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15 More Bodies Recovered from the AF 447 Wreck

Investigators under the gruesome task of searching the waters of the Atlantic Ocean for debris and bodies from the Air France Airbus A330-200 that crashed on June 1st, 2009, some 680 miles (1,090 kilometers) Northeast of the Fernando de Noronha islands off the northern coast of Brazil, recovered 15 more corpses from ...

9 June 2009
06:58 GMT

Angels Starting Pitcher Nick Adenhart Killed in Car Crash

Sports star, Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in the early hours this morning in a hit-and-run, only hours after pitching in a game that got sportswriters singing his praise. The person responsible for the crash that also took the lives of two other men was later apprehended, and is curren...

9 April 2009
11:43 GMT

T.R. Knight Involved in 3-Car Accident

“Grey’s Anatomy” star T.R. Knight was involved in a 3-car accident this Thursday on Hollywood Boulevard, it has emerged. As of now, no citations have been issued in the case and, from what pictures at the scene show, Knight himself was not injured. A man and a woman were, though, and they required t...

20 March 2009
10:04 GMT

Safari Unexpected-Quit Resolutions

Safari, just like most modern web browsers, has always been plagued by unexpected quits, crashes and other kinds of abnormal behavior in the course of its existence. Based on users' reports and the efforts of Apple's developer community, the company behind the Mac operating system has posted (updated) a kno...

16 March 2009
10:23 GMT

Google Chrome Distributed Reliability Testing

Having released Chrome 2.0.167.0 the past week, Google also delivered an insight into how it managed to ensure a high degree of stability for its browser. Pamela Greene and Patrick Johnson, Google software engineers, indicated that the end purpose of building a stable Chrome was that the browser should not crash, irr...

2 March 2009
06:24 GMT

Turkish Airplane Crashes in Amsterdam

A serious plane crash has taken place today in Holland, when a Turkish airliner collapsed to the ground while carrying 135 people. Preliminary reports hint at the fact that light fog was responsible for the crash, which nevertheless claimed the lives of 9 people, according to Dutch airport officials. An additional 50...

25 February 2009
14:01 GMT

Safari 4 Beta May Cause Issues on Some Systems

Apple has posted new Support documents online, offering resolutions to some issues that may occur with Safari 4. Apparently, third-party plug-ins may crash the browser. Apple has so far acknowledged one plug-in as able to crash Safari – Glims. Also, the beta browser may unexpectedly quit on users with GrowlMail...

25 February 2009
08:45 GMT

Download Google Chrome 2.0.164.0

Google has made available for download the latest release of its own breed of open source browser through the development channel. Making headway with the development of the next iteration of Google Chrome, the Mountain View-based search giant is rapidly advancing through development milestone. Build 2.0.164.0 of Goo...

20 February 2009
08:31 GMT

Apple Fixes iTunes Crash on 2.2.1 Firmware Update

A number of iPhone users updating to the latest firmware version (2.2.1) have reported issues when syncing an iPhone or iPod touch to iTunes. Apparently, iTunes quit unexpectedly when the user would attempt to sync. Apple has seemingly isolated the cause of the problem affecting a limited number of iPhone / iPod touc...

6 February 2009
11:03 GMT

Cristiano Ronaldo Crashes Ferrari, Walks Away Unhurt

A couple of hours ago, Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo was involved in a serious car crash that left his £200,000 Ferrari a complete mess. Happily for him, the star was able to leave the scene unscathed, and to go about his business. It is believed the crash was by no means caused by alcohol abuse.Rona...

8 January 2009
10:09 GMT

Microsoft: Windows Media Player Crash Not a Critical Vulnerability

Microsoft has squashed reports of a new zero-day Critical vulnerability affecting versions 9, 10, and 11 of Windows Media Player, which emerged ahead of Christmas. The Redmond company indeed confirmed that there was an issue that could lead to Windows Media Player crashing, however, it denied that it could be remotel...

30 December 2008
06:08 GMT

'Time Machine Saved My Life'

Nobody talks about the importance of backing up your computer anymore. The subject is always brought up only when someone's hard drive crashes. But then it's too late, isn't it? However, it looks like at least one Mac user learned from others' mistakes, and acted before all was lost.Meet Jharston,...

22 December 2008
11:09 GMT

Microsoft Hopes Xbox Live Won't Crash This Christmas

The holiday season means quite a lot of things for the big companies in the gaming industry. Besides the big sales and large profits, generated by people who want to give away games or consoles to their loved ones, a major emphasis is laid on the online services provided by the companies. People will be staying in th...

12 December 2008
13:01 GMT

Safari 3.2.1 Available – Download Here

Hours into the release of Safari 3.2, users frenetically started reporting crashes with the browser. The problem was almost instantly isolated and confirmed as incompatibility with third party software. Apple has now issued a new Safari update, for both Mac and Windows users, which delivers “stability improveme...

