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English Wikipedia anti-SOPA blackout Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a prote...
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Bobsleigher nearly dies from wood in buttock Three Canadian bobsleighers are recovering in hospital after a brutal World Cup training crash in Altenberg in the German state of Saxony that briefly left one of them fighting for his life. One of the four-man crew was able to walk away from the...
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Nobody cares to eat alone, but in Germany few people can imagine ringing in the New Year without watching a little-known British comedy skit "Dinner for One." The Local explains a Teutonic tradition. No matter what you do on New Year's Eve in Germany: melting lead, lighting fireworks, or si...
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Global warming could bring 50-degree days A scientist at the University of Kiel has warned of summer temperatures reaching nearly 50 degrees Celsius in Germany if global warming continues. Prof Mojib Latif from the university's Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences told Germany radio culture...
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Who Knows What Youhavedownloaded.com? You may have never heard of youhavedownloaded.com, but if you recently grabbed movies, music or software from online file-trading networks, chances are decent that the site has heard of you. In fact, you may find that the titles you downloaded are now listed...
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The city of Schwäbisch Gmünd in Baden-Württemberg has officially named a swimming pool after Spaghetti Western film actor Bud Spencer after rejecting an elaborate internet campaign to name a nearby tunnel after him. On a visit to Schwäbisch Gmünd to officially christen the swimming pool...
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22-year-old German wins poker World Series Pius Heinz, a 22-year-old from Cologne, won the 2011 World Series of Poker on Wednesday, becoming the first German to win the prestigious title and raking in more than $8 million in prize money, organizers said. Heinz had to battle his way through a...
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Ubuntu 11.10 Final Release You can download Ubuntu online, completely free. Downloadlink Source DJ
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Apple faces ban on iPhone and iPad sales A German court has issued an injunction that temporarily bans Apple Inc. from selling or marketing its mobile devices such as iPhones and iPads in Germany. But it’s unclear whether it will have an immediate effect on the company. In a statement to the...
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World Welcomes 7 Billionth Baby The world's population hit 7 billion on Monday amid celebrations and concerns about how the growing number of people will impact the earth's resources. The United Nations chose October 31 to mark the milestone. Although it is impossible to pinpoint the arriva...
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Nervy Checkpoint Charlie standoff remembered Fifty years ago on October 27, 1961, US and Soviet forces took the world to the brink of war at Berlin's Checkpoint Charlie. Hannah Cleaver takes the temperature of the legendary Cold War flashpoint today. With tanks facing off just feet a...
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Munich bans Rammstein on Christian holy day Controversial rock band Rammstein has been banned from performing in Munich on a German Christian holy day commemorating the dead – even though other concerts are allowed on November 20. City authorities forced the band to postpone the sold-out concer...
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Court tells Google how to avoid liability for blog posts
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Court tells Google how to avoid liability for blog posts Germany’s highest civil court has set out a process by which web hosts can avoid liability for libellous blog posts, in a decision which Google described as striking a blow for freedom of expression and information in the internet. Th... -
CIA spied on allied BND American spies have been keeping tabs on their Teutonic counterparts for decades – not only the East Germans of the Cold War, but also allied West Germans, according to newly released documents. US intelligence agencies collected highly personal information on th...
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Turkish state television reports at least 60 people killed and 150 injured after a strong earthquake in southeastern Turkey near the border with Iran. The magnitude 7.2 quake struck Van province Sunday afternoon (at 1041 UTC). Several strong aftershocks were recorded. The town of Ercis is the har...
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Former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, 69, has been killed in an assault by provisional government forces on his coastal hometown of Sirte. The prime minister of Libya's National Transitional Council, Mahmoud Jibril, confirmed Gadhafi's death on Thursday at a news conference in Tripoli. He also said...
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Arrests made in Media Markt corruption probe Prosecutors investigating corruption in Europe’s biggest consumer electronics chain have arrested five people, including a top manager and his wife – over allegations of massive bribery. The Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on Thursday that a Media Ma...
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BASE Jumper Parachute Fails, He Survives A BASE jumper from Pensacola miraculously survives an almost 900 foot plunge and it is all caught on tape. 27 year-old Christopher Brewer, took part in the 32nd Annual Bridge Day in Fayetteville, WV on Saturday. Wearing his wing suit, spectators watc...
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German man possibly eaten by cannibal on South Sea island A German traveller and a local hunter have been missing for a week on the French-governed island of Nuku Hiva in the Pacific Ocean. On Saturday, human remains were found in a dead campfire. DNA tests are currently being carried out on...
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You’re Doing it Wrong: Real Life Seattle Superhero Phoenix Jones Arrested You guys remember the 2010 ultra-violent film adaptation of the graphic novel Kick-Ass, right? Know who else remembers the film? Seattle native 23-year-old Phoenix Jones, a Good Samaritan with too much time on his hands a...
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Intel Confirms Plan to Bundle LGA2011 Chips with Own-Brand Liquid Coolers. Intel to Bundle and Sell Liquid Coolers Separately Intel Corp. recently confirmed intentions to bundle liquid cooling systems into boxes with its next-generation Core i7-3000-series central processing units (CPUs) cod...
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Is this the Samsung Galaxy S III? Further Details Leak on Samsung’s Next Flagship Today we were greeted with a rather surprising tip in our inbox. An anonymous source forwarded a snapshot of a slide supposedly shown as part of an internal presentation on smartphone evolution to carrier and...
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Microsoft's Streetside better accepted than Google's Street View Microsoft’s Streetside service, which allows users to see virtual views of streets and houses, in a similar way to Google’s Street View is only generating a fraction of the opposition. This time last year, 244 000 Germans had thei...
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Hackers crack German government spy software Hackers from the Chaos Computer Club on Sunday said the German government’s controversial spy software contained dangerous security flaws while allowing potentially illegal activity. IT experts from the CCC hacked the so-called Trojan spying program...
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Sandy Bridge-E should hit C2 stepping after launch We knew that Intel's Sandy Bridge-E chips were big and complicated to make, but what we didn't expect was that Intel was going to continuously keep running into problems. The current C1 stepping is apparently having problems with VT-d, not a maj...