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This Is Obama's 2012 State of the Future John Kerry showed up to last night's State of the Union address with two black eyes and a broken nose, but that wasn't the only thrilling moment—Obama had technology on the brain. Here's what you need to know about the future of the future. More »
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The Next Xbox Could Be Six Times As Powerful According to IGN, sources close to the next Xbox project have told them the new console will have six times the graphics processing power of the Xbox 360, and will have 20 percent more performance than Nintendo's Will U. More »
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The Pentagon Newest Stealth Spy Aircraft Is a Flying Sperm This is Argus One, the Pentagon's newest unmanned aerial spy. It can carry 30 pounds of high-tech sensors and it just happens to be shaped like a sperm because this shape is better at handling turbulences at high altitudes. More »
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Apple's Stack of Cash Would Soar 32 Times Higher Than the International Space Station If you stack every single dollar bill in Apple's $97 billion cash reserves, you would reach 6,583 miles into space. That's about 32 times the altitude of the International Space Station. It would look pretty much like this. More »
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Apple Will Worry About iPad Competition When It Exists When asked today about how Apple was handling the competition from lower-priced tablets—specifically the Kindle Fire—Apple CEO Tim Cook said, effectively, that it isn't a competition at all. Which would sound like hubris, if the numbers didn't back him up so strongly. More »
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Google's Broken Promise: The End of "Don't Be Evil" In a privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it will begin tracking users universally across all its services—Gmail, Search, YouTube and more—and sharing data on user activity across all of them. So much for the Google we signed up for. More »
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Pinterest Is Tumblr for Ladiez Quick! Name the most perplexing social site you can think of. If you are a dude, it is probably Pinterest. More »
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Eleven Years of Dubai's Insane Growth Seen From Space We knew Dubai was growing uncontrollably, but this video demonstrates how absolutely crazy this growth has been. It covers eleven years, from 2000 to 2011. These sheiks and their real estate developers are completely nuts. More »
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This Logitech Portable Mouse Is Your Rodent Loving Deal of the Day Ever since I got a laptop, I can't use a mouse anymore. It feels so foreign to have the damn thing so far away from the keyboard, you know? Like if you were eating a burger but the fries were across the table. Or if you were having a drink but your friends were across the room. Or if you were sleeping but the pillows were on your feet! Or if the toilet paper wasn't within arm's reach! Or if the soap was on the prison floor! Or if the prison was in your home! Or if your home was a prison! Or if y...
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These 65 Objects Are Your Most Precious Possessions A family heirloom is often something that's very important to us, so important, in fact, that we bury it away and rarely share it with even ourselves. For this week's Shooting Challenge, readers photographed their most treasured possessions. More »
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It's Time for Apple to Stop Patent Trolling Intellectual property is important. There's no denying that. But there's a line between protecting yourself and just trying to kill everybody around you. It's one Apple has already crossed, and it's not doing anybody any good. Time to knock it off. More »
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Report: Steve Jobs Wanted Lytro's Crazy Camera Guts in the iPhone Before Steve Jobs passed away in the fall, he apparently had made it known he was interested in meeting with Lytro CEO Ren Ng about the possibilities of light field capture technology in iPhones. And as the story goes, Ng obliged, setting up a meeting as swiftly as is humanly possible. More »
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Artist Captures the Beauty of Disintegration via Pellet Gun It's amazing what some high-speed photography and a few well-placed BB's can accomplish. Artist Alan Sailer created this stunning series, dubbed, Color Explosion Photos. Who know a simple pellet gun could cause all this Technicolor destruction? [Flickr via Faith is Torment via Buzzfeed] More »
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A Raging Solar Storm Is Hitting the Earth Right Now The largest solar storm since 2005 is now in progress, causing fluctuations on the power grid and disruptions to the Global Positioning System. The ongoing strong proton storm is in full fury. And it's getting stronger; a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) impact also impacting us, traveling at 1,400 miles per second. More »
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Monster Gratitude Headphones Lightning Review: Shining Stars You Can't Take Anywhere Beats by Dre are great for listening to hip hop and looking cool around the city. But if you're not into their bottom-heavy sound, you're left out of the party. More »
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Google's New Plan: Annoy You Into Compliance Google Plus users just got a pretty horrible new feature: search your name, and instead of finding out information about yourself, you're asked to provide it. Quite simply, Google doesn't want to give you information until you give it information. Guh. More »
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A Handcrafted Selection of Wonderful Quotes from RIM's Recently Departed CEOs After enduring a few years of shrinking relevance in the smartphone market, RIM punctuated its decline with the simultaneous departure of its conjoined CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie. And while thist may signal a new direction for the company, it also likely means the stream of moronic soundbytes we've grown accustomed to will cease to exist as well. More »
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This 350 Piece K'Nex Value Tub Is Your Creative-Building Deal of the Day When I was a wee pup, my parents told me to always stay open minded. Be accepting, try everything and don't ever discriminate. I think that was some sort of life lesson about people but I took it as COOL, I'LL EAT PIZZA, BURGERS AND ICE CREAM. Not really. I didn't eat ice cream. I actually don't even like ice cream. ANYWAY. It's good to grow up with an open mind. You fall in love with every sport. You play every game console. You drink every soda, eat every candy and get every cavity on every te...
