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Sixteen-year-old boy charged with murder over use of Playstation in Chile

29 January, 2021

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Thursday, April 29, 2010 A sixteen-year-old boy from Santiago, Chile has been charged with the murder of his brother after the pair got in a fight over whose turn it was to use a PlayStation 3. Police reported that the sixteen-year-old had stabbed his eighteen-year-old brother after he turned the PlayStation on without his younger […]

Wikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng

29 January, 2021

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This article mentions the Wikimedia Foundation, one of its projects, or people related to it. Wikinews is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. Thursday, October 22, 2020 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor candidate Wayne Tseng answered some questions about his campaign for the upcoming election from Wikinews. The Lord Mayor election in the Australian city is […]

Wikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng

29 January, 2021

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Microsoft and Yahoo! link their instant messaging services

29 January, 2021

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Thursday, July 13, 2006 Nine months after announcing the interoperability between their instant messaging (IM) services, Internet rivals Microsoft and Yahoo! began limited public beta (pre-release) testing of the program. This enables users of the two services to communicate with each other using their existing IM client, Microsoft’s Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) and […]

Parts of internet break as ‘512k day’ reached by routers

29 January, 2021

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Thursday, August 14, 2014 On Tuesday many internet routers, used to find the pathways to different parts of the web, reached their memory limit of 512,000 entries in the tables they use to store the routes, causing problems for many users. A router is used to direct a user towards the area of the internet […]

Internet hackers attack Al-Jazeera website, condemn news service’s Syrian civil war coverage

29 January, 2021

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012 The website of international news service Al Jazeera was hacked Tuesday by a group idenitified only as Al-Rashedon. The type of group and its exact purposes are unclear at this stage, although it appears to be supportive of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. We have hacked you because your lack of support […]

Wikinews interviews 2020 Melbourne Lord Mayor Candidate Wayne Tseng

29 January, 2021

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SpaceX successfully launches its first crewed spaceflight

29 January, 2021

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Sunday, May 31, 2020 SpaceX successfully launched its first crewed mission at 1922 UTC yesterday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a Crew Dragon capsule atop a Falcon 9 rocket. This was the first launch of a crewed spacecraft from the United States since NASA’s […]

SpaceX scrubs Falcon I rocket launch

29 January, 2021

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Monday, November 28, 2005 SpaceX called off the much-delayed inaugural launch of their new Falcon 1 rocket on Saturday from Kwajalein’s Omelek Island launch site. The intent was to launch the U.S. Air Force Academy’s FalconSat 2 satellite, which will monitor plasma interactions with the Earth’s upper atmosphere and magnetosphere. The launch was delayed, then […]

Russian passenger jet crashes on Indonesian demonstration flight

29 January, 2021

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Thursday, May 10, 2012 A plane built by Russia’s Sukhoi has crashed in Indonesia with around 50 people on board during a demonstration flight to potential customers. The Superjet 100 struck a cliff as it descended over mountains near Jakarta. The aircraft departed Halim Perdanakusuma Airport at around 2pm local time yesterday and was due […]