DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It had been 85 points races since Dale Earnhardt Jr. made it to Victory Lane.

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HD pictures of Top 10 Goals of the World Cup’s first week. Which one is your pick?

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LucasArts debuted the first look at the next installment of the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed series at E3.

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Crytek shows off the first gameplay footage of the upcoming sequel to one of the best looking games on the PC till date

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Ninja Theory the developers behind the 2007 PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavenly Sword, have released the first in game footage for their next game: Enslaved.

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In what some are calling a ‘tandem’ bicycle kick, two footballers down South America way performed an overhead kick… at the same time. And yep, it went in.

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Barence writes “Intel has provided the first hands-on demonstration of a laptop running its Light Peak technology — an optical interconnect that can transfer data at 10Gbit/sec in both directions — at the company’s inaugural European research showcase here in Brussels. Intel has fitted Light Peak into a regular USB cable, with optical fibres running alongside the electrical cabling. Intel provided a visual demonstration of how data is (more…)

Dave Knott writes “A thirty-member Spanish medical team has achieved the world’s first full face transplant. There have been ten previous similar operations, but this is claimed to be the first total transplant, replacing all of the face including some bones. The unnamed recipient originally injured himself in a shooting accident, and received the entire facial skin and muscles — including cheekbones, nose, lips and teeth — of a donor. (more…)

coondoggie writes “NASA today showed off the amazing first pictures of the Sun taken from its 6,800lb Solar Dynamics Observatory flying at an orbit 22,300 miles above Earth. The first images show a variety of activity NASA says provide never-before-seen detail of material streaming outward and away from sunspots. Others show extreme close-ups of activity on the sun’s surface. The spacecraft also has made the first high-resolution measurements of solar (more…)

Mirk writes “The first episode of Doctor Who’s new series 5 has just aired on BBC1 in the UK. This is an important episode for the show because so much has changed: Matt Smith plays the new Doctor, replacing David Tennant, and Karen Gillan portrays a new companion, Amy Pond. Maybe most important, Russell T. Davies is replaced as showrunner by Stephen Moffat, who is known for acclaimed Doctor Who scripts including The Empty Child and Blink. Here is (more…)