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Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto Believes Retirement Isn’t an Option Yet

Famous games designer Shigeru Miyamoto believes retirement isn’t an option for him at least for now, once again debunking rumors that he might withdraw from his executive position at Nintendo and only work on some projects as an outside consultant.While video games have become mainstream entertainment and lots ...

12 December 2011
14:31 GMT

LulzSec Plans to Return for a One-Time Hit

The notorious LulzSec hacking outfit announced plans to return for one last "mystery operation" after officially disbanding at the end of last month.The group is apparently doing this in order to help Pastebin.com restore its follower count on Twitter after the website recently switched its account.Pastebin.com is an...

13 July 2011
09:15 GMT

LulzSec Packs Up Shop

Lulz Security, the infamous hacking group that broke into computer systems belonging to numerous companies, organizations and government agencies in recent weeks, has announced its disbandment."We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us," the hacking outfit wrote in...

27 June 2011
04:09 GMT

Final Offers for the Retired Space Shuttles Made

With Discovery having already flown its last mission, and Endeavor about to take off on its last spaceflight ever too, excitement is growing among museums ahead of a planned announcement that would finally reveal where the shuttles will be displayed. The last offers are now pouring in.Museums are competing against ea...

30 March 2011
03:38 GMT

How Baby Boomers Affect Retirement Plans

A team of Australian researchers is saying that the Baby Boomers segment of the population is starting to reinvent what retiring from the field of work means. The term Baby Boomer refers to cohorts of the general population that were born during the middle part of the 20th Century, after the end of World Wa...

11 October 2010
11:23 GMT

Jailbreakers, Say Goodbye to Geohot

After posting a picture of a jailbroken iPhone 4 on his blog, George Hotz, also known as geohot, announced his retirement from iDevices hacking, saying that it was not fun as it used to be. According to Hotz, who is famous for his Blackra1n jailbreak tool, people were taking too serious something he used to do just a...

21 July 2010
05:32 GMT

Amanda Bynes Retires from Acting at 24

Age has nothing to do with retirement – and actress Amanda Bynes is the perfect example of that. Though she’s been flying somewhat under the radar for a while, the star took to her Twitter over the weekend to share with her followers what can only be a sad news: she’s realized she doesn’t like...

21 June 2010
04:02 GMT

Lily Allen Confirms Break from Music in March 2010

British singer Lily Allen, although not popular with the vast majority of music critics and / or fans, has, so far, enjoyed the support of many who agreed with her idea of what music should sound like and, in particular, of how it should only express real thoughts and not just contain words that rhyme. Admittedly sic...

4 December 2009
03:19 GMT

The Future of NASA's Space Missions

There have been a lot of discussions concerning the path NASA should follow related to its current and future space missions, but no solid conclusion has been drawn yet. The collaboration between Barack Obama's new NASA transition team and Michael Griffin, NASA's current administrator, has not bee...

16 December 2008
18:01 GMT

Robot to Help Baby Boomers at Old Age

Baby boomers are now entering the age of retirement, which could trigger a crisis within the US medical system; however, robots like uBOT-5 may be used to reduce the impact, say researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. "For the first time, robots are safe enough and inexpensive enough to do meaningfu...

17 April 2008
06:40 GMT

Weekend Reading: Mario and Sonic Redux

As Calin needed to take a week off and cry himself to sleep after reading some of the comments (both here and on Digg) that his "Mario, Sonic & Co Should Retire from Games" column attracted, I'm gonna do this week's Weekend Reading column. And I'm gonna talk about gamers and their irrational responses....

21 March 2008
19:31 GMT

Year Started Off on the Wrong Foot for eBay

There are only three CEOs right now in Silicon Valley that have very high profiles because of the pioneering work that they have done with commercializing the Internet industry: Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Yahoo! Inc.'s Jerry Yang and, last but not least, eBay's Meg Whitman. Their ranks will unfortunately...

22 January 2008
17:06 GMT

Jenna Will Never Spread Them Again...

I have a feeling this week is going to be a really dramatic one in terms of celebrity scandals. Call it my intuition, my "gut" instinct, whatever you like - or maybe it's just my subconscious interpreting some of the "bad vibes" and omens that I've seen over the past days - the fact is, I sense tough days a...

14 January 2008
02:56 GMT

Pamela Retires. The End of an Era.

For those of you who don't know, Pamela Anderson, the one and only 'Baywatch' babe as far as the world's concerned, has changed careers. Yes, that is right: Pammy is no longer taking up acting gigs - she is now a magician's assistant. Of course, there is not that much of a difference from her...

3 August 2007
09:16 GMT

Keira Wants to Quit Acting, Dreams of Huuuge Breasts!

Keira Knightley is not one of the pleasantest persons on this planet and this doesn't come from me, but from the many who had the chance (or, should we call it bad luck?) of meeting her face to face. Aside from this, she is also considered very self-centered and self-involved; in short, she has the reputation o...

2 May 2007
08:51 GMT


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