January 2011
13 posts
'Almost flying': Climber survives 1,000-foot fall
A climber who fell 1,000 feet down a near vertical cliff in Scotland was found by rescuers standing at the bottom of the mountain reading a map, according to reports Sunday.
A rescuer, who arrived by helicopter, said that they at first did not believe the man could have fallen so far,The Scotsman newspaper reported.
“It seemed impossible. So we retraced our path back up the mountain and,...
While you make pretty speeches I’m being cut...
10 billion pairs of particles entangled with...
Researchers have managed to entangle ten billion pairs of particles at once, according to a letter in Nature this week. The group of scientists used phosphorus-doped silicon, a microwave pulse, and a radio pulse to achieve the record number of simultaneous entanglements. The process worked on 98 percent of the possible pairs and, while control over their states is still somewhat limited, the...
The Music Bay: Pirate Bay Crew Instill More Fear...
For years The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the side of the music industry, but things could be about to take a turn for the worse. Over the past days rumors of a new project titled “The Music Bay” have been circling, and now a Pirate Bay insider has just confirmed to TorrentFreak that the major record labels have good reason to be afraid, very afraid.
A few years ago the Pirate Bay crew...
Burglars snort man's ashes, thought it was cocaine
MIAMI - Burglars snorted the cremated remains of a man and two dogs in the mistaken belief that they had stolen illegal drugs, Florida sheriff’s deputies said on Wednesday.
The ashes were taken from a woman’s home in the central Florida town of Silver Springs Shores on December 15. The thieves took an urn containing the ashes of her father and another container with the ashes of her...
IBM prepares for machine vs man Jeopardy! showdown
An IBM computer won the practice round on popular quiz show Jeopardy! against two top contestants, showing artificial intelligence has come a long way in simulating how humans think.
“We have created a computer system which has the ability to understand natural human language, which is a very difficult thing for a computer to do,” said John Kelly, the director of IBM Research.
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Spanish Woman Claims She Now Owns Sun
After billions of years the Sun finally has an owner — a woman from Spain’s soggy region of Galicia said Friday she had registered the star at a local notary public as being her property.
Angeles Duran, 49, told the online edition of daily El Mundo she took the step in September after reading about an American man who had registered himself as the owner of the moon and most planets...
