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Pacific Rim’s ‘Robot Porn’ Brings Gigantic Kaiju (and Guillermo Del Toro) to Life
In the hands of a lesser geek, a movie about an Armageddon-esque battle between 25-story robots and equally humungous kaiju monsters could've wound up looking like a disaster -- and not in a good way. But when that geek is director Guillermo Del Toro, and the film is his upcoming action flick Pacific Rim, it's best to just trust the man, sit back and enjoy the ride.
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 15
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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Video: Before Comic-Con Masquerade, a Waiting Game
It's one of the hottest tickets at Comic-Con International, and these dedicated few aren't taking any chances -- they've waited in line for more than 12 hours to be first to get their passes.
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Tarantino Spills Antebellum Gore in Nerve-Wracking Django Unchained ‘Sizzle Reel’
The Django Unchained "sizzle reel," made for industry insiders but shown Saturday for the first time to Comic-Con International audiences, bubbles with sight gags and funny bits of banter. But make no mistake: This story of a freed slave who becomes a bounty hunter in the pre-Civil War south simmers with righteous rage.
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Video: See Total Recall’s Sci-Fi Ride and Costumes
Here's a look at the new ride and costumes used in the upcoming remake of Total Recall, adapted from Philip K. Dick's sci-fi short "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale."
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Video: Kevin Smith Says ‘It’s a Good Time to Be a Geek’
Give Kevin Smith an open forum and you've got instant gold. So that's what we did at the Wired Cafe.
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First Disney – Marvel Crossover Announced — And It’s Phineas and Ferb!
Disney bought Marvel nearly three years ago, but it’s taken until this year to see synergy really grow out of the purchase. So far this year, we’ve seen the Marvel Universe programming block on Disney XD, and we’ve seen Disney throw its considerable marketing weight behind the blockbuster film The Avengers. But it’s only now [...]
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Exclusive Video: First Look at New Armor From Iron Man 3
What kind of armor will Tony Stark wear in Iron Man 3? That question has been answered at Comic-Con International, where the new costume is on display at the Marvel booth.
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What’s Cooking for Breaking Bad’s Final Season? A Big Batch of Crazy
What fate awaits the meth-cooking kingpin in the show's final season? Breaking Bad creator and executive producer Vince Gilligan promised that secrets would be revealed almost immediately when the show's final season kicks in Sunday.
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Mimoco Unveils G.I. Joe, More Transformers Mimobots
Hot on the heels of the recent Adventure Time Mimobots reveal, Mimoco has just announced their "Countdown to Comic Con" collection. This new line includes a second series of Transformers-themed designer USB flash drives, as well as the proper introduction of the G.I. Joe X Mimobot series featuring Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow and Cobra Commander. Of course they're available in models up to 64GB capacity and boast pre-loaded content like digital comics, wallpaper and show episodes, but likely their best feature is the following ridiculous promo video. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
07.14.12
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The Girl Who Would Be King: Two Young Superheroes on a Collision Course
Writing a great superhero comic is hard but writing a great superhero prose story can be even harder. I've tried it (with some success, I hope), with an X-Men style adventure and a more urban noir Batman setting. The biggest challenge is making the action awe-inspiring and intense without the aide of artists who make superheroes look so cool in a comic.
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GeekMom Puzzle of the Week #13 ??? Solution and Winner
As usual on Saturday's I get to announce our Puzzle of The Week winner who was selected at random from all the correct entries.
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Geeking Out in Orlando: Hollywood Studios
Carrying on from last week we will look at the top ten geeky things to do in each of the major theme parks in Orlando and then ask for you to vote on which has the best geeky attractions. Last week we looked at Disney???s Animal Kingdom and EPCOT. Today we're looking at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
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En Garde! Microsoft Creates Smartphone Tech for Virtual Sword Fighting
Microsoft wants to let you sword fight without the physical risk of getting stabbed. A team at Microsoft Research has created a smartphone localization technology that enables you to play a multi-player sword fighting game using only your mobile phones.
