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Yet Another College Sex Columnist Writes About Having Sex in the Library

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As reported on Jezebel. by Katie J.M. Baker The Daily Mail is horrified that a UC Berkeley student had sex on campus and wrote about it in the independent student paper’s regular “Sex on Tuesday” column. “The elite University of California, Berkeley has seen a blow to its uber-serious reputation with a controversial article from a student boasting about her marathon campus sex sessions,” theDaily Mail reports, along with tons of irrelevant details regarding the history of The Daily…

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Space Story

Einstein may have discovered dark energy without even realizing it

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As reported on io9.com by George Dvorsky An historian of science from New York University has re-interpreted a correspondence between Albert Einstein and Erwin Schrodinger in which the two scientists argued about the nature of the cosmological constant — a kluge that Einstein embedded in his general theory of relativity to explain why the Universe was neither expanding or contracting (what scientists thought at the time). According to Alex Harvey, without the two of them even…

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Space Story

New Buried Asteroid Impact Crater Discovered in Canada

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As reported on Wired. BY NADIA DRAKE Elevation map and contour drawing of the buried impact crater found near Bow City, Alberta. Higher elevations are indicated by warmer colors, lower elevations by cooler colors. (W. Xie and T. Brown)   SAN FRANCISCO — An extraterrestrial impact crater is hiding near a Canadian ghost town. Nearly 5 miles across and 3,000 feet deep, the stealth crater has lurked just west of Bow City, Alberta, for millions of…

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Tech-Company Holiday Party Invitations, As We Imagine Them

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As reported on Wired. BY ROBERTO BALDWIN   The financial health and culture of a company can be determined by its holiday party. Companies that are stacking piles of cash in storage units have parties punctuated by prime rib, D-list DJs and gift bags filled with last year’s iPod touch. Companies that are having a tough time? They’re hosting potlucks where the intern hooks up an Xbox in the conference room and the CEO keeps asking…

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Culture Story

3-D Printed Gun Only Lasts 6 Shots

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As reported on Wired. BY ROBERT BECKHUSEN A group of 3-D printing gunsmiths have taken another step toward making a gun you can download off the internet. This weekend, the desktop weaponeers took a partially printed rifle out to test how long its plastic parts survived spewing bullets. The result? Six rounds until it snapped apart. But that was also the point, the group’s founder tells Danger Room. “We knew it would break, probably,” says Cody…

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Entertainment Story

In an Unlikely Echo Chamber, Lucasfilm Captures a Cinematic Gunshot

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As reported on Wired. BY NATHAN HURST Inside the eastern span of the new Bay Bridge. A view of the outside, including an 80-foot column that descends below sea level. The team enters the bridge. Into the pillar. Each section has a distinct code. Burtt balances above an open trap door. Prepping the mid-side mic. Watch where you point that thing. Bang. Below sea level, the water seeps in through thick concrete. View as gallery  …

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Interview Story

Offline: How do you look at porn?

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As reported on The Verge. By Paul Miller Going offline helped me kick the habit. But my body wasn’t quite ready to let go It was late June, about two months after I left the internet. I was in Mexico City, and there was no HBO in my hotel room, so at around midnight I ventured out into the narrow, dark streets, bouncing from convenience store to convenience store in search of a magazine. I tried…

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Microsoft Story

Skitch for Windows 8 gains portrait mode editing for tablets and 25MB file sharing

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As reported on Engadget. By Mark Hearn Not stopping with its recent update for Android, Evernote gave Skitch for Windows 8 some new features on Monday. Software version 2.0.1128 adds multiple bug fixes and portrait mode support for tablets with x86, x64 and ARM processors. In addition to these enhancements, the new Skitch app for Windows 8 features faster syncing and sharing options for image files up to 25MB, which should hopefully appease the appetite of photogs…

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Apple iMac review (2012)

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As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman Better, faster, stronger. The new iMac claims to be better in all the ways you’d expect a refreshed product to be better: it steps up to Ivy Bridge, and packs NVIDIA Kepler chips for stronger graphics performance. It sports an improved display that cuts down on glare by 75 percent. But thinner? For the first time in the product’s history, the iMac is missing a built-in optical drive, which allows it to…

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OS Story

How-to: Picking a desktop environment in Linux

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As reported on Engadget. By John Browning We’ve taken you through a tour of Window Managers in Linux, and now it’s time to show you the Window Manager’s bigger brother: the desktop environment, or DE for short. With a sea of choices out there, we can see where Linux newbies might feel a bit overwhelmed. Catch us after the break and we’ll show you some of our favorites, along with a few honorable mentions. First things first: a…

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