The NBA has some super duper stars that can do some super duper stunts. Check out this “SuperMan Slam Dunk!”

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IBM, it seems, is planning to build “a global-scale shared computer capable of hosting the entire Internet as an application“. That means that this super-computer will have enough processing power and storage to rival ALL of the computers connected to the internet COMBINED!
Oh, this is just great! Building a super-computer that knows everything. Haven’t [...]

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As the world’s most powerful Particle Accelerator prepares to go online in May ‘08, there is an increasing community of people that are getting worried. They claim that the LHC, as it is called, is powerful enough to create what are called ‘mini-black holes’ that will gobble up the earth. These are real black holes, [...]

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Exxon Mobil, one of the world’s largest oil companies, today posted a PROFIT, not revenue, of $40.61 Billion. That’s $1,300 every second of the whole year - during day and night!
How can this be possible? Oil companies, that are increasing prices saying that “Global Oil Prices are increasing” are also increasing their own margins, and [...]

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And here’s the news all of us have been waiting for!
Yahoo yesterday announced that they’re going to lay off 1,000 of their 14,000 employees. This is all spookily similar to the situation after the 2001 “bubble-burst”. The fun begins now to see where all this ends up

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I’m really starting to like all the cool stuff BCCI is doing with the IPL. As you probably already know, the IPL has contracted the world’s top 80 players to play in the IPL. Now, they have to decide which team gets which players. To do this, they’re going to hold a LIVE auction on [...]

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Well, they’ve not really found superman’s cave, but I’m starting to like sensationalist headlines.
A couple of amature geologists have found a massive crystal cave in Mexico, just like the one shown in Superman! It’s super cool, check out the pics. (Clock for larger images)

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Financial frauds, it seems, are universal. The Economist is reporting today that the second-largest french bank, “Societe Generale” has discovered that one of it’s employees was singly responsible for a €4.9 Billion ($7 Billion) fraud.
Isn’t it interesting that when such things happen in India, the Indian media goes bazook over it, but when it happens [...]

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Citigroup, the parent of Citibank, declared its quaterly results yesterday. And it had a lot of interesting things to say. They were like “Yeah, dude! We can’t find some $18 billion. It’s evaporated. And oh, BTW, on top of that, we lost $9 billion these last 3 months.”
The scale of the numbers involved is staggering! [...]

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Apple announced yesterday the world’s thinnest notebook The Macbook Air- It’s only .75 inches thick! And weighs a little more than a KG. The thing is really beautiful, but comes at a hefty price - $1799! It has some really cool features too - An optional ($999) solid-state drive, “802.11n” [...]

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