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Guns, Squirrels, and Steel: The Many Ways To Kill a Data Center
Data centers go down all the time. It's a fact of life. But while we've all seen the internet error messages, we don't always find out what the root causes behind the outages were. Two weeks ago, Netflix went down on a Friday night. The problem? A massive storm on the East Coast and some backup generators that didn't power up in time to help. Here are few more root causes behind data center outages over the past few years.
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Game of Thrones Creators Talk New Characters … and Sex and Violence (Duh)
HBO's fantasy show will boast a slew of new faces in Season 3, from "skinchangers" to the "Queen of Thorns." Amid the Comic-Con banter about the show's bountiful sex and violence, novelist George R.R. Martin says they'll have to kill off some characters to make room on the show's roster.
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Revolution in France – Music for History Lovers (GeekDad Wayback Machine)
In honor of Bastille Day, here's "Revolution in France," set to Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance," in a music video created by a pair of teachers from Hawaii. The two have found an effective method of helping students remember history; they've created a series of music videos setting historic events to the tunes of well-known pop songs.
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Shotguns, Wormholes Perforate Philip K. Dick-Inspired Looper
Time travel might be the hook for Looper, but writer-director Rian Johnson said his thriller about a hit man (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who tries to murder his future self (Bruce Willis) does not overwork the pretzel logic inherent in wormwhole-riddled dramas.
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Tips for a Great Trip to Disney World (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
Want to visit Disney World for a family vacation? Here are some tips and recommendations that might make your trip more fun.
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America’s Army Comic: Bad Recruiting Tool, Worse Story
America's newest comics publisher has a $200-billion-a-year budget, more than a million employees and just one title in its catalog. At Comic-Con International, the U.S. Army -- yes, that U.S. Army -- announced the release Friday of America's Army No. 1, a partially animated digital comic for the iPad and Android tablets.
07.14.12
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Walking Dead Promises Action-Packed Third Season (Minus the Details)
SAN DIEGO -- On the heels of a second season that some fans thought moved a little too slow, the creators and cast of AMC's The Walking Dead came here to Comic-Con to promise that the show's forthcoming season would be much more action-packed -- beginning with the prison arc beloved by readers of the graphic novels.
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First Footage of Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium Shows Earth as Sci-Fi Landfill
Matt Damon found himself covered in "fecal matter" while filming Elysium's action scenes at the world's second-largest garbage dump in Mexico City, but he's not complaining. The actor simply wanted to satisfy the in-your-face realism demanded by sci-fi auteur Neill Blomkamp.
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Trying Out Shirts My Way
Around this time last year (give or take a few months), I was invited to try out the concept of ordering custom-tailored dress shirts through a website. It worked extremely well. I've bought 90 percent of my clothes online for the past decade ??? no line-ups, no crowds, better selection, decent prices, what's not to like?
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 14
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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This is Beauty: Reporter Golfs Through Abandoned Detroit
I love this. [Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Charlie] LeDuff’s idea of a love letter to his city was to golf his way across eighteen miles of urban decay, using hulking industrial relics as his sand traps and everyday Detroiters as his gallery. He counted 2,525 strokes. He comes across a mom trying to find her [...]
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Can a $10 Robot Save African Education?
Ten dollars doesn't get you a lot of parts. Then again, $35 for a computer seemed pretty outrageous not too long ago. The success of that Raspberry Pi Micro-Computer prompted professors Ken Goldberg and Ayorkor Korsah to stage a contest: Design a $10 robot. Conceived as a teaching tool for use in African classrooms, such a low-cost machine could prove to be revolutionary for education in poorer countries around the world.
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Game of Thrones, The Dark Knight Rises Get Mondo-ized
Three artists put radically different spins Game of Thrones in a new series of posters from Mondo. See them, plus new screen prints for The Dark Knight Rises and Princess Mononoke
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Par:AnoIA: Anonymous Launches WikiLeaks-esque Site for Data Dumps
Anonymous has launched its own version of WikiLeaks. It's looking to rely less on the secret-spilling site and to actually get people to make sense of the gigabytes of data Anonymous dumps on the world. But that's easier said than done.
