Have a break… have a Kit Kat… A light hearted break from work.
Dec 15 2007
It seems that finding a cheap Wii before Christmas is getting a harder and harder task as the big day looms, some on Ebay reaching the dizzy heights of £270, but fear not:
A massive on-line retailer has produced a whole wad more of them from ’somewhere’ and for the lowly price of £180 delivered.
These are the first pictures of the 600bhp Aston Martin V12 Vantage RS concept – the company’s fastest ever car. The Aston Martin Vantage RS is based on the baby V8 Vantage but gets a tuned V12 engine from the DBS – with power upped from 510bhp to 600bhp.
This means the fastest accelerating Aston Martin ever rockets from 0-62mph (100kph) in four seconds and can cover 0-100mph in 8.5 seconds.
William Gary Sullivan, a database administrator pleaded guilty to stealing 8.4 million consumer records from a credit checking firm in Florida. A court heard he earned £280,000 ($580,000) by selling the data to direct marketing companies.
Legal documents show that William Gary Sullivan was employed as a senior database administrator at a consumer reporting agency called Certegy, which provides a service to help retailers decide whether or not to accept cheques as payment for goods and services.
Scientists have cloned monkey embryos for the first time, bringing human cloning a step closer. They created dozens of embryos from a 10-year-old rhesus macaque monkey and planted them into surrogate primates.
A recent poll has found that 75 percent of users think the web is becoming too vast to be useful.
After some self-confessed “nerds” queued in the cold for up to 36 hours to be at the head of the line. They were snapped up at a rate of 4.2 per second at the height of the frenzy at 1,300 outlets.
The future of grocery shopping has changed in the Palatinate region of Germany. The Edeka supermarket chain offered in one of its Rülzheim stores fingerprint identification as method of payment. Customers can have their fingerprint put on file and begin using the system as an alternative to cash or card. Customers then place their finger on the scanner to complete a purchase.
