This morning at midnight on the West Coast (that’s 3am EST), the new World of Warcraft expansion went live in the United States (after launching earlier for European servers). For the hardcore WoW players who are itching to get their raid on, their Cataclysm experience might have started with dashing over to the new zone […]
They’re not going to let a little thing like a zombie apocalypse get them down.
British engineers are exploring the possibility of a real-life sonic screwdriver. Bruce Drinkwater, professor of ultrasonics at Bristol University, doesn’t expect to make a working model particularly soon. But he’s working on at least proving the concept is possible. The idea is to build on existing work using ultrasonic forcefields to separate out diseased cells […]
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Looks like Santa has finally entered the 21st century, and he’s doing it in style on top of that! Who needs reindeer anyway when you can use something as cool as a giant UFO?
Hey Everyone! Just a quick post to let you all know that we’ve got new t-shirts for you guys! The first one named “Free Hugs” comes from the mind of [GaS] reader NYNerd who sent in his suggestion a few months ago during our “Suggest a t-shirt idea” contest. This is our first geekette-friendly design […]
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The days of unexpectedly loud TV commercials are numbered thanks to a bill that has just passed the US congress. The tenuously-named Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act (that is, CALM) tackles a problem that dates back to the beginnings of commercial television and has attracted attention on both sides of the Atlantic: that the commercials […]
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Well, that kind of sounds like a bartender trying to remind a recovering alcoholic of “the ol’ good times,” doesn’t it?