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Military Arming Shadow Drones, Could Give Novice Teen Pilots the Power to Kill

Today, only seasoned, rated pilots are allowed to step behind the controls of an armed Predator or Reaper drone. However, the Defense Department is planning to change all that by fitting their low-flying Shadow counterparts with precision weapons. Currently Shadow drones function primarily as an intelligence asset—hunting down and collecting information on potential targets. They…

The Village Pet Store (and Charcoal Grill) Opens For Mutant Business

British concept artist Banksy opened a strange installation yesterday in Manhattan at No. 89 Seventh Avenue — it looks like a friendly pet store with appealing window displays, but turns out to be something a lot weirder. Last night, we dropped in to check out the store’s stock of hyper-intelligent bunnies and fish that have…

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When Star Trek Drives You To Drink, Everyone Wins

If there is a greater way to enjoy Star Trek than accompanied by copious amounts of alcohol, then we’re not sure we’ve found it yet – although that time that I watched a Voyager marathon while wacked out on cold medication probably comes close, I admit. So, it’s not surprising that Trektinis, a podcast that…

Ember Proves The Only Grown-Up Movies Are Aimed At Kids

Why are kids’ movies the only ones allowed to deal with real grown-up issues? City Of Ember, opening today, reminded me of the allegory-rich Wall-E. Not least because it talked about issues like scarce resources and the cushiony softness of propaganda. It’s such a relief, after watching a thousand allegedly “grown-up” action-adventure movies, to watch…

10 Ways to Ditch Guitar Hero and Score With Real Groupies

So, Guitar Hero: World Tour is set to drop on the 26th. That is all well and good if you are a fan, but the last time I checked, record labels were not handing out millions of dollars to Guitar Hero virtuosos so they could tour the world and score with groupies. The only way…

NASA scientists have figured out a new way to find Earth-sized planets in distant space: Just follow the dust. The patterns of dust around stars can reveal a planet that may not otherwise be observable. [NASA Goddard Space Center]

Real Life Autobots Found in Chinese Scrap Yard

It’s got to be tough distinguishing your scrap yard (a big lot filled with junk) from a competitor’s scrap yard (another big lot filled with junk). But one Chinese entrepreneur from the Zhejiang province had a plan to promote his particular pile of junk as something special. He’d build full scale Autobot sculptures. While it’s…

Movie Parties and Photo Sharing Might Be Coming to New Xbox Experience

Besides just looking a lot snazzier, the New Xbox Experience uses a whole new foundation that’s server-based rather than sitting on your hard drive, so it’s easy for Microsoft to add on features and apps. One possibility is basically movie parties—you and your friends could all watch Indiana Jones on Netflix at the same time—or…

Dwight Faces Nerd Torture Of The Highest Form

Click to view Our beloved Dwight Schrute, lover of bears, beets and Battlestar Galactica faced the toughest geek challenge from Jim Halpert on The Office this week. Watch as he painfully listens to Jim slaughter the plot of his favorite TV series and is restrained from correcting him. We feel your pain Dwight, because we…

Direct Note Access Music Software Now Even More Revolutionary

Back in April we discovered a new music recording program from Celemony Software that could potentially revolutionize the music industry. It allows recording engineers to isolate and manipulate individual notes (as opposed to an entire chord) from a performance (no matter how lame) and turn it into a flawless piece of music. Celemony has revealed…

The Week’s Smallville Joins The Lonely Hearts Club Band

There’s no way to get around it: this week’s Smallville was a return to the campy old days when they’d just steal the plot of a movie, make it a little more family friendly, insert a DC Comics character and then hope that no-one would notice. This time around, Maxima came to Earth searching for…

Bebo Sends Friend Request to Alien Planet

Social networking has gone interstellar. Yesterday, friend-connecting network Bebo beamed a message at Gliese 581c, a terrestrial “super-Earth” that might be capable of supporting life. But is this really a viable effort to make alien contact, or merely an instance of extrasolar spam?Bebo sponsored a competition to collect 501 photos, drawings, and text messages from…

Hackers Use Nvidia Graphics Card to Smash Wi-Fi Encryption 10,000 Percent Faster

Here’s one way to tap the parallel processing power in Nvidia’s graphics cards: Wi-Fi security hacking. Russian hackers reportedly bored through WPA and WPA2 encryptions using a brute-force technique juiced with one of Nvidia’s latest graphics cards (they don’t say which ones). The card supposedly made the “password recovery” process up to 10,000 percent faster.…

Vibrating Pet Glove Invites Jokes Involving a Certain Synonym for ‘Cat’

Apparently, your cat enjoys it when a soft, vibrating material is rubbed against it. That’s why this vibrating pet glove exists. When your cat feels lonely and just needs a tender touch, slip on the vibrating pet glove and give it the massage it so desires. It even wipes clean with a damp cloth if…

Post-Singularity Toilets

After the singularity, even your toilet will be transformed. Maybe it will look like this fabulous, googie/populuxe toilet or maybe it will be made of converted T-1000 liquid terminators who can morph to fit any rear end — whether Wookiee or Gray Alien. What else does the far future promise us in the way of…

Paper Tank Only Fires Cheap Furniture, Supermarket Coupons

Being the blind bat that I am, I first got excited when I saw this M1 Abrams tank made out of paper because I thought those were comic-book pages. Is that Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos? Maybe colored Milton Canniff’s Steve Canyons? Doug Murray’s ‘Nam? Then I zoomed in and I realized what it…

Josh Pyke’s Guitar Boat Floats on an Ocean of Rock

Up until now, I had never heard of Aussie indy-rocker Josh Pyke. However, sailing the seas on a giant guitar is something that tends to get people noticed. The boat is prominently featured in the video for his new single Make You Happy, and it appears to be an accurate replica of his favorite guitar.…

Hasselhoff Puts Final Nail In Knight Rider Coffin

The one saving grace that might have swayed people to watch NBC’s new Knight Rider series has been ripped out of the cast’s hands. David Hasselhoff (who was the main character in the original series) will no longer be appearing as a guest star in some upcoming episodes. It sounds like there was a disagreement…

Dealzmodo: MSI Wind Now Available for $430

MSI keeps upping the rebates on their Wind U110 netbooks, probably to stay competitive with the cheaper Acer Aspire One. If you’re interested, the 3-cell battery Wind, good for about 2 hours of battery life, can be picked up for $430 after rebates. (A 6-cell Aspire One is just $400). The Wind has 120GB of…