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Technology: Paper Plane to Fly Home From Space Station

Someone in Japan clearly thinks we're going to believe this tall tale of a paper plane that's to be thrown to Earth from the International Space Station. According to the Asahi newspaper (translated here), the University of Tokyo is working with the

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RipIt4Me: Backup your copy protected DVDs

Freeware program RipIt4Me helps you back up your protected DVDs with relative ease. RipIt4Me works in conjunction with previously-mentioned DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter to back up DVDs with some of the strongest copy protections that the other two

Weird Life: $26 per Grape

A bunch of premium grapes were auctioned for 100,000 yen (~US$920) in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on Monday (August 11). The bunch weighed around 700g and had 35 grapes, which converts to about $26 per grape. These expensive grapes are a new variet

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