A week ago we wrote about the Zephyr “Eternal Aircraft”, an unmanned solar plane that had just broken many records by staying up in the air for 7 days. Well, the Zephyr has finally landed at the US Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona after 14 days and 24 minutes, setting a new world record .

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Lou Piniella isn’t waiting around to go out on a high note with the Cubs. The 2010 season will be his last. Piniella, who turns 67 next month, released a statement Tuesday announcing his intention to retire following this season — his 23rd as a big league manager.

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JoshuaInNippon writes “Japanese researchers from Sony and Tohoku University announced the development of a ‘blue-violet ultrafast pulsed semiconductor laser,’ which Sony is aiming to use for optical disks. The new technology, with ‘a laser wavelength of 405 nanometers in the blue-violet region’ and a power out put ‘more than a hundred times the world’s highest output value for conventional blue-violet pulse semiconductor lasers,’ is believed to be (more…)

Artists from all over the globe meet in the sand to show off their sculpting skills—whether they’re professional artists hoping to make it to the World Championship of Sand Sculpting come September or amateurs just in it for fun.

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EA and Spicy Horse Games proudly announce Alice: Madness Returns. The sequel to American McGee’s visionary classic “Alice”. Coming soon to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

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Ricky Ponting becomes only the second batsman to pass 12,000 Test runs as Australia fought back on day two of the final Test against Pakistan.

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mjn writes “Game designer and academic Ian Bogost announces Cow Clicker, a Facebook game implementing the mechanics of the Facebook-games genre stripped to their core. You get a cow, which you can click on every six hours. You earn additional clicks if your friends in your pasture also click. You can buy premium cows with ‘mooney,’ and also use your mooney to buy more clicks. You can buy mooney with real dollars, or earn some free bonus mooney if (more…)

Between the ring girls, apparel models, television hosts, and the lady-fighters themselves, MMA has a lot to offer to someone that appreciates beautiful women. And they seem to get hotter every year.

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One of the many brilliant things about the PC is that you’re not tied to the mainstream. Unless you’re housed deep within the labyrinthine offices of the most far-flung Activision studio, you’re free from the shackles of commercial viability and you can make whatever the hell you deem fit.

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The prospect of playing at Anfield was key to Joe Cole’s decision to join Liverpool.

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