Hundreds of thousands of people in Spain claim unemployment benefit when they actually have some kind of work.
In the Via Barsanti in the town of PratoShi, Italy, Songbin’s existence came to light one morning only when stunned residents found his body outside an underground parking garage surrounded by drab apartment blocks.
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3D-styled basketball court in Munich.
There is a basketball court in Munich, Germany that is going to blow your mind. It is the craziest basketball court in the world. (Pics)
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Scientists are thinking about starting a new geological era: The Anthropocene.
Anthropologist Félix Pharand has made a visualization of Earth that shows urban areas, shipping routes, global roads and air networks. It also gives a very good idea on how big our species’ physical impact on the planet really is.
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Recent cyber attacks have raised questions about the security of government and corporate computer systems.
A top U.S. official warned that the technical sophistication of cybercriminals is swamping the world’s ability to cope and demanding an accelerated cross-border campaign to combat the security threat.
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Penn State tops the list for public in-state colleges.
No college wants to top these rankings. Today the Education Department unveils a website on which it is publishing for the first time lists identifying the nation’s most expensive colleges.
Mark Zuckerberg is worth $18 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has become richer than Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, thanks to GSV Capital Corp’s stake buy which values the popular social networking site at about $70 billion. Earlier this week GSV Capital Corp bought 225,000 shares in Facebook at an average price of $29.28 each.
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Loud things can come in small packages.
While normally a species measuring in at only around 2 millimeters in length might be easily overlooked, one tiny freshwater-dwelling critter has found a way to turn peoples’ heads. Researchers studying ‘water boatman’ (Micronecta scholtzi), an aquatic insect native to Europe, say that the minuscule species takes the mantle as the world’s loudest animal relative to its body size. The hard-to-see insect is capable of producing a song that reaches a whopping 99.2 decibles — roughly the equivalent to the sound of a motorcycle. What may be more surprising, however, is just how water boatman make their ‘song’.
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A new memory system could change the whole computer market.
The age of flash memory might be nearing a close even before those sexy SSDs really hit the mainstream market, as IBM has just announced that they’ve figured out a way to make phase-change memory a commercial reality within five years. What’s in it for you? Well, how does accessing your data about a hundred times faster sound?
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Future Vegas partygoers may find themselves cruising the strip in driverless rides.
Are you sick of your long commute to work and wish you could take a nap or read the web while on the road? Soon you may be able to obtain a license for a car that can drive itself. While such a vehicle may be a few years off, the state of Nevada is getting legislation in place that will allow for the implementation of hands free driving…
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About 700 job reductions at HSBC will mainly affect UK branch offices.
The wave of lay-offs hitting banks gathered pace on Thursday. Thousands more job losses are set to hit retail businesses and market divisions while lenders fight off a limp economic recovery, trading woes and tougher regulation.
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Qingdao Haiwan Bridge
The 26.4 minle long Qingdao Haiwan Bridge would easily span the English Channel and is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in the American state of Louisiana. (Pics and video)
Microsoft rationalized the patent as a way to answer to government requests for surveillance and wiretapping.
Microsoft is seeking a patent for technology that lets it eavesdrop on VoIP calls, weeks after Microsoft bought Skype for $8.5 billion.
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