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[]  PSN hacked- The Playstation Network was hacked on April 30th, they think this is an act of a recreational hacker, just some random person who got bored and just decided to do this, he went and got 77 million private information from psn cutomers.  The hacker shut down psn network and it was down for about 2 weeks then went back up and got hacked the next day, they now have it up now successfully and this intrusion has caused playstation to update all the security software, they had very old software running before this.  8.9 Earthquake- A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast Friday, killing hundreds of people as it swept away boats, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out of control, they have had several after shocks but none as severe, it also cause tsunamis that hit other boarders of the island and hit hawaii and other countries.  the nuclear power plant has been wrecked and theyve had alot of evacuations from those plants so people are safe and they had people wear masks so they wouldnt be harmed and they said this nuclear spill can cause others harm in other countries.  Paper cranes- because of the earthquake that struck japan on March 11 2011, as a relief effort people have made origami cranes and put money in them and send them to japan.  it is now grown across the untied states as a big project for a relief effort to help japan, our goal was 100,000 cranes or 200,000 dollers, But we have managed to raise 700,000 cranes and counting.  <span style="font-family: Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">toyota company maybe move out of japan- Toyota may move production outside of Japan because of the bad economy the power of the yen has gone down so its hard to make a profit for toyota, the president of the company said its not something they want to do, its just to make a profit. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> they moved to a different factory, lowered wages, and now have a lower population in the area all in effort to make more money. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">new electric car goes 300km on one charge- car should be on the market by 2013. They say its a 4 seater car that will go 207 miles on one charge, it may be difficult because the batteries are expensive and charging stations are uncommon. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"> this care will run twice as far as the new release Nissan Leaf, there is no projected price for this yet and the company that is inventing this product is Mitsubishi.