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BP said that the leak is gushing oil at a rate of 5,000 barrels a day, but the leak could increase to 60,000 barrels (2.5 million gallons) per day! Employees of BP, Transocean, and Halliburton say that the oil rig was drilling deeper than the 20,000 feet allowed by its permit and that BP failed to install a "deep-hole safety valve" that could have cut off the oil flow after an accident. Workers also said that the concrete seal was not properly formed, which allowed pressurized natural gas to shoot up in the rig, where it ignited:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100505,0,5424715,full.story

The Exxon Valdez spill was the worst in US history, spilling 10.8 million gallons of oil in 1989. This BP spill has already released an estimated 9 million gallons of oil and BP estimates indicate that about *38 million* gallons will be released if things go as they estimate:
http://homelandsecuritynewswire.com/bad-news-expect-about-38000000-gallons-oil-be-released-gulf

The Taliban made another poisonous gas attack on a girls' school, their 4th attack in less than a month. 22 students and 3 teachers were hospitalized from this attack:
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/taliban-uses-poisonous-gas-attack-kabul-girls-school

Somali pirates hijacked a Russian oil tanker with a cargo worth more than $50 million. Russia sent a warship towards the pirates, so things could get interesting with the warship, pirates, and kidnapped crew:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-russia-tanker-hijack-20100505,0,1887910.story

Dogs used in search-and-rescue operations could soon be fitted with GPS-enabled collars to help locate trapped victims after an earthquake or similar disaster:
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/news/news-analysis/search-and-rescue-dogs-fitted-with-gnss/1002101.article

CEO of Russian computer security company Kaspersky says that the Internet and computers will soon disappear, replaced by smartphones, mobile networks, and 5G:
http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=46273&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10

Poll of smartphone users found that AT&T was the worst among the major cellular carriers in the US for dropped calls. Verizon customers reported losing only 1.5% of their calls over the past 3 months (giving Verizon the most reliable percentage *ever* recorded by ChangeWave) while AT&T customers reported 4.5% of dropped calls in the last 3 months. That means that AT&T had 3x more dropped calls than Verizon and AT&T ended up with the worst reliability ercentage *ever* recorded by ChangeWave:
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/05/att-dropping-more-calls-than-ever/

Video of an experiment that tried to use the iPad as a skateboard:
http://gizmodo.com/5531395/ipad-forges-second-career-as-skateboard