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What It Felt Like To Land A Robot On Mars
The happiest place on earth, at least for a few minutes last night , was the control room at the Jet Propulsion Lab. There were high fives Last night the Mars Science Laboratory successfully landed on...
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The Most Incredible Photo Of The Mars Curiosity Landing
It's not very big, and it might not look like much, but this photo, taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite, captures the Curiosity as it's parachuting to the surface . I've never seen...
View ArticleThe Way We Copyright Now
While NASA was busy landing a rover on Mars, a local news service uploaded footage from the livestream onto YouTube before NASA could, prompting YouTube to remove the video when it later appeared on...
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We Love Spoilers
From the Olympics to reality television, many howl — and sue! — over spoilers. But we can't get enough of them. Emily Maynard, left, and Jef Holm on "The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose." Spoilers...
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The Best Of The Internet's Reaction To The Mars Rover Landing
Nice job, Internet. America reacted accordingly: Via: loveandothersubjects And the Earth was way too overly attached: Via: formlessforce The first pictures were amazing: Source: reddit.com / via:...
View ArticleWhen YouTube On The iPhone Was A Big Deal
Apple confirms YouTube won't be a part of the forthcoming iOS 6 software for the iPhone . You probably won't even notice. But it made for a real nice iPhone ad, once upon a time. A dog on a skateboard...
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How To Do Anything, According To eHow
Just follow these simple steps. The world's greatest website, ladies and gentlemen. "Random tattoos, piercings with things like giant safety pins and lots of black rubber jangly bracelets help cement...
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Am I About To Be Sued For Using Demonoid?
The popular file-sharing site was raided by the Ukranian government this afternoon. Does that mean users are about to find themselves in court? Source: fc03.deviantart.net First, the bad news: If the...
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A Historic Map Time Machine
120 of the world's most interesting old maps, handpicked by expert David Rumsey. Have some time to kill before checking into your next (defunct) favorite old bar on PastMapper? David Rumsey Map...
View ArticleHow To Not Get Hacked To Pieces Like Mat Honan
1. Use a different credit card at Amazon than you use for Apple purchases. 2. Use Google 2-factor authentication . 3. Have a separate recovery email with an address you don't use anywhere else. 4....
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The Curiosity Rover Is Basically Just A Drunk Instagrammer
Curiosity has sent back its first full-color image from Mars . So, what filter do you think it's using? I'm guessing Amaro, but the frame is more like Hefe. (Sorry, NASA.) Via: nasa.gov The real...
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People On Twitter Who Are Thinking About Killing The President
Threatening the President is a federal crime. Twitter guy @a_girl_irl unearthed these alarming statements. This is a terrible idea for, obviously, any number of reasons. It should also at this point...
View ArticleWhat It's Like To Be The Face Of A Twitter Bot
Jason Feifer tracked down a woman whose photo is being used, without her knowledge, as the face of countless Twitter bots. Her response, after Feifer explained what a bot is: “It's kinda of creepy, to...
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iPads Are The New Spaceships
London Allen, five-year-old son of design writer Summer Allen , doesn't use his LEGO to build trucks and planes and spaceships. Instead, for fun, he recreates his favorite gadgets. A LEGO iPhone Via:...
View ArticleCraigslist Holding All Of Its Data Hostage
Craigslist has a lot of insanely useful data on it! Unfortunately, it's a mess. Fortunately, there are services like PadMapper that made sense of it. Unfortunately (x2) Craigslist is doing everything...
View ArticleThe Great Thing About The New Yorker iPhone App
“After nearly two years, Conde and Adobe, who built the publisher’s app platform, have finally figured out how to handle “paginated HTML,†which means the app can now handle text as … text....
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Like Garth Brooks? Mitt Romney Wants Your Email.
Apparently not even your Pandora account is safe from this season's flood of campaign spending . Source: @not_hwa
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The Dark Art Of "Fusking"
A hole in Photobucket's privacy has made it so that private albums can be accessed with little work. This hole has remained opened for at least 5 years. Source: logos.wikia.com Last Friday night,...
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Which Tech Bloggers Are On Google And Oracle's Payroll?
A federal judge has ordered Google and Oracle to reveal any bloggers on their payrolls commenting on Oracle vs Google . But the constitutionality of the order is already being debated. [Updated] Judge...
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