Monday, September 28, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: A Few Details About Capcom at the 2009 TGS

HTTP:: A Few Details About Capcom at the 2009 TGS
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Filled with news and announcements, Capcom was the closest thing to the king of the 2009 Tokyo Games Show. With president and COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto debating the future of gaming and the R&D and Online Business head Keiji Inafune bringing up the Project Natal development for which Capcom has decided to act as publisher, their booth was packed with hypnotized fans. They also added to the board the launch of Resident Evil 5: Alternative Edition that will support the upcoming Motion controller. The company also had some good news for the fans that came to Tokyo from across the globe. If the Resident Evil 5: Alternative Edition, with a Japan only release, didn't really warm the gaijin's hearts, the Western games announced did sparkle a hint of warmth. Capcom announced the release of Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes for the PlayStation 3 and Wii and a game still under development. This unfinished product received the working title of Ghost Trick and will come out for the DS. !
Both games are to be released for the European and North American public somewhere in 2010. Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes continues the Basara series, so reminiscent of the Samurai Warriors gameplay. Both games offer pretty much the same thing. From a pallet of several warriors, each with different weapons and fighting style, players will be a...
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Pingie: HTTP:: From Anorexia to Plus Size Crystal Renn Reveals Chilling Details of Life as a Model

HTTP:: From Anorexia to Plus Size Crystal Renn Reveals Chilling Details of Life as a Model
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23-year-old model Crystal Renn is currently the highest ranking plus-sized model. She has been featured in countless fashion shows and is a constant presence in fashion and style magazines â€" but it’s not without a price that she’s come to enjoy this kind of exposure. Aged just 13, Renn was discovered by a modeling agency, but was told she needed to lose some weight to be successful. For three years, she struggled with anorexia and came close to dying, Renn reveals in her book “Hungry,” as Fox News can confirm. Critics often say that it’s the fashion industry that’s pushing young girls to adopt unhealthy habits in order to fit its never-bending standards. However, Renn says for her it was a matter of choice, since she was given the chance to back out and say she refused to lose the weight. But she knew modeling was her only ticket out, while, at the same time, that she needed to shift some pounds in order to get it. This was the first step she took towards bec!
oming incredibly ill. “I honestly couldn’t feel myself, I would have to literally count the veins on my arm when looking in mirror for reassurance that I was still standing in the same place that I was yesterday.” Renn tells Fox News of her frail self fr...
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Pingie: HTTP:: No More Plans to Introduce UMD Transfer for the PSP Go

HTTP:: No More Plans to Introduce UMD Transfer for the PSP Go
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Sony seems to be abandoning all the plans to allow gamers who own titles on the old UMD format for the PlayStation Portable to get them as a digital download on the new Go console, which is set to be released on October 1. Initially, Sony said that it was looking into the possibility of setting up a program allowing a gamer to move their games from one device to another but there were both technical and legal reasons that ended the possibility.The PSP Go has no UMD drive but does have an internal hard drive and supports memory drives. The user needs to maintain an Internet connection in order to purchase and then download a videogame or another program that they can then use on their handheld.The new device is set to retail for 250 dollars when it comes out and will be offering a longer battery life, a better screen and an internal microphone along with a fresh, sleeker design.Back at E3, Sony was stating, through the voice of Brian Keltner, that “We are looking into prog!
rams for owners who have previously purchased UMD titles and want to exchange them for digital versions. It's something we are still hammering out the details. As soon as we have solid plans in place we will make an announcement.”The news might actually hurt the sales of the new console as a lot...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Bug Wipeout TrailRunner 2 1v434 for Mac OS X

HTTP:: Bug Wipeout TrailRunner 2 1v434 for Mac OS X
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Berbie has released a new version of its route-planning program for Mac OS X, TrailRunner. The app can calculate a route for the desired distance, is freely available for download and can export directions onto the users' iPods. According to the release notes, TrailRunner 2.1 build 434 fixes a problem where imported Garmin ForeRunner 50 workout imports did not display a workout graph and lap information. Similarly, the update also addresses an issue where dropping a Garmin ForeRunner 50 tcx file without GPS information onto the TrailRunner application icon opened the wrong importer. Lastly, in the diary, setting a route name without an attached route did not store the input. By installing the latest version, this issue should be addressed. TrailRunner can display maps and elevation data from web-based mapping services like USGS topo maps, import GPS Recordings from Trails for iPhone, as well as import tracks and workouts from GPS fitness devices like the Garmin ForeRunner!
or Garmin Edge. Users can describe favorite tracks and rate them with iTunes stars, and plan their routes interactively, or automatically for a given distance. Exporting route directions onto an iPod is also possible, as is the ability to journalize workouts in a diary, see progress in a history chart, and ultimately publish a WebLog to ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Big Music shill BPI attacks BT over file sharers

HTTP:: Big Music shill BPI attacks BT over file sharers
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p2pnet news view Music:- Giant British telecom company BT has come under sharp attack from Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s BPI (British Phornographic Industry).nIt’s, “refusing to punish internet pirates who cost the music industry at least £200million a year despite being led to the culprits,” says the Mirror.nAnd (gasp) that’s despite [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Apple Closes Down Three More Stores for Renovations

