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This Head Trip Is the Freakiest Thing You’ll See This Week (Barring Face-Eating Floridians) [Video]

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Mixing equal parts artistic whimsy and macabre horror, French artistic collective LORN has crafted this impressive piece of zombie porn, titled "Ghosst(s)". The film was directed by CRCR and produced by Sonlan Tran of QUAD. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

May
31
2012

Earth’s Sky Will Look Mindblowingly Crazy 3.75 Billion Years From Now [Video]

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Check out this video made with images created by NASA. It shows Earth's night sky during the next four billion years, with the Milky Way on a head-on collision with Andromeda. The destruction of our galaxy as we know it will be so beautiful. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

May
31
2012

How Hackers Nearly Took Down Google’s reCaptcha System [Hackers]

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Last weekend a group of hackers unveiled Stiltwalker, a hack that subverts the reCaptcha system Google uses to protect its services from bots with 99 percent accuracy. But just hours before the group was set to present their hack at the LayerOne conference Google patched it up so it wouldn't work anymore. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

May
31
2012

Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook Review

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It has been about one year since Google released new Chromebooks, which are laptops running on Google’s Chrome OS, a Linux-based Operating system that revolves around one thing: the Chrome web browser. If you are unfamiliar with the concept, the idea is that every application that you run with Chrome OS is web-based (a website) and runs in the Chrome browser. Google fundamentally believes that this is a great alternative and a more... [ Continue reading... ]

May
31
2012

Kickass Astronaut Plays the International Space Station Vacuum Like a Didgeridoo [Video]

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Our favorite space station resident, Don Pettit, is back with a follow-up video to his demonstration of how sound waves behave in water droplets in zero gravity. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

May
31
2012

App Icon Sticky Notes Turn Your Whole World Into iOS [Office]

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You can write a mile long list of reminders on your phone, but you'll still forget them all if it's tucked away in your pocket. That's why sticky notes have yet to be replaced by deviced like the iPhone, and these app icon-themed pads seem like they're rubbing that fact in. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

May
31
2012

What It’s Like Inside the Bullshit of a Tech Conference [Startups]

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TechCrunch Disrupt is a tech conference that makes a lot of money for TechCrunch and gives a little bit of attention to tech startups. It's a place where people are overly optimistic, eye-buggingly enthusiastic and entirely removed from reality. A conference for buzzwords that don't mean anything, hollow phrases that sound nice together and proponents of a dictionary exorcised of... [ Continue reading... ]

May
31
2012

Does This Video Show the iPhone 5 Front Panel? [Video]

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We're in the hot thick summer of New iPhone rumors, now: Japanese bloggers have shot video of an alleged piece of Apple's next handset. If it's true—a big if—you're looking at the iPhone 5's face. It's bigger. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

May
31
2012

Marine Robot Helicopters Can Now Snatch Cargo Without Landing [Robots]

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With a skilled pilot at the controls, a helicopter can easily pick up cargo while remaining hovering in the air. It's a time-saving maneuver that the Marine Corps' K-MAX autonomous helicopter has just learned to perform itself. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

May
31
2012

Shooting Challenge: Reflections Without Mirrors [Shooting Challenge]

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Anyone can use a mirror to snag a reflection. But every day, there are reflections going on around us, totally unnoticed. For this week's Shooting Challenge, capture one—without a mirror or glass globe, and no self-portraits! More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

May
31
2012
 
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