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Apple Drops Trademark Claim on App Store, Stores That Sell Apps Everywhere...
You say App Store, I say Appstore. Apple has decided to call the whole thing off, and has dropped its lawsuit against Amazon for infringing on its trademark for its digital software retail...
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Petition Demands Microsoft Reinstate Restrictive Xbox One Policies
Do you remember the olden days, when the Xbox One was going to restrict used game sales and require online check-ins? Are you annoyed that now that Microsoft conceded and went back on those policies,...
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Five-Dimensional Data Crystals Exist, Can Store Information for “Practically”...
We see science fiction becoming reality all the time, but of all the sci-fi conceits around, societies that store all their information (and giant holograms of Marlon Brando) in glowing “data...
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Facebook Abandoned Feature to Show How Many People View Your Posts
More people look at your Facebook posts then ‘Like’ and ‘Share’ them. That’s a fact that everyone is vaguely aware of, but it might surprise you to know that Facebook tested a feature that would tell...
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When It Comes to Science Fiction and Fantasy, Multiple Levels of Realism Are...
How many times have you complained with something along the lines of, “How did Character A survive that gaping chest wound, or get from Point A to Point B so fast, or figure out the mystery with no...
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Seth MacFarlane’s American Dad! Saved, Will Move to TBS Next Season
Cable to the rescue! Deadline has reported that American Dad! will move to TBS in 2014. While the 10th season of the animated sitcom, which starts airing on Fox September 29th, was expected to be its...
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Police Discover Austrian Man’s Bone Collection of 56 Stolen Skulls
Austrian police raided a man’s home to find a personal museum consisting of 56 skulls and dozens of other bones. He was charged for raiding a church cemetery, but I’m sure he has a good explanation...
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Later Retirement Could Lower Risk of Dementia, So Maybe Put That Off a Few Years
It might feel like work is killing you, but it’s also giving your brain mental exercise that could help keep you sharp in the future. A wide-ranging study from France has found that those who retired...
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Probably Not Drift Compatible: Seven Fantastic Examples of Technobabble
Technobabble – the scientific-sounding gibberish that scientist characters spew in every episode of Star Trek – is the dilithium crystal in the warp engine that makes science fiction run. It can get...
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Mos Espa Star Wars Set Due to Be Swallowed by Giant Sand Dune
It turns out that Anakin Skywalker had a good reason for not liking sand. Aside from the fact that it’s rough, and coarse, and gets everywhere, it’s about to swallow up his childhood home of Mos Espa....
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Robotic Skin Lights Up at a Touch, Fear the Age of the Glowing Terminator
Is your skin not glowing as much as you’d like? Do you want your hand to start flashing red if someone gives you too firm a handshake? Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have...
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Google Announces Chromecast, Lets You Stream to Any HDTV With $35 Dongle
The next big thing isn’t big at all. It’s the size of a USB flash drive, fits into an HDMI port on your TV, and turns that TV into a screen for your phone, tablet, or computer. And it costs an...
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So, Yeah, Chipotle Faked Their Twitter Hack as a Publicity Stunt, Have Earned...
On Sunday, the official Twitter account for the restaurant chain Chipotle started sending out some odd Tweets. We, and others, assumed they’d been hacked, even though the ‘hacker’ didn’t seem to get...
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To Save the Owls, US Government Plans to Kill Over 3,000 Owls
As the old saying goes, you can’t make an owl-mlette without breaking a few thousand eggs. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is taking this to heart, moving forward with a controversial plan...
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MIT Scientists Create False Memories in Mice, Creep Out All Other Species
There’s something deeply unnerving about the idea that our memories could be falsified or erased. Our fear of the idea has made it a popular theme in science fiction. But new techniques that let...
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It’s All Connected, People! Our Theory on the Pronunciation Book Mystery
The Internet has been following a YouTube series that started out as a pronunciation guide, became a slightly weirder pronunciation guide, and went off the rails two weeks ago and started a portentous...
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Check Out the First Amazing Pictures of the Sun from NASA’s IRIS
NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) satellite has been open for less than two weeks, and already it’s returned the first images from its mission to study the Sun’s atmosphere. The...
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By Thor’s Hero Shrew’s Hammer! New Species of Shrew With Incredibly Tough...
One of the strangest animal species on Earth is the hero shrew, a small mammal that resembles other shrews save for one utterly distinct feature — a spinal column with interlocking vertebrae that is...
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EVE Online Features Biggest Space Battle Yet as 4,000 Players Clash
Yesterday, two fleets of starships waged the biggest battle in history, and it might only be the beginning of the war. Massively multiplayer online space simulator EVE Online saw thousands of players...
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In Spite of Support for Net Neutrality, Google Fiber Won’t Allow Servers
Google Fiber has brought the joy of free-market competition in the form of 1 gigabit/second broadband. But now that Google is an Internet service provider, its commitment to open Internet access is...
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