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Current Event
8 years ago+28 28 0Star Wars Battlefront $50 Season Pass Announced
EA has revealed the details of the Star Wars Battlefront's $50 USD season pass, along with the info on the game's Hero Hunt mode. The season pass will include 4 expansion packs, early access to the expansions by 2 weeks, an exclusive " ...
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8 years ago+26 26 0Cartoon Network Confirms New Justice League Animated Series
Following the discovery of the animated Justice League poster from a month ago, now a new animated Justice League series is confirmed by Cartoon Network. Cartoon Network Canada responded to a fan question on their Facebook page with (via toonzone.net ...
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8 years ago+26 26 0Gallery: How To Peel Things
Have you ever found yourself in the middle of peeling some difficult vegetable, scraping away, nicking your fingers, and muttering, "There must be an easier way?" Well, here are ten tips for easier peeling. Garlic, ginger, and squash figure ...
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8 years ago+21 21 0Seeking Jagger’s Muse
Dear Lorin, did I ever tell you about the thing I did with The Ice Plant? You know them—they make oddly compelling photography books. Last year they did one about some candid “found photos” of the Rolling Stones, pictures taken in the South that had ...
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8 years ago+37 37 0This Man Was Accused of Trying to Pull Earth Out of Its Orbit
Gregory Laughlin has a funny story: While he was working as a planetary scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center in the early 2000s, he was accused in the press of trying to shove Earth into a new orbit, farther from the Sun. “I got into major trou ...
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8 years ago+52 53 1 x 1Mozilla quietly deploys built-in Firebox advertising
Firefox fans didn't want Mozilla to add ads to their favorite web browser, but more than a year after the idea was first suggested, "Suggested Tiles" have arrived.
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Analysis
9 years ago+45 45 0 x 1Scratched Moles Could Lead to Cancer
"Keep an eye on that mole," doctors are fond of reminding us. Any changes in size, shape, or color might indicate that skin cancer, specifically a melanoma, is forming. Now, a new review article in Trends in Immunology suggests that doctors ...
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9 years ago+29 29 0 x 1Damon Wayans Dismisses Bill Cosby Rape Accusations as 'Money Hoax'
Damon Wayans has made some controversial remarks about the Bill Cosby sexual assault allegations, calling it a “money hoax” by “unrapeable” women. Speaking in an interview with New York station Power 105’s “The Breakfast Club,” Wayans dismissed alleg ...
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Video/Audio
9 years ago+1 4 3How "oldschool" graphics work (Apple and Atari)
In this episode I cover Apple II and Atari 2600 graphics modes.
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Expression
9 years ago+24 24 0 x 1The busboy who cradled a dying RFK has finally stepped out of the past
In June, Juan Romero did something he hadn't done in decades. He celebrated his birthday, going out to dinner with his family in San Jose. "I always dreaded when June was coming up," said Romero, 65, who has struggled for most of his a ...
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9 years ago+17 17 0Rapper Sean Price Passes Away This Morning
According to reports from family and friends, rapper Sean Price died suddenly this morning in his sleep at his home in Brooklyn. Price was 43 years old. The cause of death is not known at this time, however an update will be made following the releas ...
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9 years ago+2 3 1Facing Islamic State threat, Iraq digitizes national library
The dimly-lit, dust-caked stacks of the Baghdad National Library hide a treasure of the ages: crinkled, yellowing papers holding the true stories of sultans and kings; imperialists and socialists; occupation and liberation; war and peace.
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Analysis
9 years ago+2 3 1The FDA has approved the first drug made by a 3D printer
Is this the future of drug production? 3D printing, a technology still in search of a market, may have just found a home in the world of medicine. The US Food and Drug Administration approved an epilepsy medicine called Spritam that is made by 3D pri ...
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9 years ago+34 34 0Whats your favorite song in a music genre you hate?
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Current Event
9 years ago+22 22 0Windows 10 will get automatic updates for 10 years
In an update to its Window’s Lifestyle Fact Sheet, Microsoft says it will offer support for Windows 10 for ten years. The post notes that it will offer “mainstream security” support until 2020 and “extended security” support until 2025. The support l ...
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Video/Audio
9 years ago+16 16 0Ferrell Takes the Field: Tease
10 teams. 10 positions. One Will Ferrell.Ferrell Takes The Field airs Saturday, September 12 at 10pm, only on HBO.
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Analysis
9 years ago+16 16 0How bears keep their bones strong during hibernation
Animals protect their skeletons through suppressed but balanced bone remodeling.
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Current Event
9 years ago+11 11 0Bionic Eye Implant Tested Successfully
A three year trial has recently been completed for bionic eye retinal implants. The results are promising, and the technology appears to be safe.
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Expression
9 years ago+16 16 0Dreams of a Red Planet
I. “Mars One has been my full-time job for almost four and a half years now,” says Bas Lansdorp, the company’s cofounder and CEO. His thick Dutch accent weighs on his learned English, traveling across the Internet via Google Voice from a hotel room i ...
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9 years ago+12 12 0A Curious Midlife Crisis for a Tech Entrepreneur
For a time, he lived on a 20-acre estate in Bedford, N.Y., overseen by a butler whom he paid $50,000 a year, and he hosted grand parties for 60 guests or more. They swam in his pool, waged paintball wars in the woods and played padel tennis on his pr ...