Posted on December 12th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Despite the hoopla surrounding the date Dec. 21, 2012, the world is not at risk of coming to a halt, NASA says. Aside from that date marking next year’s winter solstice, the longest night of that year, nothing else interesting is expected. All in all, “sleep well on Dec. 21 of next year,” said astronomer [...]
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Posted on November 26th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Dozens of people suffered minor injuries as many hundreds of impatient BlackBerry fans broke through a barricade to get their hands on the latest smartphone during a discount promotion in a Jakarta mall on Friday. As the crowd swelling to well in excess of a thousand people — a number of whom had been queuing [...]
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Posted on October 27th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Have you ever walked back to your car only to find that a meter maid just gave you a ticket? Well this guy did and he got really upset! He got so angry that he proceeded to cut the parking meter off with a saw. Do you think this video is real or a fake? [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
And you thought lightning strikes were rare. A defunct NASA satellite is set to plunge to Earth, with a 1-in-3,200 chance that someone could get hurt, according to the space agency. That has many wondering: What’s it like to get hit with a piece of space junk? Lottie Williams — perhaps the only person [...]
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Posted on September 16th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Have ever asked yourself how you could build a device made of bacon that could penetrate steel? I thought not. This guy apparently did. Watch the video and find out how this guy turned a tasty snack into a lethal cutting device.
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Posted on September 2nd, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Domino’s Pizza Japan has just unveiled plans to construct a pizza restaurant on the Moon. Seriously. It’s going to take 15 rocket launches and 14 billion dollars and will have dart boards and pool tables and delivery motorbikes and awesomeness. It’s also possible that this is all just a complicated publicity stunt, but let’s just [...]
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Posted on August 15th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Attorneys for Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, say they’ve found “smoking gun” evidence on a New York man’s computer proving he made up his claim that a contract he signed with Zuckerberg in 2003 makes him part owner of the social network. Facebook’s statements, the strongest yet in what’s been a testy case, are [...]
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Posted on July 30th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
Are users of other Web browsers smarter than the people who use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer? A new survey doesn’t quite say so. But it sure as heck suggests it. The survey by AptiQuant, a Vancouver-based Web consulting company, gave more than 100,000 participants an IQ test, while monitoring which browser they used to take the [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2011 by ElectroGeek
A Minnesota hacker was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror against his neighbors. A Minnesota hacker that prosecutors described as a “depraved criminal” was handed an 18-year prison term Tuesday for unleashing a vendetta of cyberterror that turned his neighbors’ lives into a living nightmare. Barry Ardolf, 46, repeatedly [...]
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