HTTP:: Apple Closes Down Three More Stores for Renovations
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Although Apple is said to be merely replacing tables in three of its stores recently closed down for renovations, such changes imply other cosmetic alterations, forcing the company to pull the curtain over the stores’ entrances for a short period of time. “Visitors to the Pacific Centre (Vancouver, BC), King Street (Charleston, SC) and Kahala (Honolulu) retail stores have been met with signs indicating the relatively-new stores will be closed later this month for ‘renovations,’” ifoAppleStore, the primary source dealing with news about Apple’s brick-and-mortar establishments, informs. “Both closures have sparked speculation on what changes could possibly be made to the all-stainless steel interiors,” the source continues to outline. “The Pacific Centre store is on the second-level of the downtown shopping center with no room to expand on either side. However, frequent visitors note there could be space both above and below the store into which the store !
could expand,” ifo reveals. “[...] The Kahala store is inside a mall and definitely has no room for expansion in any direction [...] All three stores will be closed from September 28th to October 1st,” the report in question reads. Soon after making the news public...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Yakuza 4 Launched at TGS

HTTP:: Yakuza 4 Launched at TGS
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Like a Swiss clock, Sega announced a new addition to the Yakuza franchise at every Tokyo Games Show edition, for the past few years. This year makes no difference, and series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi took the floor to give to the world Ryu Ga Gotoku 4: Densetu wo Tsugu Mono. The rough, if not very rough English translation used is Yakuza 4: Inheritor of the Legend. Sega's effort put in Yakuza truly is something to be admired, the company releasing new games in the franchise this often, considering other games stay in development for as long as six-seven years. A big banzai for Yakuza. Yakuza 4 brings a brand-new fundamental element to the game: players will now have a choice in playable characters, as Kazuma Kiryu gets three new brothers in arms. The first is Masayoshi Tanimura, a crooked cop, and the second is Shun Akiyama. Shun is a fashionable loan shark with a humble beginning, who offers money only to people who present a moral code. The last is Taiga Saejima, a conv!
icted criminal for the murder of a dozen Yakuza members. He is depicted as a “shoot first, then stab people, ask questions never” kinda character. Presented in the trailer are also Lili, a mysterious woman with long black hair, and the already known Goro Majima. The four different playable characters will bring great variety to the gameplay, as ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Mark Cuban on net neutrality Flat out wrong

HTTP:: Mark Cuban on net neutrality Flat out wrong
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “The moment you hear someone warning about stark changes as a consequence of net neutrality, you know they’ve got it wrong,” says networking and protocol expert Robb Topolski.nHe was talking about recent remarks from Mark Cuban who apparently believes the  net will slow to a pinful crawl if [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Third and Final ESO Milky Way Map Released

HTTP:: Third and Final ESO Milky Way Map Released
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has finally released its third and final map of the Milky Way, as part of the GigaGalaxy Zoom project. The last image completes the first two nicely, and provides would-be explorers and astronomers with the necessary tools they need to understand which cosmic bodies are which in the night sky. All the pictures that were included in the new panorama were taken with an amateur telescope, and look precisely as the sky is seen with the unaided eye from one of the most suitable places for astronomical observations in the world, the La Silla Observatory, in Chile. The main instrument used for the panorama was the Wide Field Imager, attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the site. The newly imaged structure is the Lagoon Nebula, which was captured in a 370-million-pixel photo that can be used by professional and amateur astronomers alike, in their quest to understanding the Universe. The third installment of the project covers an ar!
ea eight times larger than that of the full Moon, as seen on the night sky â€" an area roughly equivalent to one and a half square degrees. The structure is about 4,000 to 5,000 light-years away, in the constellation of Sagittarius. “The GigaGalaxy Zoom project’s dedicated website has proved very successful, drawing hundred...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Anti P2P Espinel new IP czar

HTTP:: Anti P2P Espinel new IP czar
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Another anti-P2P hard-liner has been appointed to high office in the Obama administration.nIn a move praised, surprisingly, by Public Knowledge president and co-founder Gigi B. Sohn, Victoria Espinel has been nominated as America’s new IP czar, or Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, as she’ll be officially known.nIn 2005 Espinel, became [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: New and Improved VueScan 8 5 32 Available for Mac OS X

HTTP:: New and Improved VueScan 8 5 32 Available for Mac OS X
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Hamrick Software, maker of VueScan for Mac OS X, has updated its flagship product to include new and improved auto-focus on Nikon cameras, as well as improved 'Input' in a couple of situations. VueScan assists Mac users in producing quality scans, allowing tweaks to color balance, and more. With the release of version 8.5.30 almost two weeks back, Hamrick Software fixed a problem with feeders on Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), while adding support for additional Epson scanners. New in version 8.5.31, released just last week, is the added support for the 'Input | Auto skew' option and the compatibility with most printed pages that are skewed. This week’s release, VueScan 8.5.32, actually improves that 'Input | Auto skew' option, as well as the auto-focus feature on Nikon CoolScan 8000 / 9000. The rest of the changes include bug fixes, listed by Hamrick Software as follows: - Fixed problem with Brother scanners on Mac OS X 10.6; - Fixed problem with HP G4050 infrared clean!
ing; - Fixed problem with crashes when some networked printers attached; - Fixed problem with crashes on exit with some HP scanners; - Fixed problem with Canon D660; - Fixed probelm with Quato Intelli Scan 5000. Download VueScan using the link below, to either try the app, or up...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Nokia Announces Dopplr Purchase