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Explosion, Fire Cause Data Meltdown in Calgary
Downtown Calgary, Alberta, is going into its second day without complete use of government services, after some sort of explosion knocked out internet service provider Shaw Communications and a host of other nearby businesses.
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Google Starts Shipping Nexus 7 Tablet
To all of you who ordered a Nexus 7 in the last few weeks, you can expect a 7-inch package delivery on your doorstep soon. Google announced that it has started shipping the pre-orders of its first self-branded tablet on Friday.
07.13.12
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Game|Life Podcast: Ouya’s and Penny Arcade’s Kickstarter Gambles
With Ouya off to the races and likely to become the most-funded Kickstarter campaign ever, and Penny Arcade taking a gamble on using Kickstarter to eliminate advertising, it seemed like a good time to bring up the topic again on this week's Game|Life podcast.
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Wil Wheaton Plays Fiasco on TableTop
When Wil gets together with his friends Alison Haislip, Bonnie Burton, and John Rogers to play a game where less impulse control is a good thing, you know it will be a truly epic experience.
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Review: Give Your iPad More USB Mojo With CloudFTP
Connect any USB device to the CloudFTP box, and it becomes accessible to your phone or tablet via an ad hoc Wi-Fi network.
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Inside Google’s Fascinating Stash of 10,000 Indoor Maps
10,000 indoor maps. You can consider this proof positive that Google is making headway in its effort to chart every nook and cranny of navigable terrain, even if this includes carpet and linoleum.
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What, No Meatballs?! IKEA???s VIP Airport Lounge
Starting today, Swedish home furnishing giant Ikea is offering travelers at Paris??? Charles de Gaulle International Airport a little break. Open until August 5, Ikea???s 200-square-meter VIP lounge, open to everybody (because even cheapskate consumers are important) offers nine rooms with sofas and even beds on which to rest your weary hide.
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Report: iPhone 5 Will Be Announced August 7
If the latest reports end up proving true, we could be seeing the next iPhone launch sooner than expected. A "reliable industry source" told KnowYourMobile that the next iPhone would be launched at an August 7 keynote speech.
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Video: Doctor Who Cast Reveals Comic-Con Mission
Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill talk about the people they're most excited to see at Comic-Con, they're favorite episodes of the British sci-fi show and much more.
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Apple Does About-Face on Green EPEAT Ratings
Just two days after dropping out of the green EPEAT ratings system for electronics manufacturers, Apple has decided it???s not so bad after all.
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Video: Precision-Landing Rocket Flies Higher Than Ever
Masten Space Systems is flying rockets higher than it ever has before with the latest flight of its Xaero. The rocket launched from the company's Mojave test pad and reached an altitude of 444 meters (1,457 feet) before returning to the pad for a precision landing. At first glance, launching a rocket a quarter-mile into the sky might not seem like much of an accomplishment. But right now Masten is focused more on the precision control of its rockets than on maximum altitude.
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Morgan Spurlock Talks Comic-Con Movie, Action Figures
Gonzo filmmaker Morgan Spurlock discusses his new documentary Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope and shows off action figures for the movie.
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Video: No Ticket? Don’t Worry — Comic-Con Takes It Outside
Free attractions around the San Diego Convention Center give those less-fortunate souls a chance to get in on the fun at Comic-Con International.
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Dongle Makes Any iPod Dock a Bluetooth Speaker
Bring those old speaker docks out of the closet and make them Bluetooth-capable with a new Kickstarter project.
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Gallery: A Salute to Comic-Con’s Superfans
Comic-Con sends out its bat-call each year to fans, stars and aficionados of everything from mainstream science fiction to obscure comics. Those who respond are the die-hards. Here's a look at the action on the ground in San Diego.
