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80s Funk band is back with a new crew and it's amazing!

2012-02-03T17:00:15Z

Here is the new video: "Broken Mirror" by the ZEN ROAD PILOTS. Monty Byrom, Ira Walker, Fee Falletti

Anonymous intercepts secret law enforcement call on hacking probe

2012-02-03T18:51:05Z

In a stunning release, the mysterious hacker organization “Anonymous” has published audio of an international coordination conference call between the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the British Scotland Yard, revealing officers’ secret communications on investigations into the group’s recent exploits.

What Do Tim Tebow and Excellent Schools Have in Common?

2012-02-03T14:07:50Z

This Super Bowl Sunday the New York Giants will battle the New England Patriots, but here in Denver, we’re still talking about our favorite son, famed Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

Stephen A. Smith Gives Skip Bayless The Middle Finger?

2012-02-03T18:10:04Z

Stephen A. Smith lived out an ESPN viewer’s fantasy on Thursday when he flipped the bird to everyone’s favorite punching bag, Skip Bayless, during a live segment on “First Take.”

What is Facebook actually worth? A private market says it's worth $94B.

2012-02-04T01:30:39Z

Now that Facebook is fast on its way to becoming a public company, and its financials have been laid bare, there's just one question that remains unanswered: What is Facebook actually worth?

Extreme cold weather hits Europe [The Big Picture]

2012-02-03T18:28:28Z

Frigid temperatures have gripped Europe in the last week, with the mercury reaching as low as 35 degrees Celsius below zero. After what had been a relatively mild winter, the sudden cold caught many unprepared. Eastern Europe is hardest hit, with over 100 deaths in Ukraine, and over 11,000 in remote villages cut off by snow in Serbia. Most of the fatalities recorded have been homeless people found frozen to death outside, and emergency tents with hot meals have been set up to help them in several affected countries. Russia and Poland are mobilizing help for the homeless. Travel in Romania has

How Social Media & Social TV Will Change Super Bowl 2012

2012-02-04T01:23:19Z

This year's Super Bowl will be more social than ever before. With the rise of social TV and the first-ever 2,800-square-foot social media command center, fans who have trekked down to Indianapolis and people at Super Bowl parties across the country can now opt to have a super-connected experience. This marks the first time that the NFL has partnered with a Super Bowl host city. Like a Midwestern truck stop that's got a restaurant, convenience store, bathrooms, random coin-operated claw games (that you can't ever win) and gas, the Super Bowl social media command center seeks to be all things...

The Daily Show Asks Rick Scott to Pee in a Cup [Video]

2012-02-03T20:31:01Z

Remember in December when Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi was roaming around Tallahassee asking officials, including Gov. Rick Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi to pee in a cup? Well, the package finally made it onto the air last night.

Rush Limbaugh Whimpers in Defeat As Komen Caves to Planned Parenthood

2012-02-03T20:23:05Z

Feminazi win is a win for America. Rush Limbaugh is upset over the Komen cave on their original Right wing plan to defund Planned Parenthood.

ACTA on the edge in Europe? Poland suspends ratification, Greece gets hacked

2012-02-03T21:50:03Z

With defaced Web sites, widespread protests, and more than a few Guy Fawkes masks, the anti-ACTA movement in the EU could achieve victory. The Polish Prime Minister is already backing away from the treaty.

Cruel couple facing jail for 'appalling' neglect of sheepdog which became trapped in a ball of its own matted hair

2012-02-03T17:30:42Z

David and Marjorie Massey admitted two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to five-year-old Woody (pictured) after animal cruelty officers said the level cruelty he suffered was 'incomprehensible'.

'Happy Potter,' in the 'First Lady's Box,' and Other Typographical Errors to Remember

2012-02-03T18:33:52Z

Charles Apple's blog on the American Copy Editors Society website keeps track of, among other things, newspaper typos and assorted...

