A Man Built A Twitter Bot That Automatically Entered And Won 1,000 Contests
Social networks like Twitter and Facebook are often used for marketing, and many accounts hold contests to generate buzz around a product or event. Anyone…
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Researchers Develop Intelligent Robot Capable Of 'Having Children'
We seem to be living in a golden age of robotics and artificial intelligence. These days, we can't even go a few weeks without hearing…
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Fight Back Against Your ISP: Stop Paying Bogus Modem Rental Fees
We recently wrote about an awful pay TV scam that's hiding in plain sight. Cable and satellite TV providers charge you as much as a…
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Here's What All The Weird Extra Characters In URLs Really Mean
Everyone online knows and uses URLs -- they're how you tell a web browser to load an individual page you want to access on your…
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Watch A Typhoon Lift A Parked Boeing 747 Jet Off The Ground
A monstrous typhoon hit Taiwan and coastal China over the weekend, with winds blowing at speeds of up to 180 miles per hour over the…
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BGR Holiday Gift Guide: Mobile Phones
Every year countless gifts are given during the holidays. Some of them are great, and some of them... well, you can't win 'em all. We've…
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How To Make Your Own Booze-Infused Ice Cream
It's a scorching summer, which means that shade, air conditioning, cool drinks and assorted flavors of ice cream are your best friends. But what if there…
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Video: U.S. Coast Guard Seizes Narco Submarine With $181 Million Worth Of Cocaine
Smugglers have a storied history when it comes to crafting clever and ingenious ways to conceal drugs and sneak them across ostensibly secure borders. Back…
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Bounty Hunters Mistakenly Try To Capture Phoenix Police Chief, Hilarity Ensues
In a saga seemingly out of a bad Judd Apatow movie, a bounty hunter named Brent Farley was recently arrested in Phoenix after attempting to apprehend…
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Arby's Pays Tribute To Jon Stewart After He Spent Years Trashing Their Food
It's always great (but sadly rare) to see a corporation that has a sense of humor about itself. Arby's, the fast food chain that was…
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From A Million Miles Away, Stunning NASA Images Show The Moon Crossing Earth's Face
A NASA camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has captured a series of stunning images of the Moon passing the Earth's sunlit…
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Video: See Lexus' Real-Life Hoverboard In Action For The First Time
Yes, the Lexus Slide hoverboard is real. And yes, the teaser videos showed an actual skateboard-like gadget that hovers above the ground, just like Marty…
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Microsoft's Nokia Acquisition Was An Even Bigger Disaster Than We Ever Imagined
Microsoft bought Nokia's handset division thinking it could use the company's considerable hardware talent to build phones capable of going head-to-head with the iPhone. It…
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The Astonishing 390-Year Old Bonsai Tree That Survived The Hiroshima Atomic Blast
The history of a 390-year old bonsai tree at the National Arboretum that survived the Hiroshima atomic blast is being honored this week. Thursday marks…
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London To New York In 1 Hour? Airbus Might Be Working On A Plane Faster Than The Concorde
Travelers who regularly fly from the U.S. to Europe and back should be thrilled to hear that Airbus might be developing a brand new superfast…
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Photo Sharing Site Imgur Is Growing Up
One way to go about building a company, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone once told me, is to start by creating something fun. If you do…
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EFF Creates A Stronger 'Do Not Track' Standard To Stop Unwanted Tracking Once And For All
Unless you take some fairly serious steps to guard your privacy, at least some of your web browsing each day is being tracked. We promise.…
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Robot That Hitchhiked Across Canada And Germany Gets Decapitated After 2 Weeks In The U.S.
Sorry, hitchBOT: It looks like you weren't ready for the U.S.A. after all. hitchBOT, in case you don't know, was a hitchhiking robot that successfully made…
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Insane Video: Man Surfs A Wave With His Motorcycle
Just when you think you've seen it all, a video like this comes around and leaves you speechless. One even struggles to come up with…
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The Pay TV Scam That's Hiding In Plain Sight
Services like Netflix are driving U.S. households to cut the cord at an unprecedented rate, and studies suggest that impressive rate won't be slowing anytime…
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Fed-Up Customers Are Hammering ISPs With FCC Complaints About Data Caps
You know what people really don't like? Data caps. They don't like them on their mobile phones and they really, really don't like them on…
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Watch: The Only Alarm You Won't Be Able To Snooze
Having trouble waking up in the morning? There are countless alarm apps that will make sure you wake up on time for work... provided, of course,…
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Video: 1,000 Italians Banded Together To Convince The Foo Fighters To Play Their Small Town
It might not work every time, but a new video shows you one way to convince your favorite band or artist — in this case, the…
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For Just $1,600, You Can Buy A Flamethrower That Spits Fire 50 Feet Into The Air
Do you love the smell of napalm in the morning? Then you're going to absolutely love the X15 flamethrower that you can now buy in…
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WSJ: How Google Wants To Fix Its Broken Glass
Google has admitted its beta Glass launch was a mistake, but that doesn't mean the company is giving up on the project. Google has stopped…
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NASA Scientist: 'It's Bulls-T' That Pluto Isn't A Planet Anymore
People get very, very emotional about Pluto being designated as a mere "dwarf planet" and not a proper planet like the other eight that inhabit…
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Airfares Will Soon Be The Cheapest They've Been In Four Years
If you're planning to book any flights this fall, you might want to wait until August. According to Montreal-based analytics company Hopper, the price of an…
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