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Nightclub owner Steve Stevens is nursing tired limbs after breaking a disco world record by dancing non-stop for more than five days. Steve strained his right knee but managed to keep moving for 131 hours. The 35-year-old set off on Tuesday last week and ended on Sunday at his club...

London Olympic organisers were left red-faced on Tuesday when a huge clock in Trafalgar Square marking the countdown to the 2012 Games stopped just hours after being unveiled at a glitzy ceremony. The steel digital clock measuring 6.5 metres tall and five metres long froze with 500 days, 7...

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Below you can see a naked cyclist takes part in the "World Naked Bike Ride" on Sao Paulo's Paulista Avenue March 12, 2011. The event aims to defend the rights of cyclists to ride on the streets in safety, according to organizers. More Link Removed

Irish rocker Bono and Google co-founder Sergey Brin have been nominated for a new prize created by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to mark his 80th birthday, the organisers said. The "Mikhail Gorbachev: the man who changed the world" awards are named after his three major policies...

I was at GDC 2011 in San Francisco this year and ran into a few old friends. Including video game journalist Geoff Keighley and bungie composer Marty O'Donnell. GDC is a great event that happens every year where big gaming and independent gaming companies alike attend sessions, meet other...

Pancake history was made at the weekend when a 32-inch tower of the flat treats broke the world record for the highest stack. Staff from TV show Food Network UK spent the weekend cooking, flipping and stacking a whopping 725 pancakes into a neat tower to celebrate Shrove Tuesday in a rather...

A circus dwarf and a man with the 'stretchiest skin in the world' have been banned from appearing at an Oxford University college ball. It seems vertically challenged Demon Dan’s ability to drag a vacuum cleaner using only his genitals cuts no mustard with the dean of St Peter’s College...

This week we welcome Link Removed to the show to talk about the Open Source Fest at MIX, which is a soirée for open source project leaders to come together to show off their great open source projects, and win some cool prizes! The Fest will be held on the evening of Monday, April 11th from...

The Apple Insider has reported that analyst Brian White with Ticonderoga Securities has described Apple's iPad 2 event , to be held today, as a "crucial product launch." Source: Yahoo! News

It was a case of better late than never for Taiwan, as 20 girls in knickers took part in the worldwide craze of No Trousers Day - but a month behind schedule. The crazy celebration, which makes it OK to be caught with your trousers down on the tube, has caught on around the world. The...

The Garage Science Fair is a quarterly event at Microsoft that gives employees an opportunity to showcase their work. In this video we take a look at three of this year's demos: (1) .NET Gadgeteer has a ton of cool, visually interesting, gadgets they’ve built, and they tap into hobbyist hardware...

The faithful attending the beatification of Pope John Paul II in Rome will be able to pray at his coffin, which will be exhumed for the event, the Vatican has said. The Roman Catholic Church warned its members around the world not to fall prey to fraudsters, particularly on the internet, who...

After more than five decades featuring over 1,100 songs, the Eurovision Song Contest, widely considered Europe's favorite TV show, is gearing up for its May 14 finale. Countries, represented by their individual public broadcasters, compete in the show every year, which is transmitted to all...

Microsoft may show the first glimpse of the next generation Windows at CES, the New York Times reports. Source: Yahoo! News

Find out the deets on MIX this year by tuning in to the Countdown show with Link Removed and Link Removed each week. The inaugural show gives an overview of the conference this year, but let’s fast forward to the good stuff: how do you get your hands on that complimentary ticket? Well, MIX is...

At the company's event in San Francisco this morning, Dell showed several new models of laptops, desktops, and workstations, as well as a prototype of a 10-inch Windows 7-based tablet due later... Link Removed

At Dell Means Business event in San Francisco, company unleashes 39 new products, including a new Windows tablet aimed at businesses. More...

Find out the deets on MIX this year by tuning in to the Countdown show with Link Removed and Link Removed each week. The inaugural show gives an overview of the conference this year, but let’s fast forward to the good stuff: how do you get your hands on that complimentary ticket? Well, MIX is...

mvcConf 2011 is streaming live from the (newly renovated) Channel 9 studios right now. To watch the broadcast - for free - in 720P smooth streaming head to: http://www.mvcconf.com For the full event schedule check out http://www.mvcconf.com/schedule Link Removed More...