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Prosecutors won't file charges against a California police detective after determining he accidentally shot a suspected gang member with a submachine gun after tripping on a curb.
Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony have all slashed the prices on their gaming consoles. If you're thinking about buying a Wii, PS3 or Xbox 360 this holiday, here are a few things to consider.
When launched to great fanfare nearly a year ago, some feared the Large Hadron Collider would create a black hole that would suck in the world. It turns out the Hadron may be the black hole.
A baby opossum's instinct to play dead evidently didn't help matters after it got wedged inside a soda machine at an upstate New York fitness club. The animal ran into the Court Jester Athletic Club in Johnson City, N.Y., near Binghamton, and scurried behind a soda machine in the front vestibule Wednesday evening.
It's a novel twist on the vending machine: in go the coins, out comes a nugget of gold. TG-Gold-Super-Markt, a company based in Reutlingen, southwestern Germany, is developing a machine to dispense pieces of gold as small as one gram in ornamental boxes for about euro30 ($42).
In the market for a Bentley sports car, a Jean Paul Gaultier dress or a cell phone, but don't feel like dealing with a pesky salesperson?
An Atlantic City casino's slot machines had nothing on its vending machines for one New Jersey couple.
Sometimes, it pays to be pokey. Going slow has paid the state of New York about $27 million and counting. New Hampshire and Oklahoma, too, are sitting on a pile of federal money.
It has been called an Alice in Wonderland investigation into the makeup of the universe — or dangerous tampering with nature that could spell doomsday.
Thousands of anti-war demonstrators converged near security gates outside the Democratic National Convention hall on Wednesday, chanting slogans and asking to talk to party officials about getting U.S. troops out of Iraq.
Poll workers will not be allowed to take voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election because the practice known as "sleepovers" is an unacceptable security risk, the state elections chief said Tuesday.
Mara Ranger will be a little paranoid doing laundry now. When she was removing clothes from the washing machine at her Maine farmhouse Wednesday, the clothes moved. She told WMTW-TV, "I jumped back" and saw a snake. She quickly shut the lid and called for help.
Ohio's elections chief is reconsidering a plan to prohibit poll workers from taking voting machines home for safekeeping in the days before the November presidential election.
Police didn't have to look too hard to figure out the source of a soda vending machine found in a front yard — they just followed the tracks.
A call from death row inmate Terry Lyn Short interrupted a meeting in the office of his attorney, James Rowan.
Before authorities raided their west Texas retreat, members of a secretive polygamous church spent decades holding as tightly to their intense privacy as the Scriptures guiding their way of life.
A dispute over sales of virtual sex toys has resulted in a real-life slap on the wrist for a Texas teenager.
Talk about an oversized load: A 4-year-old boy got stuck when he climbed into his family's top-loading washing machine, and firefighters had to use a metal cutter to slice into the appliance to get him out.
The city that popularized the fast food drive-thru has a new innovation: 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines.
With the presidential race in full swing, Colorado and other states have found critical flaws in the accuracy and security of their electronic voting machines, forcing officials to scramble to return to the paper ballots they abandoned after the Florida debacle of 2000.
Frustration and anger over losses compelled a homeless man to bash a slot machine until it broke, an eastern Iowa man told a judge on Monday.
Florida's optical scan voting machines are still flawed, despite efforts to fix them, and they could allow poll workers to tamper with the election results, according to a government-ordered study obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Prosecutors are considering criminal charges against casino gamblers who won big on a slot machine that had been installed with faulty software.
Ben Cook's fingers flurried so fast you couldn't see what he was doing until he had done it. But when the cell-phone screens cleared, the world's fastest text messenger was handed his first head-to-head defeat Tuesday: a voice-recognition computer had bested his record time on a complicated 27-word message.
Gamblers raked in nearly half a million dollars over two days on a slot machine that multiplied by 10 the amount of money that players put in, a newspaper reported.
Thanks to Mozilla, Web Gets Less Ugly, Good Type Gets Machine ReadableRecently, a consortium of type designers and web designers have gathered around a new font format specification called Web Open Font Format (WOFF). The format would allow more typefaces to appear across the web and to be readable by both humans and search engines.
Casino: $166M Win Was Slot Malfunction -. However, as soon as the crowds departed, the celebration ended. The casino told him that he didn't win a thing. The casino claims the slot machine malfunctioned.
