adeelarshad82 writes "Last year CNN wrote an interesting article on how geek culture is now a big part of pop culture, while Patton Oswalt gave his own opinion on how he thinks pop culture has outright co-opted and diluted it. ...

tekgoblin writes "It appears Apple has changed its stance on whether an iOS device is actually water damaged. If you remember when the 13-year-old girl sued Apple in December, it was because her iPhone's moisture sensors had gone off and ...

mvar writes "The source code of an older version of 'Kaspersky Internet Security' has been circulated on the internet. The code was created in late 2007 and was probably stolen in early 2008. Names contained in the source indicate that ...

The best part about this Star Fox parody video, about a dude named Stan Fox, who tries to get laid? That it has the incredible restraint to not make a cheap "Do a barrel roll!" ...at least until after the ...

Ah, mother nature, you never cease to amaze. Except when animals at the zoo have sex right in front of me, then you disgust me to the point of having to look away while I blindly film it with ...

Those that haven’t watched BBC’s Being Human or it’s North American cousin of the same name don’t know what their missing. The dramatic series of a Vampire, Werewolf, and a Ghost living together under one roof screams porno, but instead ...

jfruhlinger writes "Google is reportedly hiring Android developers specifically to boost the number of apps available for the platform. Obviously there's money to be made, but the search giant is no doubt also driven by the gap between Android and ...

Poor Internet providers. They have to carry all that horrible, horrible traffic from Netflix and YouTube, and they just can't afford it anymore. Unless ...

Not to brag or anything but I'm cleverly packaged too if you know what I mean. I mean my wiener can solve word problems all by itself. Got me through middle-school, just sayin'! The "Miswak," a teeth cleaning twig ...

It’s a bummer of a day for fans of comedy as it is for certain that Kevin Smith will officially be retiring once he finishes his upcoming film Hit Somebody. Most folks who have been following Smith are well aware of this. ...

EMPIRE ONLINE: Lakoo’s EMPIRE ONLINE, billed as “Asia’s Top iPhone MMORPG” is now available in North American APP stores. This cute, free-to-play title reminds me a bit of RAGNAROK ONLINE at first blush. Eye the video below and hit the ...

eldavojohn writes "Scientific American is running a piece by science journalist John Horgan attacking pop physicist Brian Greene's latest offering, titled The Hidden Reality. He's not entirely alone; Not Even Wrong backs him up and reminds us of a growing ...

My sister site and alt-paper LA Weekly did some kind of sex survey of 175 students from UCLA recently. Feel free to read the whole thing, but what we should be interested in is question 14, and its answers:​Holy hell. ...

Seen here putting the hurt on a piece of dead tree (do your hand next!), 19-year old Eric Jacqmain demonstrates his homemade death-ray, which looks suspiciously like a satellite dish with a ton of little mirrors glued on. God, ...

Bonker writes "The Beeb has news of a simple virtual reality game being used during treatments and rehabilitation for burn patients. Players who engage in a fast-paced snowball fight with penguins and snowmen report feeling less pain. SnowWorld was developed ...

We play video games to have fun and escape for a few hours into a more appealing virtual world. That may appear an overly ...

Star Wars and Tron are some of the biggest science fiction movies in sci-fi history, so it is no surprise that the Tron: Legacy trailer gets mashed up with clips from the Star Wars movies. In fact, I am actually ...

Ever since the lovely and talented Anne Hathaway was announced as Catwoman in the upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises directed by Christopher Nolan, the Internet has been in a frenzy between those who doubt his choice, and those ...

Ahoy fans of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We have a brief update regarding the rumored live-action reboot. Last year it was reported that Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures have teamed up with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes production company to re-imagine the ...

Holy shit. That... that doesn't seem quite fair. (Via Kotaku) Read more: Oh Hai Final Boss of Marvel Vs. Capcom 3

hellkyng writes "The online dating site PlentyofFish was hacked, and purportedly 30 million customer records were stolen. The site's founder, Markus Frind, is blaming the security researcher who discovered the vulnerability and the journalist who confirmed the issue." The researcher who ...

Developers of the new Mortal Kombat have revealed the newest edition to the franchise will include difficult-to-execute 'x-ray' moves, in which a character brutalizes another and the internal destruction is actually shown. *getting light-headed* What?! Like you've ...

Working memory is the place we hold temporary information that we're using to handle ongoing tasks, like dialing a phone number or following a ...

RedEaredSlider writes "An asteroid that once was seen as a danger to the Earth may soon provide a once-in-a-century opportunity to get a close look at one — and learn more about the ones that really are a hazard. The ...

The Android platform has finally taken the lead in smartphone market share, leaving Nokia, Apple and RIM in the dust. That's according to analytics ...

Obviously it's not unsolvable, it just takes longer. Like aging a fine wine or making love to yourself after a long, lonely night of whiskey drankin'. Using 3D printing technology, puzzle-maker Oskar van Deventer managed to create ...

An Australian research group has found a way to apply WiFi mesh networking onto the Android operating system, allowing phones to act as access ...

itwbennett writes "Sony may be planning to have three platforms (Android devices, NGP, PS3) running PlayStation Suite content and needing access to the same saved data stored in the cloud, says blogger Peter Smith. At last week's PlayStation Meeting, game ...

Seen here looking like she just asked for a hug before realizing she was in the middle of shitting her pants, this is Youtube user meekakitty singing her sure-to-be-only single (red-shirt -- probably dead by now) 'Star Trek Girl'. ...

This is, without a doubt, the best dance routine inspired by Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato you will see all day. Maybe even all week. It depends on how much Japanese TV you watch, I guess. My favorite part is how ...

Sony continues its quixotic quest to get the tools needed to hack the PlayStation 3 off the Internet by sending a DMCA takedown notice ...

J. Dzhugashvili writes "Early adopters of Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors, beware. Intel has discovered a flaw in the 6-series chipsets that accompany the new processors. The flaw causes Serial ATA performance to "degrade over time" in "some cases." Although ...

Intel has today announced that its 6-series chipset, for use with the Sandy Bridge processors released earlier this year, has a serious flaw and ...

If my parents ever found out I was taking a college-level English course that involved reading Twilight, not only would my dad have tied me to the couch and made me watch 'Blade' until my eyes bled, my mom would ...

Last week I posted a pic from the Spider-Man reboot movie set of an actual human being in an actual Spider-Man costume actually swinging around. Some of you thought that the pic was somehow made up in CG, which strikes ...