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The famous “six degrees of separation,” under close bullshit-free scrutiny, fades into myth.

So how big exactly is the Web? 155,583,825 websites big.

Google snaps back at Microsoft’s “hostile bid“ to take over Yahoo!

The Pentagon treats the Internet as an “enemy weapons systems” in direct opposition to its goals. And those goals being “fuck everyone who doesn’t [...]

In the future, RFID microchips will be in everything, everywhere, everyone.

Multitasking is making us stupid than we already are.

iRobot’s machines will be equipped with “advanced sight” to see targets better.

Coz it’s just like the song: love lead is all around us.

Goodbye, lab rats. Hello, small, rectangular glass chip.

Blogger now available in leading languages they actually [...]

Sarah Silverman, the girl who loves people smelling her vagina, shares her priceless opinion on why things suck.

The very important, groundbreaking question is: why the hell is Panasonic’s website favicon looks uncannily like Internet Explorer?

The launch of the three-year “1,000 Genomes Project.”

Some 3,000 scientists, including more than 100 Nobel laureates, are reported to have become [...]

Steve Jobs is just like an ancient Japanese Emperor — you can have an audience with him but only with “fear and trembling.”

The coldest place in the universe.

Top 10 products discovered by accident. Viagra included.

Japan’s idea of pure, unadulterated fun: fly folded paper planes from the International Space Station to Earth.

Polymer Vision is set to [...]

Bobby Fischer, “troubled chess genius,” dies at 64. So it’s high time we looked back and read how someone once described him in 1957.

The rejected Google logos you never saw.

Man saves lives using skillz he learned from playing America’s Army.

The Solid State Drive (SSD) may just actually kill hard drives. Finally.

Reuters’ compiles the images that [...]

“Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker’s productivity, physical well-being and competence.”

Steve Jobs unveils the MacBook Air — the world’s thinnest laptop.

Maila Nurmi, who you probably all know as Vampira from cinematic masterpieces like Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space, is dead at 85.

Scientists introduce the Super Carrot.

In the [...]

Apparently, dinosaurs enjoyed “teen sex.” No T. rex is available for comment.

How a mere six degrees could change the world.

Scientists build a beating heart.

Take a look at the place where old computers go to die.

Philips develops a pen that reveals your true feelings.

Fish oil may not always be good for the heart.

In Flickr’s universe, you’re [...]

Hilarious highlights from French President Nick Sarkozy’s Twitter feed: “got WASTED at G8 summit and smooched putin! told him it was a “french kiss,” but he didn’t get the joke.”

Sir Edmund Hillary, first man on top of Mt Everest, writes 88.

Hubble telescope finds a very rare phenomenon: the double-Einstein ring.

MySpace India Beta launched.

11 most creative [...]

Even Bill Gates admits Vista is crap. Gotta love the man, especially when he’s actually funny.

Now farmers can be cool, like robot-cool.

“SurfaceSound“: so amazing, it turs all surfaces into stereo speakers. No, that doesn’t include the surface of your ball sac.

Reading dinosaur secrets from flesh wounds.

Oh, GodTube.

Hey, for those of you who actually use FeedDemon, [...]

CES 2008: rounding up the coolest stuff.

10 insane Wii weapons.

Trichloroethylene or TCE — the stuff commonly found in refrigerants, urban air, and drinking water supplies — is linked to Parkinson’s disease.

Microsoft buys search engine FAST.

New seatbelt reduces accidents by 45%.

China joins the all-hating anti-plastic-bag crowd.

Biofuel from grass — now why we didn’t think of that?

The [...]

Joseph Schneider learns first-hand why you never, ever rip off an army of Internet-inhabiting gentlemen, who proceed on committing something that’s so hilariously sick, it can only be described as a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.

Korea expects that robots will be tasked to build skyscrapers by 2010.

Nicholas Carr on the terrifying future of computing.

Would Darth [...]

Intel and the One Laptop Per Child break up, mainly because Intel couldn’t stop itself from whoring its own machines.

Andy Olmsted, recently dead American soldier in Iraq, blogs from beyond the grave.

This USB mouse loves you, it really, really loves you! Like, totally!

Sandia National Labs is converting carbon dioxide back to methanol and gasoline through [...]

Continents of floating garbage so vast they make us…slightly uncomfortable.

The only thing humans haven’t consigned to machines is creativity. Or is it?

If frogs and all their wonderful cousins begin disappearing, blame this virus.

Roger Highfield discovers that dreams “are much more shaped by events of the past week than childhood trauma,” among other things.

Now it seems [...]

New drug can reverse liver damage; suddenly it’s harder to drink yourself to death.

China’s recent white paper reveals it’s hell bent on using more coal, which would have been dire if not for the cute smileys peppering the document.

North America’s largest solar power plant, made by SunPower, is now running.

How to backup your Google account.

Doorknobs [...]

Video games make your brain bleed. Or something hilarious like that.

IBM’s five predictions for the future.

Will Google-powered mobile phones begin to appear in February?

GoldVish Luxury mobile phones are now available in Russia at a very reasoable price of only 1 millio euros! Very cheap! But a discount if you toss in a kidney or two.

Panasonic’s [...]

Remember last week when US Senator Inhofe and his gang of 400 merry scientists expressed their doubts on man-made climate change? You can now sit back and relax because climate change is still happily not “not man-made,” so we’re still gonna die.

Your mouse, a rich new world of Flash-based fun.

Scientists have found a way to [...]

“Email” in the 18th century, absolutely free of spam.

If for some reason you couldn’t yet see I Am Legend, at least you can now fully watch The Last Man On Earth for free.

Reading in dim light won’t damage your eyes, you don’t need eight glasses of water a day to stay healthy and shaving your [...]