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Office Supply Monolith Is Perfect Desk Minimalism If you can ever have one thing where you used to have many things, you've accomplished good design. The Lexon Mini Totem does just that, curbing desktop sprawl with stackable items you can arrange how you want. More »
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How to Make a Boombox Out of a Toolbox Yes, that shiny Bose dock does look out of place in your workshop. But you know what would look awesome? A homebuilt blaster made out of a shiny red toolbox. This video shows you how to do it. More »
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Two Supercarriers Side By Side Look Awesome But It's Very Bad News These are the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS John C. Stennis, two of the ten nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft supercarriers in service with the United States Navy. The Lincoln just arrived to the Strait of Hormuz as tension keeps mounting up in the area. More »
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BlackBerry Burst: RIM's Co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie Step Down RIM's co-CEOs, Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie—aka the keyboard-loving odd couple—are finally realizing they're running BlackBerry into the ground and jumping ship before it's too late. That is, Lazaridis and Balsillie are stepping down at RIM. Done. Gone. Bye bye. The new CEO of RIM will be former COO Thorsten Heins. He has quite the job ahead of him, to say the least. More »
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Anonymous Just Deleted CBS.com and Took Down Universal Taking a shorter break than their last vacation, Anonymous is back at it already. Reports are coming in that they had completely knocked out CBS.com and are continuing their revenge spree. The CBS takedown wasn't your regular DDoS attack because if you went to CBS.com at the time Anon attacked it, there was nothing except an index page with a single file. That's it. Basically, Anonymous gained access to CBS.com and deleted EVERYTHING. More »
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Google Puts the Hammer Down on Three More Services Good news everyone! Google announced today that three of its web services will be getting the axe by mid-year. More »
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12 Deep-Sea Diving Suits to Keep the Ocean from Crushing You Like a Walnut Turns out that, aside from the drill-arm, Big Daddies aren't that far off from the real thing. Our friends at Oobject have assembled 12 of the toughest examples of deep-sea diving suits around—from da Vinci's cloth prototypes to the bell helmets made famous by countless Scooby-Doo villains. More »
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Sweet-Talk and Bitters: The Secret to Reimagining the Classic Cocktail I unscrew the top of the small, clouded vial in front of me, and siphon a few drops of the smoky-smelling liquid inside into a dropper before dabbing them on my wrist. I lick, and the burning sensation strikes instantly. Just as I begin to think, "My god, what have I done?" it backs off, leaving only a subtle smolder. More »
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What Comes After 4G? Wait wait wait, we're talking about 5G mobile data now?! Ugh, but we just got 4G squared away. In any case, the ball is already rolling on the next generation of cellular technology, so we might as well figure out what in the hell IMT-Advanced is. More »
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Unfriend Everyone You have too many Facebook friends. You're following too many people on Twitter. You're connected to too many people who don't care too much about you. Get rid of them. Get rid of all of them. More »
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The Best Worst Photos of Megaupload's Kim Dotcom Kim Schmitz aka Kimble aka Kim Dotcom. He was born in Kiel, Germany. According to the feds, he has done many bad things. But who was Kim the man, really? Was he a monster? A gangster? A misunderstood genius perhaps? More »
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10 Awesome Apps for Your Jailbroken iPhone and iPad You've taken the plunge. Your iOS device is jailbroken. And now it's time to head straight to Cydia and download all those illicit apps that'll supercharge your iPhone or iPad. More »
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NFL Team Logo Mats Are Your Cleanliness-Is-Next-to-NFL-iness Deal of the Day I'm concerned about anti-bacterial soap. People slather that stuff on and think they're doing everyone a solid, but they're actually contributing to the evolution of resistant bacterial strains. Oh yeah? You've heard it all before? Then why are you taking a Z-Pack for a cold? IT'S THE SAME PROBLEM. Someday we're going to have to leave Earth and live in space stations, and I don't think you're gonna want mutant bacteria getting you sick. You know what they do to contagious people in those types o...
