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Cupertino, CA - Apple fans are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new iPhone 5 later this year, however a few lucky individuals may get their hands on one sooner. TechNewz reported today that Apple will secretly "lose" 5,000 of the new iPhones withi...  CONTINUE READING 

Palo Alto, CA - In a stunning announcement today, Facebook revealed that their CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has permanently deleted his Facebook account. The actual deletion occurred earlier this month and was a result of his latest encounter wi...  CONTINUE READING 

Dearborn, MI - Ford Motor Company will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Model T this year by releasing an all new concept based on the original ground breaking auto. The project has been kept under wraps for the past several years, however...  CONTINUE READING 

Heathrow, England - Virgin Atlantic announced a new program geared towards thrill seekers in love, dubbed "The Mile High Experience". Under the program, couples flying select flights across the Atlantic will have the ability to legally join the famou...  CONTINUE READING 

Palo Alto, CA - A surprise announcement was made today by Apple CEO Steve Jobs when he revealed that his company has been awarded a patent for the 'click'. "A member of our legal staff was doing routine research when she discovered that no patents ha...  CONTINUE READING 

Hollywood, CA - CBS revealed that the next 'Survivor' series will be set on a glacier in Antarctica. Mark Burnett, executive producer of the series, stated "For the latest incarnation, we wanted to really shake things up. We think this will be most u...  CONTINUE READING 

Cupertino, CA - Best Buy employees were surprised recently when Justin Long, the actor who portrays the "mac guy" in Apple's popular commercials, stopped in to purchase a new home computer for himself. "I recognized him right away", said John Beck, ...  CONTINUE READING 

Detroit, MI - To go along with GM's new electric car initiative - VOLT concept, CEO Rick Wagoner has announced a new way to interact with the vehicle. A new hand speed controller will replace the typical foot controlled accelerator found in most veh...  CONTINUE READING 

Los Angeles, CA - Playboy Magazine announced that it will no longer publish nude photos of women in future editions. "We always hear men say that they read Playboy for the articles and not the pictorials, so we decided to remove them" states Christie...  CONTINUE READING 

A survey of the national divorce rate indicates that the rate has dropped 27.3% in 2007 from the previous year. A recent study, performed at UC Berkley's Department for Relational Science, is reporting that the recent drop in the rate of marital ter...  CONTINUE READING 

Washington, DC - Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledged today that she would be more than happy to return any missing silverware to the White House if she is elected in 2008. She states "Bill and I enjoyed it so much while he was in offi...  CONTINUE READING 

Hershey, PA -Due to the ever increasing cost of paper, The Hershey Co. has announced that it will no longer include the little paper strips along with its famous Kisses. Hershey CEO David West, states "It may seem insignificant, however that little p...  CONTINUE READING 

Palo Alto, CA - Google acknowledged today that it had accidentally let its domain, google.com, expire on Friday. It was a rare lapse for the Silicon Valley giant who seemingly never misses a beat. The discovery was made after would be "googlers" sudd...  CONTINUE READING 

Washington, DC - Bank of America stated this week that the White House has now missed three months of mortgage payments and is in danger of foreclosure. The Bush Administration claims that they don't have enough funds in the current budget to cover t...  CONTINUE READING 

Houston, TX - Executives at Exxon Mobil Corp. announced today that company engineers have found a way to store electrical charges in a petroleum based gel. The discovery was made purely by accident, says [name here], lead engineer. "We were working o...  CONTINUE READING 

New York, NY - NFL Commissioner Robert Goodell retroactively declared the Tennessee Titans winner of Super Bowl XXXIV on Friday. The announcement came as a surprise to team owner Bud Adams, who happily accepted it. "A win is a win, and a Super Bowl w...  CONTINUE READING 

Detroit, MI - General Motors announced today that the Chevrolet Volt concept will include 2,000 foot extension cable to help improve range when not running on gasoline. Under the current design, car is limited to approximately 50 miles before the gas...  CONTINUE READING 

Sant'Agata Bolognese, Italy - Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A announced plans to make the company more environmentally friendly by 2011. The company currently produces just two models; the Gallardo powered by a 10 cylinder engine and the flagship Murcie...  CONTINUE READING 

Oslo, Norway - The Doomsday vault in Norway received a shipment of high grade cannabis seeds for inclusion in its collection late yesterday afternoon. The idea came from Sean Kelley of Des Moines, IO. "I was like, hanging out with my roommates and st...  CONTINUE READING