Topic: TV - on June 10, 2004 at 1:35:00 PM CEST
Big-screen action
Later this year, Matsushita is planning to launch a plasma TV model that will have the world's largest plasma screen at 65 inches.
Part of the VIERA series, it will be equipped with an advanced processor that will enable the projection of 3.62 billion different colors — three times the 1.07 billion colors that can be projected by the current high-end VIERA models.
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Topic: SEX - on June 10, 2004 at 1:31:00 PM CEST
Sperm delivery service expanding
First condom delivery vans made headlines, now attention has turned in the other direction. An Internet-based English company called ManNotIncluded.com delivers sperm on order and has a growing list of clients and donors in Bergen. Now the founder is coming to Norway to plan the future, newspaper Bergensavisen reports.
The company delivers an order for between NOK 20,000-50,000 (USD 2,950-7,370). The 'net firm handles the anonymous link between donor and client and brings the sperm to the door.
Last year Britain had its first Internet baby born and ManNotIncluded.com has been established in Norway since March.
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Topic: SEX - on June 10, 2004 at 1:16:00 PM CEST
Women want sex more when they are fertile
Women are likely to have more sex on the days when they are most fertile, even if they are not trying to get pregnant, scientists say. That means that taking a chance and having sex without using contraception could be more likely to result in unwanted pregnancies than previously thought.
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 10, 2004 at 1:14:00 PM CEST
Hong Kong bags elusive croc
Hong Kong conservation workers have finally bagged an elusive crocodile after it evaded and embarrassed some of the world's top croc hunters for months.
The reptile, thought to have been brought in illegally as a pet and later released in a river in the city's rural New Territories area, swam into a trap after a seven-month hunt involving everything from chicken heads to bamboo poles.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 10, 2004 at 1:13:00 PM CEST
A Linux Desktop Bonanza OS for FREE
Linux desktop vendors Xandros and Linspire (also known as Lindows) are offering more desktop software for less, and, in the case of Xandros, for nothing.
Xandros is giving away a version of its Linux Desktop Operating System for free.
"Our principal aim is to spread the use of desktop Linux as far and wide as possible," Frederick H. Berenstein, chairman and chief technology officer of Xandros, told internetnews.com. "We've also had a tremendously positive reception for the Xandros Desktop products and we felt that this would be an ideal way to give back to the community."
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Topic: NEWS english - on June 10, 2004 at 12:57:00 PM CEST
U.S. lawyer gets more than 3 years for smuggling Cuban cigars
A lawyer was sentenced Wednesday to more than three years in federal prison for smuggling thousands of fine Cuban cigars into this country and selling them for a fat profit.
Richard Connors, 54, was also fined $60,000 US and placed on three years' probation. U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman ordered Connors taken into custody immediately despite a request that he be allowed to attend his daughter's wedding later this month. The judge said the former public defender is too familiar with ways to flee the country.
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Topic: ROBOT - on June 10, 2004 at 12:57:00 PM CEST
Boxende Roboter auf Europa-Tournee
Roboter-Boxen zählt in Japan zum studentischen Volkssport, und den wollen die Jungforscher jetzt auch nach Europa exportieren.
Im Rahmen einer einwöchigen Deutschlandtour besuchen die Gewinner des diesjährigen "Robo-one"-Wettkampfs von der Kyushu-Universität [Fukuoka] diese Woche die Universitäten Darmstadt, Frankfurt und Kaiserslautern.
Die rund 40 Zentimeter großen, menschenähnlichen Kämpfer schlagen sich zwar keine blauen Augen, was das Imponiergehabe angeht, stehen sie ihren menschlichen Vorbildern aber um nichts nach.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 10, 2004 at 12:56:00 PM CEST
Brits hook up online for 'mobile nightclubs'
Ultra-trendy Londoners are using the Internet to meet up in Tube stations to dance in 'mobile nightclubs'.
The latest trend is a twist on 'flash-mobbing', in which web-savvy New Yorkers - guided by Internet instructions - congregate at the same public place to perform a generally random act to the confusion of passers-by.
The mobile nightclub has now been devised by a pair of London artists.
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Topic: ART - on June 10, 2004 at 11:43:00 AM CEST
Künstler fertigte aus seinem Sperma ein Gemälde von George Bush an
Im Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York konnten Kunstliebhaber bis vor kurzem ein ganz besonderes Bild betrachten. Ein Künstler, dessen Name bisher unbekannt ist, fertigte Bilder von Bush und Clinton an.
An insgesamt vier bedeutenden Kunstmuseen wurden die Bilder zur Ausstellung an die Außenwände geklebt. Auf einem Schild neben einem Bild des derzeitigen US-Präsidenten war jedoch ein ungewöhnlicher Hinweis angebracht.
Dort konnte man nachlesen, dass in dem 20 mal 40 Zentimeter Bild nicht nur Acryl sondern auch 'der Samen des Künstlers' eingearbeitet wurde.
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Topic: IT - on June 10, 2004 at 11:40:00 AM CEST
Cisco-Switche stürzen ab
Wer ein Cisco-Switch mit dem Betriebssystem CatOS hat, sollte dies unbedingt auf den neuesten Stand bringen.
Angreifer können einen Fehler im TCP-Handshake ausnutzen, um einen fehlerhaften Verbindungsaufbau zu provozieren, was zum Absturz des Gerätes führt und einen Neustart zur Folge hat.
Es reicht dabei schon, das abschließende Paket durch ein ungültiges zu ersetzen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 10, 2004 at 1:03:00 AM CEST
Musikkassettendeck für den PC
Ein "Plusdeck" für den 5,25-Zoll-Einschub am Computer erlaubt die einfache Digitalisierung alter Bänder. Mit Auto-Reverse-Funktion wird das gerät um 150 USD zu erwerben sein.
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