HTTP:: Nokia Announces Dopplr Purchase
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia announced has today that it has acquired Dopplr Oy, a mobile service provider aimed at those who travel around the world. The new acquisition has been already rumored to have happened last week, yet it is only now that the two companies decided to go official with their deal. No details on the value of the transaction have been announced, but TechCrunch reported a few days ago that Nokia had paid a sum between €10 million and €15 million ($15 million to $22 million) for Dopplr. For the time being, Nokia hasn't said anything about the reasons behind the acquisition, especially since the firm is a very small one. In case you have never heard of Dopplr before, you might want to know that the company has two offices, one in London and one in Helsinki, and that there are seven people who work as its employees. At the same time, it should be noted that the company says about itself that it is “a service for smart travelers,”!
and that it comes as a collection of travel patterns and preferences from travelers around the world. According to the Finnish phone maker, “the Dopplr team brings to Nokia's Services unit unique know-how in creating Internet-based communities and showing their journeys, experiences and tastes collectively on the web...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Canadian kids think gaming can be addictive

HTTP:: Canadian kids think gaming can be addictive
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p2pnet news view | Games:- Has computer gaming addiction reached “pandemic” proportions as Sweden’s Youth Care Foundation (Stiftelsen UngdomsvÃ¥rd) claims? â€" p2pnet asked a few days back.nIf that’s the case, World of Warcraft is the, “cocaine of the computer games world”, said a report from the foundation.nDoes the Swedish research represent a genuine effort [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Microsoft pals to educate Middle East kids

HTTP:: Microsoft pals to educate Middle East kids
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p2pnet news view Kids & Kartels | Politics:- Children in the Middle East will soon become the targets of  ‘educators’ invading schools to implant The Corporate Word on filesharing and intellectual property, together with other essential scriptures.nThe League of Arab States, Microsoft and Khasawneh & Associates (?) say their new Arab Intellectual Property Centre will, [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: New BlackBerry App from HulloMail Announced

HTTP:: New BlackBerry App from HulloMail Announced
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BlackBerry users in the UK and US have now a new application available for their devices, one coming from HulloMail, a hybrid voicemail and email communications technology. The new application comes as an integrated “voice-email” service, and converts standard voicemails into digital MP3 files so that users can store them easily for as long as they want. In addition, the service is also said to offer an easy way to manage voicemail communications from about any handset, while being designed as a replacement for the traditional voicemail. As for the new feature-rich Blackberry app, it is compatible with devices like the Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Tour, and Blackberry Curve 8900 models, and can be downloaded at the moment from the HulloMail site. According to the company, it will come to the Blackberry App World as well. “HulloMail is the future of voicemail technology,” said Andy Munarriz, founder and CEO of HulloMail. “Today’s busy consumers, who have access!
to the latest communications tools in every other area of their mobile life, don’t want their voicemails to be hidden in a black box on a network to which they have no direct access. They want their messages to be easily trackable and manageable in a common inbox where they can personally handle them in a str...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Is the Twitter Wow factor fading

HTTP:: Is the Twitter Wow factor fading
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p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- “Twitter’s the talk of the Web this week, with word that its latest round of funding could be worth as much as $100 million,” says PC World.n“That’d bring the company’s total value to a whopping $1 billion â€" an awful lot of zeros for a startup based on [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: ASUS 039 SaberTooth P55 Motherboard Gets Early Hands On

HTTP:: ASUS 039 SaberTooth P55 Motherboard Gets Early Hands On
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ASUS, one of the world's leading vendors of computer platforms and motherboards, is expected roll out a new series of high-end motherboards, designed to provide users with support for the latest hardware, but in a high-performance platform. The new series, titled TUF Series, will debut with a new P55-based motherboard, the ASUS SaberTooth 55i, which will enable support for LGA1156-compatible Core i5 and Core i7 processors. Although ASUS is yet to officially detail the product, the board has already leaked online in a hands-on session.   The gang over at Xfastest.com have been lucky enough to snatch an early sample of ASUS' upcoming high-end enthusiast motherboard, providing us with some pictures and a couple of technical specifications of what this board has to offer. According to available information, the new board will feature a 12+2 phase power design, support for Intel's latest Lynnfield processors, compatible with the new LGA1156 socket, four DDR3 memory slots and tw!
o PCI-Express x16 slots that provide support for both SLI and CrossFire multi-GPU technologies.   Additional features of the new SaberTooth board include a CeraM!X coating for the chipset and MOSFET heatsin...
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Pingie: HTTP:: ExoMars 039 039 Eyes 039 Tested in the UK