25 November 2008
02:54 GMT

Safari 3.2 Issues Still Bugging Users

Following the release of Safari 3.2, which promised anti-phishing protection and improved JPEG and TIFF image handling, users promptly responded to the release. Unfortunately, the feedback was mostly negative, with almost 80 percent of the posts containing the word “crash.” Between then and now, Apple has...

18 November 2008
08:42 GMT

Safari 3.2 Is a Crash Frenzy

Hours after Apple's release of Safari 3.2, Apple Discussions was filled with complaints from users who updated the browser to the latest version. 80 percent of the users are reporting issues with the update, particularly with the anti-phishing feature, which crashes the browser once every few minutes. However, ...

14 November 2008
06:07 GMT

Bone Remains Are Fossett's

Yesterday, authorities from Madera disclosed a statement associating the two bone remains found earlier with the person of James Stephen Fossett. They were discovered last week, about half a mile (800 meters) from the place his plane crashed 14 months ago, in Sierra Nevada, California. A hiker who walked off the reg...

4 November 2008
10:40 GMT

Mobileye Reduces Car Crash Risk by 80 Percent

As car accidents cause more victims every year, it became clear that some form of warning system for drivers had to be developed. Experts from the Netherlands-based company Mobileye took on the challenge, and designed a camera that is able to recognize potential threats to the security of the car, warning the driver ...

22 October 2008
09:24 GMT

The First iPhone 2.0 Issues Are Starting to Emerge

The App Store hasn't even been properly set up yet and users are already reporting application crashes, lags and other issues. In fact, "not properly set up" is probably the correct term to use."I downloaded some apps to use with the 2.0 update on my new iPhone 3G," says a poster on Apple Discussions. "The probl...

21 July 2008
08:50 GMT

Numerous Bugs Squashed in Now Up-to-Date & Contact 5.3.2

Now Up-to-Date & Contact, a useful calendar, contact management and group scheduling application for the Mac from the guys at Now Software, has recently been updated to version 5.3.2. It includes mostly fixes, but quite a lot at that. Now Up-to-Date & Contact is free for registered users. A single user license goes f...

22 April 2008
08:24 GMT

How Black Boxes Work

Minor incidents or catastrophic crashes may frequently leave behind unanswered questions related to what really led to such events. In order to answer these questions, investigators often turn to flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders, generally known to us as black boxes. Incredible as it may seem, in fac...

2 April 2008
07:17 GMT

What Really Killed Yury Gagarin

Whether it was the aliens or Russian fellow cosmonaut Leonid Brezhnev, it is unknown, however what is certain is that seven years after becoming the first man into space, Yury Gagarin died during a training flight with a Mig-15 spacecraft, aged 34. There have been a lot of theories over the years related to what kill...

28 March 2008
11:22 GMT

Future Cars to Have Side-Impact Sensors

If you think a little bump can ruin your day, think again. A side-impact can ruin your life! Side-impacts are probably the most dangerous types of car crash, mostly due to the fact that the sides of the cars are the least protected areas. That's why European researchers are now trying to develop a car body that ...

17 March 2008
09:46 GMT

Airplanes Produce Dangerous Turbulence

Turbulence is never desirable whenever talking about airplanes, however it is an effect generated by the mere passing of the aircraft through a mass of air, and it cannot be ignored whether landing or taking off. Turbulences are vortexes of air determined by a rapid variation in the pressure and velocity of the fluid...

12 March 2008
11:57 GMT

EVE Online Update Cripples Windows XP Systems

The Trinity update for the very popular space Massively Multiplayer Game EVE Online isn't quite the best thing that could happen to this game. The game's developer, CCP, has confirmed that this update deletes the boot.ini file from the Window XP system (Vista users are not affected by this).If you don'...

6 December 2007
06:03 GMT

Crash Of The Titans Skins and Hints (Wii)

In a nefarious plot to unleash destruction, Crash's arch-nemeses, Neo and Nina Cortex, have mutated the creatures of Crash's island into monstrous abominations! Never one to shirk from danger, our orange furry friend finds that with his potent mix of wacky bravado and daredevil action he is able to hijack t...

26 October 2007
10:17 GMT

Spam Takes E-Mails Down!

I've seen spam having some pretty serious effects until now. From getting people infected with viruses (and later scammed) even to death. But never until now have I heard of e-mail accounts going down because of spam. Telecommunication firm Onetel had serious problems after a huge spam wave hit the Inboxes. 30.0...

5 September 2007
08:53 GMT

Exploit Crashing WoW's Servers Discovered!

A piece I just happened to stumble upon, posted on Theregister.co says that "Players in the World of Warcraft discovered an exploit that crashes the game's servers late Sunday, causing massive outages throughout the night." Blizzard is awfully quiet on this one, but has made a few statements just so they'd ...

28 August 2007
03:59 GMT

Wells Fargo Crash - Vulnerable to Hackers?

