Loading ...What does this photo have to do with computers or smartphones? Nothing. But it’s Friday and I found this photo of a freakishly large cat that I wanted to share with you. This cat is huge! It must weigh at least 50 pounds and eat like a horse. Wow!
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Is it me or has anyone noticed lately that it’s taking longer than usual to login to Facebook? Perhaps Facebook is just getting too popular. Whatever the case is, if Facebook is going to maintain their status as the world’s largest social network they are going to have to continue to invest in their network [...]
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On Monday, the clamorous animal rights group PETA announced it would award $1 million to the first person to come up with a way to make commercially viable in vitro meat by 2012. The fake meat would have to be indistinguishable from the real deal, according to competition rules, and it would have to be [...]
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At the southernmost end of Brooklyn, just off Dead Horse Bay, there’s a weather-beaten helipad where the New York Police Department keeps a gray unmarked twin-engine Bell 412 helicopter. Detective Brendan Galligan ushers me aboard. “We don’t really let people see this,” he says.
We climb in behind the pilot and find ourselves facing a console [...]
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This guy must surely be nuts! 130 MPH on a bicycle on the snow.
If you haven’t seen this yet you have to check it out.
Austria’s Markus Stoeckl, 33, set a new world record at the weekend for series mountain bikes on a renovated high-speed La Parva run in the Chile’s Alps when he hit a [...]
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It appears that a national cell phone ban for drivers may soon become a reality.
It has come down to this: Too many accidents have been caused by people using cell phones while driving. I personally have seen many drivers cause accidents or near misses because they’re too busy chatting it up with a cell phone [...]
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Dungeons & Dragons fans this week mourn the death of Gary Gygax, 69.
Dungeons & Dragons fans this week are mourning the death of Gary Gygax, 69, co-creator of what went from being a popular face-to-face game to being a much played online game as well.
The official Dungeons & Dragons Web site run by Wizards of [...]
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After bringing her laptop to Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” for repair, it was never to be seen again!
According to an article published on DailyTech, Raelyn Campbell brought her laptop into a Best Buy store in the D.C. area and gave it to the Geek Squad to fix a broken on/off switch. They then informed her [...]
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Best Buy Co. Inc. sold digital picture frames during the holidays that harbored malicious code able to spread to any connected Windows PC, the big box retailer has confirmed. It is not recalling the frames, however.
What Best Buy called “a limited number” of the 10.4-in. digital frames sold under its in-house Insignia brand were “contaminated [...]
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