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Photographer captures Mohamed Zidan's unique hair style during a match.
Axel Witsel checks his hair style during a team training session.
Crazy hairstyle by football superstars.
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You might have seen most of them going bald or having a very fine hair cutting but here are some of the wildest yet craziest haircut by some of the football superstar.
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Germany wins Eurovision Song Contest as UK comes last.
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Germany has emerged triumphant at this year's Eurovision Song Contest as the UK limped home in last place.
Teenager Josh Dubovie, representing the UK with a song penned by Pete Waterman, scored just 10 points.
Speaking after her win, 19-year-old Lena, who scored 246 points with her song Satellite , said: "I'm so happy and so thankful and so grateful."
Acts from 25 countries took to the stage during the event, hoping to impress voters from across Europe.
Turkey's MaNga came in second place, with Romania third and Denmark fourth.
Teenager Josh Dubovie, representing the UK with a song penned by Pete Waterman, scored just 10 points.
Speaking after her win, 19-year-old Lena, who scored 246 points with her song Satellite , said: "I'm so happy and so thankful and so grateful."
Acts from 25 countries took to the stage during the event, hoping to impress voters from across Europe.
Turkey's MaNga came in second place, with Romania third and Denmark fourth.
4G services in india by next year: Telecom Commission official
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I wonder you will take part in 4G spectrum auction just after a year. The auction has just completed and the BIG-BIG winners were Rcom, Bharathi, Aircel but none of the private player haven't rolled out their 3G service. !dea is expected to roll outs its 3G service in the third quarter of the 2010 fiscal as news agency suggested. I wonder Telecom Commission officials are talking about 4G service.
Steps are on to introduce 4G services, which would most likely be in place by next year, a top Telecom Commission official said on Friday.
The consultant papers with regard to 4G services has already been moved by TRAI to the Department of Telecommunications, which would take about six to eight months, Chandra Prakash, Member, Technology, Telecom Commission, said in Coimbatore.
"The recommendations of TRAI and DoT would be discussed in detail and 4G can be expected in place by next year," Prakash said, who was here to review arrangements by the telecom sector for the World Classical Tamil Conference scheduled to start from June 23.
Steps are on to introduce 4G services, which would most likely be in place by next year, a top Telecom Commission official said on Friday.
The consultant papers with regard to 4G services has already been moved by TRAI to the Department of Telecommunications, which would take about six to eight months, Chandra Prakash, Member, Technology, Telecom Commission, said in Coimbatore.
"The recommendations of TRAI and DoT would be discussed in detail and 4G can be expected in place by next year," Prakash said, who was here to review arrangements by the telecom sector for the World Classical Tamil Conference scheduled to start from June 23.
10 technologies that died in last 10 years.
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The past decade was clearly one that belonged to technology. Never before did so many new technologies and products came to fore and changed the way we live and behave completely within a short period of 10 years. But such scorching pace of technological advent also meant that many products and technologies of the immediate past got left behind and earned their epitaph.
Here is a list of some obvious, and some not so obvious ones...
It did nothing of the sort and was laid to rest.
The past decade was clearly one that belonged to technology. Never before did so many new technologies and products came to fore and changed the way we live and behave completely within a short period of 10 years. But such scorching pace of technological advent also meant that many products and technologies of the immediate past got left behind and earned their epitaph.
Here is a list of some obvious, and some not so obvious ones...
Astalavista
The search engine that was once everyone’s favourite is trying to reinvent itself and match up to the likes of Google and Bing. Will it succeed? We are not holding our breath.Audio Cassettes
Once synonymous with music, the cassette is on its way out, as audio CDs get more affordable.Digital diaries/PDAs
With smartphones getting calendar and contact functions, PDAs and diaries are making their last bow.HD DVD
Toshiba’s high definition disk was supposed to replace normal DVDs and take out Sony’s Blu-Ray.It did nothing of the sort and was laid to rest.
Thousands Are Targeted Over 'Hurt Locker' Downloads.
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Company that produced "The Hurt Locker" sued thousands of so-far unidentified people it says illegally downloaded the Oscar-winning war movie, in one of the most direct efforts by the movie business to clamp down on the kind of digital piracy that has plagued the recorded-music industry.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., by Voltage Pictures LLC, seeks damages and an injunction against 5,000 people it claims used an anonymous file-sharing protocol called BitTorrent to distribute copies of the movie, in some cases months before its release in U.S. theaters.
A critical success and the winner of the best-picture Oscar for 2009, "The Hurt Locker" nonetheless did poorly in theaters, taking in just $16.4 million domestically.
The lawsuit, filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., by Voltage Pictures LLC, seeks damages and an injunction against 5,000 people it claims used an anonymous file-sharing protocol called BitTorrent to distribute copies of the movie, in some cases months before its release in U.S. theaters.
