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The Department of Transportation Wants Cars to Disable Your Cell Phone While...
Texting while driving is dangerous, and you shouldn’t do it. People still do it, and because of those people the Department of Transportation is recommending that auto makers install systems that will...
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Enter the Geekosystem Podcast: An Introduction
We here at Geekosystem have talked about doing a podcast again and again, since at least 2011, but nothing’s ever come of it — until now. As of this moment, the Geekosystem Podcast is a thing that...
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Splitsider Introduces $5 DRM-Free Distribution Channel With The Exquisite...
One of the challenges in both filmmaking and comedy is getting your work to the audience. The Internet has helped make great strides on that front, but just because someone can watch something online...
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BitTorrent Made a Cloud Storage Alternative That Doesn’t Store Things in the...
I’ve come to love Dropbox. I use a few different computers day to day, and it’s nice to have a way to sync files between them easily. Not everyone loves that Dropbox stores your files on their...
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Geekolinks: 4/24
The geekiest communities on Google Plus (GeekSugar) Donald Trump is just getting desperate now (Mediaite) Indonesian girls charged with blasphemy over Maroon 5 video (The Daily Dot) Kiki’s Delivery...
View ArticleA Tagged Photo on Instagram Might Be More Than Just a Photo [Video]
Instagram isn’t really my cup of tea, or really photography as a whole, but there are scads of people out there snapping selfies and whatever else to fill the Facebook-owned company’s profiles. In...
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No Big Press Conference for Nintendo at E3 This Year
Well, it’s hard to call this good news for Nintendo: The storied game company announced late yesterday that it will not be putting on the standard “big goofy to-do” press conference at this year’s E3...
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Madden Curse Disarmed for This Year, Barry Sanders Chosen for Cover
To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Madden football franchise, EA asked fans to vote on who would make the cover of the latest game. Apparently, the fear of the Madden Curse was enough to prevent...
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Pikas Prefer to Eat Plants Peppered With Caterpillar Poop
Life in the wilderness is no bowl of cherries, and animals aren’t exactly known for graciously sharing their food. One exception, though, may be Canadian pikas. A recent study from the University of...
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Joss Whedon Hints at Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in Avengers 2
Here I was thinking that red carpet Hollywood premieres and the like were boring affairs for those watching from home. The one for Iron Man 3, which was yesterday, has suddenly turned that all around...
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Hey, Everybody! Let’s Harpoon Some Space Garbage
The amount of debris orbiting the Earth is alarming. It’s a threat to both space science, and business — space business. The European Space Agency just wrapped up its 6th European Conference on Space...
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Turns Out Yoda’s Dagobah Mud Hut is Dirt Cheap
Oh, sure. Yoda was living large in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant in the Star Wars prequels, but that guy hit hard times after the fall of the Jedi. Hiding out on Dagobah had its advantages — like not...
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Poorly Understood “Dark Lightning” May Often Precede Lightning Strikes
Though it sounds like a necromancer spell in some B-grade RPG, dark lightning is actually a strange, ill-understood weather phenomenon that takes place deep within storm clouds. While it’s invisible...
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Here’s the Best Rap Song About Hodor From Game of Thrones You Will Ever Hear
In case you weren’t already aware, people can get real creative when they’re looking to celebrate their interests. The broad way in which they do this runs the gamut, from art to music and more. That...
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Take That, CISPA! Senate Judiciary Committee Approves ECPA Bill to Increase...
CISPA is trying to worm its way into law again, but even while that’s going on, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have approved the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Amendments Act,...
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Hemlock Grove: Just the Right Kind of Bad
As some of you noticed on Facebook last week, I’ve recently been intrigued by the new Netflix series Hemlock Grove. After watching my way through the first half of the series over a lazy weekend, I’m...
View ArticlePBS Off Book Explores the Future of Wearable Technology [Video]
Wearable technology has been around for a while, but it’s been given a particular kick in the pants recently thanks to things like the Pebble smartwatch or Google Glass. These aren’t the only such...
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New Super Strong and Tough Nanofibers Are Basically Spider-Man’s Webs
Most of what makes Spider-Man amazing is that he has superhuman powers, but his webs are pretty great too, and he made those things with science. Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have...
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Geekolinks: 4/25
Some of the best science fiction books (GeekSugar) Artists draws superheroes based on little girls dressed as superheroes (The Mary Sue) 50 little known facts about Nintendo (GamesRadar) Jon Stewart...
View ArticleTila Tequila Thinks She’s the Last Airbender, Tries to Prove It on YouTube
I’ll be honest with you and say upfront that I don’t really know who Tila Tequila is. Based solely off this video though, I’d say she’s someone who tried to get a part in The Last Airbender, but...
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