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Apple Will Actually Have to Run Ads in the U.K. Saying Samsung Didn’t...
Back in July, a United Kingdom court ruled the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 didn’t infringe on the iPad design patents as claimed by Apple. By filing the lawsuit and dragging Samsung’s name through the...
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After 80 Years in Print, Newsweek Will Shift to All-Digital Format Starting...
Print magazines are dying off in the droves. Slowly but surely, most of those magazines that were once circulated in physical format are either ceasing to exist or shifting to something else entirely...
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Twitter Uses Local Censorship for First Time, Bars Account From Appearing in...
Twitter‘s not often one to involve themselves in somewhat controversial actions. Twitter users, sure, but not the company itself. This is why their announcement back in January that they now could...
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Military Uniform Of The Future Will Repel Chemical and Biological Weapons,...
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are hard at work developing the next generation of materials for military uniforms. While we’re not quite to space age full plates with jet pack...
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Snikt! Wolverine Frog Has Retractable Bone Claws
The Otton frog, a rare breed of frog native to the islands of Southern Japan, has an evolutionary adaptation as weird as it is awesome — a retractable bone claw, just like Wolverine. Unlike everyone’s...
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A Magic (the Gathering) Binder Full of Women
If you missed the presidential debate a couple of days ago, and also somehow avoided all social media platforms, and also didn’t talk to a single American human soul, you might have missed Mitt...
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Steam Compromises on Greenlight Fee, Adds Concepts Tab That Doesn’t Solve...
When Steam Greenlight first launched, developers could freely add their video games to the mix and take their chances at bubbling to the top for a shot at being on Steam. Unfortunately, this...
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Not Feeling Lucky: Google Stock Plunges After Accidental Release of Poor...
When a document coming from Google literally includes the words “PENDING LARRY QUOTE” on the top, chances are it hasn’t been vetted as much as intended. Even so, that’s what started off Google’s...
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Court Rules Warner Bros. Still Owns 50% of Superman, Probably the “Super” Part
DC Comics, and by extension Warner Bros. Entertainment, cut a deal in 1992 that basically meant they assumed 50% ownership of everything Superman in perpetuity. This has since been hotly contested by...
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Ubuntu 12.10 Releases Using Direct Attack Ad Aimed at Windows 8
The release of Windows 8 is only eight days away, but if you aren’t hip to the formerly-known-as-Metro UI style, and prefer to use something a little more free, Canonical has just released Ubuntu...
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Anthrax Bacteria Can Breed In Dirt, Be Even More Terrifying
You know what’s not scary enough? Anthrax. I don’t know when it was, but a disease that creates black ulcers on your skin and has the potential to make your innards basically fall right out of your...
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You’re Gonna Get Some Hop Ons: Ancient Flightless Bug Caught Hitching Ride On...
A piece of fossil amber may have offered researchers a glimpse at a never-before-seen insect behavior: A flightless bug known as a springtail that looks for all the world like it’s hitching a ride on...
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Geekolinks: 10/18
How to access every last bit of your Facebook data (GeekSugar) Key parts of Ubuntu 13.04 to be developed in secret, hopefully in a volcano lair (ExtremeTech) What does “going cold turkey” actually...
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Mutant “Super-rats” Invade England, Are Immune To Standard Poisons
Are you looking for a pretty sure sign of the coming apocalypse? We’ve got you covered. The British town of Gloucestershire is being overrun by mutated “super-rats” that are immune to conventional...
View ArticleMeerkats’ Perpetual Confusion Keeps You Awake at Night [Video]
Experimental animation at its finest, with a little bit of NSFW language toward the end, this video plays on the iconic meerkat stance. You know the one, where they’re constantly standing up straight...
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Idiocracy Now: Free Online Education Deemed Illegal in Minnesota
One might think that free online education is one of the very few things that’s looking positive in the entire education scene. The quality varies wildly, but even the basics being entirely free to...
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Teacher Accidentally Syncs Revealing Photo to School iPad, Students Suspended...
As everyone probably guessed, adding technology to the classrooms has its advantages and disadvantages. Sure, it allows for students and teachers to interact with subjects and lessons in entirely new...
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No, I Won’t Visit Your Farm: Around 85% of U.S. Players Quit Social Video...
Player churn is a big problem for social video games. Companies like Zynga constantly have to work on their retention rates, because players tend to lose interest and stop playing within a short...
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Vampires Had It Right: Blood Transfusions From Young Subjects Improve Brain...
In what has to be a strong contender for creepiest news of the week, researchers at Stanford University have found that a transfusion of blood from young mice makes the brains of older mice sharper...
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Incredibly Intricate Nintendo Etch A Sketch Illustrations
The Internet is the tool of the independent artist, as visual mediums are easily accessible, and an artist doesn’t need to luckily land him or herself an appearance in a popup art gallery somewhere in...
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