A critical success and the winner of the best-picture Oscar for 2009, "The Hurt Locker" nonetheless did poorly in theaters, taking in just $16.4 million domestically.
Bottled water contains more bacteria than tap water.
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Bottled water contains more bacteria than tapwater, with some brands found to harbour levels 100 times above permitted limits, according to new research.
A team of scientists found that 70 per cent of popular bottled water brands available in shops had high levels of bacteria.
The researchers from Ccrest Laboratories in Canada found that tap water had less bacteria than bottled water.
Microbiologist Dr Sonish Azam, of Ccrest Laboratories, said bottled water did not live up to its claims or purity.
She said: "Heterotrophic bacteria counts in some of the bottles were found to be in revolting figures of one hundred times more than the permitted limit."
A team of scientists found that 70 per cent of popular bottled water brands available in shops had high levels of bacteria.
The researchers from Ccrest Laboratories in Canada found that tap water had less bacteria than bottled water.
Microbiologist Dr Sonish Azam, of Ccrest Laboratories, said bottled water did not live up to its claims or purity.
She said: "Heterotrophic bacteria counts in some of the bottles were found to be in revolting figures of one hundred times more than the permitted limit."
Facebook type social networking site for Muslims goes online.
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IT professional Omer Zaheer browses MillatFacebook. Photo: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images
Six young IT experts in the city of Lahore have set up MillatFacebook – using the Urdu word for nation – which they hope will become a hub for Muslims around the world.
Omar Zaheer Meer, one of the founders, said the site was launched on Wednesday and had already attracted 8,000 users.
The aim, he said, was to register their disapproval of the images of the Muslim prophet and to offer an alternative to a site that has also been criticised for its lax and confusing privacy controls.
"We are saying that we are technologically independent and that you can't make money from us and then not respect our views," he said.
Thousands of people in Pakistan have demonstrated against the US-based social networking site for hosting a contest calling for cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
Hi-tech boots of the 2010 World Cup.
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By comparison, Nike's new Mercurial Vapor Superfly II is the most expensive boot on the modern retail market, coming in at around $400.
Henry VIII's boots would have been sturdy models made from tough leather to cope with the violent, no-rules, all-in-brawl approach to the game of the 16th century, a far cry from the streamlined and lightweight shoes designed for today's game.
Gallery: World Cup football boots
"We have a revolutionary technology which has a stud that adapts to different pitch conditions," Nike design director Andy Caine told CNN.
"This will make the fastest player even faster whatever the pitch conditions might be. For a modern footballer who's really fast, this is really going to change his game."
Most of us Google ourselves, survey finds.
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About 57 percent of adult internet users in the United States said they have entered their name into a search engine to assess their digital reputation, according to a new Pew Research Center study "Reputation Management and Social Media."
That's a significant increase since 2006, when only 47 percent of adult internet users said they had looked their name up on a search engine. The findings show "reputation management has now become a defining feature of online life," the study says.
That's a significant increase since 2006, when only 47 percent of adult internet users said they had looked their name up on a search engine. The findings show "reputation management has now become a defining feature of online life," the study says.
Violent video games touted as learning tool.
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Playing a video game - and you may be improving your vision and other brain functions, according to research presented Thursday at a New York University conference on games as a learning tool.
"People that play these fast-paced games have better vision, better attention and better cognition," said Daphne Bavelier, an assistant professor in the department of brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester.
Bavelier was a presenter at Games for Learning, a daylong symposium on the educational uses of video games and computer games.
The event, the first of its kind, was an indication that electronic games are gaining legitimacy in the classroom.
Panelists discussed how people learn and how games can be engineered to be even more educational.
"People do learn from games," said J. Dexter Fletcher of the Institute for Defense Analyses.
"People that play these fast-paced games have better vision, better attention and better cognition," said Daphne Bavelier, an assistant professor in the department of brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester.
Bavelier was a presenter at Games for Learning, a daylong symposium on the educational uses of video games and computer games.
The event, the first of its kind, was an indication that electronic games are gaining legitimacy in the classroom.
Panelists discussed how people learn and how games can be engineered to be even more educational.
"People do learn from games," said J. Dexter Fletcher of the Institute for Defense Analyses.
How Much Electricity Does Your Computer Use?
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If you are curious to know the exact electricity cost of running your laptop or desktop computer all day long, here’s a quick guide.
Step 1: You first need to calculate the total power (in kilowatt) that’s consumed by your monitor, CPU, graphic card and other components of the computer.
Don’t worry – you don’t have to do these calculations manually. Joulemeter is a free software from Microsoft that can quickly estimate the power consumption of your computer based on the screen’s brightness, the microprocessor, etc.
