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Ever seen a crocodile before? No, on Facebook doesn’t count. Neither does in a movie or photo. I’m talking about in real life, going eye to eye with a scaly, green beast. Yeah, well, if you haven’t I don’t ...
With all the iPhone 5 leaks over the past years, including 3D mockups, it may be hard to wrap your head around what the real iPhone 5 looks like. Indeed when I first saw photos of the real iPhone 5, I immediately thought to myself...
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Do you know what a ‘skypunch’ is? According to Terry Boswell, skypunch is a “rare meteorological phenomenon where ice crystals form above the high-altitude cirro-cumulo-stratus clouds, then fall downward, punchin...
Apple’s much-anticipated press event of the year is tomorrow where it is expected to reveal the new iPhone, may that be iPhone 5 or new iPhone. This whole year has seem a steady flow of leaks related to the iPhone 5, from ru...
Ready for a shot across the aisle by Mountain View? In an interview with Bloomberg, Google vice president of corporate development David Lawee explains how the recent patent war has been a “wake up call” for Google. La...
Apple pulled a fast one over the world earlier this year when debuting the “new iPad” instead of “iPad 3”. With the iPhone 5 — or should I say new iPhone — literally around the corner, a retail ...
Google has a list of words it likes to censor from Google Search’s ‘Instant’ (i.e. how search results are shown as you type search queries) and ‘Autocomplete’ (i.e. how Google recommends search querie...
Surfing dolphins… surfing what?! Yeah, it may sound like something out of a movie or a cartoon, but I have a photo to prove surfing dolphins are real. The following is a photograph of a beach in Sydney, Australia. As you can...
…or so it seems. The following is a photograph snapped by photographer Mitch Dobrowner of a tornado in North Dakota, USA. The tornado is in what is known as the “roping out” phase, a phase some tornadoes reach to...
Ever wonder how the guy across the street can make a living by running a consulting company that performs seemingly simple computer tasks, such as installing anti-virus software or defragging hard drives? As a comic by Something o...
Did you think facial recognition software in the hands of law enforcement is only something in the movies? Well, to an extent, it really is something only in movies. However, with the FBI’s $1 billion Next Generation Identif...
Android updates are somewhat of a sticky point. Unless you are on a Nexus device, chances are you will get an extremely delayed update for your Android to the latest version, if you get an update at all. Heck even some Nexus devic...
In today’s day and age, online piracy is done in one of two ways, torrents or file lockers. Either content is illegally shared via torrents or it is stored in an online file locker (aka cloud storage service) and downloaded....