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There are some factors that suggest the swine flu killing people in Mexico may be a biological weapon, but obviously no such conclusion can be drawn at this time. The World Health Organization and the U.S. government have been quick to deny such claims.
The swine flu virus is described as a completely new strain, an [...]

Even Dorothy would struggle to survive a “space tornado.”
Whirling at more than a million miles per hour, these invisible, funnel-shaped solar windstorms carry electrical currents of more than a hundred thousand amps—roughly ten times that of an average lightning strike—scientists announced Thursday.
And they’re huge: up to 44,000 miles (70,000 kilometers) long and wide enough to [...]

Another great Photosynth panoramic of the Ememrdale set, This set is from the Dingles farm 

 
Another installment for our photography section, this time we have an interior of the Wool pack pub which is the set for the popular soap Emmerdale TV set 
You will need to install Silverlight  to view the 3D panoramic

Hackers have crossed into new frontiers by devising sophisticated ways to steal large amounts of personal identification numbers, or PINs, protecting credit and debit cards, says an investigator.  The attacks involve both unencrypted PINs and encrypted PINs that attackers have found a way to crack, according to an investigator behind a new report looking at [...]

The Swedish Pirate Party – a group of online radicals who back free downloading of music and films from the internet – is taking advantage of a series of high profile anti-piracy cases to stage a pan-European electoral assault for 2009’s European elections.
“The battle over our privacy and the hunt on filesharers is fought down [...]

A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world’s most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case.
Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail.
They were also ordered to pay 30m kronor (£2.4m) [...]

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered an ancient necropolis containing dozens of beautifully preserved mummies dating back as far as 4,000 years.
Excavations sponsored by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities revealed 53 tombs cut into rock south east of the Illahun pyramids in the oasis of Fayoum.
Antiquities chief Zahi Hawass described four of the mummies, dating to the [...]

In what could be an attempt to trump Jesus of Nazareth’s record for divine Easter resurrections, NASA has said its Mars Exploration Rover Spirit mysteriously rebooted twice during the holiday weekend.
“While we don’t have an explanation yet, we do know that Spirit’s batteries are charged, the solar arrays are producing energy and temperatures are well [...]

In a move that even the most nonchalant of privacy advocates is crying foul over, the UK has put into effect a European Union directive which mandates the archival of information regarding virtually all internet traffic for the next 12 months. The program formally went into effect Monday.
The data retention rules require the archival of [...]