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Gmail Motion: Researchers make real what Google dubbed as joke

Google’s Gmail Motion prank on April Fool had left many in the tech world wondering why Google, or just anybody else, wouldn’t make it real. Now it has emerged that researchers at the University of Southern California have made it real by using Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect peripheral. They hacked into the Microsoft Kinect's motion-sensing technology and also used what they have called the Flexible Action and Articulated Skeleton Toolkit (FAAST) to create what Gmail brushed off as a prank.
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Top 10 Hottest New Restaurants in U.S. (SLIDESHOW)

The restaurant reservation platform OpenTable Inc. announced the list of top 10 hottest new restaurants, which are among the 50 winners of OpenTable's Diners' Choice Awards for the Top Hot Spot Restaurants in the United States.
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What is Lizamoon, the viral scareware that infected four million websites?

A fast-spreading SQL injection attack that illegally peddles a bogus scareware has been breaking anti-virus barriers and compromising millions of websites, besides defrauding unsuspecting victims. The news of this attack was brought out by Websense Security Labs in its blog last week. Websense said its Threatseeker Network identified a new malicious mass-injection campaign which it named LizaMoon.

Tech Companies Unleash April Fool Gags

Witticisms, super pranks, ultimate gags, hoaxes and plain lies are searching for fools this day. People turn the most cynical this day so that they don’t look naive, and turn on their gullibility meter at the highest level of alert. But a lot of us are caught off guard by some comic concoctions that mix contemporary humor with ingenious lies which are sometimes delectable.
A recovered Egyptian cobra is displayed at the Bronx Zoo in handout photograph

Poisonous cobra found in zoo

The Bronx Zoo's Egyptian cobra was found in the dark corner of the zoo's reptile house after being missing for almost a week.
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ESA's GOCE satellite gives breakthrough gravity field data

A sophisticated satellite of the European Space Agency (ESA) has mapped Earth's gravity with unprecedented precision, helping scientists have clearer understanding of the variation in the gravitational force in different parts of the planet and how this may affect crucial events like an earthquake.
Diamond burglary raises alarm at Baselworld

Diamond burglary raises alarm at Baselworld

As haute couture horology and jewelry brands across the globe conveyed at Baselworld, Switzerland, for one of the biggest industry fairs; a gang of five stole diamonds and gemstones worth millions of dollars.
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On Anonymity, the Internet, and 4chan

4chan is probably the cultural leader of the Internet. Zero Hedge is easily one of the most influential financial blogs. What they have in common is an adherence to the ideology of anonymity.
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Colorado UFO mystery unlocked [VIDEO]

The mystery behind the recent UFO sighting over Colorado seems to have been unlocked with an explanation emerging of the strange encounter's very terrestrial origin.
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Dating website reunites British siblings

A brother and sister from Britain were reunited after more than 30 years when they met via a dating website. Sarah Kemp, 42, got reunited with her 47-year old brother George Bentley after joining dating website ForgetDinner.co.uk last November, only to find out they were siblings.

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