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Police Close to Charging California Prisoner in Chandra Levy Case
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Police have interviewed and are close to charging a California prison inmate in the eight-year-old case of Chandra Levy, the federal intern who vanished and was found murdered a year later, a law enforcement official told FOX News on Saturday.
The official said Washington, D.C., authorities [...]
Battlestar Galactica coming to the big screen?
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Perhaps, but we won’t be seeing Tricia Helfer as a model #6, and it won’t involve Ron Moore who executive produces the television series on SciFi that is currently winding down to its final episode. Nope, this will be headed up by Glen Larson who created the original Battlestar Galactica (the [...]
Actor who plays steroid dealer in 'The Wrestler' arrested in steroid bust
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NEW YORK (AP) — The actor who played a steroid dealer in the Oscar-nominated film “The Wrestler” was charged Thursday with being the real thing: Authorities arrested him in a large steroid bust that culminated in a violent chase.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan also accused Scott Siegel of leading [...]
Experts Warn of 'Terminator'-Style Military-Robot Rebellion
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Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code, or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.
The stark warning — which includes discussion of a “Terminator”-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters — is [...]
UNT astronomers say they found 2 samples of meteor
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DALLAS – Two samples of fresh material from a meteor that alarmed numerous residents when it streaked across the Texas sky on Sunday have been found in a pasture in West.
University of North Texas observatory manager Preston Starr and UNT’s director of the planetarium and astronomy lab program Ron [...]
Texas fireball identified as meteor, not UFO
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DALLAS – The fireball that blazed across the Texas sky and sparked numerous weekend calls to law enforcement agencies now can be considered an identified flying object.
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The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday the fireball was a natural phenomenon – not [...]
Spammers break Hotmail's CAPTCHA yet again
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The battle by Microsoft to secure its Live Hotmail system from spammers appears to have failed yet again with the news that the latest version of its CAPTCHA authentication system has been broken.
According to a detailed analysis of the latest hack by security company Websense, spammers have come [...]
Mystery Fireball Falls in Texas Sky
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What looked like a fireball streaked across the Texas sky on Sunday morning, leading many people to call authorities to report seeing falling debris.
“We don’t know what it was,” said Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Roland Herwig.
The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office used a helicopter [...]
Falling debris reported in Texas, could be related to recent satellite collision
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DALLAS (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration has received numerous reports of falling debris across Texas, which could be related to a recent satellite collision.
Some of the callers around midmorning Sunday reported what looked like a fireball in the sky.
FAA spokesman Roland Herwig said [...]