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Become Your Own LOLcat With Brainwave-Controlled Kitty Ears
You can learn a lot about what's going on inside a cat's mind by paying attention to its ear movements. If kitty is angry or tired, her ears may tilt away from her face or droop. And if your cat is on high alert, her ears will stick straight up in the air like twin sentinels. These telling ear movements inspire Necomimi's Brainwave Controlled Cat Ears, an impossibly cute headset that theoretically puts all your mind's machinations on display
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Video: Solar Eruption Caught on Camera
When a solar flare erupted yesterday, scattering a billion atomic bombs' worth of energy into space, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was staring at the sun. They recorded this video, which NASA released Friday morning.
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TableTop‘s Foray Into Fiasco Is Anything But Failure
On this week's episode of Geek & Sundry's TableTop, host Wil Wheaton and friends, XXXXXXXXXX and John Rogers, play the wonderful story-based RPG Fiasco. If you're unfamiliar with the award-winning game, it's like playing out a Coen Brother's movie. In every game, something goes horribly, disastrously wrong - and you have to figure your way out. It's a role playing game that's like no role playing game you've ever heard of before.
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Review: Panasonic TC-P55ST50 Plasma HDTV
Panasonic's TC-P55ST50 makes a solid case for giving a plasma HDTV a shot at the living room, especially for viewers who like their black levels inky and their colors resplendent.
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Cooperation of Services Key to Personal Cloud’s Promise
If you're paying for cloud-based services that don't participate in a standards-based ecosystem you're not getting your money's worth. Ask for it, writes Jon Udell.
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Video: Get the Grand Spatial Tour of Comic-Con
Ever wondered about the grounds where Comic-Con International takes place each year? Have no fear: This Wired video will lay it all out for you.
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Why Curiosity Needs to Dig Deep for Organic Molecules on Mars
Once NASA's new Mars rover survives a terrifying descent, scientists will begin weeks, months and possibly years of searching for organic molecules in the dirt. Astrobiologist and Extremo Files blogger Jeffrey Marlow explores how deep Curiosity may have to dig for paydirt.
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Video: Stan Lee Marvels at How Tech Has Changed Superheroes
How can you talk about Comic-Con International and not mention Stan Lee? Wired talks with the man who helped create the biggest characters in comic book history.
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NASA Tests Robotic Gas Station Attendant for Outer Space
Satellites use solar energy to power their electronics, but they rely on gas to maintain orbit or change position. Once tapped out, dead satellites become space junk, which threatens new orbital ventures. To prevent this, NASA is testing the feasibility of using robots to fuel and repair satellites on the fly or tow them to a new job site.
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XKCD Answers Your Hypothetical Questions With Physics
If you're reading this blog, chances are you're probably quite familiar with the webcomic xkcd created by Randall Munroe. It's everything a geek could dream of in a web comic: It's funny, it's smart, and it's quirky. Over the years, the talented Randall has covered an amazing number of topics, from programming to math, science to fruit. It's become a habit for many of us to check xkcd for the latest comic every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning.
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Hurricane Hunters Fly Into the Eye of the Storm for Science — And TV
To gather information on violent storms, the National Hurricane Center relies on tools like sensors and satellites. And some badass Air Force Reserve pilots. The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron flies directly into the world's worst storms to collect meteorological data.
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Video: Darpa’s ‘Wall-of-Sound’ Fire Extinguisher
Darpa has developed a system to put out flames using only sound.
07.13.12 -
Chicken Vaccines Combine to Produce Deadly Virus
Scientists have found that two virus strains used to vaccinate chickens may have recombined to form a virus that is sickening and killing the animals.
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Amazon.de Reveals Skylander Giants Hot Head, Swarm, Fright Rider, Flashwing, Chill and Sprocket
Amazon.de listings reveal new Skylanders Giants Hot Head and Swarn. It also let slip about new regular size Skylanders Fright Rider, Flashwing, Chill and Sprocket. We start to piece together a better picture of the figures available in the new Skylanders game.
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Congratulations to the Winner of the Red Tails – Airventure Giveaway!
