The Wall Street Journal points out an interesting trend: loads of illegally uploaded, full-length movies are finding their way on to YouTube, and studios are doing nothing about it. More »
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Hundreds of Full-Length Movies Are Reappearing on YouTube
Three members of Monty Python’s Flying Circus have reportedly signed on for a new movie in which aliens come to Earth to grant wishes to humans. [Read more]
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A Monty Python sci-fi movie? With Robin Williams? What?
Working with the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Big Blue has come up with a “hydrogel” that can beat back the bacteria that cause many deadly infections. [Read more]
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IBM says it has tool to kill deadly drug-resistant superbugs
Group says the late tech activist talked with editor Julian Assange and may have been a WikiLeaks source. But it doesn’t offer any details or corroborating evidence. [Read more]
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WikiLeaks says Aaron Swartz may have been a ‘source’
Ever wondered how long it would take to travel from Rome to Constantinople at the peak of the Roman Empire? Or from Luna to Larissa? Or Parma to Thessalonica? This map of the Roman World created at Stanford University is awesomely realistic — all the ancient transportation lines on it actually existed 2,000 years ago. More »
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This interactive travel map of the Roman Empire is like Oregon Trail meets Civilization
In the 1960s, when some were exploring the mysteries of outer space and quantum mechanics, one engineer noticed an extraordinary unexplained phenomenon in shampoo. The sudden, energetic, and seemingly spontaneous bursts of liquid that seemed to randomly squirt out from ordinary shampoo were a mystery for forty years. Here’s why your shampoo, while being poured, sometimes leaps up and tries to get you. More »
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An astonishing shampoo-related physics mystery
Want to loan your tablet to a child or friend but don’t want to provide access to all your data? Windows, Android, and even Amazon tablets make it easy. Apple’s iPad has some catching up to do. [Read more]
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iPad is left behind as rival tablets get multiuser support
Activision signs a deal with Google to let players live stream game play of the latest in the blockbuster series, Call of Duty: Black Ops II. [Read more]
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Stream your Call of Duty play on YouTube
I’m not sure how long GameFly plans to give away this awesome game, so grab it while you can. [Read more]
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BioShock is free! BioShock is free! (for PC)
The company’s plants would be designed to handle LCD TV production, according to the report. [Read more]
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Foxconn looks to U.S. to open manufacturing plants, report says