Tim Berners-Lee’s Web Index rates countries

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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, has a new pet project that he hopes will shape the Internet of the future.  His project, the “Web Index” measures and ranks over 60 countries on three broad states.  These include: web readiness, such as infrastructure; web use, the quantity of web content available; and web…

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Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) – status watch – latest news [UPDATE]

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Lionsgate has announced the start of principal photography on the sequel to the blockbuster film, The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire will film primarily in and near Atlanta, Georgia. The film will subsequently be shot on location on the beaches and jungles of Hawaii before wrapping up in late December, 2012. The Hunger…

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Guild Wars 2 has already been hacked

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Chinese hackers have launched a dedicated attack against Guild Wars 2 ArenaNet servers in a successful attempt to obtain private player information.  According to Guild Wars: Hackers have lists of email addresses and passwords stolen from other games and web sites, and collected through spyware, and are systematically testing Guild Wars 2 looking for matching…

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World of Warcraft screenshots contain embedded player information

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Techspot is reporting that Blizzard secretly embeds World of Warcraft player information into screenshot graphics in an effort to track down illegal private servers.  A Slashdot member notice strange artifacts in WOW screen shots that he was taking.  According to Techunknowns, after a few days, a group from OwnedCore was able to decrypt the information…

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Scientists generate world-record laser light blast

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Scientists have just generated the world’s fastest laser light pulse, a beam that shoots for 67 attoseconds, or 0.000000000000000067 seconds.  Such a quick burst is useful for allowing scientists to view extremely fast quantum mechanical processes, such as movement of electrons during chemical reactions.  According to Wired magazine: To achieve their record-setting blast, the researchers…

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Jupiter may have just taken a hit for us

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Two separate sightings on Monday indicate something big happened on Jupiter. Two astronomers reported seeing a bright flash on the surface of Jupiter on Monday at 6:35 AM CDT. One astronomer, George Hall from Dallas, recorded the event which set the astronomer community abuzz.

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Cool and Spooky Lollipops for Halloween

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The folks over at Vintage Confections make a pretty strange collection of lollipops. They have a unique method to embed edible objects inside the lollipop including such interesting, and in some cases icky, objects such as spiders, bugs, bloody bones, and planets. Here’s some of their stranger candies.

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