News tagged with tour
Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast.
Video game sales rise in April on stronger lineup
(AP) -- Sales of console and portable video games grew 26 percent in April versus last year, a rise that a market research group that tracks the figures attributes to a stronger lineup of games such as "Mortal Kombat 2011" ...
May 13, 2011 |
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Tour de France Stresses Riders' Bodies to the Limit
Glancing at the elevation profiles of the stages of the 2010 Tour de France is enough to tire a couch potato. The mountainous race is legendarily strenuous, but beyond short-term discomforts such as road rash ...
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Virtual White House tours go online
The Oval Office, the "situation room" and the first family's organic garden are among the highlights of a new virtual tour of the White House put online Tuesday.
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Nations set new tourism limits for Antarctica
(AP) -- Countries with interests in Antarctica have endorsed U.S.-proposed mandatory limits on Antarctic tourism that aim to protect the continent's fragile environment, officials said Friday.
Apr 19, 2009 |
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Tiger Woods pro golf tour videogame tees off big
Electronic Arts on Tuesday announced that a freshly-released "Tiger Woods PGA TOUR" videogame teed-off with the strongest opening sales in the franchise's 14-year history.
Apr 13, 2011 |
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Researchers develop fast methods for making 3D city models
There is a growing demand for three-dimensional city models, but creating these models is expensive and labour-intensive. Shi Pu and Sander Oude Elberink of the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Virtual museum guide
(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeological treasures are brought to life by Fraunhofer software. Real images are enriched with digital information on a virtual tour through ancient buildings, creating a more vivid experience ...
Feb 02, 2010 |
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Half of Euro online travel purchases legally unsafe: EU
More than half of all people who buy flights, hotel rooms and hire cars online risk being left without compensation if companies fail under outdated law, the EU said Thursday.
Nov 26, 2009 |
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Armstrong announces birth of son on Twitter
This was one special tweet for Lance Armstrong.
Jun 05, 2009 |
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Taciturn Armstrong sparks Twitter media boycott
Lance Armstrong's refusal to speak directly to the press at the Tour of Italy has sparked a boycott by some sections of the Italian and anglophone media of the American's online messages.
May 22, 2009 |
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Fishing the online stream
On West Lancaster Avenue in Wayne, Pa., local businessman Robert Lail runs what he calls "YouTube for business."
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Company offers college campus tour videos on the Web
Want to take a cross country trip to visit colleges all over the United States, but don't want to shell out thousands for gas, food and lodging?
May 28, 2009 |
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Grand prizes might help induce sports 'hot streaks'
Dangling a lucrative financial carrot at the end of a professional sport season can cause certain players to exert the effort necessary to put together a string of successful performances, sometimes known in sporting circles ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 17, 2009 |
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