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by Amy Bennett

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Amy Bennett is ITworld's managing editor.

Epic tennis match overloads high-tech scoreboard

Posted Jul 01, 2010 - 10:22 am

Partway through last week's longest-ever professional tennis match, the IBM-supplied scoreboard, which could only handle digits up to 47, failed, and the umpire had to start announcing the score.
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- Offbeat, weird news
Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg made secret moon trip

Posted Jun 25, 2010 - 06:13 pm

OK, maybe the artists themselves didn't travel to the moon -- but tiny original artwork that they created did.
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- Offbeat, NASA, weird news
Do video games create terrible drivers?

Posted Jun 24, 2010 - 06:11 pm

Studies suggest that people whose first exposure to driving is in the context of a game like Grand Theft Auto may in fact turn out to be reckless drivers on non-digital roads.
Australian court decides on meteorite custody

Posted Jun 23, 2010 - 06:07 pm

When a space rock falls to Earth, who does it belong to? The owner of the land that it slams into, or the first person to find it?
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- Legal, weird news
MobileMe tracking fails to save iPhone, iPad from destruction

Posted Jun 22, 2010 - 08:05 pm

Eric Boehs believed that he had accidentally thrown away his iPhone and iPad. Alas, that's not exactly what happened.
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- Personal Tech, ipad, iPhone
Real Finnish police investigating virtual furniture theft

Posted Jun 17, 2010 - 06:39 pm

If you had spent money carefully collecting just the right furniture for your room, and someone stole it, you'd call the cops, wouldn't you?
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Mom finds abducted kids on Facebook

Posted Jun 16, 2010 - 06:35 pm

A search on Facebook suddenly brings Prince Sagala in contact with her now teenaged daughter, over 15 years after she was kidnapped.
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- Offbeat, Facebook, weird news
Police critic snaps up expired police department domain name

Posted Jun 15, 2010 - 06:32 pm

In case you need reminding: Always, always renew your domain names before they expire.
German chancellor holds summit with breakdancing robot

Posted Jun 14, 2010 - 06:26 pm

Angela Merkel attempts to find out just what "SpaceJustin" wants and how Germany can avoid being conquered by a robot army.
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- Offbeat, robots
US military forced to use video games to whip flabby recruits into shape

Posted Jun 05, 2010 - 06:10 pm

Modern day youth find the experience of "exercise" so foreign that one US Navy admiral thinks that they should be eased into it with Wii Fit.
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