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This Science of Baldness Video Will Have You in Front of the Mirror in No Time

As I rapidly approach the ripe old age of 30, I am becoming increasingly aware of things like my hair and whether or not I still have any. Commonly held wisdom says that baldness is passed from your...

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Taloned Drone Can Snatch Prey From The Sky Like An Eagle [Video]

On hearing yesterday’s news that Carnegie Mellon University had developed a robot that turns into a tank, one of my fellow Geekosystem editors pointed out that at some point, we’re just asking for a...

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Red Bull Being Blackmailed By Extortionists Threatening To Contaminate Cans...

Energy drink and vodka mixer Red Bull has announced that it is being blackmailed by a person or group of people who have threatened to place cans of the sugary caffeine supplement contaminated with...

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Redbox Instant Launches, Hopes There’s Room in Your Life for Another Video...

Redbox and Verizon have teamed up to take on the likes of Netflix with their new Redbox Instant streaming partnership which launched publicly today. This is a big move for Redbox, but with so many...

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Samsung Touts Galaxy S4 as a “Life Companion” in New Ad

Last night Samsung took the veil off its latest and much hyped flagship phone, the Galaxy S4. The push of the event was to show how the S4 integrates into your life, and it’s now being billed as a...

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Kmart Adds Shark Death to List of Reasons to Avoid Kmart

Because of Jaws and plenty of real-life attacks, we’re afraid of sharks. We should be; they’re top predators, they’ve got sharp teeth, and they can smell you from miles away. But we as a species don’t...

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Joss Whedon Says Veronica Mars Kickstarter Does Not Mean More Firefly

Veronica Mars fans weren’t the only ones excited when creator Rob Thomas successfully raised over $2.5 million in one day on Kickstarter to make a Veronica Mars movie. It opened up a whole host of...

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New Study Shows How We Divide Ourselves Into Twitter “Tribes”

As humans, we tend to stay in groups, and those groups tend to be similar to us. We surround ourselves with people who look like us, act like us, or have similar interests as us. That behavior also...

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Samsung Assumes You’ll Want This Add-On Game Controller for the Galaxy S4

Hey, remember buttons? They’re back! As you may have heard, the Samsung Galaxy S4 was unveiled yesterday, and you’re either rolling your eyes or anxiously awaiting the chance to purchase one, because...

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Journalist Charged With Helping Anonymous Hack News Site

When Matthew Keys was fired from his job in October of 2010, he allegedly did what anyone would allegedly do, and allegedly gave sensitive login information from his employer to the hacktivist group...

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Second Carnival Ship Loses Power, Begins Poop Cruise II: The Secret of the Ooze

Look, if you’re on a cruise, there aren’t too many things worse than hitting an iceberg. That still takes the cake, but there are some things worth avoiding, if you can help it. Like being dead in the...

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Just 20 ISPs Are Responsible for Nearly Half of All Email Spam Worldwide

Considering the wide variety of products spam email acts as a barker for, you might assume that there are an equally diverse range of individuals, or at least programs, trying to sell you important...

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Geekolinks: 3/15

This BMO USB drive is downright adorable (GeekSugar) Blame Pitbull if Ed Reed doesn't sign with the Texans (SportsGrid) The best and worst movies of SXSW 2013 (Flavorwire) Finally, a tablet for women!...

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Scientists Discover Life Deep in Oceanic Crust, Nothing Horrifying Just Yet

As long as we’ve got the funding, we’ll forever be probing the reaches of space as best we can, and that’s all great, but there’s still plenty to learn about the depths of our own planet. Consider our...

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Dropbox Buys Mailbox, Spawns Dozens of Clever Headlines

Anyone ever use Drop.io, the file-sharing site? When that went away, I discovered Dropbox, and I can’t even estimate how many gigs I’ve dragged through that  service already, mostly to share files...

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Do Knock-Offs Show the Value of the Original? [Video]

Knock-offs are everywhere! From faux Rolexes on the street to those fake Tickle Me Elmos to that one actually-kind-of-cool laser-gun-robot that clearly was supposed to be like Megatron I had as a kid....

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Old Nerds Rejoice: Capcom’s Classic Dungeons & Dragons Side-Scrollers Are...

In ancient eons past, long lost temples to video games known as “arcades” dotted the landscape, providing video gamers of yore a place in which to gather among like-minded peers, stage competitions to...

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Jesuit High Schooler Delivers Wet Willy on Live TV, May Be Suspended, Judged...

It’s a well-known fact that when you turn your camera on a teenager, they are going to do something stupid. It’s pretty much a law of physics, really. Case in point: This student at St. Joseph’s, a...

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Hold on to Your Giant Purple Dildos, Saints Row IV’s Coming

As part of the process where THQ declared bankruptcy and shed all their valuable assets, Deep Silver happened to pick up both developer Volition and the Saints Row franchise. It was basically a known...

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Closing Time on the Internet: Formspring’s Turning Off the Lights Too

The Internet’s set to get just the tiniest bit smaller this year. Okay, it’ll keep expanding, but a bunch of old familiar places are closing up shop. Google Reader’s getting the ax, FeedDemon too, and...

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