HTTP:: ExoMars 039 039 Eyes 039 Tested in the UK
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The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently working to develop and integrate all the systems required for its future mission to the Red Planet, the ExoMars rover. The robot, which is impressive in size, will navigate the red sands and analyze objects of interest on the surface, but its primary goal will be to look for life. Recently, a large step forward was taken, when mission engineers conducted a primary test of the future rover's cameras at a quarry in southern England, the BBC News reports. In addition to the cameras, dedicated processing software also underwent testing. Once completed, the rover will feature a large number of cameras, and it will be up to the software and its designers to integrate information from all of them into a comprehensible set of data. According to design blueprints, it will feature no less than eight cameras at the front. Two stereoscopic, wide-angle cameras will snap panoramic, 3D views of the Martian landscape. Two pairs of cameras will!
be installed on its sides, and act as hazard detectors. Two additional ones in the front will serve for navigation. It's the job of the EU PRoVisG (Planetary Robotics Vision Ground Processing) project to ensure that all information obtained from these cameras is integrated correctly into a highly detailed, 3D image of the rover's environme...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Lily Allen and the Arctic Monkeys the bond

HTTP:: Lily Allen and the Arctic Monkeys the bond
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- What do Lily Allen and the Arctic Monkeys have in common?nThey both used online file sharers to get their careers rolling.nThen, having gotten to where they wanted to go, cynically went the other way, betraying the online music lovers who put them there, at the same time [...]
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Pingie: HTTP:: Canadian Pirate Party Launches Its Own BitTorrent Tracker

HTTP:: Canadian Pirate Party Launches Its Own BitTorrent Tracker
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The Pirate Party is starting to pick up steam all over the world with several regional organizations on their way to follow the party's success in its country of origin, Sweden. Standing for a copyright and patent law overhaul and better privacy rights, the Pirate Party has also managed to get a good following in Canada where it is expected to get federal approval as early as next week. But what's interesting is that the people behind it there have decided to do more than just argue over the ideological principles and actually do something practical by setting up their own bittorrent tracker for artists releasing their works under a Creative Commons license. “We’re starting a BitTorrent tracker to show artists how to properly use P2P technology in order to gain access to a cheap and efficient marketing and distribution network,” Pirate Party spokesman Jake Daynes told TorrentFreak. “In addition we hope to show the public that P2P is not only for ‘illegal’ acti!
vity, and that it can be used to allow aspiring artists access to the global stage. A tracker is the epitome of filesharing, and one of our platform ‘planks’ as it were, is about the promotion of filesharing.” The idea is that by using peer to peer technology for legitimate and benef...
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Pingie: TORRE: BPI Decries ISP Inaction Against 100K Music Pirates

TORRE: BPI Decries ISP Inaction Against 100K Music Pirates
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A UK music industry group claims that it has given an ISP evidence that thousands of its customers are pirating music but it has done nothing to stop them. Since February the BPI has harvested the IP addresses of 100,000 BT Broadband customers but is now labeling the ISP's lack of action against them as "shameful."
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Pingie: HTTP:: New Early Warning System Installed at LHC

HTTP:: New Early Warning System Installed at LHC
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According to initial plans, the Large Hadron Collider should have already produced its first scientific results by now. But, as it stands, malfunctions have delayed its operation considerably, and now experts are working around the clock on bringing the largest particle accelerator in the world back online. As repairs progress, a new early warning system is being installed, so that incidents such as the one that disabled the structure do not occur again, the BBC News reports. The report released by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which manages the LHC, shows that last September's leak was caused by a faulty splice between two of the accelerator's superconducting magnets. These elements are used to get particles moving at speeds close to that of light, before they are collided head-on in the largest detectors ever built. Experts hope to be able to observe all known particles ever discovered, in addition to some new ones. The very reason why the LHC w!
as built to such impressive sizes was to be able to detect high-energy particles. Other accelerators, such as that of Fermilab, may have insufficient energy to detect the elusive Higgs boson, the force carrier that hypothetically allows energy to acquire mass, and turn into a fundamental particle. Additionally, the collisions between the h...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Add Your Property to Street View with the Partners Program

HTTP:: Add Your Property to Street View with the Partners Program
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With all of the controversy and issues surrounding Google's Street View program you'd think that everyone was terrified or at least worried about the privacy problems that have popped up. But some aren't only OK with the service, they actually want Google to take photos of their private properties which is why the search giant has a partner program set up. The program isn't exactly geared to the proud home owner wanting to show off his pool but rather created for companies and organizations wanting to benefit from the exposure, but it does show that there are real benefits from being featured in Street View. “Do you manage a unique property (pedestrian mall, amusement park, university campus, etc.) that users would like to visit in Street View? Through our Partner Program, you can now request Google to collect imagery of your location. Once the images are added to Street View, people all over the world will be able to virtually explore your property,” the site set up !
for the Partner Program reads. Google has been adding special locations to Street View for quite a while but has only more recently started allowing anyone to apply to the program. The company is especially interested in locations like "zoos, parks, universities, amusement parks, outdoor marketplaces, stadiums, mon...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Galaxy 039 s GeForce GTX 260 Packs Single Slot Cooling

