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A Scene From a Michael Bay Movie About Tennis?

This mile-high tennis match looks like some cheesy special effect from a Nike commercial. But no, it’s just Dubai, whose entire economy seems to be based on building enormous things that exist only for the purpose of not making any goddamn sense. In that spirit they hosted this tennis match between Andre Agassi and Roger Federer on a helipad located on top of the Burj Al Arab skyscraper.

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The top 10 of the craziest races in sports.

Late last year, RealNetworks released RealDVD, which allowed users to make a personal backup copy of their DVDs. The software was only available for a few days before the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) filed a copyright-infringement suit, alleging that RealDVD violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by allowing consumers to bypass DVD content-scrambling systems.

Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of U.S. District Court in San Francisco issued a temporary injunction against the sale of the software and began hearing testimony…

Facebook has decided to move forward with the implementation of new policies based on the results of a week-long vote by users that ended Thursday evening.

During the past week, users of the social-networking service were given the opportunity to vote for the policy documents they think should serve as the foundation for governing the site, noted Ted Ullyot, Facebook’s general counsel.

“The preliminary numbers indicate that approximately 74.4 percent of users who voted chose the proposed documents — the new…

Kurt Wenner is a master artist best known for his extremely high quality street painting and chalk murals using a projection called anamorphosis. These 3D chalk drawings on pavement have been featured in many newspapers and on several television shows.

Wenner’s work has received global media attention. Newspaper and magazine articles have appeared in Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, the United States, and Mexico. His artwork has been seen on ABC’s World News Saturday, Good Morning America, and Pan Am and TWA’s…

Lawyers for defendants in The Pirate Bay case are demanding a retrial. Four men were sentenced last week to one year in jail and ordered to pay $4.5 million to several copyright owners, including Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Bros., and Columbia Pictures, after being found guilty of enabling downloading of copyrighted material.

Attorneys for Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi, and Carl Lundstrom are asking a Swedish appeals court for a retrial after it was discovered that Judge…

“GeoCities will close later this year.” That’s the stark announcement at the top of Yahoo’s GeoCities Help page.

The company goes on to say it is shutting down the ability of new customers to sign up for the free Web-hosting service and will close the service. “We’ll provide more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer,” Yahoo says, “and we will update the help center with more details at that time.”

The announcement marks an ignominious…