Groundhog Day and 24 more movie and TV days lived again and again

2012-02-03T04:04:40Z

The time loop, in which characters are caught in all types of problems, whether due to magic, quantum physics, black holes or mad scientists, is a mainstay for sci-fi. Check out 25 movie and TV instances when people are stuck repeating themselves

Viewtiful Joe: Doing A New IP Right

2012-02-03T14:11:13Z

Viewtiful Joe was a weird game. It was a third-party Nintendo GameCube exclusive (for its first year on the market, at least).

The 6 Most Elaborate F-Yous From Musicians to the Industry

2012-02-03T13:00:29Z

Most musicians have to put up with record company executives being interfering dicks. Not all bands let them get away with it, though. Every now and then, through luck, opportunism or having balls of brass, some get to fight back.

8 Reasons Why The Occupy Movement is Just an Excuse to Squat

2012-02-03T16:29:20Z

Benjamin Franklin once said, “Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” Whether the guests are friends staying on the sofa, or political protestors taking over the city streets, there is a always a time to move on. That said, it is often great fun to go, and in the end, it is also fun to stay.

GTA V is making great process”, says Take-Two boss

2012-02-03T15:05:38Z

In a financial call today, Take-Two reassured investors that GTA5′s development is “making great progress.” And while they did not commit to any release date, it’s good to see that at least things are moving forward.

Sh** LAKER FANS SAY

2012-02-03T06:23:25Z

Every Laker fan has said, or at least can relate to these words said by Laker fans across the globe! David Brickley, and Jason Riley take you inside the life...

No One's Asking the Right Questions about Facebook's IPO

2012-02-03T16:21:14Z

Why aren’t we outraged? Why aren’t we asking why they get away with making such high profits on something they don’t inherently own (for the sake of argument we’ll ignore the fact that the TOS removes your rights to the information)? Why aren’t we asking how much more invasive their collection practices will get in the interest of increasing revenue for shareholders? When is the U.S. government going to slap down a lawsuit ordering the cease of this IPO? It won’t, because this is he same government that made welfare a right for millionaires. The same government that found Microsoft

Susan G. Komen's VP Indicates Her Real Motives In Awful Twitter Retweet

2012-02-03T17:54:33Z

Karen Handel, a former GOP candidate who ran on a pro-life platform, shows her true colors.

Rhythm Thief: When Professor Layton Found His Groove

2012-02-03T17:19:51Z

Sega's Rhythm Thief for the 3DS will feel slightly familiar to Nintendo fans, and that's not entirely a bad thing.

The Republican delegate race explained — in one chart

2012-02-03T21:21:02Z

The Post’s graphics team shows you why Romney’s win in winner-take-all Florida was a big one in the delegate race.

Anonymous Leaks Marine Corps Massacre Case

2012-02-03T18:22:29Z

The bombs keep dropping from Anonymous—first local cops, then the FBI, and now the Marine Corps: sensitive documents from 2005's Haditha Killings trial.

N.J. Cop Arrested For Domestic Violence Gets Thousands In Overtime Pay

2012-02-03T19:47:28Z

Patrick Papagni, a lieutenant with the Paterson Police Department, was placed on desk duty in October after being charged with aggravated assault with a weapon for allegedly pointing his gun at his girlfriend and dragging her out of her house.

The NDAA Makes it Harder to Fight Terrorism

2012-02-03T21:14:24Z

The recently signed NDAA confirms the president's authority to detain terrorists in military custody without trial. The bill's proponents consider it a boon to counterterrorism efforts but it will only hinder intelligence collection; chill information sharing among local, national, and international law enforcement agencies; and alienate the American Muslim community.

Shaken, not heated: The ideal recipe for manipulating magnetism

2012-02-03T05:52:12Z

Scientists have found a way to distort the atomic arrangement and change the magnetic properties of an important class of electronic materials with ultra-short pulses of terahertz (mid-infrared) laser light without heating the material up. While the achievement is currently of purely scientific interest, the researchers say this new approach control could ultimately lead to extremely fast, low-energy, non-volatile computer memory chips or data-switching devices.

