Åklagaren i rättegången om 16-åriga Osloflickan Sigrid Schjetnes död i fjol har inga direkta bevis som knyter en misstänkt 38-årig man till brott.

Omkring 70 personer i Helås utanför Vara har evakuerats i samband med en brand och väntas inte få återvända till sina hem förrän på lördagseftermiddagen.

Syrian president tells Turkish TV station that "terrorists" will turn on their hosts "like a scorpion".

Apple has came a long way when it comes to gaming, and it’s now in position to take the market by storm. Josh Centers explains why, with some exclusive inside information.

 

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En svårsläckt skogsbrand rasar på Halleberg, nära Vänersborg.

Nästan 800 liter alkoholhaltiga drycker, varav mer än 500 liter starksprit, hittades vid en husrannsakan i en 66-årig mans lägenhet i Gävle.

An anonymous reader writes "Valve has revealed their first Steam Machines prototype details. The first 300 Steam Machine prototypes to ship will use various high-end Intel CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs while running their custom SteamOS Linux distribution. The Intel Haswell CPU + NVIDIA GPU combination should work well on Linux with the binary drivers. Using a range of CPUs/GPUs in the prototypes will allow them to better gauge the performance and effectiveness. Valve also said they will be releasing the CAD design files to their custom living room console enclosure for those who'd like to reproduce them." Valve is careful to point out that these specs aren't intended as a standard: "[T]o be clear, this design is not meant to serve the needs of all of the tens of millions of Steam users. It may, however, be the kind of machine that a significant percentage of Steam users would actually want to purchase — those who want plenty of performance in a high-end living room package. Many others would opt for machines that have been more carefully designed to cost less, or to be tiny, or super quiet, and there will be Steam Machines that fit those descriptions."

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You won’t attend MacTech Conference because of these opportunities, but if you’re on the fence about going to the conference for IT professionals and developers, the chance to test-drive a Tesla Model S and sit in Captain Picard’s chair on the restored bridge of the USS Enterprise-D might influence your decision.

 

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En 56-årig kvinna är gripen för grov misshandel efter ett knivdrama i en lägenhet i Mjölby i dag.

En 59-årig kvinna skadades svårt när hon på motorcykel krockade med en bil på riksväg 70 norr om Gagnef i dag.

New submitter _0xd0ad sends this news from the CS Monitor: "The activities of bantam water droplets in just one region of a power plant could make a significant difference in the output of power plants, scientists say. ... When a water droplet forms on a sheet of metal coated with a superhydrophobe, the droplet can camp there only so long as it does not merge with another droplet. As soon as it weds with another droplet, the energy produced is so great that the two will 'jump' away from that surface, as if in urgent deference to the surface's severe water phobia. Scientists have proposed that this 'jumping' could be incorporated into power plant design. ... 'To have the most efficient condensing surface, you want to remove the droplets as early as possible,' says Dr. Nenad Miljkovic, [postdoctoral associate at MIT and co-author on 'Electrostatic charging of jumping droplets']. But, in prototypes, this 'jumping' design is not as efficient as engineers believe it could be. Some of the droplets will just fall back to the condenser's surface, recoating it and slowing the process down. ... But a newly discovered component to the 'jumping' process might allow scientists to eliminate this fall back. In an accidental find, the MIT team found that droplets don't just spring from the surface — they also rebound from each other ... because an electrical charge forms on the droplets as they flee the hydrophobic surface. So, if a charge is applied to the condenser system, the water droplets can be electrically prevented from returning to the surface, he said.

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SvD:s Anna-Lena Laurén: Putin kan gå på en nit här.

Herman Wallace, tidigare medlem av rörelsen Svarta pantrarna i USA, har avlidit.

En helikopterbesättning tvingades i dag nödlanda på en obemannad oljeplattform i Nordsjön.

SustainableJeroen writes "On Sunday morning (Australian time), October 6th, 40 solar-powered vehicles from 24 countries will depart from Darwin and make their way south along the 3000km Stuart Highway towards Adelaide in the 2013 World Solar Challenge. About half of the vehicles compete in the Challenger class, the class which features what many people will recognize as typical solar racing cars: flat, UFO-like vehicles, built exclusively for efficiency and speed. For the first time, however, much more practical vehicles will race each other in the new Cruiser class. These vehicles will seat two, three of four people and be road legal. In both 2009 and 2011, the University of Michigan Solar Car Team finished third, Nuon Solar Team finished second and Tokai University finished first. The fastest vehicles will be expected to reach Adelaide on Thursday or Friday, depending on the weather."

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