Police chiefs in China have been slammed for hiring actors to rob a bank as a training exercise – without telling anyone else. Only the director and the deputy director of the Zhenzhou police department knew it was a drill – everyone else, including the bank, thought it was a real raid.
The clean-up of a decommissioned US nuclear weapons plant has unearthed one of the oldest known samples of man-made plutonium.
Police could use text messages to switch off the engines of getaway cars.
A Wal-Mart employee has been charged with embezzlement after allegedly ringing up a sale of .25 for more than 0 worth of merchandise.
Dyscalculics fail to see the connection between a set of objects and the numerical symbol that represents it
The Springfield unit of the National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group, has joined Missouri’s “Adopt-A-Highway” volunteer litter pickup program. “It’s a First Amendment thing, and we can’t discriminate as long as they pick up the trash,” said Bob Edwards, a spokesman for the transportation department.
Ben Cahan wishes he hadn’t damaged his old snapshot of a person in a prosthetic alien suit sitting with his Macintosh. Luckily, he still has a late-1980s picture of actor Kurt Russell with his boxy Mac desktop.
Grand Prix auto racing is the pinnacle of motorsports. Nowhere are the cars so technologically advanced or success so dependent upon talent, bravery and money. Lots and lots of money. So here we stand at the cusp of a Formula 1 season that has seen some huge changes in the rules. What does it mean for the cars we’ll see on the grid?
Several studies have shown that an extension of copyright on sound recordings is a bad idea. It will lead to less competition and higher prices while only the record labels benefit from it. Next Tuesday, the Open Rights Group will be hosting a round-table event to discuss performance copyright extension in the EU.
