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What’s Your Favorite Site Affected by the GoDaddy Outage? [Chatroom]

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In case you've been living under a rock, GoDaddy was the victim of an attack which took everything down today. Anonymous is claiming responsibility for the attack and million of sites are unaccessible as a result. Surely some of the sites you read use GoDaddy for your internet hosting purposes. Which makes me curious: which of your favorites are down? More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

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The Duck’s Foot Pistol Put a Firing Squad in the Palm of Your Hand [Past Perfect]

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Flintlock pistols may have been super effective against single opponents because, as Boris the Bullet Dodger once said, "If it doesn't work you can always hit them with it." Against groups, however, they were comically useless—that is, until enterprising gunsmiths added some extra barrels. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

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Google Has Officially Started Censoring the Pirate Bay In Search Results [Piracy]

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Back in January, Google bowed down to corporate monoliths and started censoring "piracy-related searches" containing terms like BitTorrent, torrent, RapidShare, etc, so that they won't appear on Google's autocomplete and instant search results. Looks like The Pirate Bay is the latest to be added to the list. TorrentFreak points out what you can see in the screecap above: "Piratebay" no longer... [ Continue reading... ]

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Unlock out-of-contract AT&T iPhones, without any hassle

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As the launch event of the iPhone 5 draws near, many iPhone users are planning to shed the older models and grab the new one. However, as eager as they may be, they also wish to extract the best re-sale value from their device Naturally, an unlocked iPhone gathers far better money in resale compared to one that is not. In a surprise move, AT&T has provided the users of AT&T iPhones an option to unlock their devices. However, you... [ Continue reading... ]

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2012

HTC 4G patents brought up against Apple are probably valid, says US Judge

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Apple recently won a landmark victory against Samsung when a U.S. court decided that Samsung must pay the company $1 billion in damages. However, this doesn’t mean that there is an end in sight for the patent wars. Rather, Samsung seems all set to sue Apple in case it releases an iPhone 5 with LTE technology. While Samsung spared the new iPad, which also features LTE, HTC hasn’t been so forgiving. It had launched a case against... [ Continue reading... ]

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2012

London Airport Floating The Thames Estuary Proposed

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London’s Heathrow Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world. It has two runways and both of them operate at 98% of their capacity which essentially means that the airport is already being utilized to its maximum. To tackle a bump in air traffic in the near future, London will inevitably need a new airport or expansion of the current one. This is where the idea of an architectural firm, Gensler, comes in. The company has... [ Continue reading... ]

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2012

Do You Use Your eReader for Anything Besides Reading Books? [Chatroom]

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E-Ink readers are great for reading books, or anything really, but mainly books. But many of them offering 3G, and apparently non-book-reading-and-buying activity is high enough that Amazon had to limit browser usage to 50MB per month. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

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2012

Sony X Factor Headphones Review: I Somehow Love These Gross, Gaudy Celebrity Headphones [Lightning Review]

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Sony X headphones are everything we hate: Ostentatious, overpriced gear that's nothing more than a cynical celebrity cash grab. In a world with justice and truth, such gaucherie wouldn't exist—but we kind of love these headphones anyway. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

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2012

Valve’s Steam Big Picture Goes Live

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Big Picture is Steam’s user interface (UI) that is designed to work well on big displays/televisions. It is a format that has challenged many other apps, but Valve is determined to get it right. The demo looks really nice and Big Picture seems really well thought-out for typical things that people bump into when using large displays. (more…) By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Valve Big Picture mode beta launched, Valve to launch... [ Continue reading... ]

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2012

"Emma Watson" Is Full of Viruses [Malware]

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Warning: don't search for Emma Watson online unless you want to get infected. According to an McAfee's annual list of most dangerous online celebrities, if you're looking for news about Hermione, specifically naked news, you have about a 12 percent chance of picking up malware. More » ... [ Continue reading... ]

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