HTTP:: Galaxy 039 s GeForce GTX 260 Packs Single Slot Cooling
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Although most NVIDIA fans are likely waiting for the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker to officially roll out its next-generation line of desktop graphics cards, some of the company's board partners are continuing to roll out new designs based on the current generation of GPUs. Such is the case with Galaxy Microsystems, which is expected to roll out a new GT200-based model, which will combine NVIDIA's GTX 260 GPU with a single-slot cooling solution in a custom graphics card that should enable desktop PC users to take advantage of the high-performance specifications of the GPU, inside a smaller package.Although no details have yet been made available on the new card's pricing and availability, the single-slot GeForce GTX 260 looks pretty much real, according to a couple of leaked images and specifications that have recently surfaced on the Internet. Unfortunately, the technical specs are somewhat sketchy, at this time, but the card should be designed on a 55nm GT200b !
graphics processing unit, coupled with 216 processing cores, 896MB of GDDR3 memory, a Vapor Chamber technology-enabled heatsink and two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors, which can be noticed in the available photos.The upcoming GTX 260+ could boast DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort interfaces, while the clock speeds would likely remai...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Fly with the Black Eyed Peas and V Australia for Charity

HTTP:: Fly with the Black Eyed Peas and V Australia for Charity
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The Black Eyed Peas are putting themselves up for an auction that will benefit the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Australia. The bid will also offer one fan the chance to fly with the bandmembers, listen to BEP music and, at the same time, watch them set two world records, as the eBay listing informs. The Black Eyed Peas are aiming to set two new records: one for the highest live performance and the other for the highest track recording. The fan who wins the bidding will be witness to both, while also winning two greet & meet and attending a Peas concert, full expenses paid. The only thing those interested in the auction have to do is to make sure they get to Los Angeles on their own, wherefrom they’re to board a plane to Australia. “From September 26 to October 3, bid on exclusive packages for this once-in-a-lifetime experience with the Black Eyed Peas! Fly from Los Angeles on V Australia, Richard Branson’s newest international airline, to Au!
stralia on October 6. Upon arrival, spend the day in Melbourne then board a Virgin Blue private jet to Perth with the Black Eyed Peas on October 9. You will be part of 2 world record attempts: highest altitude live performance, as well as recorded track. After your exclusive in-flight Black Eyed Peas performance, the M...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Negotiators urged to speed up climate pact talks

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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Delegates at the start of marathon climate talks in Thailand on Monday were told to speed up "painfully slow" negotiations as they struggle to settle on the outline of a tougher pact to fight global warming.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: GTA Chinatown Wars Unlockables DS

HTTP:: GTA Chinatown Wars Unlockables DS
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The first GTA to hit the DS, Chinatown Wars, tells the story of Huang Lee, a triad member in the modern Liberty City. Huang flies form China to deliver a ceremonial sword to Wu “Kenny” Lee and ensure the Triad inheritance. But things do not go as smoothly as planned, and Huang loses the sword shortly upon arrival in LC. He is robbed, shot and left for dead, only to survive and swear vengeance.The title uses a cel-shaded 3D Engine and implements the classic, mission-based GTA gameplay, also incorporating the newer features of the franchise, like the safehouse, where you can store cars and items or replay completed missions. The game also features a GPS, to help you navigate Liberty City more easily.The gamer can also engage in different drug trades, buying Coke, Heroin, Acid, Weed and other narcotics only to sell them for a bigger price, through the PDA system, but they need to be careful. Buying in bulk can attract the unwanted attention of the police, causing an immedi!
ate increase in the wanted level. Hijacking drug vans is also a money-making possibility, as players can drive them back to their safe house to retrieve the drugs or the money, if the transaction has already been made.The game is published by Rockstar Games, Inc., developed by Rockstar Leeds and has...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Thermal Images of Shuttle Reentry Captured

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When analyzing the risks associated with spaceflight, the landing and taking-off of a spacecraft are the essential moments. All the things that can go wrong at a launch will do so, and it's the job of engineers to ensure that the crews are safe. However, the landing sequence is highly complex, and arguably the most dangerous stage of a spaceflight. A thin heat shield is the only thing standing between astronauts and certain death, at the hand of extreme temperatures, which exceed 5,500 degrees Celsius. At the end of the STS-128 flight to the ISS, experts snapped a few thermal images of the space shuttle Discovery, in order to get more clues on how to design more efficient heat shields for future missions. Researchers at the American space agency used advanced observation equipment for the task. The instruments were mounted on a Navy aircraft that followed a trajectory allowing it to snap underbelly photos of Discovery, using thermal filters. The images again show the ex!
treme heat the ceramic shield tiles are subjected to. However, the new observations were made even more interesting by the fact that the “boundary layer transition” (BLT) experiment flew with this mission. For this study, one of the ceramic tiles in the shield was modified, so that it modified the air flow beneath ...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Robbie Williams Back in the Studio with Take That

HTTP:: Robbie Williams Back in the Studio with Take That
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As he’s preparing to release his upcoming solo album, “Reality Killed the Video Star,” Robbie Williams is also looking for new ways to evolve artistically and, ironically enough, that means a return to where everything else started: the five-member Take That, from which he’s been notably absent ever since their comeback. Very open in the past about wanting to work with the band again, Williams is now back in the studio in New York, working on a “secret” track with the other four members, the Mirror informs. Robbie is very enthusiastic about getting back together with his former mates, having worked out all the differences that made life impossible before this summer. He wants a reunion, sources say, and he wants it for purely personal reasons, money has nothing to do with it. In fact, Williams is so eager to work with the other members of Take That, he’s even willing to put in the extra effort in order to share the same stage with them again. Because of this!
, chances are the recent get-together in the studio has something to do with a new track they’re secretly working on. “He is back with Take That in the studio and they’re all writing together again. Robbie wouldn’t be happy performing old Take That songs that he has had no part in...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Facebook Gift Shop Adds Three More Third Party Vendors

