Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Girls Gone Wild, Hal?, -and- The Final Frontier


Girls Gone Wild - teenagers rob man they met on MySpace
Hal? - computers set to read our minds
The Final Frontier - NASA engineer quits 5 days before launch

On this day in history: June 28, 1997

Mike Tyson is disqualified from a championship boxing bout after biting off a large portion of Evander Holyfield's ear. Tyson is later banned from boxing and fined $3 million for the incident.

The Dell laptop seen bursting into flames in the news was being examined as part of the company's probe of the incident, Dell said on Tuesday.

"We have captured the notebook and have begun investigating the event," Dell spokeswoman Anne Camden said, confirming the computer was made by Dell but declining to specify the model. No one was hurt in the incident.

The report of an exploding laptop at a conference in Osaka, Japan, accompanied by digital photos, was first published on technology industry news Web site The Inquirer last week.