Color Definitely Shutting Down Despite Previously Claiming They Totally Weren’t
Just when you thought it was safe to start trusting people again, Color‘s gone and officially announced that their photo-sharing app will be shuttered after December 31st, 2012. This is just the...
View ArticleElmo Puppeteer Kevin Clash Resigns as Second Accuser Comes Forward
Kevin Clash, the puppeteer behind Elmo, has resigned from Sesame Street after a second man has come forward to accuse him of having a sexual relationship with a minor. We reported on Clash’s initial...
View ArticlePlanck Telescope Spots Galaxy Clusters Connected By Cosmic Gas Bridge, Still...
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Planck Space Telescope has laid it’s super-powerful eye in the sky on a never before seen cosmic phenomenon. The photo above is Planck’s first image of a pair of...
View ArticleCommence Giggling: Microsoft’s New Data Center Will Be Fueled by Poop
This is really happening! Microsoft announced in a blog post on Monday that they’re building a new data center that will be fueled by the methane from a sewage treatment plant. The new data center...
View ArticleNew Odor “Laurax” Is The Smell Equivalent Of White Noise
We’re all for things that cover up the many terrible smells we encounter in our everyday lives, but let’s be real — sometimes that squirt of air freshener or powerfully scented pine tree dangling from...
View ArticleDo Not Party On: Wayne’s World 3 Script Rumors Are a Hoax
There’s little we want more in life than a new Wayne’s World sequel. So when we saw that Mike Meyers had supposedly finished the script for one, we got our hopes up just like anyone else might....
View ArticleWhat Did NASA Find on Mars That Has Them So Excited?
Have you ever had to keep a secret that you really, really wanted to share, but you couldn’t because the timing wasn’t right? That seems like the position NASA is in right now. After a whirlwind first...
View ArticleGoogle to Return the Month of December to Android, Christmas Back On
In case you missed it, Google’s Android Jelly Bean 4.2 operating system shipped with a minor flaw: The month of December was missing. It didn’t affect everything, but the People app suddenly decided...
View ArticleGeekolinks: 11/20
The 10 best things about going home for Thanksgiving (HyperVocal) Is Twitter breaking the law by letting Hamas tweet? (The Daily Dot) Anatomy of a turducken (Flavorwire) Pick five games, pay $10...
View ArticleDesigner of iPod Touch Has New Toy on Kickstarter, We’d Like One Immediately
Just in time for the holidays, Michael Rosenblatt, the lead designer of the first iPod Touch, has a new toy — Atoms Express. Atoms Express is a modular building toy that claims to let kids “make...
View ArticleDrunk Jerk Arrested for Telling Kids There’s No Santa Claus, Being a Drunk Jerk
A 24-year-old Canadian man has been arrested after walking along the route of Kingston, Ontario’s Santa Claus Day Parade telling children that there was no such thing as Santa Claus. Unsurprisingly,...
View ArticleNokia Does the Impossible, Makes an iOS Maps App Worse than Apple Maps
We thought Apple Maps was the bottom of the barrel in terms of iOS navigation, but Nokia just proved how low the bar can go with the release of Here Maps for Apple iOS. The new software manages to be...
View ArticleCopyright Troll Links to TorrentFreak in Legal Threat, Shenanigans Ensue
It’s fairly well-known that TorrentFreak is an excellent source for anything related to BitTorrent, copyright, and general piracy news. Due to this fact, it’s understandable that any legal firm...
View ArticleEvery Gesture Used to Beat Angry Birds Visualized on Paper
Of all the games that have come and gone on smartphones, Angry Birds continues to be the front-runner for the platform’s most successful franchise. That’s painfully obvious, considering there’s even a...
View ArticleGut Check: Nintendo Land
Of all the games available when the Wii U launched on Sunday, Nintendo Land is the obligatory minigame collection that everyone’s come to expect Nintendo to put out. Everyone loves a good minigame...
View ArticleThanksgiving Grub for the Culinarily Impaired or: How I Learned to Stop...
We’ve all faced the dilemma of attending Thanksgiving and being totally unprepared to bring a side dish, for any number of reasons. Maybe you’re working like ten dogs to clear your desk before the...
View ArticleSpace Porn: NASA Releases Detailed Simulation of the Moon’s Phases
The Scientific Visualization Studio at NASA has released a new animation of the Moon going through its phases for the year 2013. New data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has made it possible to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Accidentally Gives Free Copies of Windows 8 Pro to Pirates
When it comes to computer software, piracy is a big issue. No matter what measures traditional companies implement to keep pirates out, they’ll always find ways to get around them. When a better...
View ArticleFlowers Could Clean Up Polluted Land, Act As Nanoparticle Factories
The alyssum flowers pictured above aren’t just pretty — they’re good for the planet, too. A recent study from the University of Warwick suggests that the common flowers and their relatives could help...
View ArticleNational Transportation Safety Board Ditches Blackberries For iPhones,...
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is the latest entity to jettison the Blackberry phones it has issued to employees for years, reminding people everywhere that RIM’s increasingly...
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