Monthly Archives: July 2012

What Nuclear Radiation Does To Your Body

Say some maniacal world leader finally hits the big red button. Or maybe a terrorist takes out the local nuclear reactor. You survive the initial attack, and you’re left to endure a world poisoned by nuclear radiation. How’s that gonna … Continue reading

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The MC-27J Spartan: The Baddest Gunship the USAF Will Never Fly

After a decade of deployment in Afghanistan and Iraq, the wings are literally falling off the USAFs aging fleet of AC-130s. The Air Force thought about upgrading them to the new MC-27J Spartan multi-purpose gunship—but budget cuts nixed that idea. … Continue reading

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You Never Have to Email Photos Again Because This App Magically Shares iPhone Pictures with Your Friends

Flock, a new iPhone app from the people behind Bump, solves the first world problem of having to send photos to your friends through e-mail by creating shared photo albums with your friends with pictures that have similar metadata. It … Continue reading

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Sprint’s iPhone gamble isn’t paying off as 2012 Q2 figures reveal $629 million operating loss — Engadget

Sprint’s second quarter figures have arrived, showing that the company’s billion-dollar gamble on the iPhone isn’t working right now. While it sold 1.5 million Apple-branded handsets in the three month period (40 percent to new and postpaid customers), it recorded … Continue reading

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iPhone 5 release date rumor: September 21st

The “iPhone 5″ rumor mill has, for the time being, settled on a date when Apple’s (AAPL) highly-anticipated smartphone will be released: September 21st. Both PhoneArena and App4Phone, neither of which has a proven track record with pre-release iPhone rumors, both … Continue reading

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Vint Cerf interview: Internet history revision criticism

Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial from Gordon Crovitz asserting that the U.S. government played no significant role in the creation of the Internet, saying instead that the government actually hindered the Internet’s development as a world-changing … Continue reading

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US launches first commercial tidal power project this summer, Maine to reap moons gravitational benefits — Engadget

Solar may be the green energy source thats been hogging the headlines lately, but there are other fossil-fuel free ways that can help meet societys electrical needs. One of these is tidal power, and the US is set to start … Continue reading

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Some People Think Mountain Lion Is Steve Jobs—Wait, WHAT?

The current rumor now ramping through the internet is so dumb, so painfully stupid that Steve Jobs must be rolling in his grave: apparently, tons of irreversible imbeciles in Facebook and Twitter are saying that Apple’s Mountain Lion image is … Continue reading

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Is There Anyone Stupid Enough to Believe That This Cable Has Anti-Virus Protection?

This “Xbox 360 Elite HDMI cable” should be just like any other HDMI cable in the planet, right? Wrong! According to the box, it’s a “100% Mylar” double shield 1.3c grade cable with anti-virus protection to reduce virus noises and … Continue reading

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Buckyballs Magnets Have Been Banned by the Feds

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has just banned the sale of Buckyballs, those magic magnets that can be shaped any which way, because the balls are a serious health hazard for children. It’s the first stop-sale order by the CPSC … Continue reading

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