HTTP:: Facebook Gift Shop Adds Three More Third Party Vendors
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Facebook is huge â€" with over 300 million users it's one of the largest web sites in the world â€" yet it still brings in only a 'modest' $500 million per year (an estimated figure) and has just managed to reach actual profitability. The social network had the kind of funding to ensure that it didn't desperately need to generate a revenue and it also decided to de-emphasize ads in favor of other revenue streams. One possible earner is the Facebook gift shop, which has recently started allowing third parties to sell their wares and has added three more partners to the short list over the weekend. The third-party program was announced more than a month ago with just four companies, American Greetings, RealGifts, GreetBeatz and someecards, as the initial partners. However, the last two along with JibJab only recently started actually selling their products in the store. Facebook also announced a few weeks back that it would include several charities and organizations as par!
tners in the virtual shop as well. Facebook has been developing its store for quite a while now and, along with several other technologies like Facebook Connect and the Apps platform, once in full swing, it will be one of the company's most important components and possibly its most profitable. So far the store has onl...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Download New Xbox 360 Controller Driver for Mac OS X v0 08

HTTP:: Download New Xbox 360 Controller Driver for Mac OS X v0 08
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Developer Colin Munro of Tattiebogle.net has released a new version of his Xbox 360 Controller driver for Mac OS X, “which will hopefully install and work fine on 32-bit Snow Leopard,” according to a note on his website. The release also contains 64-bit binaries, but is untested, as of yet. Version 0.08 of the Xbox 360 Controller driver for Mac includes 64-bit support (untested), a fix for Snow Leopard and other minor bug fixes, the changelog reveals. Previous updates incorporated fixes for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), extra controller IDs, improvements to the wireless support, enhanced support for playing Halo, and more. “This driver supports the Microsoft Xbox 360 controller, including access to rumble motors and LEDs, on the Mac OS X platform,” developer Colin Munro describes his tool. “It includes a plugin for the Apple Force Feedback Framework so some games will be able to activate them, along with a Preference Pane with which [sic] allows you to test everything !
is installed correctly. Both wired 360 controllers connected via USB, and wireless 360 controllers connected via the Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, are supported,” Colin asserts. Licensed under the GNU Public License, the software is to be installed by simply following the instru...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Time Lens Allows for Ultrafast Optical Signals

HTTP:: Time Lens Allows for Ultrafast Optical Signals
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Speeding up optical signals is usually a very costly process that involves a number of bulky machines, as well as a huge amount of energy. In a research meant to find ways of getting past this obstacle in development, experts at the Cornell University have recently developed a new, silicon-based time lens, which fits on a chip, and is able to considerably boost the speed of optical signals, while remaining energy-efficient. According to Technology Review, the time lens could not only be used to transfer huge amounts of data over the Web, but also between optical components inside computers. Data streams flow through optical cables encoded at about 10 gigabits per second. While this speed is great in itself, experts know that much larger ones can be attained. The new silicon device is able to split up optical signals, and then combine them back at an encoding rate that allows them to travel at a speed of about 270 gigabits per second. Achieving such a performance was no wa!
lk in the park, as previous studies on the issue all came to a standstill at a certain point. “As you get to very high data rates, there are no easy ways of encoding the data,” Cornell University Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics Alexander Gaeta explains. He has been one of the main developers of the new silicon...
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Pingie: HTTP:: New Windows Phones for Korea LG Lilac and Samsung Prism

HTTP:: New Windows Phones for Korea LG Lilac and Samsung Prism
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Korean-based wired/wireless telecommunication service provider KT stated recently that it planned on launching on its airwaves two new mobile phones that would include Wi-Fi connectivity and would be powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system, namely the LG Lilac and the Samsung Prism. Both devices are to become available with the carrier before the end of the ongoing year. The first of the new mobile phones, LG Lilac, should boast support for Wi-Fi and for WCDMA, the company stated. This would be the second smartphone from the South Korean handset maker LG Electronics that becomes available via KT, following the availability of LG Incite (LG-KU2000). According to WMPoweruser, although there are no details on whether the handset will reach other markets besides Korea, there are great chances that LG will deliver its phone to more countries in the near future. The Samsung Prism, also Windows Mobile-based, should come as the second WiMAX-enabled handset from th!
e phone maker. At the same time, the phone will also be the second Samsung smartphone to operate on KT's network, after the Samsung Mirage (SPH-M4800). The connectivity options of Prism extend outside of the WiMAX area, as WCDMA and Wi-Fi have been also included in the package. The phone is expected to become available in 2009,...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Iran tests Shahab 3 missile

