WikiLeaks Threatens Its Own Leakers With $20 Million Penalty

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange now makes his associates sign a draconian nondisclosure agreement that, among other things, asserts that the organization’s huge trove of leaked material is “solely the property of WikiLeaks,” according to a report Wednesday. “You...

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University of Ulster celebrates acquisition of PR2 robot by having it solve Rubik's cube

Programmed by Chris Burbridge and Lorenzo Riano of the Cognitivie Robotics Group, the PR2, in ways that look eerily human, carefully scans the cube, before slowly getting to work; though it’s not been stated as such, it appears the robot first solves...

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Six Moments When Athletes Cried

We’ve all seen athletes cry before.   Hell many of us have cried as athletes.  It’s easy to get emotional out there as tensions run high and sometimes there’s a lot on the line.But there’s also those times you can’t help but to laugh at...

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NASA's Fermi Spots 'Superflares' in the Crab Nebula

The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. On April 12, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope first detected the outburst, which lasted six days. The...

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Obama Makes It Through Another Day Of Resisting Urge To Launch All U.S. Nuclear Weapons At Once

WASHINGTON—Despite being constantly tempted by the seductive power of having an apocalyptic arsenal at his fingertips, President Barack Obama somehow made it through another day Tuesday without unlocking the box on his desk that houses "the button" and...

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Lung transplant breathes new life into boy of four, who is youngest to have op in Britain

A boy of four has become the youngest and smallest person in the UK to have a successful lung transplant.Surgeons at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London carried out the transplant, which has transformed Mason Lewis's quality of life within a matter...

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World of Warcraft Suffers Post-Cataclysmic Drop in Subscriptions

Avatar for Mike Fahey Mike Fahey —World of Warcraft Suffers Post-Cataclysmic Drop in Subscriptions Six months after buzz for the Cataclysm expansion drove World of Warcraft numbers to an all-time high, Blizzard reports the lowest subscription figures...

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Sexy Ladies Dressed As Characters That Were Never Meant To Be Sexy

But if we had room in our hearts to love two other things, they would easily be geekery and sexy dames. So why not combine the two? There’s nothing more attractive than a lady with a passion, especially if that passion is for some geek thrill like...

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Banks Said to Offer $5 Billion to Resolve State, U.S. Foreclosures Probe

Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), along with three other U.S. mortgage servicers, proposed paying $5 billion to settle a probe of their foreclosure practices by state and federal officials, two people familiar with the matter...

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WikiLeaks: Julian Assange given peace prize

Julian Assange, the founder of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, has been awarded an award “for exceptional courage in pursuit of human rights”. Mr Assange was given the Sydney Peace Medal at a ceremony at the Frontline Club in central London today. The...

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[RUMOR] Next iPod Nano To Reinstate a Camera

A picture claimed to show the alleged seventh-generation iPod nano appeared on Monday on the website tw.apple.pro (via Google Translate). The report claims that the camera is a low-resolution 1.3 megapixel lens. Crediting a source named "Ray" from California,...

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Phil Jackson fined $35K for ref remarks

DALLAS -- Just before what could've been the last game of his coaching career, Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson was fined $35,000 for comments about the officiating. The NBA sent a release less than an hour before tipoff of Game 4 in the Lakers-Mavericks...

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New sensor developed by MIT chemical engineers can detect tiny traces of explosives

MIT researchers have created a new detector so sensitive it can pick up a single molecule of an explosive such as TNT. To create the sensors, chemical engineers led by Michael Strano coated carbon nanotubes — hollow, one-atom-thick cylinders made of...

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Liberals in southern Arizona seek to form new state

TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot ambition to the forefront...

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10 Worst States To Be a Woman

In a time of war and record unemployment, the GOP is sending a message: fertile women are the country’s number one enemy, and their freedoms must be quashed at all costs. State Republican (and some Democratic) legislators have introduced nearly 1,000...

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New Rubiks Cube World Speed Record

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Google Music Beta to stream 20,000 songs for free

It's not quite official but there's little doubt that Google will launch its Google Music service at its big I/O event later today. While the Wall Street Journal couldn't get a Google spokesman to admit it, Peter Kafka over at All Things D got Jamie...

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Steve Ballmer & Tony Bates Talk About Skype - Microsoft Deal

If one thing was expected from Microsoft paying $8.5 billion for Skype, it was the criticism of the deal. Given Microsoft’s history of botching previous mergers, I wouldn’t blame folks for being skeptical. I believe desperate times result in either...

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Fear that U.S. could grab nuclear arsenal heightens Pakistani anger

Last week's U.S. raid into Pakistan is fueling one of the country's most enduring—and potentially dangerous—conspiracy theories: that the U.S. has designs on Pakistan's nuclear arsenal and is prepared to send highly trained commandos into the country...

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