Mayor Harry Stonebraker has been re-elected to a fourth term in the small town of Winfield in Missouri, about a month after his death, with 90% of the votes.

Similarly in Missouri’s 2000 U.S. Senate race, Democrat candidate Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash a few weeks before the election, but still defeated Republican John Ashcroft.

Read more: Dead Man Elected In Ultimate Political Comeback

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Sony has confirmed talks with YouTube on posting full-length movies on the site. Therefore YouTube might take an even bigger share of the online media streaming business and sites such as Crackle or Hulu are expected to loose popularity.

Read more: Sony confirms talks with YouTube on full movies

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Now millions can access medication records online through Google Health, a new service that has recently been released by Google partnered up with Medco and CVS.

Read more: CVS joins Google Health Rx network: millions can access medication records online

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NASA has unveiled a mock-up of its new spaceship, the Orion exploration vehicle, which will replace the space shuttle in the next few years.

Read more: NASA unveils new space ship

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On Monday, April 6, Italy was hit by an earthquake of a magnitude of 6.3 on the Richter Scale. The epicenter was the city of L’Aquila in the Abruzzo region with a population of about 70,000. So far 40 dead have been reported.

Read more: Italy’s Earthquake

Update: According to some newer sources there are at least 275 known deaths, 1,500 people injured, and many more made homeless, as reported by Civil Protection Chief Guido Bertolaso.

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British scientist Stephen Wolfram says that his new search engine called WolframAlpha “could rival Google”. Instead of searching the Internet by keywords it will answer questions asked by users. Therefore this will involve some kind of artificial intelligence (AI).

Image by Wolfram Research

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Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!

British search engine ‘could rival Google’

Site: WolframAlpha

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This is a list of 10 uncommon HTML Tags which purpose is the most misunderstood, but are still quite useful:

10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know

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Moscow’s youth movement Nashi (“Ours”) claims responsibility for the 2007 cyber attacks on Estonia.

Read more: Kremlin Kids: We Launched the Estonian Cyber War

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Here is a list of the world’s richest people, which like the rest of us have lost money because of the bad economic times:

Forbes: The World’s Billionaires

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Discover how some kids made a million before graduating:

Forbes: How To Make A Million Before You Graduate

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