TechCrunch | Micron CEO Dead At 51

2012-02-03T21:33:20Z

The CEO of Micron Technology, Steve Appleton, died in a small plane crash today in Boise, Idaho. He was 51. Appleton worked at the company since 1983, starting on the night shift production line. He died piloting a Lancair experimental aircraft around Boise.

We are all living inside the notification hell

2012-02-03T17:28:39Z

Like you and millions of others, I find myself trapped inside notification hell. Emails, notifications, tweets, text and instant Messages, Facebook Alerts -- are part of our over-notified self. Here is a video that does a great job of capturing this notification hell we live in.

Anonymous Leaks Confidential FBI Conference Call with Scotland Yard

2012-02-03T18:30:35Z

This is pretty crazy: Anonymous, as part of their regular "Fuck FBI Friday" release, leaked a 16 minute phone call between the FBI and their counterparts in the UK.

Panasonic headed for record $10 billion annual loss

2012-02-03T18:43:39Z

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Panasonic Corp warned of a record annual $10.2 billion net loss, joining beleaguered rivals Sony and Sharp in a sea of red ink as they struggle to fix their broken TV businesses and show they have not lost their way. Panasonic's forecast loss of 780 billion yen ($10.2 billion) for the year to March dwarfed expectations, and is almost all due to restructuring charges and writedowns for its Sanyo Electric unit. At a press briefing in Tokyo on Friday, Panasonic President Fumio Ohtsubo apologized for the unprecedented loss. ...

British student designs bamboo smartphone

2012-02-03T19:05:24Z

A student from Middlesex University has designed a smartphone made from bamboo, which he plans to release in the UK and Europe later this year.

Hubble Telescope Spies Milky Way Galaxy's Twin

2012-02-03T19:11:11Z

A galaxy similar to our own Milky Way is the subject of Hubble's latest portrait.

Hating on the Ladies: The Real Backlash Against Pinterest

2012-02-03T19:06:03Z

Social media criticism should focus on whether a service works, not the people who use it.

U.S. Students' Low Math Test Proficiency Could Have Consequences For GDP

2012-02-03T04:03:58Z

U.S. students rank poorly in proficiency on both domestic and international math exams, a problem that could cost the country $75 trillion over 80 years, according to a new study. U.S. students fall behind 31 countries in math proficiency and behind 16 countries in reading proficiency, according to the report released Wednesday, titled "Globally Challenged: Are U.S. Students Ready to Compete?"

Hands-on with Node.js support in Komodo IDE 7

2012-02-03T16:49:29Z

ActiveState has released a new version of the Komodo integrated development environment. We tested its newly added support for Node.js debugging and code completion.

The Line: Breakdown of a Soldier

2012-02-03T18:58:31Z

The lead writer on 2K Games' Spec Ops: The Line. "We want the player to feel that they're walking into a situation that they know what it's going to be. Like, 'I know this guy, I know what to expect, a military game, I got it.'"

Netflix' Daniel Jacobson: Letting APIs Change Everything

2012-02-03T18:54:00Z

What we today call the "mobile app" could, in a very short period of time, become known as the portable app, or just the "app." It tends to ...

Tenants priced out of their homes by Olympics as landlords cash in

2012-02-03T18:03:22Z

Tenants are being driven out of their homes during the Olympics so their landlords can cash in on soaring rents.

[STUDY] A Friend of a Friend in Real Life But Not on Facebook

2012-02-03T15:34:45Z

Picture this: You're at a party, and your good friend introduces you to one of their friends. You two hit it off, and boom - a new friend! You've just become friends with a friend of a friend. In real life, this is a common occurrence. On Facebook, a friend of a friend isn't necessarily an actual friend. A new study from Pew Internet discovered this and an array of other interesting factoids about peoples' Facebook friendships. The researchers found that most peoples' friend lists were not very interconnected. In a friend list with a density of 1, everyone knows...

Etsy to become an indie biz one-stop shop

2012-02-03T18:57:04Z

While many artisans have made good money by selling through Etsy, CEO Chad Dickerson said the next step is to help them grow and expand in whatever way they want to. And that means rethinking what Etsy is and its value proposition for its merchants.