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According to ABC News.com, the Tennessee Highway Patrol has suspended a state trooper who allegedly received a sexual favor from a porn star and recorded the act with a camera from his cruiser in return for ignoring her possession of illegal painkillers. The woman, who goes by the stage name Barbie Cummings, said that at …
If you walked through Times Square this past Tuesday, then you probably noticed American magician Criss Angel suspended in midair. Angel was enclosed for 24 hours in a clear box that was encased in cement as fans and reporters watched. The box was then hoisted 40 feet above the ground in a parking lot just …
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Google Maps is the most popular online mapping service in the world, and it is adding new features for you. Google has launched the Street View, a new Google Map service that provides web users 360-degree, navigable photographic views of selected locations/streets. Besides, Google also announced a tool for independent software developers, the Mapplets. The …
James D. Watson, who helped crack the DNA code half a century ago, last week became the first person handed the full text of his own DNA on a small computer disk. But he won’t be the last. Soon enough, scientists say, we will all be able to decipher our own genomes — the six …
It looks like Google's 2006 acquisition of Neven Vision, a company specializing in facial recognition software, is finally starting to pay off. Google Blogoscoped, a blog dedicated to everything related to Google, got a tip from a Google engineer that Google had secretly added some facial recognition abilities to its image search this week.
Google has launched a new home page for Korea that departs from Google's "classic," minimalist home page approach. The new look features animated product buttons below the search box and will become the default home page in the country, a move Google is comfortable with given the near universal presence of broadband.
Apple added a new section to iTunes 7.2 called iTunes U, where users can download lectures from various universities around the United States free of charge. In addition to lectures, many universities are offering language lessons, lab demonstrations, sports highlights and campus tours. Participating schools currently include Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Duke University and MIT. …
The disappointing Bud.tv may "fade away" later this year, admitted Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV in a conference call to analysts.
Google is increasing the Gmail attachment size limit to 20 MB.
Last week, Microsoft announced the largest acquisition in its history, purchasing Seattle-based interactive ad firm aQuantive for $6 billion in what it describes is the next step in the evolution of its ad network.
This week Google unveiled a new "universal search" function that integrates text, photos, video, news, scanned books and blogs in a single list of results. The search engine will automatically check Google Video's archive and allow users to click on a "watch video' link that will embed the video right on the search results page.
Top law enforcement officers from Connecticut and 7 other US states have asked MySpace.com to turn over the names of registered sex offenders who use the social networking Web site. In a letter, the attorneys general asked MySpace to provide information on how many registered sex offenders are using the site, and where they live. …
Properly packaging a fragile product for shipping can be a tedious and annoying process. But taking shortcuts is never a good idea. The TV in the photographs below was shipped to a third party repair center for service. The person who packed up and shipped this TV must have been a professional… idiot. They might as …
Terrified that her 45-day prison sentence for drunk driving will plunge her into a world of daily beatings, group showers and a total absence of anything that's even vaguely "hot," Paris Hilton is doing all she can to get out of jail before she even goes in.
What does your email say about you? Apparently a lot. According to a recent report, Gmail users skew younger and richer compared to Yahoo Mail or Microsoft's Hotmail.
Here's the story on how the Weather Channel got the super-premium domain name Weather.com and how it grew into a major Internet destination.
