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Man, 73, fails high school exams after 39th try

A 73-year-old man who failed his 10th grade high school exams for the 39th time vowed today to try again next year in the hopes that an education will improve his job and marriage prospects. Shivcharan Jatav, a farmer from the desert state of Raja

Windows XP SP2 Laptop Battery Drain Bug

When you unplug the AC power from a Microsoft Windows XP-based portable computer, the battery may drain more quickly than you expect. Therefore, the operating system may shut down prematurely. This problem may occur if one of the following condition

Russian ATM runs on unactivated copy of Windows

A multi-million (billion?) dollar bank, running a pirated copy of Windows? britepic_id='355583' britepic_src='http://cdn.10dailythings.com/images/russian_atm.jpg' britepic_keywords='Russian, ATM, Windows'

Weird Product: Qdrum - A Rollable Water Container

The Q-Drum, a low cost rollable water container for developing countries. The burden of fetching water, invariably over long distances by cumbersome and far too often, unhygienic means, is all too evident in rural Africa. The idea of the Q-Drum or

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