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Why Did the Feds Target Megaupload? And Why Now? The federal government, with help from police abroad, came down on Megaupload.com with the online cop fury of an Old Testament God. But why Megaupload? And why now? More »
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Jailed MegaUpload Employees Denied Bail MegaUpload's founder, Kim Dotcom, was arrested in New Zealand with at least three other MU employees as part of federal actions against the file-sharing website today. And The four had better get used to their cells, they'll be there through the weekend as a North Shore District Court denies their request for bail. More »
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MegaUpload Accounted for a Quarter of All Corporate Traffic—More than Dropbox We tend to think of corporations as monolithic, singular entities. But they're not. They're just companies, normal companies run by normal people—people that really, really loved downloading stuff from MegaUpload while on the clock. More »
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Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline Anonymous has sure been quiet lately, but today's federal bust of Megaupload riled 'em up good: a retaliatory strike against DoJ.gov (and plenty of other foes) leaving them completely dead. More »
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The Stops and Starts of Designing the Traffic Light (and Why You Should Love It) You might not realize it when you've been trapped behind the same red light for five minutes, but traffic lights, when they're timed and tuned correctly, are actually pretty good at making traffic move. Really. More »
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Feds Kill Megaupload (Updated) Mixtape mecca and openair piracy expo Megaupload has a serious problem: it's just been shut down by the feds. The feds. And they didn't even need SOPA! More »
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You Can't Afford Apple's Education Revolution What Apple showed us today was nothing less than the future of education. The future we'd all been imagining for decades, no less. Harry Potter stuff. It's going to change the way we learn, the way we think, the way we live. More »
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Nike's Fuelband Is an Awesome Fitness Wristband for Your Entire Life Nike+ was a super sweet tool for runners to keep track of their workouts. But what about the rest of your life? What if Nike+ could keep track of that? That's what the brand new Nike+ Fuelband, an evolution of Nike+ in a simple Livestrong-styled wristband, tries to do. More »
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Why SOPA Is Going to Screw Us All: The Video This is a great short documentary explaining what's SOPA and PIPA in a very clear, simple way. It also explains why they will screw us all if we let Congress to approve this law. You should watch it. More »
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Apple's iPad Textbooks: Everything You Need to Know About iBooks 2 Steve Jobs wanted to do for education what he did for music, phones and tablet computers. Apple's new textbooks was his Next Big Thing (or one of them). More »
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PIPA Support Collapses, and Here's a Full List of the Senators Who Newly Oppose It Yesterday was, it turns out, a good day: so far, 18 senators previously in favor of PIPA now oppose it, seven of whom were former co-sponsors of the act. Here's the full list of converts. More »
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The "Eye of America" Takes Two-Story-Tall Pictures To celebrate the 200th birthday of the invention of the camera, photographer Dennis Manarchy built one of his own. It looks just like a classic film camera with a wooden frame, leatherette, and brass hardware but, oddly, I don't remember cameras normally being 35-feet long. More »
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BitTorrent's New P2P Protocol Could Fix the Internet's Shoddy Streaming Video Quality Streaming video over the Internet is one of the most important telecommunication developments in the last decade. Problem is, doing so needs a massive system architecture to support it and the feed is often riddled with lag. A new protocol from BitTorret's founder is aiming to change all that. More »
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SOPA And PIPA Are the Internet's Own Damn Fault Lots of sites are protesting SOPA today by going dark. Turning your website black is cute, and even attention-grabbing. But the only way SOPA dies is if the Internet industry starts lobbying just as hard as the entertainment industry. More »
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The Tiny Pocket Knife That I Will Carry Until I Lose I am not a Navy Seal. I don't need a fixed-blade, full-tang pocket sword with a tanto point and a Rockwell factor of 58. I open a lot of boxes and trim my nails with this 50-plus year-old pen knife. It used to be my grandfather's. I'm named after him. He died before I was born. More »
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This Olympus 12MP Camera Is Your Scrapbook Deal of the Day You can't revisit the past. Once it's gone, it's gone. 100% out of your control. For now at least. It's probably in your best interest to just embrace this reality and come to peace with the fact that you'll never get a second shot at that one moment you blew with that unbelievably hot person you unexpectedly stumbled into conversation with one day. More »
