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Samsung Just Got Fined $340,000 for Paying People to Bash HTC Online
Oct 24, 2:00PM
Sometimes companies do stupid things to market their products. A silly commercial here. A ridiculous junket there. That's all fine and good, but sometimes companies overdo it, companies like Samsung who just got slapped with a $340,000 fine in Taiwan for illegally paying people to trash talk HTC in forums.
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We've Finally Figured Out Why Kettles Whistle
Oct 24, 1:41PM
This might shock you, but for over a century scientists have been pondering why kettles whistle—and completely failed to find an answer. That's all changed now, though, thanks to two scientists from the University of Cambridge who have worked out how it happens.
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Drivers In Sierra Leone Have To Play a Board Game To Get Their License
Oct 24, 1:18PM
Remember how boring and unbearable driver's ed was in high school? It turns out that learning to drive in other countries isn't so bad. In Sierra Leone, on Africa's west coast, wannabe motorists have to commit to playing a custom board game for several months that makes learning the rules of the road far less tedious.
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9 Visions of the Future Described by Kids and Drawn by Adults
Oct 24, 1:00PM
Ask the average four-year-old a question, and you'll probably get a wild, winding explanation in return. Case in point: Last month, little visitors to the V&A Museum of Childhood were invited to share their visions of what the future holds. The predictably weird and wonderful results—Invisible owners of the world! Butterfly people! Three-eyed, Cheerio-loving aliens!—were turned over to artists at the Central Illustration Agency, who each teamed up with a tiny counterpart to turn those predictions into full-color 2D realities.
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The Fascinating Science Behind Why a Tapped Beer Foams Over
Oct 24, 12:52PM
Scientists have figured out how flying insects fly. They've created real-life lightsabers. But they're at their best when they're tackling the mysteries of beer. Now, thanks to a research team studying fluid mechanics, we finally know why bottled beer foams over after a tap on the mouth — with slow-mo footage and everything.
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Deadspin Another Bro Behind ESPN Set Takes Off Shirt, Pours Soda On Himself | Gizmodo Why Can People
Oct 24, 12:47PM
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TiVo has announced that its Roamio Pro and Roamio Plus DVRs will now offer out-of-home streaming,
Oct 24, 11:31AM
TiVo has announced that its Roamio Pro and Roamio Plus DVRs will now offer out-of-home streaming, allowing subscribers to watch live and recorded TV remotely over Wi-Fi. It'll first roll out in the next weeks via an iOS app update, then an Android app and 4G streaming are planned for early next year.
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Mac App Store Bug Is Upgrading Illegal and Trial Software For Free
Oct 24, 11:02AM
As well as giving away OS X 10.9 Mavericks for free, Apple has also promised to update iWork and iLife gratis, too, for anyone that bought a Mac after October 1st. But there's a glitch in the system that means people with illegal or trial copies of the software are being given free updates too.
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The Globe and Mailreports that ex-Apple CEO John Sculley is looking into taking control of BlackBerr
Oct 24, 10:22AM
The Globe and Mailreports that ex-Apple CEO John Sculley is looking into taking control of BlackBerry in order to turn it round. Good luck with that, John.
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Amazon's Gigantic Biodomes Have Been Endorsed By Seattle
Oct 24, 10:15AM
Amazon has somehow gained initial approval to build a huge series of greenhouses slap-bang in the middle of Seattle so it's employees need never leave work.
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How LED Lighting Is Being Used to Comfort Patients in Intensive Care
Oct 24, 9:30AM
If you've ever stepped foot in an intensive care unit, you'll know that they can be pretty grim environments. That's all changing, though, thanks to LED lighting systems that can actually be used to improve patient care.
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Why Can People Live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki Now, But Not Chernobyl?
Oct 24, 8:45AM
On August 6 and 9, 1945, U.S. airmen dropped the nuclear bombs Little Boy and Fat Man on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On April 26, 1986, the number four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine exploded.
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Microsoft has slashed another $100 off the price of its original Surface Pro, so now you can get one
Oct 24, 8:12AM
Microsoft has slashed another $100 off the price of its original Surface Pro, so now you can get one for $700 compared to $900 for the new Surface Pro 2.
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German Chancellor to Obama: Have You Hacked My Phone?