HTTP:: Iran tests Shahab 3 missile
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State TV says projectile with range of 2,000km successfuly launched by Revolutionary Guards.
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Pingie: HTTP:: New Type of Advanced Computer Closer to Reality

HTTP:: New Type of Advanced Computer Closer to Reality
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Experts at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD) have recently reaffirmed their role as leading experts in the field of electronics. Last summer, they created an integrated circuit capable of working at 1.5 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero. Those temperatures are colder than most places in the Universe, and can only be achieved under very special conditions. Now, the team has announced the creation of an integrated circuit capable of operating at 125 degrees Kelvin, a temperature that can be achieved with commercially available liquid nitrogen. “Our goal is to create efficient devices based on excitons that are operational at room temperature and can replace electronic devices where a high interconnection speed is important. We're still in an early stage of development. Our team has only recently demonstrated the proof of principle for a transistor based on excitons and research is in progress,” UCSD Physics Professor Leonid Butov, who is the leader of th!
e research team at the university, explains. Improving the temperature means that, from now, the circuits will be able to function on a substance that is as cheap per gallon as gasoline. The experts explain that an exciton is a construct made up of an electron and a “hole.” Electrons naturally have a negative char...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Rabbi Goes Public with Secret Michael Jackson Tapes

HTTP:: Rabbi Goes Public with Secret Michael Jackson Tapes
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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who was a close friend of Michael Jackson, has waited eight years to step forward and come to his defense by releasing a series of tapes with private talks the two had between 2000 and 2001. The tapes in question include confessions and discussions on anything from Michael’s fear of growing old, his fascination with death, his loneliness and his much-mediated relationship with Madonna, as E! Online can confirm. Boteach’s book, “The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate Conversation,” is being released based on the 30 hours of discussions, as the name also implies. The rabbi says it was Michael’s wish to have the world know exactly what he was thinking on several topics, although why he didn’t make the tapes public before his death is an issue that hasn’t been addressed yet. Still, they do shed some light on how lonely and, some say, ultimately disturbed Michael was. “If it weren’t for children, I would!
choose death. I mean it with all my heart. Anybody else would probably be dead by now, or a junkie, with what I’ve been through, Shmuley. When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it’s so bad... I don’t want to grow old. I would like some kind of way to disapp...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Philippines appeals for flood aid

HTTP:: Philippines appeals for flood aid
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Forecasters warning of new storm as rescuers struggle to cope with worst floods in decades.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Negative Subliminal Messages Are Picked Up Best

HTTP:: Negative Subliminal Messages Are Picked Up Best
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Over recent years, the issue of subliminal messages has been fiercely debated by the international scientific community, as far as its effects on the human brain go. Several studies have analyzed how we pick up this type of messages, but flaws in their designs meant that their conclusions could not be trusted. Now, a new investigation proves that the mind can, indeed, perceive subliminal messages, but shows that the negative ones are a lot easier to imprint on the mind of the viewer than the positive ones. In the research, 50 participants were asked to watch a computer screen, on which a multitude of words appeared for very short time frames (sometimes even a fiftieth of a second). Subliminal images, through their very nature, appear and disappear across the screen at a high speed, so that the conscious mind does not “see” them. Rather, these images are imprinted directly into a person's subconscious, from where they can act on the brain directly, e! Science News repo!
rts. Behind the new study were experts at the University College London (UCL), in the United Kingdom. Their efforts were financially supported by the Wellcome Trust. “There has been much speculation about whether people can process emotional information unconsciously, for example pictures, faces and words. We have shown...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Iran fires long range missile in latest test

CNN.C: Iran fires long range missile in latest test
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Iran test fires a long-range Shahab-3 missile, state-run Press TV reports. This follows tests on Sunday of a missile-launching system and several types of short- and medium-range missiles, Press TV said.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Australian Caves Reveal 850 New Species

HTTP:: Australian Caves Reveal 850 New Species
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In a recent investigation of caves, caverns and underground water streams, conducted in the Australian Outback, researchers have discovered no less than 850 new animal species, ranging from fish and insects to crustaceans and beetles. Most of the newly discovered creatures were pale, a natural adaptation to their lightless environment, and also blind, as eyes would do them little good in complete darkness. In spite of the large number of diverse species that was recently found, experts believe that it represents only about a fifth of the large variety of creatures still to be discovered in Australia. “What we've found is that you don't have to go searching in the depths of the ocean to discover new species of invertebrate animals â€" you just have to look in your own backyard,” University of Adelaide in Australia evolutionary biologist and researcher Andy Austin explains, quoted by LiveScience. Worldwide, naturalists and biologists believe, only a small fraction of an!
imal and plant species has thus far been uncovered. They say that many more species exist at remote locations that explorers have yet to reach to this day. The recent finds are a good argument to back up this claim. Less than 500 of the new creatures were thus far named by the study team. Generally, they are referred to as “...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Madonna Set to Marry Boyfriend Jesus Luz