Step 2: Now find the retail cost of electricity (commonly known as price per unit or price per kWh) in your part of the world. You can know the electricity cost per unit either from your last month’s electricity bill or check the official website of your power distribution company (search for electricity tariffs).
Once you have the two numbers, just multiply them to get an approximate idea of your computer’s electricity bill. I say approximate here because we are ignoring the power consumed by the modem, router and so on.
The Total Electricity Cost of Running a Computer.
If you are curious to know the exact electricity cost of running your laptop or desktop computer all day long, here’s a quick guide.
Step 1: You first need to calculate the total power (in kilowatt) that’s consumed by your monitor, CPU, graphic card and other components of the computer.
Don’t worry – you don’t have to do these calculations manually. Joulemeter is a free software from Microsoft that can quickly estimate the power consumption of your computer based on the screen’s brightness, the microprocessor, etc.
Step 2: Now find the retail cost of electricity (commonly known as price per unit or price per kWh) in your part of the world. You can know the electricity cost per unit either from your last month’s electricity bill or check the official website of your power distribution company (search for electricity tariffs).
Once you have the two numbers, just multiply them to get an approximate idea of your computer’s electricity bill. I say approximate here because we are ignoring the power consumed by the modem, router and so on.
The Total Electricity Cost of Running a Computer.
World's first: Brit scientist infects himself with computer virus.
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(ANI): Dr Mark Gasson, a cybernetics expert at the University of Reading, has become the first human to be infected with a computer virus.
Gasson has had a computer chip implanted in his hand which is programmed to open security doors to his lab. The chip also ensures that only he is able to switch on and use his mobile phone.
But the British boffin deliberately infected the chip with a computer virus. It was then automatically transmitted to affect to the lab security system.
"Once the system is infected, anybody accessing the building with their passcard would be infected too," he told Sky News.
The virus on his chip is benign. But malicious computer code could give criminals access to a building. (ANI)
Gasson has had a computer chip implanted in his hand which is programmed to open security doors to his lab. The chip also ensures that only he is able to switch on and use his mobile phone.
But the British boffin deliberately infected the chip with a computer virus. It was then automatically transmitted to affect to the lab security system.
"Once the system is infected, anybody accessing the building with their passcard would be infected too," he told Sky News.
The virus on his chip is benign. But malicious computer code could give criminals access to a building. (ANI)
Eisenhower was invited to meet aliens.
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(IANS): Former US president Dwight Eisenhower was invited to meet aliens visiting the earth.
Eisenhower was briefed about the presence of extra-terrestrial intelligent beings on earth and was given an opportunity to meet them, Henry W. McElroy Jr., retired state representative to New Hampshire, was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph.
McElroy said he saw a document at the state legislature that made reference to the presence of aliens.
This new revelation comes at a time when legislators are trying to gather support for the creation of an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission after the August 2010 elections in Denver.
Eisenhower was briefed about the presence of extra-terrestrial intelligent beings on earth and was given an opportunity to meet them, Henry W. McElroy Jr., retired state representative to New Hampshire, was quoted as saying by the Daily Telegraph.
McElroy said he saw a document at the state legislature that made reference to the presence of aliens.
This new revelation comes at a time when legislators are trying to gather support for the creation of an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission after the August 2010 elections in Denver.
UFO experts fear full-scale alien invasion Down Under
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(ANI): Experts in Australia have expressed their fears that a full-scale alien invasion of the Northern Territory is about to take place.
Though astronomers and police say the flares seen across a 360km-long stretch of the Top End coast were probably caused by a meteor shower.
But highly qualified UFO-ologists said they believed the bright lights were space ships on a pre-attack scouting mission, and Darwin-based UFO expert Alan Ferguson said the flares were obviously aliens.
"This all sounds like UFO activity," the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying.
Though astronomers and police say the flares seen across a 360km-long stretch of the Top End coast were probably caused by a meteor shower.
But highly qualified UFO-ologists said they believed the bright lights were space ships on a pre-attack scouting mission, and Darwin-based UFO expert Alan Ferguson said the flares were obviously aliens.
"This all sounds like UFO activity," the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying.
Brush your teeth twice daily 'to avoid heart disease'
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Here's another reason to brush your teeth at least twice everyday — poor dental hygiene can significantly raise your risk of developing heart disease, say researchers.
A new study, published in the British Medical Journal, found that those who don't brush their teeth regularly are 70 percent more likely to develop heart disease than those who'reconscientious about cleaning their teeth morning and night.
"Our results confirmed and further strengthened the suggested association between oral hygiene and the risk of (heart) disease," Professor Richard Watt of University College London, who led the study, said.
