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Man dies after three-day gaming binge

News A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday, as China seeks to wean The man from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou, aged about 30, died on

18 September 2007, 10:00

Scientist pitches adhesive Spider-Man suit

News As moviegoers prepare for the splashy Spider-Man 3 to hit UK cinemas this week, an Italian scientist has quietly formulated a plan for a 'smart' suit that could one day turn those fans into wall-climbing superheroes.

30 April 2007, 10:19

Australian man and his ISP found guilty of piracy

News Major record labels in Australia have won a legal battle against a man and his ISP for alleged music piracy. Stephen Cooper, operator of a Web site called MP3s4free.net, was found guilty on Thursday of copyright infringement by Australian Federal...

15 July 2005, 9:57

News.blog: Words of a Man's Mouth

News News of the Web site, Words of a Man's Mouth, spread fast, far and wide as visitors from around the globe have added new comments daily since the site went up in January. The title of the Web site is from a quote at the beginning of the book: "The...

19 March 2007, 10:12

Photos: Is there a man on Mars?

News Here is the "man" in full resolution. Pictures of Big Foot, the Loch Ness monster and the Face on Mars may have new company. A blown-up section of an image from the Mars rover Spirit shows what looks like a person perched atop a rock on Mars.

Tags: face, section, university, spirit

25 January 2008, 9:30

Taiwanese man overdoses on PC games

News A 27-year-old Taiwanese man has collapsed and died after a marathon 32 hour gaming session - around 10 days after a Korean gamer met a similar fate. On Tuesday 8 October, a South Korean man died after playing computer games non-stop for four days.

22 October 2002, 15:16

Domino's gives new man a pizza the action

News Marc Halpern is the new man at the helm, and will be responsible for supporting the company's corporate and store-level IT infrastructure, the latter covering a 252-strong network of pizza delivery shops.

11 July 2002, 16:58

US charges man in camcorder-piracy crackdown

News A Missouri man is the first to be indicted under a new federal law that prohibits people from secretly videotaping movies when they are shown in cinemas, the US Justice Department said on Thursday. Curtis Salisbury, 19, used a camcorder to make...

8 August 2005, 10:08

Photos: Iron Man suits up in CGI

News Paramount's forthcoming film, Iron Man, which is scheduled to be released on Friday, uses a mixture of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and real costume design to craft the suit worn by Robert Downey Jr in the film.

Tags: film, car, man, character

2 May 2008, 10:23

News.blog: Blue Man Group texts fans

News I'm sitting at the front of an arena in San Jose, California, that's crammed with 10,000 screaming Blue Man Group fans and were witnessing an odd dichotomy: the show we're watching is both a celebration and a repudiation of technology.

6 November 2006, 9:27

Worm attack on eBay -- man pleads guilty

News An Oregon man has pleaded guilty to using a computer worm to launch attacks against Internet auction site eBay, the U.S.attorney's office handling the case said on Wednesday. Anthony Scott Clark, 21, pleaded guilty to intentionally damaging a...

29 December 2005, 8:41

News.blog: Man mistakenly paid $470,000 in salary

News Like one of the movie's characters -- who erroneously receives paycheques -- a Chicago-area man has allegedly been receiving nearly a year for much of the past five years without actually showing up at the office or doing the job.

Tags: error, job, chicago, jersey

21 January 2008, 9:10

Tech lights up the Burning Man

News That box was home for Davies for seven days at Burning Man, the annual arts and community festival held in the stark Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada. Dotted on the desert around him were numerous sculptures and interactive art pieces, many lit...

9 September 2005, 10:37

'Fat Man Walking' gains Web following

News Go, fat man, go! When simple-minded Hollywood hero Forrest Gump ran across the country, he gathered followers faster than he grew facial hair. Steve Vaught -- a 350-pound self-described 'Forrest Lump', who's walking across the country to shed...

25 July 2005, 10:33

Google in running for Man Utd sponsorship

News Manchester United is in "advanced" talks with a number of global high-tech giants, including Google, about replacing Vodafone as its shirt sponsor, according to reports. Vodafone announced last week that it is ending its four-year, £9m-a-year shirt...

29 November 2005, 9:15