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Flagellent HBO Tells Google To Remove Links To… HBO

It’s no surprise when a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown request turns out to be terrible and absurd, but just in case anyone forgot how ridiculous these automatic notices can be, the DMCA has been kind enough to offer a little refresher in the form of HBO telling Google to remove links to… itself.…

Why Iran’s New Home-Grown Stealth Fighter Will Never Get Off the Ground

On Feb. 1, 2013, Iran unveiled its indigenous fighter jet named “Qaher 313″. The prototype of the Q-313 (or F-313 according to the stencils applied to the aircraft), was presented to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and publicly displayed as part of the Ten-Day Dawn ceremonies held in Iran to celebrate the 1979′s victory of the Islamic…

Man Spends Three Years of His Life Destroying Company Servers With Cleaning Supplies

In 2009, Edward Sobolewski was passed over for a raise in his job at British market research firm Frost and Sullivan. So he spent the next three years of his life destroying the company’s servers using cleaning supplies. That’s what you call a long con. A very long, very sad con. He got away with…

Water-Powered RC Rover: Batteries Not Included (Or Required)

Fuel-cell-powered vehicles are still a long ways off. But fuel cell-powered toys? That’s an awesome reality that’s about to get even better with Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies new H-Rover, which includes a wireless camera streaming live video to your smartphone/remote. The company is best known for its H-Racer RC car which has been on the…

The Nook app is now available for Windows 8 users. Anyone interested should probably download it now—clock’s ticking.

Fearless Felix Not So Fearless, Went Faster Than We Thought

It turns out that supersonic man Felix Baumgartner was even more supersonic than we previously thought. He actually reached 843.6 miles per hour (1,357.6 km/h), which is 1.25 the speed of sound. His heart rate was extremely high at the exact time of the jump—understandably! At the exact moment of the jump his heart was…

These Beautiful Speakers Are Your Jony-Ive-Designed-MoMA-Approved Deal of the Day

Harman Kardon’s Sound Sticks speakers are a bit of a cult item in design circles. Why? There are a couple reasons: they’ve been permanently enshrined at the Museum of Modern Art, Apple design wunderkind Jony Ive designed them, and, well, just look at those speakers. The curvaceous clear body leaves nothing to the imagination, down…

Don’t Worry, You Can’t Kill These Intricately Woven Wire Bonsai Trees

The intricate pruning and maintenance needed to create a miniature bonsai tree takes years of patience and diligence. But artist Ken To has found a shortcut. Instead of plants, he makes his bonsai trees from intricately twisted and curled wire. So they don’t require any maintenance whatsoever, and will never wither and die. At just…

Report: FreedomPop’s LTE Clip Will Give Wi-Fi-Only Tablets Free Mobile Internet

According to a leak obtained by Forbes, FreedomPop, a company that’s looking to provide free, mobile Internet access, is now looking to tablets as its next broadband market-disrupting frontier. Dubbed the LTE Clip, the relatively unobtrusive device will attach to Wi-Fi-only tablets, granting them LTE Internet from Sprint Nextel in the process. Wi-Fi-only tablets already…

How to Jailbreak Your iPhone or iPad

Jailbreaking is not a crime, but the special legal exemptions that make it legal have to me made and re-made every couple of years. As the EFF notes, a deadline is fast approaching, and unless the Librarian of Congress makes a special explicit call that jailbreaking is still OK, it could fall into the realm…

Awesome Lego Gundam Must Become an Official Set NOW

It may not be as huge as the 59-foot-tall impossibly cool full Gundam in Tokyo, but this perfect Lego reproduction of the RX-78-2 Gundam is a lot more fun—made to minifig scale and fully posable. The detail and construction are as good as the real thing. Gyuta—its creator—should submit this to Lego Cuusoo. It will…

The First 25 People on Facebook Are All Crazy Successful Now

Today is Facebook’s ninth birthday. Twenty five people were there for its arrival, and BuzzFeed FWD has tracked them down. The earliest users are mostly Zuckerberg’s Harvard cronies, from fraternity brothers to people who actually helped him build Facebook. Surprise! They’re all ridiculously successful now. Including, of course, crackbook’s founder and patient zero, Mark Zuckerberg.…

iPhone Math: What Would an Even Bigger iPhone Be Like?

So there have been these rumors of a larger iPhone. An ‘iPhone Math‘ is what some are calling it. Worthless, right? I rather hope not. As Marco has suggested, maybe this iPhone Plus is real, and the die-shrunk A5X is heading for this device. I’m going to assume that his wild stab in the dark…

A Sad App Pairs You With Strangers For Dinner

Have no friends to have dinner with? No problem, there’s an app for that. And it’s very, very sad. It’s called GrubTonight and it’ll pair you with a strangers for supper. You can choose one of three prix fixe meals that cost around $20. Your table will have between four and eight people, and you…

Automatic 3D Snowflake Camera: Find Out For Yourself If No Two Are Alike

A few weeks ago we challenged you to decipher a black and white image full of seemingly random white blobs. They turned out to be clumps of snowflakes photographed as they fell to the ground, and the amazing camera that captured those images can now be yours—if you have deep enough pockets. Developed by researchers…

Will Nokia’s Next Lumia Get a 41-Megapixel PureView Image Sensor?

Released last year, the PureView 808 was essentially a prototype phone. It ran Nokia’s dying—and now officially dead—Symbian operating system but its 41-megapixel, one-inch image sensor was a beast. Now, The Guardian reports what people have been speculating and rumoring since Nokia dropped the PureView 808 nearly a year ago: The 41-Megapixel sensor is destined…

The iPhone 5 Jailbreak Is Finally Here

Freedom! It’s been a long time coming, but following last week’s iOS 6.1 release, there’s finally a jailbreak that’ll work on your iPhone 5, and it extends to pretty much every other iOS 6.1 device out there too. Pioneered by Evad3rs, the new jailbreak is untethered and is the first of its kind to work…

A leaked calender points to a March 27th release date for the Blackberry Z10 on T-Mobile. [TmoNews]

This Industrial Strength Trimmer Shaves Perfect Dutch Greens

If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow, don’t be alarmed now. It’s just a spring clean for the May queen. Either that or it’s the Globus machine trimmer working its way down the line. Built by Dutch agriculturist Gebroeders Ezendam B.V., the Globus is designed to work in plant nurseries maintaining individual hedges’ shapes until…

How To Fix iMessage If Someone Crashes You With That Vicious Text String

So the text string “File:SLASHSLASHSLASH” (with actual slashes) can inexplicably crash just about any app on Mountain Lion. Aside from being a curiosity, it can also be a weapon if you start hurling File:SLASHSLASHSLASH salvos at your friends through iMessage. If you get hit, or you hit someone and feel bad afterwards, here’s how you…