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A group of researchers from the Developmental Robotics Laboratory at Iowa State University are hoping their own robot — which has yet to be named — could learn in much the same way, without all the drooling. Rather than pre-program it to perform a set of tasks, the team believes that robots need to experience [...]

“Make the pavilions red. Color code every hallway, corridor, washway. Anything with concrete.” “What does that look like to you, Jarvis?”
“Sir, what are you doing?” Jarvis replies.
“I’m rediscovering a new element. Not unlike an atom. Highlight the unisphere.”

And while you’re at it, Jarvis, play that bukkakke video once again. It helps me focus.
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Personal urns are a new and exciting way to memorialize your loved one.
Now we can create a custom urn in the image of your loved one or favorite Celebrity.
New advances in facial reconstruction and 3D printing have made it possible to have an urn made in the image of anyone from just a photograph.
Never forget [...]

Microsoft takes over what Yahoo has for search, supplanting the latter’s search engine with Microsoft’s Bing.
A ten-year deal announced today follows what seems like years of negotiations, company reshuffles, infiltrations of high-powered shareholders and even the replacement of Yahoo’s own CEO. But Yahoo has finally handed over the reins of its search business to Microsoft, [...]

Having a concrete block broken on your chest while lying sandwiched between two beds of nails usually elicits three different questions: Why one can lie on the bed of nails, what happens to the kinetic energy of the hammer, and what happens to the momentum of the hammer? The reason that one can lie on [...]

Problems come in all shapes and sizes. Such as: fucking Qtip.

The Rubix Cubewich contains cubes of pastrami, kielbasa, pork fat, salami, and two types of cheddar.

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Unmanned killer drones, badass military robots and what-not. The future “wars” the US might wage might be less and less manned.

There are now more than 7,000 UAVs ranging from the workhorse, the Predator, and its beefier, deadlier kin the Reaper, to army drones like the tiny hand-launched Raven and the larger Shadow.
The drones are dramatically [...]

A new scanning technique allows expectant mothers to hold a life-size model of their unborn child. And by life-size I mean the size of your fingers. Perfect if you have the new Megatron Transformers toy robot and you’d been looking for something “softly human” to pair it with.

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In his book Big Secrets, William Poundstone revealed a laboratory analysis of Kentucky Fried Chicken: “The sample of coating mix was found to contain four and only four ingredients: flour, salt, monosodium glutamate, and black pepper. There were no eleven herbs and spices — no herbs at all in fact… Nothing was found in the [...]

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Jake Lloyd played Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode 1. Now, 10 frigging years later, Jake is a 20-year-old walking specimen of the irreversibly scarred.
“It’s been part of my life for the last 10 years, so… [holding knees and rocking back and forth]  High school, they wouldn’t let it go.  You know how they [...]

Just some proof your favorite search engine is actually powered by a bunch of naughty old men.

Remember this on Friday’s dinner date.

Dubai’s Al Nassma, the world’s first brand of chocolate made with camels’ milk, is in talks to expand into new Arab markets, Europe, Japan and the United States, its general manager said Tuesday.
Martin Van Almsick said the United Arab Emirates company planned to enter Saudi Arabia first, followed by Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and the United [...]

Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive. In fact, virtually all living creatures emit very weak light, which is thought to be a byproduct of biochemical reactions involving free radicals.
(This visible light differs from the infrared radiation – [...]

Imagine all your loved ones around, enjoying a hearty meal, exchanging pleasantries. Spoil all of that by telling how this dude once got a steel bar through his chest. Or that cute little Indian girl with more feet than your average foot fetish can handle.

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