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How Real Navy SEALs Would Handle Famous Movie Missions

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As reported on Wired. BY SHANE SNOW Navy SEALs are having the best year and a half ever. We’ve been inundated with tell-all books, documentaries, and big-budget action movies (the upcoming Zero Dark Thirty) about the special-ops frogmen… and then there’s that whole Team-Six-killing-Osama thing. We’re beginning to think there’s no task too big for these badasses. Just to make sure, we asked 17-year SEAL veteran Don Mann—author of the US Navy SEAL Survival Handbook and a Team Six…

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Military Must Prep Now for ‘Mutant’ Future, Researchers Warn

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As reported on Wired. BY DAVID AXE Lockheed Martin tests its Human Universal Load Carrier exoskeleton. Photo: Lockheed Martin The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher Patrick Lin calls “mutant powers.” Greater strength and endurance. Superior cognition. Better teamwork. Fearlessness. But the risk, ethics and policy issues arising out of these so-called “military human enhancements” — including drugs, special nutrition, electroshock,…

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Some Xbox Live users unable to sign in, access Xbox website or use Marketplace (update)

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As reported on Polygon. By SAMIT SARKAR Some Xbox Live users are currently experiencing a variety of issues with the service, including an inability to sign in or access the Xbox website, and Microsoft is working on the problem. According to the Xbox Live status page, which a few of us are currently unable to load, some users are having trouble buying content on Xbox Live Marketplace, adding Microsoft Points to their accounts and viewing their…

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These are the most pirated movies of 2012

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As reported on The Verge. By Ben Kersey TorrentFreak has once again compiled a list of the most pirated movies of the year. It shouldn’t come as any surprise to see blockbusters such as The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises make the list, but some may not recognize the front runner. Project X beat out Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol as the most pirated film of 2012, reaching an estimated download count of 8.72 million despite the poor critical receptionand lackluster box office performance. There are also some…

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The 25 best reads on the web this year

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As reported on TechCrunch. By Thomas Houston  2012’s essential writing on tech, art, science, and culture Each week here at The Verge, we round up some of the best writing around the web, highlighting the stories, profiles, interviews, and ind-depth reporting that rise above the daily churn. And, like last year, we’re taking a look back at the entire year’s best non-fiction writing on technology, art, science, and culture. We’ve narrowed it down (ha!) to 25 essential reads from Gawker, London…

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Extreme Diet Hacking With Tech: How Cheesecake Made Me Leaner And Stronger With Carb Backloading

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Never before have I binged on so many delicious desserts, yet been stronger or more ripped. For 3 weeks, I experimented with a cult bodybuilding diet, Carb Backloading, which promises outcomes too good to be true: slam carbs at night after heavy lifting, get slimmer and build muscle. Like all web sensations, there aren’t any large scale studies, and anecdotal reviews never properly control for all the right variables. Thankfully, a new…

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Road Tripping In The Digital Age

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER I’m just wrapping up a week-long road trip, in which a travel companion and I visited some friends in Southern California. We hit up a few different spots along the way, including San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Palm Springs. Not a crazy trip, but enough wandering around to go to a few places I’d never been to. The thing that amazes me about our…

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I’m Bored. What’s Next?

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MICHAEL ARRINGTON It’s just about 2013 and I gotta say, I’m a little bored. At least, the blogger in me is. As an investor things are just peachy. All this panic about overpriced consumer startups has led to a nice softening of the market (periodic reports ofBlubbles are great for that). And other sectors, like business to business, is still under capitalized v. the consumer sector. But as a consumer and observer…

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Tech’s biggest misfires of 2012

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As reported on Engadget. By Brian Heater You can’t win ’em all, right? Sure, 2012 saw its share of high points, but there were plenty of missteps along the way from companies both large and small. Unfinished products, serial delays, lawsuits and layoffs — after the break, we’ve got a list of some of the not-so-pretty moments in tech. PATENT WARS Would we be blowing your mind if we told you that the US patent system isfundamentally…

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How would you change the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display?

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper Many will bristle at the implication, but as the MacBook Air inspired the Ultrabook, mainstream laptops will likely seek to ape the Retina Display MacBook Pro, sorry,MacBook Pro with Retina Display. The clunky name aside, it seems that the next generation of devices will ditch disc drives and Ethernet ports in favor of pixel-dense displays and reduced weight. But did Jonathan Ive’s trash can get too full? If you’ve been…

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