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Facebook, Google Earth fuelling impromptu pool party craze

London, June 18 : Teenagers are using satellite images on the internet to find houses with swimming pools - and then turning up uninvited for an impromptu dip.

The craze, known as ‘dipping’, involves using the Google Earth programme, which provides high-quality photos of Britain and other countries, reports the Telegraph.

Once a target is chosen, the youngsters use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo to arrange to meet.

According to the police, residents have woken up to find youngsters 'dipping' in their back gardens, or have come home from work to a swimming pool full of beer cans.

Samsung Unveils Two Eco-Friendly Phones

Samsung Electronics has unveiled its two environmentally-friendly mobile Samsung Intros Eco Friendly Phoneshandsets, named W510 and the F268, at the World IT Show in Seoul, Korea.

The company said that the W510 is its initial cell phone to be made of ‘bio-plastic’ produced from natural material extracted from cornstarch.

The phone is manufactured using an environmentally-friendly metal finishing process, and it does not use any heavy metals like Lead, Mercury and Cadmium.

Russia opens new facility to dispose of chemical weapons

Moscow - Russia opened a new centre Tuesday to speed the dismantling of its chemical weapons arsenal in an effort to abolish its massive stockpiles by 2012.

Tejas on its maiden flight breaks sound barrier

Totally Indian Made Air Craft - Tejas'Bangalore, June

World will run out of Internet addresses by 2010

Melbourne, June 17 : The Internet will run out of addresses in another two years as only 700 million separate addresses are remaining for allocation out of the 4.3 billion available on the present

GPS access may facilitate automated aircraft-carrier landing

London, June 17 : Automated landing on aircraft-carriers can be made possible if both the ship and the aircraft are in sync with each other via GPS, say scientists.

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