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Looks Like Firefox For iOS is Gone For Good, Says Mozilla
The news out of SXSW is that Firefox for iOS is done, over, kaput. The app version of the popular browser was pulled from the App Store by Mozilla back in September over a dispute with some of Apple’s...
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Geekolinks: 3/10
The Five-Timers Club Returns to SNL (Mediaite) Someone tattoed Louis C.K.’s face on their nipple (UPROXX) Agent Coulson is back for S.H.I.E.L.D. for really real this time (The Mary Sue) Joss Whedon...
View ArticleWatch The New Star Trek Into Darkness Right Here, Right Now
The first teaser and trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness were flashy and vague, doing little to actually show much about the movie besides that, yes, another Star Trek movie was coming,...
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Marvel Offers 700 Free Digital 1st Issues, But You May Need To Be Patient...
It looks like Marvel may have underestimated just how much people like free stuff. At SXSW this weekend, the publisher announced they would be offering digital downloads of the first issues of 700...
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Dad Hacks Donkey Kong So Daughter Can Play As Pauline And Save Mario
Doting Dad Mike Mika couldn’t bear to see his daughter’s disappointment at not being able to play as a princess in Donkey Kong the way she had in Super Mario Brothers 2. Rather than explain to her why...
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Today in Geek History: DON’T PANIC! Douglas Adams Was Born
Science fiction wasn’t always the kind of genre that blended well with comedy, at least not on purpose. Some early science fiction was laughable not because of its creator’s sense of humor, but for...
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No New Life Found In Lake Vostok Samples After All, Say Russian Scientists
It turns out last week’s announcement of a new form of bacterial life discovered in Antarctica’s Lake Vostok may have been a touch on the premature side. This weekend, the head of the lab that made...
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Shared Online Brain Hopes To Make Robots Smarter And Cheaper At Once
Robots are heavy, metal, clumsy, and expensive, but we generally assume they eventually plan on taking over. Still, they’re far from being intelligent — or organized — enough to do so. How to remedy...
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What Are the Odds? Math Students Calculate That The Chances of Finding...
Hey, remember last month when researchers from the University of Leicester used DNA evidence to prove a body found underneath a parking lot was that of King Richard III? And then everyone was all...
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The Latest Oreo Separating Machine is Actually a Very Polite Robot Named HERB
Meet HERB, Carnegie Mellon’s sophisticated butler robot. He was built to help mankind by performing household tasks, so of course when Oreo put the call out for machines to separate cookie from creme,...
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Here’s Looking At You: Why We Like Art That Looks Back At Us
The old idiom states that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” Which D&D gamers know isn’t true at all — beholders are hardly beautiful, and will negate your magic with their central eye, then...
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10 Pieces of British Slang I’d Like to See Adopted in America
I watch a lot of British television. My wife just watched all of Downton Abbey in about a day, and I love Doctor Who so much that we named our daughter Amelia. We’re two cultures separated by a common...
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Geekolinks: 3/11
Nope, Paul Krugman is not bankrupt, just the victim of satire (Mediaite) Here is some taxidermy art to haunt your dreams forever (Cracked) Game of Thrones and craft beer? Yup, we’re sold (The Mary...
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New Star System Discovered — It’s Crazy Far But the Third-Closest to Us
Space is huuuuuge, but it gets a tiny bit smaller each time we discover something new that we can name, classify, and tell everyone about. The latest is exciting, because it’s been a very long time...
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They Might Be Giants Explain “Particle Man” With a Handy Flowchart
They Might Be Giants may have just released a new EP, but there will always be a place in my heart for their song “Particle Man” which was forever immortalized by the Warner Bros. cartoon Tiny Toons....
View ArticleThese Children Are Not Impressed With Your Harlem Shake Video
The Harlem Shake was fun while it’s lasted, but it’s over, so kindly move on to the next thing we can all think is great for a week and then get sick of. If there’s any question of the extent to which...
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Plastic, One Piece 3D Printed Crossbow Is Just The Thing To Intimidate Your...
We’ve been thoroughly unnerved at the idea of 3D-printed firearms already. Now, one maker has taken it on himself to bring the 3D printed weapon movement back to the Dark Ages… or at least the...
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NASA Reveals Contents Of Martian Rock Analyzed By Curiosity, Watch It Live Here
Just what was in that sample of rock the Curiosity rover drilled out of Mars? We don’t know yet, but we’ll find out later this afternoon, and we’d love for you to join us. Watch with us live at 1:00...
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Bread Cheese Double Bacon Cheeseburger Is A Cardiac Episode You Can Hold In...
We don’t write about food a ton over here, so when we do, you can bet there’s something impressive about it. In the case of this double bacon cheeseburger served on bread cheese — a dense, baked...
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Vimeo Gives Pro Users Options to Make You Pay Per View
Do you like Vimeo more than YouTube? Well, it may be time to put your money where your mouth is, because Vimeo has beaten YouTube to the pay-per-view game, so you could soon find yourself paying for...
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