Huge congratulations to TJ Wasik of Rochester, New York, whose entry was picked randomly from all the eligible entries to win the huge Red Tails – Airventure giveaway! We at GeekDad hope TJ and family enjoy their trip to Airventure in OshKosh, Wisconsin, later this month — we wish we could go, too! And, to [...]
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Grandmother Creates New Guinness Gaming Record
GeekMom Andrea witnesses a successful Guinness Record bid for "Longest Video Games Marathon Playing a Card Game." The American record is now held by a 68-year-old grandmother from New Jersey!
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Dork Tower Friday
Find the Dork Tower webcomic archives, DT printed collections, more cool comics, awesome games and a whole lot more at the Dork Tower website: www.dorktower.com.
07.13.12
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This Week With the GeekMoms
See what GeekMom writers are up to.
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Happy Birthday: Why July 13 is a Good Day for Geeks
GeekMom wishes happy Birthday to two of their favorite leading men, Patrick Stewart and Harrison Ford.
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Veritasium Video Homework
Surely you know about Derek Muller’s (@veritasium) awesome science videos at Veritasium, right? Well, here is a quick homework assignment based on some of his videos. Why? It turns out that I was in need of somethings for my physical science class to do “online”. Why not have them watch a few of Derek’s videos [...]
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Happy 70th Birthday to Harrison Ford, and Happy 72nd to Patrick Stewart!
Please join all of us at GeekDad in wishing Harrison Ford and Sir Patrick Stewart a very happy birthday, and many more to come!
07.13.12 -
Isn’t Your Child More Than a Number?
Writing teachers Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Barry Lane have teamed up to remind parents and policymakers that children are much more than a score on a standardized test.
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Powerbag Backpack by F??l: Carry Your Stuff, Charge Your Gadgets
It can be a pain when you're on the move and don't want to stuff a charger and a bunch of cables and connectors into your bag. That's where the Powerbag Backpack 3000 comes into play. It provides not only a sturdy backpack with plenty of pockets for all your stuff, but a built in charger and connectors so you can charge no matter where you go.
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Yahoo Security Breach — What It Means to You
A new name can be added to the list of companies who have been hacked this year...Yahoo. If you know anyone with a yahoo account, there's a chance you received a strange e-mail from them recently. More than 450,000 username and passwords were compromised in the breach.
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Wait, We Still Like Paper!: No, Your 4-Year-Old Couldn???t Do this Inkjet Art
Digital printers are supposed to create perfect copies. Print something numerous times and it should look exactly the same, down to the last period. But that's never quite how it turns out. Inkjet prints, in particular, can end up looking more like off-register screenprints
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Tiny 2-Foot Bomb Could Be ‘Months’ Away From Drone War
The drone war could be shrinking faster than anyone expected. Raytheon's teeny, tiny drone missile might be ready to arm a small drone within months, the defense giant says.
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Stirring Photos Chronicle the Final Years of the Space Shuttle Program
Philip Scott Andrews' ongoing photo series Last Days documents the end of NASA's space shuttle program. For three years Andrews has had unprecedented access to Cape Canaveral and he's made good use of it by capturing a side of this facility the public is not used to seeing.
07.13.12
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Amazing Alex: Hands-On with Rovio’s Newest Game That Isn’t Angry Birds
Raise your hand if you're sick of Angry Birds. Yeah, we thought so. Now that Rovio has saturated the market with Angry Birds-branded games, toys, clothing and even fruit snacks, the developer has set its sights on a boy named Alex and his Rube Goldberg-esque shenanigans.
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Cycling and Coding Collide at Performance Tracker Strava
At Strava, the idea that ???there???s always time for a run or a ride??? is more than a motivational motto. It???s a core principle. The San Francisco startup is packed with Type A endurance athletes, people who run five or six miles at lunch and think riding 100 miles is a great way to spend a Saturday.
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Bender: Free iPads! and Other Sales Tactics of the Rich and Famous
For interior designer and budding restaurateur DeeAnna Staats (lots of vowels, yes, but two names), it all begins with the iPad. And, as with every great Hollywood story, goes fantastically over the top from there.