The study looked at data on more than 11,000 adults. All the subjects were asked about their lifestyle behaviours, including how often they brushed their teeth. Nurses also took information on medical history and family history of heart disease as well as blood pressure levels and blood samples.
A new study, published in the British Medical Journal, found that those who don't brush their teeth regularly are 70 percent more likely to develop heart disease than those who'reconscientious about cleaning their teeth morning and night.
"Our results confirmed and further strengthened the suggested association between oral hygiene and the risk of (heart) disease," Professor Richard Watt of University College London, who led the study, said.
The study looked at data on more than 11,000 adults. All the subjects were asked about their lifestyle behaviours, including how often they brushed their teeth. Nurses also took information on medical history and family history of heart disease as well as blood pressure levels and blood samples.
Locations of student's made mini satellites unknown in space.
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The location of three out of four mini satellites developed by Japanese students and launched by a rocket carrying a planetary probe last week, are unknown, officials at Science ministry has said.
Aerospace Development Committee officials on Wednesday said only Soka University students are able to receive radio signals from their satellite 'Negai' which was delivered into space on Friday along with Venus probe Akatsuki and three other satellites developed by universities and technical college students.
Kagoshima University received radio signals shortly after the launch its KSAT satellite but was unable to confirm whether it came from same satellite. The university has had no contact with the satellite since then.
Aerospace Development Committee officials on Wednesday said only Soka University students are able to receive radio signals from their satellite 'Negai' which was delivered into space on Friday along with Venus probe Akatsuki and three other satellites developed by universities and technical college students.
Kagoshima University received radio signals shortly after the launch its KSAT satellite but was unable to confirm whether it came from same satellite. The university has had no contact with the satellite since then.
Big B now learns Video Editing.
The latest software which has caught his fancy is video-editing. The actor edited a small snippet of him driving into his house in a car and posted it on his blog.
"After an entire morning of learning how to edit a DVD on my own, have finally managed a little snippet," wrote Bachchan on his blog.
Describing the video,the actor wrote, "This is me in the red SUV coming into my house Jalsa on a Sunday evening. And this is a recurring scenario every Sunday, every evening.
"After an entire morning of learning how to edit a DVD on my own, have finally managed a little snippet," wrote Bachchan on his blog.
Describing the video,the actor wrote, "This is me in the red SUV coming into my house Jalsa on a Sunday evening. And this is a recurring scenario every Sunday, every evening.
Dicaprio launches tiger protection Charity.
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In a bid to protect endangered tigers, Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has headed to Asia and launched an organisation with the World Wildlife Fund.
The 'Titanic' star has joined forces with the WFF to create Save Tigers Now, with the aim of raising $20 million for the cause,reported Access Hollywood online.
His trip to Asia, to seek out remote tiger habitats and document their natural environments, is in progress now.
The 35-year-old actor is learning about the declining number of the species and hopes to double the population of the big cats by 2022. "Tigers are endangered and critical to some of the world's most important ecosystems.
The 'Titanic' star has joined forces with the WFF to create Save Tigers Now, with the aim of raising $20 million for the cause,reported Access Hollywood online.
His trip to Asia, to seek out remote tiger habitats and document their natural environments, is in progress now.
The 35-year-old actor is learning about the declining number of the species and hopes to double the population of the big cats by 2022. "Tigers are endangered and critical to some of the world's most important ecosystems.
Universal unveils rebuilt studios.
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Universal Studios in Los Angeles has unveiled its $200m (£137m) rebuilt outdoor sets - with imitation New York streets - destroyed by fire in 2008.
The four acre site, which features 13 city blocks, will be used in films and in the behind-the-scenes studio tour.
Film director Steven Spielberg, who helped with the rebuild, said it was "a fertile basis for everyone's use, everyone's imagination".
The June 2008 fire destroyed film sets and damaged a library of film reels. Fire investigators said it was started accidentally by workers using a blowtorch.
The four acre site, which features 13 city blocks, will be used in films and in the behind-the-scenes studio tour.
Film director Steven Spielberg, who helped with the rebuild, said it was "a fertile basis for everyone's use, everyone's imagination".
The June 2008 fire destroyed film sets and damaged a library of film reels. Fire investigators said it was started accidentally by workers using a blowtorch.
CCTV with intelligence revealed by UK's Defence.
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The latest defence surveillance can "pick out" potential insurgents in an image
UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) says will be used by soldiers within five years - a package of surveillance systems that can recognise insurgents or terrorists.
This high resolution imaging with in-built software to detect and follow the fake insurgents as they planned their covert meeting, was one of the technologies tested by DSTL during what it described as a "cops and robbers" style trial.
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