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Too Out of Shape to Run From Zombies? Upcoming Mobile Game Lets You Just Walk
I was one of the first people to download Zombies, Run! when Six to Start first made it available on the iTunes store, but sadly I am so bad at running that I couldn’t make it very far through the...
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Kepler Mission Update: Wheels Are Spinning Like Whoa Up in There
A little more than two months after the Kepler spacecraft’s necessary minimum of wheels stopped spinning and died, NASA is now reporting some good news: While one of the wheels is still too damaged to...
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Geekolinks: 7/24
Taylor Swift contest cancelled after Internet intervenes (Guy Code Blog) Arrow season 2 trailer! (The Mary Sue) The best and worst depictions of Asperger’s on TV (Flavorwire) Oops! TV reporter...
View ArticleHow Many Ronin Does It Take to Make a Keanu Reeves Samurai Movie? 47,...
Keanu Reeves hasn’t really been up to much lately — it’s been literally years since we’ve seen him in anything substantial, and that picture of him eating a sandwich on a park bench probably doesn’t...
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Google Announces Chromecast, Lets You Stream to Any HDTV With $35 Dongle
The next big thing isn’t big at all. It’s the size of a USB flash drive, fits into an HDMI port on your TV, and turns that TV into a screen for your phone, tablet, or computer. And it costs an...
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$122,874 Kickstarter-Funded Board Game Cancelled, What Happens to the Money?
Kickstarter is the go-to crowdfunding site for a lot of people looking to launch ambitious projects, but it takes more than money to get something done, and sometimes Kickstarter campaigns — even ones...
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Happy 93rd Birthday, Rosalind Franklin! Google Got You a Doodle!
You can be forgiven if you’re not familiar with today’s Google Doodle of Rosalind Franklin. Though she did much of the important X-ray crystallography work that set the stage for James Watson and...
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Etsy Finally Changed Their Policies to Ban Products Using Endangered Species
While you can still purchase some fairly odd things on Etsy, the Internet’s premier site for strange, handcrafted items of all ilk, there are some things you can’t get even there. As of this week,...
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Mouse Hunt With Rifle Ends With Man Shooting Himself in Foot
An Italian man learned the hard way never to bring a gun to a mouse fight. Spooked by the sight of the offending rodent, the 43-year-old from the city of Treviso went immediately to the big guns,...
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New Code Identifies Wolves Based on Howl With 100% Accuracy
Dire wolves might be extinct — and likely never quite as cool as George R.R. Martin made us believe — but real wolves are still pretty awesome, and new studies show they are even more so than we knew....
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Review: Axe Cop Will Make You Believe in the Power of Imagination, Then Chop...
Imagine seeing something you thought of when you were five become a mainstream animated series. That’s the world Malachai Nicolle lives in. He co-created the webcomic Axe Cop with his older brother...
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So, Yeah, Chipotle Faked Their Twitter Hack as a Publicity Stunt, Have Earned...
On Sunday, the official Twitter account for the restaurant chain Chipotle started sending out some odd Tweets. We, and others, assumed they’d been hacked, even though the ‘hacker’ didn’t seem to get...
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Researchers Trap Light for One Full Minute, New Super Villain Weaponry Likely...
A team of scientists at Germany’s University of Darmstadt have broken a major — and bizarre — record, bringing light itself to a full stop inside a crystalline structure and keeping it stopped for a...
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Move Over, Furby: These Disney Research Figures Have Printed Optic Animated...
Disney’s always been on the forefront of animatronic technology — just ask all the surprisingly lifelike dudes who live in the Hall of Presidents. So it’s no surprise that they’re looking to ramp up...
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Keith Baker Responds to Cancelled Doom That Came to Atlantic City Kickstarter
Two days ago, Erik Chevalier of the Forking Path announced that he has cancelled the Kickstarter to produce The Doom That Came To Atlantic City, a board game designed by Lee Moyer and Keith Baker,...
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Seattle Public Library Introduces Free Video Streaming Service
Want streaming video on your computer but don’t love paying for services like Netflix or Hulu? Well good news, skinflint — if you live in Seattle that is. Seattle Public Library just announced a new...
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Shadow of the Eternals Kickstarter Reappears, Still Just as Shady as Before
The Kickstarter for Precursor Games’ Eternal Darkness successor, Shadow of the Eternals, has returned to the crowdfunding website after two disastrous attempts. This time they’re asking for $750,000...
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Big Brother is Charging: Proposed Phone Battery Tracks Your Every Movement to...
Apple has apparently decided to show up Asimov when it comes to self-aware technology that constantly tries to outdo itself in making our lives easier. Their newest attempt: A battery that learns your...
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Kanye West is on a Kanye Quest, Will Put You to the Kanye Test in This...
Love him or hate him, rapper Kanye West has become a fixture in American pop culture; you can’t really ignore him even if you tried. So it’s only natural that there’s now a video game about him. Kanye...
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Watch the Many Screams of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in This Supercut [Video]
Here is a thing you never knew you needed: A supercut of Hugh Jackman angrily shouting his head off while being Wolverine. That’s it. I mean, do you have to hear anymore? In other news — scientists...
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