You might already know this, Wells Fargo & Co. experienced some service problems that disabled ATMs and online accounts for their customers, as The Napa Valler Register informs us. This crash left people without access to their money for about 24 hours. You can read more about this matter by clicking on this here lin...

22 August 2007
04:52 GMT

Resurrect Windows Vista After It Crashes and Burns...

Right... Windows Vista crashing and burning is the worst case scenario, but a scenario nonetheless, and even more than that, a viable possibility. If Windows has taught us anything, especially Windows XP, it is that there is a thin line between a completely functional operating system one minute, and a perpetual erro...

11 August 2007
08:08 GMT

Britney Hits, Runs, Shows Crotch Again

Another day, another Britney Spears post. Only that, this time, there is actually something to say about her, other than that she's a lousy dresser, an unprofessional on the set, a complete trainwreck and maybe an unfit mother. Or that she's displaying a behavior scientists already cataloged classic for a b...

8 August 2007
09:20 GMT

Crashed iPhone Screams for Apple Updates

An image showing the iPhone in an embarrassing crash situation has sprung as proof for the problems of this handset that people and critics have reported. It's just one more argument in favor of those struggling to reveal just how imperfect the dream phone coming from Apple really is.The huge team of people tha...

25 July 2007
06:11 GMT

YouTube Sued for Violent Car Crash

The online video sharing service YouTube was sent to the court by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority after a violent car crash was posted on its official page. The video shows a 52-year-old man who dies after he smashes a toll plaza in New Jersey. According to Google Watch, The New Jersey Turnpike Authority sued sever...

25 May 2007
09:33 GMT

The Whole PlayStation Titles and Hardware Collection up on eBay

What's going on there at the PlayStation Museum? Are they kicking the can? They must be if there are currently over 1500 games auctioned on eBay for 30K, including PSX hardware. What, does it sound expensive? In case you need a reminder, these are the PSX classics that practically made-up 70% of our childhood.OK...

22 May 2007
05:04 GMT

Crash Bandicoot Returns This Fall

Crash Of The Titans is the latest installment of the best-selling Crash Bandicoot franchise, coming from Radical Entertainment, slated for an autumn release on all consoles ranging from home entertainment systems such as PS2, Xbox 360 and Wii, to handhelds like PSP and DS. The game will also hit mobile phones althoug...

18 May 2007
18:06 GMT

Car Crashes Caused by Women Increase Alarmingly

Automobile crashes, also called road traffic accidents (RTAs), kill around 1.2 million people worldwide each year and injure about forty times this number. The most known causes in the mind of the general public are drunk driving, women driving recklesslyand hotshots who think they own the streets, especially the yo...

16 May 2007
09:18 GMT

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back Cheat Codes and Unlockables (Playstation)

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back is a platform game and the sequel to Crash Bandicoot. It was developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation and released in the United States of America on the Halloween of 1997.Taking place in and around the fictional N. Sanity Island, Crash Bandicoot 2 follows the anthropomorphi...

6 April 2007
05:09 GMT

Crash Nitro Kart Codes, Unlockables and Easter Eggs (GameBoy Advance)

Crash Nitro Kart is a racing game for the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox consoles that was released in 2003. It has also been created for the Game Boy Advance and N-Gage, but with some minor differences. It is an indirect sequel to Crash Team Racing and it was developed by Vicarious Visions and published by Univers...

6 April 2007
04:39 GMT

Crash Tag Team Racing Cheat Codes and Unlockables (PS2)

Crash Tag Team Racing is a racing game for all the standard game consoles and the PlayStation Portable. Developed by Radical Entertainment, it was released in North America, Europe, and Japan in 2005. Crash Tag Team Racing is the third installment in the Crash Bandicoot racing games, succeeding Crash Team Racing an...

6 April 2007
04:16 GMT

Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped Cheats and Secrets (Playstation)

Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped is a platform game created and developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation. It was well-received publicly and critically, selling 3.05 million copies worldwide. The game serves as a direct sequel to Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. It was the last platformer in the series developed b...

6 April 2007
03:48 GMT

Crash Bandicoot Passwords and Unlockables (Playstation)

Crash Bandicoot is a platform game made by Naughty Dog in 1996 for the PlayStation, featuring the character by the same name. In this title, Crash must fight Dr. Neo Cortex's henchmen in order to save Tawna, his beloved bandicoot girlfriend. This game was made when Naughty Dog had but ten employees. Somewhere so...

6 April 2007
03:29 GMT

Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex Cheats and Secret Ending (Xbox)

Crash Bandicoot belongs in the ranks of signature-characters like Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog and Nintendo's Mario. In fact, he started out as Sony's mascot, ready to be instantly identified with Playstation. So, set the way-back machine for 1996, take a wild ride back into the past, and check out his no...

12 March 2007
09:46 GMT


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