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Data: How One Startup Turned a $5,000 Contest Into Millions
Late last year, San Francisco startup Jetpac offered $5,000 in prizes to anyone who could figure out how to teach a computer how to tell which of your Facebook friends' vacation photos are any good. This week, that $5,000 turned into $2.4 million in funding.
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Millions Will Flow to Privacy Groups Supporting Weak Facebook Settlement
Privacy and consumer rights groups are getting $10 million thanks to the settlement of a privacy lawsuit against Facebook's 'Sponsored Stories' ads. But groups not getting any money in the deal are crying foul, saying the settlement doesn't help Facebook's 850 million users.
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Visualizing 1 Billion Cars
Between 1950 and 1970, the number of vehicles in the world roughly doubled every 10 years. That trend began to shift in the mid-1980s, when the vehicle population reached a staggering 500 million vehicles in 1986. Twenty-four years later, we’ve eclipsed the 10-digit mark, with more than 1 billion vehicles registered worldwide. That’s enough for [...]
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The Artist Ideaboard: A Portable Whiteboard
I mentioned the Artist Ideaboard last week, but since then I've had chance to use one. I'm happy to say that I am as impressed with the implementation as I was the idea. This is definitely something that will see a lot of use at our robotics team meetings. The large one ended up being a little large for my crowded cube at work, but I trust the smaller ones will work great there.
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Coming Unhinged
No, this post isn't about being stressed out about my upcoming trip to Taiwan and the prospect of a long overseas flight handling two children on my own. It's actually about something that might help me retain a little bit of sanity on said flight. Unhinged is a pocket-sized puzzle from ThinkFun, purveyor of fun mind-benders and thinking games.
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Neil Gaiman Announces New Prequel to The Sandman!
Nearly a quarter century after the first issue of Neil Gaiman's incredible series, The Sandman, was released, Gaiman has madea very exciting announcement.
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IFC’s Bunk Improvises the Game Show
IFC's Bunk is the type of game show you'd get if you crossed Double Dare with Pictionary in the back of a comedy club after a long night of drinking.
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Quicksilver: Queen Victoria’s Airship Racing Game
Overview: The Quicksilver airships have been retired from Queen Victoria’s Royal Air Force, but they’ve been put to use in the Quicksilver International Racing Federation. Race to the checkpoints and cross the finish line first, but watch that you don’t run into mountains or flying minefields, and look out for the gun turrets. (Retired? Perhaps. [...]
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Reprinted AD&D; Books on Sale Tuesday to Benefit Gygax Memorial Fund
According to the Facebook page of the Gygax Memoiral Fund, and Wizards of the Coast, three reprinted Advanced Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks -- The Players Handbook, the Dungeon Masters Guide, and the Monster Manual -- will finally go on sale on Tuesday, July 17.
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Ya Kinda Do Manned Spaceflight Because Ya Wanna
Here’s something a bit controversial. I don’t think that there is any good justification for piloted spaceflight if by “good justification” you mean something that a non-space fan would see as important. Ya just kinda gotta wanna do piloted spaceflight. Oh, we’ve found such “real world” justifications, but they always prove ephemeral or ineffective. So [...]
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First Look at The Hobbit Lego Set
A first look at the new lego set based on Tolkien's The Hobbit and it's upcoming movie adaptation.
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Sam Raimi Pulls Back the Curtain on Oz the Great and Powerful
Steampunk meets fairyland fantasia in the wondrous-looking new footage from Oz the Great and Powerful, which director Sam Raimi unveiled Thursday at Comic-Con International.
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A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 13
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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Can You Hear the Higgs?
