According to reports the group entered the high-end lingerie store in Georgetown, Washington, on Monday afternoon, distracting store employees before making off with products, ‘within seconds’ of entering, after co-ordinating the raid online. After the spate of robberies, other store managers in Georgetown, Washington, have expressed worry about the trend of ‘flashrobs’. The local police department believe the ‘flashrobs’ are planned on Facebook and Twitter, not long before they take place. The raiders enter stores filled with dumbfounded customers before blatantly stealing goods straight in front of store security cameras.

Lt John Hedgecock, from Washington D.C. Police, told Fox News: “They come in and they do it so fast – within a matter of seconds. What happened in this store probably lasted around 20 seconds. They go in, they distract the employees and they grab the merchandise, they are in and out. We have some information that they may be using some of the social media such as Facebook and Twitter to schedule an event if you will.”

Reports state that the robbery took place on Monday at around 2pm, where two men and two women entered the store with two baby strollers, while a small child distracted staff, allowing the theft to take place. The store owners said that the robbers showed no concern for store security, in fact they even ‘posed’ for the cameras in store, safe in the in the knowledge that the confusion of the flashrob means identifying them could be difficult.

Expert opinions on the brazen robbers state that they believe that young people get a rush from taking part in the ‘flashrobs’ and having the footage circulated in the media or on YouTube by police.

Scott Decker, Professor of Criminology at Arizona State University, told Fox News: “Young people are risk takers and seeing themselves on security videos uploaded on YouTube or the news can be a thrill to them.”

U.S blogger BirdAbroad who visited the store was convinced at first that it was a real store. Then she noticed that the signage said ‘Apple Store’ – and Steve Jobs’, something which would not be seen in a genuine official Apple store.

According to BirdAbroad, upon closer inspection, she noticed other things that weren’t quite right, she wrote on her blog: “The name tags around the necks of the friendly sales people didn’t actually have names on them – just an Apple logo and the anonymous designation ‘Staff’. Also, the stairs were poorly made and the walls hadn’t been painted properly. This was a total Apple store rip-off. A beautiful rip-off – a brilliant one – the best rip-off store we had ever seen. Even the salespeople genuinely thought they worked for Apple.”

BirdAbroad was convinced though that the products on sale looked genuine, even though they weren’t.

An Apple spokeswoman confirmed that BirdAbroad was absolutely correct, the store is a fake.

The famous hacking group LulzSec, which has previously targeted companies including Sony, claimed it carried out the hacking, this was announced via messages on Twitter. The group’s name comes from the word ‘lulz’, which is online slang for laughter at someone else’s expense. Their logo is a cartoon man in a top hat and monocle, holding a glass of wine.

Readers that were trying to access thesun.co.uk were redirected to another website, new-times.co.uk, which displayed a story given the headline: “Media mogul’s body discovered”. It suggested that Mr Murdoch had been found after he had committed suicide by “ingesting a large quantity of palladium”.

After that hoax site stopped working, The Sun address was then re-directing to LulzSec’s Twitter account.

The only comment that was made was by a News International spokeswoman who simply confirmed that the company was “aware” of what was happening.
The group’s name comes from the word lulz, which is online slang for laughter at someone else’s expense. Their logo is a cartoon man in a top hat and monocle, holding a glass of wine.

Stone is not the only member of the crew to be leaving, Evan Williams, who stepped down from the post last October and has also been acting as and ‘advisor’,’ has also notify the team that he is leaving completely and will be joining Stone in his work with The Obvious Group.  Many people would like to invest in the project, as Twitter is believed to be worth £4.9 billion and another other project like it would definitely be worth investing in!

Twitter will carry on regardless of the loss of Stone as the ever-so-popular (200 million registered accounts and 2,200 tweets ever second) does not want to disappoint its users.

Accounts were hijacked, because victims had responded to emails from hackers who stole passwords using malware n the victim’s computers. The Pentagon revealed the security breach and warned that the U.S may retaliate with military force against any country which sabotages its computers. It’s thought that the latest attack was executed in Jinan, China, according to Google, that also stated that the victims of the hacking have been notified, the victims included U.S Government personnel, South Korean Government officials and federal workers in other Asian countries.

This isn’t the first attack Google have suffered at the hands of Chinese hackers, last year Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists were broken into but Google itself was not affected then, however it did lead Google to end its agreement with the Chinese Government to censor search results and they also moved their servers out of the country.

That didn’t stop the populace going on an orgy of nonsense:

The issue was, however, compounded by media dimwits who were quick to publish what was claimed to be pictures of a dead Bin Laden. TV stations in Pakistan led the way, but before long the image had found its way into mainstream Western media, eager to get the grisly scoop into their pages.

Unfortunately, the image was actually a poorly thrown together fake that first circulated over two years ago. Taking a stock photo of Bin Laden, some wag had spliced it together with that of an unknown corpse to create a briefly convincing photo that didn’t stand a moment’s serious scrutiny.

Firstly, the bottom half of the face is clearly massively out of focus in comparison to the top half. This is an obvious indication of fakery, and suggests that the hoaxer had simply blown up a picture of Bin Laden to fit the size of a second photograph of a corpse. This was so clearly debunked at the time, that it is easy to find the actual dead body photo that made the second half of the image.

Nonetheless, the press’ publication of this image led to a wide belief that this had been officially published by the Government and from there to a slew of conspiracy belief: primarily that Bin Laden wasn’t dead. The “sea burial” disposal of Bin Laden’s body and the publication of this image were conflated in the minds of many and presented as compelling evidence of something fishy. And this being the internet, it’s not a rumour that will die any time soon.