Oct 24, 7:50AM
Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, spoke to Barack Obama on Wednesday evening to demand explanations over reports suggesting that the NSA has been monitoring her mobile phone.
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TWTIT: Happy Meal Horror (with a Side of Chainsaw)
Oct 24, 4:00AM
And you thought pink slime was horrifying? Just wait until you see this young steer's harrowing escape from certain death at the clamps of a chainsaw-wielding robot named Earl.
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What Happens When a Hardcore Rock Band Doesn't Pay Its Sound Engineer?
Oct 24, 3:19AM
This song is supposed to be a hardcore rock song. And though it has the punching anger throat sounds of any respectable hardcore rock song, it so obviously doesn't have anything else that quite resemble the music of core hards. Instead, the song is mixed with an EDM dance track. That's because the band didn't pay its engineer.
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YouTube Wants to Make Its Own Paid Subscription Music Service
Oct 24, 1:48AM
According to Billboard, YouTube is aiming to make its own Spotify-like subscription music service. There'll be a free streaming service (which, uh, should differentiate from free YouTube) and a premium tier that'll be like Google Music's All Access streaming service. Basically, every company wants their own music streaming service!
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Amazon's Giving Away Accessories and Lens Discounts with Canon DSLRs
Oct 24, 1:07AM
If you've been planning to pick up a new Canon DSLR, either for yourself or for the holidays, Amazon has a great opportunity to save on everything you need.
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Can a Sponge Absorb Mercury?
Oct 24, 1:00AM
A sponge is a sponge because its porous material is able to absorb liquid of any kind. But what about liquid metal? Can a sponge actually absorb the heavy quicksilver material known as mercury? Not at all. At best, a little bit of mercury goop gets caught on top of the sponge and slides away like its T-1000 shaping itself back together. [Tao Fledermaus via The Awesomer]
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Long Lost LaserDisc Found, Features Behind-The-Scenes Star Wars Footage
Oct 24, 12:00AM
"Through the Force, things you will see. The future, the past, old friends long gone." Someone has just found a disc full of behind the scenes, never before seen footage from Return of the Jedi. Two clips were uploaded to a Facebook page yesterday: a silent 59 seconds of R2-D2 repairing Luke's X-Wing on Dagobah, and a minute of Frank Oz getting fed lines and doing Yoda like only he can (which, in the end, sounds like quite a strain on the ol' vocal cords).
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Undead Teddy Ruxpin and Elmo: Thrift Shop
Oct 23, 11:40PM
If Furbies have taught us anything, it's that felt-covered animatronics are not to be trusted—they are to be feared. Especially when two of your childhood icons are revived as hip-pop-spouting zombies, as they are in this nightmare-inducing cover of the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis hit.
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Fujifilm XQ1 Hands-On: A Canon Clone With Better Guts
Oct 23, 11:30PM
Maybe it's no surprise that when Fujifilm's first advanced pocket camera fell flat, they turned to proven designs for the basis of it's second try. I just played with Fuji's new XQ1, and I could believe It wasn't a Canon S120. But just because it's familiar on the outside, doesn't mean it's got the same stuff inside.
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DARPA Will Give You $2 Million to Build Hacker-Proof Defense Software
Oct 23, 11:20PM
Sometimes throwing money at problems works. As the Pentagon continues to struggle with cybersecurity, their sci-fi-like R&D department, DARPA, is ready to start writing checks. The agency just announced a competition to build a "fully automated cyber defense system." The grand prize? $2 million.
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Being a Courier For The Manhattan Project Sounded Like An Awful Job
Oct 23, 11:11PM
What would you do if your boss handed you a mysterious box and said that if anything weird started happening with it, to just ditch the thing and run as fast as you can? Well that's exactly what happened to a poor courier working for the Manhattan Project back in the 1940s — a courier who, as it turns out, was probably carrying a plutonium core that was used in the development of nuclear bombs.
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Fuji Instax Mini 90 Hands-on: A Glorious and Weird Instant Film Camera
Oct 23, 11:02PM
Instant film cameras in the digital age are nothing new, but no new product has yet captured our hearts like the good ol' Polaroid did back in the day. Can Fujifilm's revamped Instax camera lure people in with the Mini 90 Neo Classic? We clamored for a chance to take this thing for a spin. Here are some initial impressions.
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