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OpISIS: Anonymous Takes Terrorist Group’s Social Media Accounts Offline

“#OpISIS” sees dozens of ISIS-linked Facebook, Twitter accounts hacked or taken offline. Anonymous today announced that its latest “hacktivist” target is ISIS, the ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 9, 2015

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Backseat Driver: DARPA Hacks Car Through OnStar Service

A bit of malicious code leads to near-full remote control of a Chevy Impala. DARPA does all sorts of crazy, interesting stuff with ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 9, 2015

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Shocker: Big Cable Among The Most Hated Companies In America

Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter, DirecTV, and Dish are at the bottom of the Harris Poll barrel. Harris Interactive has published its 15th ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 9, 2015

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Neil Armstrong Had Secret Stash Of Apollo 11 Artifacts In His Closet

NASA catalogs a bag of Apollo 11 lunar landing gear that was tucked away at Armstrong’s home. Neil Armstrong passed away in August ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 9, 2015

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BattleBots Is Coming Back To Television This Summer

ABC ordered a six episode run for this Summer, with MGM distributing internationally. Time to put our fear of the robot apocalypse on ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 7, 2015

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RIP Nien Nunb: Star Wars Actor Richard Bonehill Dead at 67

Bonehill was a key Star Wars player on-screen, and a master swordsman off. Actor Richard Bonehill has died at the age of 67, ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 6, 2015

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After Success Of John Wick, Lionsgate Wants A Full-Blown Franchise

Several trips to The Continental Hotel appear to be in order. Did you enjoy the puppy-avenging action stylings of John Wick? I certainly ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 6, 2015

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Anthem Health Security Breach Affects 80 Million Customers

Hackers made off with the health records, personal data of 80 million Anthem, Inc. customers. If you thought the Sony Pictures and Target ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 6, 2015

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We All Need One Of These Millennium Falcon Quadcopter Drones

She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid. It took a minute, but someone has finally combined ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 5, 2015

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theScore Now Has Dedicated eSports Coverage

10 million-strong mobile service branches out with dedicated eSports app for Android, iOS coming soon. theScore is one of the biggest mobile-centric sports ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 4, 2015

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Confirmed: FCC Wants To Drop A Net Neutrality Atom Bomb

Chairman Tom Wheeler publishes post on Wired, says ” I am submitting to my colleagues the strongest open internet protections ever proposed by ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 4, 2015

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Amazon In Talks To Buy Thousands Of Stores From RadioShack

Amazon stores would sell Fire products, act as pickup/drop-off locations. Bloomberg is reporting that RadioShack and Amazon have started talks that could lead ...

By Devin Connors Legacy AuthorFebruary 3, 2015

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