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Russian President drives into crowd

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was so eager to glad-hand the people of Kazan, a city 720 km (450 miles) east of Moscow, that he stepped …
Texter tossed from Texas theater unwittingly stars in PSA

Don't think she didn't have it coming. She was warned. Twice.
Palin's e-mailings
The typo that exposed Weiner
What does your social networking profile pic reveal about you?

Curious about why people choose the pics they do, she decided to survey Facebook users (via a specially created Facebook group, natch).
Trekkies can now display their fandom pride even after death

Are you worried that your final resting place won't adequately indicate your love of Star Trek? Fear not.
Facebook "likes" decides whether plant lives or dies

"Meet Eater" is a plant with a Facebook account, and when people "like" it, it gets watered. But there can be such a thing as too much …
Israel buys @israel Twitter handle from porn merchant

"My account was basically unused because I was getting dozens of replies every day from people who thought the account belonged to the …
There's an app for that?: AR Drone

There are any number of flight simulator games for iOS, but only AR Drone actually allows you to control a tiny unmanned quadricopter.

Computing power pooled to find very, very large prime number

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October 07, 2008, 5:15 PM — If the number "13 million" is hard for you to get your head around, just try dealing with a number that's 13 million digits long. But a hardy network of 75 PCs running Windows XP managed to suss out a prime number of that magnitude -- and earn a $100,000 prize. read more...