HTTP:: Madonna Set to Marry Boyfriend Jesus Luz
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Coming to prove nay-sayers wrong, Madonna and Jesus Luz seem to have passed the test of time and have been together for about nine months. Things are serious between the singer and the much-younger model, and their relationship is stronger than ever â€" in fact, it is so strong, the two have finally made the decision to get married by the end of this year, biographer Randy Taraborrelli says for Hello! magazine. Rumors early in the relationship had it that either Madonna was using Luz to generate publicity by showing that she could still get a much younger man to be interested in her or that he was using her to make a name for himself in the fashion industry, because nothing helped propel a career more than fame by association. Taraborrelli is now saying that neither is accurate and the two are very much in love, so much so that they have decided to be husband and wife by the time 2009 is over. “The pop queen has been dating Jesus since January and it is thought the pa!
ir may marry before the end of the year. Madonna is crazy about Jesus and has been telling close friends and family that ‘I could definitely see myself marrying him. Yes, it’s definitely on the table.’ The pop star is said to want yet another lavish ceremony. ‘She knows that’s what Jesus wants,’ sai...
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Pingie: HTTP:: X Ray Source Shrunk to Tabletop Size

HTTP:: X Ray Source Shrunk to Tabletop Size
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Currently, producing X-rays is a fairly difficult process, which requires some impressive and expensive facilities in order to run smoothly. For a long time, researchers have tried to eliminate this aspect of scientific research, and it would now appear that scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, in Garching, Germany, have managed to find a new way of generating the radiation. They have built a smaller, but very powerful, X-ray source, which is able to fit on a tabletop. Such an innovation could bring advanced science to many laboratories around the world, Nature News reports. Creating high-quality, X-ray images is very difficult to accomplish. Oftentimes, scientists want to obtain pictures that cannot be produced by the machines available at medical or research institutions. When this happens, they turn to synchotrons, large particle accelerators, which spin electrons around a magnet-laden ring. As they spin, the particles naturally emit high-quality,!
X-ray radiation, suitable for accurate observations. In the new German approach, the need for synchotrons is eliminated. The researchers took a small hydrogen gas cell, and then shone a very brief and very powerful light directly at its core. The role of the short, 37-femtosecond laser pulse was to attempt to dislodge electrons off their orbit...
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Pingie: HTTP:: Dead Salmon 039 s Brain 039 Lit Up 039 in an MRI Machine

HTTP:: Dead Salmon 039 s Brain 039 Lit Up 039 in an MRI Machine
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Last week, scientific bloggers had a field day with a report showing that a dead salmon's brain was able to light up under a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) machine, when shown pictures of humans. While some were quick to point out that this was proof of an ethereal soul, and others said that the dish was still “thinking” after death, researchers who made the report public say that neither is the case. Rather, they argue, this study was done as a reminder to colleagues in the scientific community of the dangers accompanying fMRI-survey interpretation, LiveScience reports. fMRI technology allows experts to essentially keep track of blood-flow patterns inside the brain. While this is an extremely useful ability for scientific studies, it can also lead to a number of “false positive” results that can taint the investigation. Misleading results, published in important journals, can also influence policymakers, and perpetuate changes that are, in fact, neg!
ative to the very people they were supposed to serve. The results of the new investigation, showcased at a scientific conference earlier this year, show that the fish's brain did not behave in any abnormal ways, and that its actions can be thoroughly explained scientifically. “The goal of the salmon pos...
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Pingie: CNN.C: Clashes follow Jewish groups visit to holy site

CNN.C: Clashes follow Jewish groups visit to holy site
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Clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police in east Jerusalem erupt after a visit by a Jewish group to one of the city's holiest sites. Street battles began when Palestinians praying at the site -- known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as Temple Mount -- began to throw rocks at the visiting Jews, said an Israeli police spokesman.
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Pingie: HTTP:: U N climate negotiators urged to break deadlock

HTTP:: U N climate negotiators urged to break deadlock
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Delegates at the start of marathon climate talks in Thailand on Monday were told that the world expects action as they struggle to break the deadlock in negotiations for a tougher pact to fight global warming.n n
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Pingie: CNN.C: Jewish groups visit sparks clashes at holy site

CNN.C: Jewish groups visit sparks clashes at holy site
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Clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police in east Jerusalem stretched into Sunday evening after a visit by a Jewish group to one of the city's holiest sites.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Deadly storm overwhelms Philippines

HTTP:: Deadly storm overwhelms Philippines
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Warning of new storm as government struggles to cope with flooding triggered by Ketsana.
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Pingie: HTTP:: U N hopes climate talks speed up towards finish line

HTTP:: U N hopes climate talks speed up towards finish line
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Delegates from about 190 nations meet in the Thai capital from Monday to try to refine a draft text of the world's most comprehensive pact to fight climate change, with time running out to try to seal a deal.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: 4 degrees warming likely without CO2 cuts study

HTTP:: 4 degrees warming likely without CO2 cuts study
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LONDON (Reuters) - Global temperatures may be 4 degrees Celsius hotter by the mid-2050s if current greenhouse gas emissions trends continue, said a study published on Monday.n n
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Pingie: HTTP:: Iran fires rockets in show of force

HTTP:: Iran fires rockets in show of force
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Short-range missiles fired two days after Western condemnation over new nuclear site.
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Pingie: HTTP:: Iran tests missiles amid war games

HTTP:: Iran tests missiles amid war games
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Tehran test-fires two short-range missiles during military exercise, state TV reports.
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