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- Beleaguered British Columbia Premier resigns
- BBC support song making chart impact
- Final launch of Space Shuttle Discovery delayed until at least Thursday
- NuCaptcha introduces a video captcha service, ads included
- Policeman from Sussex, UK pleads guilty to fraud over lost and found money
| Beleaguered British Columbia Premier resigns Posted: |
| BBC support song making chart impact Posted: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 A song released yesterday in support of the BBC is making an impact on several UK music charts. Stand-up comic Mitch Benn wrote I'm Proud of the BBC in response to the criticism the licence fee-funded corporation has received from its commercial competitors and the right-wing press. The Conservative-led coalition government announced two weeks ago that the licence fee is to be frozen for six years, and that the BBC will take over responsibility from the Foreign Office for funding the World Service. More...   |
| Final launch of Space Shuttle Discovery delayed until at least Thursday Posted: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 Space Shuttle Discovery's final launch on the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station has been delayed at least an additional day. Launch is now targeted for 3:29 PM EDT on Thursday. The launch was originally scheduled for this past Monday, but was delayed two days because of helium and nitrogen leaks on board the shuttle. More... |
| NuCaptcha introduces a video captcha service, ads included Posted: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 According to NuCaptcha, the moving image doesn't need to be as clear as static images. With a random video background and big-sized moving text, the blurred text turned out to be easier to be recognized by the brain. The researchers say same text isn't that easily recongised when it's static. Therefore, the image is more complicated to process or abuse, while still being easily readable, NuCaptcha says. The image, as most modern videos, has a significantly bigger size than previously used static images. If often opens in a popup window. The bigger size improves accessibility. As news reporters say, the CAPTCHAs are now easy to use even for older people with vision impairments. More... |
| Policeman from Sussex, UK pleads guilty to fraud over lost and found money Posted: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 Police sergeant Peter Yeats, who until his arrest in September was a member of Sussex Police in England, UK, entered a plea of guilty on Monday to fraud by false representation. The charge related to lost and found cash that a member of the public had handed in to the police after discovering it on a bridle path. Yeats was on duty in Hastings on July 19 this year when Lewes Police Station was given the plastic bag of money, totalling £3,500 in £20 notes. He used a police computer to read about the find on an incident database and rang his own force three times using the name "Kirk Rose". He told officers he was from Cornwall and his wife had lost around £3,000 in the area the previous day. More... |
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