Have you ever wondered what one of the greatest scientific discoveries of our time sounds like? Wonder no longer! After the announcement of the Higgs boson discoveries last week, researcher Domenico Vicinanza immediately went to work sonifiying the data. Now that the general populous can finally hear what the Higgs boson evidence sounds like, hopefully all of us can understand the data leading to this momentous discovery. Could the mysteries of the universe be holding a waltz beat? How about a jazz rhythm? R&B? Pop? Country? Turns out the score has a distinctly latin flair, similar to a habanera beat.
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FBI Investigating Major Chinese Firm for Selling Spy Gear to Iran
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into allegations that a top Chinese maker of phone equipment supplied Iran with U.S.-made hardware and software, including a powerful surveillance system, in violation federal laws and a trade embargo.
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Review: Sony’s New ??57 DSLR Has Mass Appeal
Sony???s new A57 is aimed at serious enthusiasts who are more interested in the outcome than the process. The camera delivers some high-powered DSLR features in a package that???s intuitive enough for less-experienced shooters. And at a print-worthy 16.1-megapixels, it won???t be fighting for supremacy only in Facebook photo galleries.
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Sony’s New DSLR Has Mass Appeal
Sony's new A57 is aimed at serious enthusiasts who are more interested in the outcome than the process. The camera delivers some high-powered DSLR features in a package that's intuitive enough for less-experienced shooters. And at a print-worthy 16.1-megapixels, it won't be fighting for supremacy only in Facebook photo galleries.
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Illegal-Ivory Bust Shows Growing U.S. Appetite for Elephant Tusks
The next time you browse cute little ivory objects in a jewelry shop, remember that those objects could be made out of the tusks of protected elephants illicitly killed by poachers and then smuggled to the United States. Their death could have far-reaching consequences, perhaps even affecting the climate.
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Social: After Raising $45M, Digg Sells for Pennies on the Dollar
The remains of social news sharing site Digg were bought by New York-based incubator Betaworks on Thursday.
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Ouya CEO: ‘We All Have Reputations On the Line’
Ouya, the fledgling Android-based videogame console, has drawn a great deal of attention with its astonishing Kickstarter success.
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Solar Storm’s Auroras May Dance Above Mid-U.S. This Weekend
A giant solar flare shot out of a sunspot Thursday, hitting Earth with a powerful burst of X-ray and ultraviolet radiation. Solar researchers expect a moderate geomagnetic storm to follow and strike Earth this weekend, causing satellite glitches, power disruptions and colorful auroras possibly as far south as Washington D.C.
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HP’s Operation ‘Kona’ Private Eyes Get 3 Years Probation
Two private investigators who impersonated reporters, Hewlett Packard board members, and their families have been sentenced to three years probation and six months electronic monitoring in the case.
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First Screens: Epic’s Fortnite Is the First Unreal Engine 4 Game
Epic Games lifted the curtain on Fortnite, its upcoming cooperative survival-horror game for the PC, at Comic-Con on Thursday.
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Never Mind: Military Doesn’t Think Iran’s Missiles Will Reach U.S. After All
Another year, another Pentagon report on Iran's military power. Which means another round of imprecise predictions about when Iran may first test an intercontinental ballistic missile. But this time, the Pentagon no longer believes a future Iranian missile will be able to strike America. And another reason not to worry: Even if Iran does develop one, it'll probably suck.
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You???ve Come a Long Way, Baby! The ???80s Brick Phone, Now With Bluetooth
It seems we can???t get enough of the '80s. Neon, remakes of classic movies, skinny jeans, leg-warmers ??? okay, can we please skip the leg-warmers? Just when we thought we were done with revisiting the decade, we spot a product that reminds us the '80s are back in force.
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Comic-Con University: Lose the Necktie and Learn to Animate
The nerd fest has begun. Over a hundred thousand fanboys and fangirls, some in elaborate getups, are descending on Comic-Con in San Diego to worship at the altars of character designers, digital animators, writers, and celebrities who get to wear kick-ass armor and save the world.
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Daily Mail, HuffPo Dumb Down Dinosex
On a slow news day, dinosaur sex sells. Laelaps blogger Brian Switek explains the less glamorous truth of what paleontologists really know about dino mating.
07.12.12
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