacking!
The Cell processor at the heart of the PS3 is the key to speeding up the time it takes to crack a password.
In a presentation given at the Kiwicon [...]

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I love the universe and its possibilities:
Astronomers have spotted a space oddity in Earth’s neighbourhood - a dead star with some unusual characteristics.
The object, known as a neutron star, was studied using space telescopes and ground-based observatories.
But this one, located in the constellation Ursa Minor, seems to lack some key characteristics found in other neutron [...]

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You pull a knife, I pull a Samurai sword. Lets …

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