Newly obtained computer schematics provide further detail of how electronic voting data was routed during the 2004 election from Ohio’s Secretary of State’s office through a partisan Tennessee web hosting company. A network security expert with high-level US government clearances says the documents raise troubling questions.
When officials asked for the Welsh translation of a road sign, they thought the reply was what they needed.Unfortunately, the e-mail response to Swansea council said in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated.”
Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death Oct. 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses. The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.
Something is killing the little brown bats of the Northeast, and researchers may have fingered the culprit: a fungus.
‘I went back to check it, it had not recorded my presidential vote!’, Says Terrified, Potentially Disenfranchised Queen of Television…
The pre-beta version of Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system released to developers at the Professional Developers Conference has already made it onto prominent BitTorrent sites, where thousands of enthusiasts around the world are currently downloading it.
Two women and a man have been charged with abusing two young girls during a sex party at an Indiana hotel. Federal prosecutors in southern Illinois say Tabitha Robinson of Midlothian, Ill., brought a 3-year-old in her care to the party, the Chicago Tribune reported. Louise Helen Masulla of New Athens, Ill., allegedly brought an 11-year-old.
Virgin Atlantic said Friday it has sacked 13 of its cabin staff after they criticised the airline and some of its passengers on social networking website Facebook.
Google has been working on OCR technology that can peek inside scanned PDFs for at least a couple of years. Now it’s flipped the switch, bringing search to a library of scanned documents that previously could not—or, in some cases, should not—have been indexed.
As frontman for the Flaming Lips, Wayne Coyne always makes sure his audience gets the most whiz-bang for its buck. At live gigs, that means trotting around inside a giant hamster ball while dozens of Santas and aliens shimmy onstage. And this holiday season it means a feature film….