The SBS Typoon collided with a scout vessel, which in turn was forced into a third vessel. The owners of the Typhoon put the accident down to a software fault, with SBS managing director Nigel Taylor saying:

“We were in the process of installing a new dynamic positioning system. We were doing checks on the system and had to have the engine running. There was a fault in the software. The controls were fully manned at the time, as were the other two vessels. No one was hurt. There was some damage caused to our ship and to the VOS Scout and minor damage to the Ocean Searcher.”

While the footage appeared dramatic, sharp-eyed YouTube users noticed that birds flying past the camera appeared to be doing so at something like 54000 miles an hour while some wags pointed out that traffic in Aberdeen moves at nothing like the speed shown in the video. Despite that, why positioning software was being tested in such a confined space alongside other vessels isn’t entirely clear, and it’s certainly a more entertaining software bug than Microsoft Word’s inability to handle bullet points.

Anyway, if slightly sped-up footage of ships gently bumping into each other is your bag, then here you go.

A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police said today: “Police were called at 11.40am yesterday to reports of a man in the River Wharfe, apparently having fallen from the cliffs above. A Segway-style vehicle was recovered. He was pronounced dead at the scene. At this time we do not believe the death to be suspicious.”

Mr Heselden had bought Segway in December 2009, the machines which use gyroscopes to remain upright and are controlled by the direction in which the rider leans he recently became one of the UK’s most generous philanthropists, having given away £10 million to a charity foundation he set up in 2008. He had also in the past given £13 million to the same foundation which was the Leeds Community Foundation. Mr Heselden was worth £166 million and ranked 395th on the Sunday Times Rich List, which placed him above Simon Cowell.

Jimi Heselden, was once a miner by trade however, he made his fortune with Leeds-based defence company Hesco Bastion, which pioneered ‘blast walls’, the steel-mesh baskets that replaced sandbags as protection for soldiers on the frontline in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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The idea isn’t a new one, it has been in use in Norway and Sweden, and more recently in Paris to heat a public housing project.

According to Paris Habitat, they expect each passenger to give off around 100 watts in expended body heat – this, as well as the heat from the trains, keep their Metro station at temperatures between 14 and 20 degrees celcius.

The system uses geothermal engineering to move heat from underground to a heat exchanger, which then heats up water pipes allowing the water being pumped round to be heated.

According to estimates this would lead to a 33 percent reduction in carbon emissions in comparison to a normal boiler system.

Problems would only arise when there is a strike by Tube staff – which at the moment appears to be quite regular, so they may need some kind of backup system to allow for this inevitable problem.

They are considering implementing this for buildings around the London Underground stations by 2016, as part of a target to make all new buildings carbon zero.

During the 26 hour flight, heights of around 28,543 feet were reached, making it both the longest and highest flight performed by a solar powered plane. As the plane touched down assistants, who had helped to build the plane over the last 7 years, rushed to the plane (that weighs the weight of an average family car and has a wingspan of 207 ft) to make sure it was all still intact. The teams were thrilled as this now meant that they were one step closer to achieving their dream of a solar powered plane big enough for a full load of passengers to travel across the world through the night. The team aim to achieve this goal by 2013. Mr. Piccard quoted “It’s the first time ever that a (manned) solar airplane has flown through the night. That was the moment that proved the mission was successful, we made it.”

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Although this case has become a talking point across the internet and on many blogs and forums, with many critics blaming the woman for ignoring her own safety to follow directions blindly, Rosenberg’s lawyer Allen Young said the truth was different. The directions Ms Rosenberg downloaded to her phone in January gave directions from one end of Park City to the other however the Google Maps led her to a four-lane street without footpaths. According to the lawsuit filed by the California resident that route was “not reasonably safe for pedestrians.”

Ms Rosenberg states that she did believe she could reach a footpath on the other side of Deer Valley Drive, so she tried to cross the four-lane street however she did not reach the median because she was struck by a speeding car on a pitch-black night. Rosenberg received multiple bone fractures and she required six weeks of rehabilitation.

Her lawyer Mr Young said,” We think there’s enough fault to go around, but Google had some responsibility to direct people correctly or warn them, they created a trap with walking instructions that people rely on. She relied on it and thought she should cross the street.” He also states that Ms Rosenberg is seeking compensation for her medical bills as well as more for lost wages and punitive damages.

Spokesperson for Google, Elaine Filadelfo said “the company had not received a copy of the lawsuit and could not discuss it, but she disputed Mr Young’s assertion that Google Maps provides no warning that walking routes may be missing footpaths or pedestrian areas. Every software version for desktop computers and mobile devices has had that disclaimer since Google Maps was launched in 2008.”

The Park City police also stated that some segments of Deer Valley Drive have footpaths but not the stretch that Rosenberg reached. The street has a walking path on the side Ms Rosenberg failed to reach. Rosenberg’s lawyer said the walking path was “totally snowpacked” and of no use to pedestrians in January.

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This latest death will add fuel to the fair of labour activists who allege Foxconn has a long history of mistreatment of workers and poor working conditions. They claim that the 300,000 employees face tremendous pressure in their working conditions and are pushed hard they also claim that any employees who make mistakes face harsh discipline.

Foxconn, who are owned by Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry group are yet to make any comment about the death, however after a suicide earlier this month the company said “our workers enjoy world-class treatment, including social responsibility programmes to ensure their welfare.”

The company also produce mobile phones for Nokia, Playstation consoles for Sony and computers for Hewlett-Packard, the most high profile death at the factory happened last July, when Sun Danyong, 25, jumped to his death. He had previously been interrogated over an iPhone prototype that had gone missing, he was responsible for sending the device to US-based Apple.