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Discovery News Remember when you could barely fit a few digital photos on a USB storage stick? In the future we won't even need solid objects to carry around our files. We'll use vapor. This new method for storing images could represent an important leap for quantum computing and...

Discovery News A proposal to ban the sale of large, sugar-sweetened drinks in some New York City establishments is an important first step in combating the obesity epidemic but is not a solution on its own, experts say. The proposal raises awareness about the problem of large food portions...

BBC Facebook users suffer service disruptions Facebook has suffered a series of service disruptions which left many people unable to use the social network. The problems meant that the site was unreachable for some people for almost two hours. Sporadic disruptions were reported by...

BBC BBC News - Detroit: the ruins left behind when city loses half its population I thought there were some fantastic pictures and a good question ...... Should Detroits past be preserved?

Have a good weekend everyone :)

:eek: "I'm so versatile, I can be used for just about anything," the woman said in a sugary voice, changing her shirt. "I can say what you want, dress the way you want and be just about anything you want me to be!" Meet the new holographic customer service rep that will be tested in three...

BBC A Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA find Osama Bin Laden has been jailed for at least 30 years, officials say. Shakil Afridi was charged with treason for running a fake vaccination programme to gather information. The US secretary of state Hillary Clinton had called for his...

Discovery News Cows are a red herring. The most dangerous potential source for methane release lies underneath thinning permafrost and glaciers in the Arctic. Ecologists have just mapped the seeps where methane is bubbling up, and they found more than 150,000 of them Methane is a seriously...

BBC A Canadian man who forgot his passport has said that he managed to cross the border into the US using a copy of the document he had scanned on to his iPad. Martin Reisch, from Montreal, presented the US border office with his digital device after realising near the border that he did...

Happy New Year everyone :) Stay safe out there

BBC Eight US soldiers have been charged over the death of infantryman Danny Chen in Afghanistan, international security forces have said. Charges include dereliction of duty, assault and involuntary manslaughter; five are accused of negligent homicide. Private Chen, from New York, was...

BBC Breaking News A small plane has crashed on a motorway in the US state of New Jersey, aviation officials have said. The aircraft crashed onto Interstate 287 in Harding in the north of the state, said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters. Policeman Christopher Kay told...

So the trash from Japan has started arriving on the west coast 1 year early according to the models ....... ya'think they put the decimal in the right place? :rolleyes: LOL :D:p

BBC Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said. Peter Kent said the protocol "does not represent a way forward for Canada" and the country would face crippling fines for failing to meet its targets. The move, which...

BBC Jailed Afghan rape victim freed with no pre-conditions An Afghan rape victim who was jailed for adultery does not have to marry her attacker to be freed, her lawyer has told the BBC. Lawyer Kimberly Motley says this was clarified personally to her by President Hamid Karzai's...

Oooh touched a nerve did we :rolleyes: BBC Pakistani cable television operators have begun blocking the BBC's international news TV channel, BBC World News. The operators say that the move is in response to a documentary broadcast by the channel, entitled Secret Pakistan. Other...

Is America next for this new "fad"? :rolleyes: Hunkering doesn't count :D Telegraph But now health experts say there is real benefit in letting men escape to their simple sanctuaries, that could even help them live longer. As a result a network of communal 'men's sheds' that provide...

BBC Amnesty International has called for the US to stop sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole. More than 2,500 adults are in US jails for crimes committed as a child - under current rules they will never be freed. In its new report, Amnesty says the practice is...

BBC Global food giant Nestle says it has taken a major step to end child labour on cocoa farms supplying its factories. The firm, one of the world's largest chocolate producers, says it is going to work with the Fair Labor Association (FLA) on tackling the problem. The FLA is set to...

Uh Oh heard on the news this morning that coffee supplies are running low (way to go to put the price up now :() and the reason given for this ...... GLOBAL WARMING :p Anyone for tea? :rolleyes: :D