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
An update to the popular new jailbreak tool addresses issues with reboots and the default iOS Weather app. [Read more]
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Evasi0n iOS jailbreak version 1.1 pops up with bug fixes
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
There’s a bunch of junk orbiting the Earth right now, a bunch of junk that we put there. But not all of the old satellites that are zooming around the planet are totally useless; plenty still have good stuff in them that could be reused and DARPA wants to start mining them . More »
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This Is How DARPA Will Strip Old Satellites for Parts
Some of the most popular anime in Japan have never set foot on American shores. Oh sure, we have Naruto and Pokémon and Dragonball Z , but what we don’t have are the kids shows — the Japanese anime equivalent of SpongeBob SquarePants , Dora the Explorer and the like. Why? Because while you’d think they’d be the most adaptable for worldwide audiences –- kids are kids, right? –- they’re actually quite insane. Here are seven anime series that Japanese kids love that no American parent would ever let their kids watch. More »
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7 Japanese Kids’ Anime That American Kids Will Never, Ever See
This is so incredible that I think I’ve seen this in a movie before.* And if I didn’t, it should be put in a movie immediately. Genius bank robbers dug a 100 foot tunnel from a parking garage across the street to the bank’s safe deposit room and walked away with over $15,000,000 in goods. More »
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Genius Bank Robbers Dug a 100 Foot Long Tunnel to Rob a Bank
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
Microsoft’s Office 2013 lineup should be launching soon. Here’s what we know so far about prices and packages. [Read more]
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Office 2013 pricing: What to expect
The agreements include the rights to stream past episodes from the Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and Warner Bros. Animation. [Read more]
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Netflix scores deals with Turner, Warner Bros.