Utopia or Dystopian Nightmare?Sometimes I worry that our country will become more like the former Soviet Union. Americans will wait in lines for hours in order to receive bread for the week.
The Wizard of BeckLet us take a trip back into history. Not ancient history. Recent history. It is the winter of 2007. The presidential primaries are approaching. The talk jocks like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and the rest are over the moon about Fred Thompson.
Warning: Baby chicks ground alive so we can eat our omelets -- DailyFinanceWarning: This video contains graphic and disturbing footage. Horror, but no surprise, was my reaction when I first read of the undercover video shot at an Iowa hatchery, where day-old male chicks are sent, alive, through a grinder.
Kidney dialysis machine 'small enough to be worn as a belt' Scientists have developed a kidney dialysis machine small enough to be worn as a belt which can allow patients to receive the treatment as they walk around.
IBM Using DNA to Help Build ChipsNarayan said IBM and Caltech's breakthrough in DNA-based chip design could help maintain Moore's Law well into the future. More Articles
Scientists Use DNA to Create Mechanical Gear (Image)Researchers have taken a step toward creating parts for molecular machines, out of DNA. In a paper in Science, Hendrik Dietz, Shawn M. Douglas and William H.
Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart ManA robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that can kill autonomously.
Prison addicts get drug dispensersPrisoner drug addicts are being given a heroin substitute -- through vending machines installed in jails, it was revealed yesterday. A £4m (€4.6m) scheme will see machines automatically dispensing methadone installed in half the 140 prisons in England and Wales.
Monday, July 13, 2009 Stimulus or Chicago "machine" politics on a national scale It appears in spreading around the "stimulus" bill the dollars are going mainly to districts and states that were battleground areas on a higher dollars per capita than states that voted for Oba …
Washing machine that uses one cup of waterAn environmentally-friendly washing machine developed in Britain that uses only one cup of water to clean clothes could be on sale from 2010.
Ingenuity at its Best - Earth PerpspectiveAn interesting article about an awesome new machine.
Robot Theorizes, Proves Own Scientific DiscoveriesScientists at the United Kingdom's Cambridge and Aberystwyth universities have created a "robot scientist" that they believe is the first automaton to make its own scientific discoveries. More Articles
Computers vs. BrainsBrains have long been compared to the most advanced existing technology — including, at one point, telephone switchboards.
Pizza-making machine has Italian chefs in a spinA vending machine that bakes fresh pizza in minutes for a few euros has got Italian chefs in a whirl before it hits the streets in the coming weeks.
Herbst Gaming files Chapter 11 planHerbst Gaming filed a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan Sunday that will result in the company losing ownership of its 15 casinos but retaining control of its Nevada slot machine route.
Worker's billboard thanks GM for three generations of work at stamping plant WYOMING -- Three generations of Smigiels have worked at General Motors Corp.'s 36th Street stamping plant, starting the year it opened in 1936, and ending as it closes this year.
Illinois team wins regional Rube Goldberg contestA Rube-Goldberg machine team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made history on February 21st, 2009 by winning the Purdue University regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest.
Doctors try to save worker's arm - Man's Arm Gets Stuck In Pasta MachineExcerpt: Doctors performed surgery on an employee at Turri's Italian Foods after his arm was trapped up to the shoulder in a machine used to knead dough.
Caterpillar Cuts From The Top : Senior-Level Salaries Slashed, Lower-Level Less ImpactedCaterpillar is taking the high road to cutbacks: the maker of tractors and other construction and mining equipment, said Monday it would drastically slash senior-level compensation, while making shallower cuts lower down in the ranks. More Articles
Caught on film: The treadmill running shrimp which has become an instant internet sensation A super-fit shrimp has become a massive internet hit after learning to run on a treadmill as part of a unique science experiment.
West Virginia Vote Flipping Caught on TapeVideo the Vote went to Jackson County, WV, in response to numerous reports of machine vote flipping.
America, Your Democracy Is A Fraud - Courtroom testimony that voting machines were hackedCourtroom Testimony that voting machines were hacked. America's Democratic process is a joke. America is a fraud.
ES&S Voting Machines in Tennessee Flip VotesTouch-screen voting machines used in Decatur County, Tennessee, have been giving early voters problems this week by registering their votes for Republican presidential candidate John McCain as votes for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.
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