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North Korea Threatens United States With Early ’90s CGI Technology
As North Korea gets ready to perform a nuclear test, they’re also stepping up their propaganda efforts, or at least they’re trying to do so. A video released by the country’s official website on...
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Oh Good, Now Amazon Has Their Own Virtual Currency Too
I despise virtual currencies. I don’t mean Bitcoin, though it certainly skirts the line. It’s virtual currencies like Microsoft Points that particularly frustrate me. Perhaps it’s just the years of...
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Correction: Maybe the FCC Isn’t Planning Free “Super Wi-Fi” After All…
Yesterday, I wrote about a story in The Washington Post that said there was an FCC plan to offer free “Super Wi-Fi.” This morning Techdirt is saying that The Washington Post — and by extension everyone...
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Radio Buttons Found in Jailbroken iPad Files May Signal New Incoming...
Apple products like iPhones and iPads getting jailbroken is nothing new, but sometimes this freedom also leads to interesting discoveries within the digital bowels of these gadgets. Such is the case...
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Governments Behaving Badly: U.K. to Track Online Messaging, U.S. Allowed to...
Want some creepy, Big Brother flavored news? The British government is mulling a plan that would riddle its telecommunication infrastructure with “probes” that could surreptitiously read and glean...
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Geekolinks: 2/5
Origins of 8 of the strangest place names in Canada (Mental Floss) Catelyn Stark for U.S. Secretary of State (The Mary Sue) Everything I know about love I learned from Chrono Trigger (The Bygone...
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There’s a New Largest-Known Prime Number, and It’s 17 Million Digits Long
Quick! What’s the largest prime number you can think of? Is it millions of digits long? If it isn’t then you’re nowhere near the new largest-known prime number. Euclid proved centuries ago that there...
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Breathtaking New Image Of Galaxy M106 Is Incredible, May Teach Us a Thing or...
This new image of galaxy Messier 106 (M106), a spiral galaxy about 20 million light years from our own, is a mosaic assembling images from the Hubble space Telescope’s image archives and the libraries...
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Japanese Government Disguises Anti-Piracy Warnings as Desirable Files
You’d better think twice before you illegally download files from Japan. The Japanese government has started using the old bait-and-switch method of getting the word out about their new anti-piracy...
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Honest Trailer for Skyfall Makes a Ton of Good Points
I’m willing to admit that there’s definitely some strange stuff going on in the latest James Bond film, Skyfall. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that there are a goodly number of oddities. The movie...
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Google’s Augmented Reality Game Ingress Teams Up With Duane Reade
I’ve personally spent a good amount of time playing Google’s augmented reality game Ingress. One thing I really like about it is that the virtual portals in the game are based around real world public...
View ArticleHere’s Barack Obama Singing the Pokémon Theme Song, Because Why Not [Video]
There’s literally nothing I can say here to add to the glory that is the President of the United States, Barack Obama, singing the Pokémon theme song. Yes, it’s technically just an amalgamation of...
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Moth Pilot Helps To Teach Robot To Smell, Look For Love [Video]
One of the toughest hurdles to clear for the next generation of robotics is trying to teach robots the senses that we use everyday, or at least develop accurate analogs for them. Researchers at the...
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To Pilot A Thought-Controlled Spaceship, Two Heads Are Better Than One
While it may disappoint many of us, it will surprise no one that steering a spaceship is complicated business. So it stands to follow that steering a spaceship using only your brain is even more...
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WordPress Takes Down Original Blog Posts After Bogus DMCA Claim by Content Thief
Today in DMCA Being A Great Idea That Is Working Really Well news, the journal-monitoring blog Retraction Watch had 10 of its posts taken down by it’s service provider, WordPress, after being on the...
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Get Ready to Flip the Board: Monopoly Announces New Token Lineup
When Hasbro announced that it would hold a vote to replace one of Monopoly’s tokens with a new one, I made some suggestions for better pieces. It looks like they ignored my brilliant suggestion of...
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Standalone Star Wars Films Really Happening, Prepare to Empty Your Wallet...
The rumors floating around about a series of standalone Star Wars films have now been confirmed by Disney CEO Bob Iger: Yes, these are really, truly in development. Then again, of course there are...
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Not How That Works! Man Tries to Impregnate Horse, Create Centaur in Worst...
29-year-old Texas man Andrew Mendoza was arrested for having sex with his neighbor’s horse after being stood up by his girlfriend. To make the story even worse, Mendoza told police he was trying to...
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Dear USPS, We’ll Miss Saturday Delivery, But Mostly We’re Sorry The Internet...
Look, we’re all in favor of progress here at Geekosystem. We’re scientifically inclined folk who believe that most technological development is, ultimately, for the good, and to be celebrated. That...
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Win Over That Foxy Nerd You’ve Had Your Eye on With These Geeky Valentines
Sure, you can go the traditional hearts and flowers route on Valentine’s Day, but if you read this site we’re willing to bet your interests lie elsewhere. Is there a cute girl in your particle physics...
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