Laura and Paul deliver you the hottest stories from Microsoft each week. Here's a look at this week's top hitters:
Kinect sets a world record
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Windows Phone does not store location history
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Michaelango's masterpiece The Hand of God has been recreated by 12,090 Rubik's Cubes.
Eleven puzzle buffs took more than 400 hours to create the artist's famed Sistine Chapel in their record-breaking feat.
The team had to adjust every single Rubik's...
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A man is able to write calligraphy by holding pen using 43 different body parts.
Cao Ruiqin, 44, can form the elegant markings using his eyes, ear hole, nostrils, finger gap, wrist, armpit, belly button, elbow and knee joints.
Now he wants to apply for a Guinness World Record to have...
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Smokey the cat, whose purr as loud as a Boeing 747, to make it into the Guinness world records.
Smokey's owner Ruth Adams hopes the moggy can be entered into the record books as the loudest purring domestic cat on the planet.
The 12-year-old moggy is 16 times louder than the average cat...
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These scuba divers are claiming a new world record after playing the same card game underwater for 36 hours.
The 16 divers - who worked in shifts so they could change oxygen tanks - sat on the bottom of a pool in Geiselhoering, Germany, playing a favourite local game called 'sheepshead'...
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...
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Dr Ted Eisenberg holds the world record for the most breast operations – and finds time for a spot of knife-throwing in his spare time.
Dr Eisenberg has conducted 3,460 breast ops and has a Guinness World Records certificate to prove it.
‘I absolutely love my work,’ said the...
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Junrey Balawing will soon be crowned the smallest man in recorded history – as long as he doesn’t put on a sudden growth spurt.
Standing at 56cm (1ft 10in), the Filipino teenager is the same size as a one-year-old and will smash the existing record when he turns 18 this June.
He is 11cm...
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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...
Clear your throat. The fifth annual World Sword Swallower's Day is Saturday, and if it's anything like last year, you'll see 22 performers shove 138 feet of steel down their throats at Ripley's Odditoriums all around the world.
In preparation for the big day, AOL Weird News sat down with the...
Meet Smokey, the cat thought to have the loudest purr in the world – making a racket which feels ten times louder than a regular purr.
Her roars of contentment have left her owners reaching for earplugs and unable to watch television or talk on the phone when she is nearby.
‘She has...
In 1898, when this cake was baked, Orville and Wilbur Wright were running a bicycle store, reading about birds and thinking how cool it would be to build a flying machine.
Guinness World Records calls this 113-year-old Victorian era confection the "World's Oldest Cake." Hitler's bombs caused...