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 After years of using Moffett Field as the home and launch pad for its fleet of private jets, Google has agreed to a deal in which it will lease the airfield from NASA for the next 60 years. As part of the lease, Google will take over operations of the airfield while the U.S. government retains ownership of the land. Read More

If you don't have the near-US$1 million to spare to buy a genuine Apple 1 computer, why not build your own working replica? Master model Ben Heckendorn (AKA Ben Heck) does just that in a new three-part episode of element14's The Ben Heck Show. In...

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We can't help but be both utterly impressed and extremely worried about the progress of humanoid robots like ATLAS. For some reason the folks at IHMC Robotics decided to start teaching ATLAS how to balance on one foot and do the Karate Kid's famous crane kick. If that move brought down the best fighter that the Cobra Kai Dojo had to offer, what chance does the rest of humanity stand?

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The Raspberry Pi Foundation released a new model of the Raspberry Pi today. Dubbed the A+, this one's just $20, has more GPIO, a Micro SD slot, and is a lot smaller than the previous model.

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At some point in your life, you’ve probably sat down and played a card game. Whether it’s a little poker or some solitaire, card games have been since a staple since the playing card was invented. The history of card games is long, dating all the back to 617 AD. Of course, playing cards and the games around them have evolved a lot over the years, and that’s just what this fascinating infographic explains. If you want to know a little bit more about the history cards games, you’ve come to right place! Via 3 Card Poker Click To Enlarge

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In one of its more bizarre PR ideas ever, the CIA toyed with using heat-sensitive Osama dolls that turned into demons to scare little kiddies away from joining al-Qaeda. Although someone in the chain of command saw sense and shut the project down, three prototypes were made, and they're now being auctioned off.

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Astronauts get to have all the fun.

During an expedition on the International Space Station this past summer, astronauts Steve Swanson, Reid Wiseman and Alexander Gerst had a little bit of fun with a waterproof GoPro, a 3D camera, some water and the lack of gravity.

The resulting video, below, should be viewed with red and blue stereoscopic 3D vision glasses, but the original video is equally out of this world (we had to)

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I don't know if this is a human retina melting, a lava well from a volcano near Mordor, or the eye of the devil himself. But what I do know is that the more I watch it, the more hypnotizing, darker, and scarier it gets.

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Occasionally, fan-made trailer mashups will come along that make you want to watch the full (but sadly non-existent) movie. This flawless VHS trailer for Captain America: The Winter Soldier captures everything you might dimly remember an '80s trailer to be, and will also make you realize that maybe Full HD isn't everything.

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Today, I found out that it is not wise to point my Harry Potter wand at my girlfriend's boobs and say engorgio. The couch is not comfortable and my back already hurts. FML

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It seems like everyone has one thing in common when it comes to our childhoods- embarrassment.

Either we felt embarrassed as a kid, feel embarrassed looking at pictures of ourselves as kids, or a totally awkward combination of the two.

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Fashion has a big part to play in this embarrassment, especially the way we chose to wear our hair in our youth, and these bad fashion decisions make us wonder what the heck we were thinking!

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The kids in this collection of 27 Hilarious Kid Haircut Fails rocked their bad hairstyles like total pros, unaware of the decades of embarrassment that awaited them in the future.

Quad bang braids and a shaved head- now that's what I call bravery!

It is the Year Of Our Lord two thousand and fourteen, but somehow, nearly half of all people on this email-infested landfill we call 'Earth' are still falling for simple phishing scams.

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Doritos and Mountain Dew naturally belong together. When combined, they form the main fuel of the human body. We've previously seen them combined in cupcakes. But that was unofficial and unsponsored by the parent companies.

Redditor Steve Barnes, a freshman at Kent State University, spotted a kiosk distributing free samples of a new Mountain Dew product: Dewitos. Yes, that's Mountain Dew flavored like Doritos. Barnes reports that "it actually tasted like Doritos." Quartz received an email from Pepsi, the company that makes Mountain Dew, confirming that this is a real product being tested. So we now have reason to keep living, dreaming, and hoping for a better future in this broken and fallen world.

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I’m not sure what I was expecting.