It looks like TiVo’s freshly minted Premiere hardware will soon be setting sail eastwards as The Daily Telegraph is reporting Virgin Media’s next generation set-top box will be built around it. Loyal readers of Engadget HD will already be aware that TiVo and Virgin hooked up last November and this latest news relates to the first hardware to be spawned from that relationship. According to TiVo CEO Tom Rogers, the Premiere will “heavily inspire the development work” going into Virgin’s next TV appendage, which may or may not mean that the cable company will simply rebadge the well-received new boxes. What’s assured though is much greater integration with online content, with search linking you out to Amazon, BBC’s iPlayer, YouTube or good old standard broadcast channels.

TiVo returning to the UK thanks to partnership with Virgin Media originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:01:00 EST.

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Google has been sued today by Harvard Law School student Eva S. Hibnick, who has started a class-action lawsuit against the search giant “on behalf of Gmail users,” claiming that the new Buzz social networking service is a breach of user privacy.

Buzz is a voluntary add on to Gmail, but all users are automatically enrolled and have to opt-out if they don’t want to use it.

“The social networking industry is going too far,” Hibnick added, saying she was disgusted that upon opening Gmail, she was already being “followed” by people on her contact list that Google had chosen for her.

Law School student Benjamin R. Osborn, who is aiding Hibnick, doesn’t say whether he believes Google intentionally breached privacy. “I don’t know what Google’s motive is in all of this,” Osborn says, via the Harvard Crimson newspaper . “I think they were just trying to jump-start their social network.” However, “[Buzz] has already violated people’s privacy. Damages have been incurred. And we want Google to change its conduct in the future.”

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We’ve all got at least one vacuum cleaner lying around the house (gathering dust, in some cases), but hopefully no-one will be inspired by BBC presenter Jem Stansfield who scales buildings using sucking force from the machines.

I don’t want to be receiving any photos of your bruises after you fall flat on your face 2ft up the side of your garage, but this is how Stansfield cobbled together his “Spiderman gloves,” which he’s used to climb up to 120ft previously.

An earlier feat, climbing the side of the BBC building:

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This is how Russians melt snow and ice during their intense winters-by strapping a Klimov VK-1 engine from Mig-15 onto a truck. I think one of these would have taken care of the snow and ice in my street with no problem.

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