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PIPA Co-Sponsor Abandons His Awful Bill (Updated: Four Down!) Senator Marco Rubio has had a change of conscience. The legislation abomination known as PIPA, birthed in part from Rubio's Floridian law-womb, just officially lost his support. Keep up the pressure, everyone. More »
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Follow All the Morons Confused by Wikipedia's Blackout in One Place OMG why is wiki down?? How will I do my homework? WTF is this??? JESSIE have u seen this?? DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN THE WAR OF 1812 STARTED OR WHY OR WHAT IT IS?? I'm angry on Twitter. More »
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The TowPlow Goes Double-Wide on Snowy Streets No, this snow truck is not jack-knifing, the trailer is supposed to do that. It's the TowPlow and it clears snow-bound lanes in a flash. Are you listening Seattle? More »
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This Is What an Internet Protest Looks Like Today, taking a break from hurling racist slurs and GIFs at one another, the internet is taking a symbolic stand against SOPA and PIPA—two awful laws that would ruin the web. Behold the blackout rebellion. More »
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Perfectly Colored Famous Photos Are So Much More Powerful Than the B&W Originals (Updated) I know many may disagree, but these colored famous photos are much more powerful than the black and white originals. The perfect coloring takes away all the stylization of the black and white and pushes the violence right into your eyes. More »
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Mass Effect 3 Kinect Voice On: You're About to Start Yelling at Your TV for a Good Reason Kinect launched a little over a year ago. I'll bet you can't name very many games for it, and if you can, they probably fall in one of two or three categories: sports/exercise and dance, and they're prooooobably not exactly AAA titles. More »
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New Mars Meteorite Is Selling for $22,500 Per Ounce—10 Times the Price of Gold Start looking for some meteorites, people: a piece of Mars just discovered by meteor hunters in Morocco has been confirmed as real by NASA. Now it's selling for up to $22,500 an ounce, ten times the price of gold. More »
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Multicellular Evolution Apparently Isn't That Tough To Do and Only Takes 60 Days Wait, I thought evolution was an interminably slow process requiring millions of years to make any noticeable difference? Apparently not if you're yeast. A research team has just announce that it's figured out how to evolve a single-celled organism into a multicellular animal just like a freakin' Pokemon. More »
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NSFW: Crazy Stoned Woman Goes Topless at Apple Store What's the only thing more exciting than a new Core i7 MacBook Air at your local Apple Store? No, not the Genius Bar helping you out with a cracked iPhone screen—a ranting, pot-smoking lunatic crashing a Q&A. Naked. More »
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What Is SOPA? If you hadn't heard of SOPA before, you probably have by now: Some of the internet's most influential sites—Reddit and Wikipedia among them—are going dark to protest the much-maligned anti-piracy bill. But other than being a very bad thing, what is SOPA? And what will it mean for you if it passes? More »
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The NYPD Wants Mobile Weapon Scanners for Drive-By Patdowns The NYPD is in hot water with civil rights groups over its controversial Stop-and-Frisk policy. But, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly has a solution—handheld weapons scanners that see guns under clothing! Fourth Amendment? What's that? More »
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This Kind of Ignorance Is What Gives Gadget Guys A Bad Name (Updated) At CES last week, in addition to all the gear and gadgets, there was something else on display: women. As with many trade shows—especially ones aimed at a male audience—CES was rife with booth babes. More »
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All the Tech That Makes Future TVs So Gorgeous CES was more than just a Grand Canyon filled with eye candy—the sci-fi-beautiful TVs we saw are real, and you're gonna want them. But OLED? 8k? Crystal Display? What's all this mean? We'll explain the pretty new things. More »
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This 42" RCA LED HDTV Is Your Couch Potato Deal of the Day Mad Men is coming back soon and you'll need a proper TV to watch it on. Mad Men is coming back soon and you'll need a proper TV to watch it on. More »
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108 Photos With Perfect Compositional Balance, Supposedly Many call the "rule of thirds" the perfect way to compose an image. You may disagree, but these 108 photos from this week's Shooting Challenge won't be called wrong without a fight. More »
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How a Mouse Company Might Become King of the PC Jungle Last week, I said something crazy, that Razer's kind of insane Project Fiona gaming tablet is the future of PC gaming. I guess I should explain a little. More »
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