BEIJING - An obese 26-year-old man in northeastern China died after a “marathon” online gaming session over the Lunar New Year holiday, state media said on Wednesday.
The 330-pound man from Jinzhou, in Liaoning province, collapsed on Saturday, the last day of the holiday, after spending “almost all” of the seven-day break playing online games, the [...]
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Metro.co.uk - Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Thousands of British children think cows lay eggs. And a similar number believe bacon comes from sheep, a survey published today reveals. Townies fared worst in research designed to find out if children knew where their food came from. Some city children seemed a bit confused [...]
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BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Scientists in eastern China say they have succeeded in controlling the flight of pigeons with micro electrodes planted in their brains, state media reported on Tuesday.
Scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at Shandong University of Science and Technology said their electrodes could command them to fly right or left [...]
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People have a harder time coming up with alternative solutions to a problem when they are part of a group, new research suggests.Scientists exposed study participants to one brand of soft drink then asked them to think of alternative brands. Alone, they came up with significantly more products than when they were grouped with two [...]
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The European version of PlayStation 3 will play fewer PlayStation 2 video games when it launches on March 23 compared with models launched earlier in Japan and America, Sony Corp said on Friday.
“The backwards compatibility is not going to be as good as the U.S. and Japan models,” a Sony spokesman said.
PlayStation [...]
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Peretz already under fire in wake of war against Hezbollah in Lebanon
Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz, right, gazes at a military drill through binoculars Wednesday, apparently without realizing the lens caps were left on. The army’s chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi is at left.
LONDON - Embattled Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz faced fresh [...]
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Nintendo console has officially gone geriatric!
Nintendo is off to an incredible start with the Wii. With continued demand and leading sales even after the holiday season, Nintendo couldn’t be happier with the system’s early success. The Wii’s innovative controller design has opened up video gaming to a previously untapped market—non-gamers.
The marketing minds behind Nintendo looked [...]
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OCONOMOWOC, Wisconsin (AP) — A man says he broke into an apartment with a cavalry sword because he thought he heard a woman being raped, but the sound actually was from a pornographic movie his upstairs neighbor was watching.
“Now I feel stupid,” said James Van Iveren, who has been charged in the case. “This really [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO - Someday you could be taking orders from a robot … but in a nice way.
For example, imagine a body suit with sensors that can guide you through a golf swing like Tiger Woods’. Or a robo-birdwatcher that can tell you where to look for that rare ivory-billed woodpecker. Or an android gardener [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO: As media companies struggle to reclaim control over their movies, television shows and music in a world of online file-sharing software, they have found an ally in software of another kind.The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted material, even, for example, from blurry video clips.
The technology [...]
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