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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 […]