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Ex-Microsoftie rolling in a cool - WAIT, HOW MANY BILLIONS?!?

Ex-Microsoftie Bill Gates is the richest man on the planet once more, having wrested the title back from Mexican telecoms tycoon Carlos Slim with a cool $78.5bn.…

Осем милиона долара в продажби за един ден. Ако тази новина дойде от Intel, Nvidia, Dell, IBM, Google, Facebook или друга технологична корпорация с годишни приходи, близки или задминаващи БВП на България, вероятно няма да е много впечатляваща. В края на миналата година обаче станахме свидетели на малко по-различен случай. През последните месеци шведската компания KnCMiner работи върху създаването на системи за "копаене" на Bitcoin. Тя започна да ги продава в началото на декември и в първия ден...

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Bill Gates is just about ready to shed his crown as top shareholder of Microsoft Corporation. The crown will then be passed on to retiring CEO Steve Ballmer. Gates has been selling off his shares in a yearly fashion to fund his charity organization, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. At his 10-year pace of selling stock, Gates will hand over the shareholding crown to Ballmer before mid-2014. Gates will have exhausted his holdings by September 2018 unless he stops or slows his selling. Comments

Each week another company or corporation adds validity to Bitcoin currency by adopting its usage. This week Zynga announced that it would be testing payment options using Bitcoin currency to make in-game purchases. Zynga has for years offered the ability for players to buy in-game assets and upgrades using their credit cards and PayPal, as well as Facebook local currency, but Zynga admits that Bitcoin has now become too big for it ignore. Comments

One of the current trends in technology right now is inventors jamming wireless radios in objects that you wouldn't expect to find 'em. For instance, the HAPIfork, a smart fork that sent your eating speed to your phone in an attempt to get you to ...

After light bulbs and smart outlets, Belkin is looking to tackle small appliances with its WeMo home automation line. The company just announced the Crock-Pot WeMo Slow Cooker and we've already stopped by to see what's... cooking. Those familiar with ...

You know that new NVIDIA Tegra K1 chip? And you know that crop circle that popped up and then disappeared? Yup, that was an advertisement for the new chip. Yes, seriously. ...

Bitcoin may be coming to a street corner near you pretty soon. The first of 45 Bitcoin ATMs will begin shipment to Asia this month, followed by more installations in Canada, Europe and the US. CEO Jordan Kelly told VentureBeat that Robocoin's goal is to bring Bitcoin to the masses and make it "grandma-friendly." The first machine opened for business in October in a coffee shop in Vancouver, Canada. Comments

"Game of Thrones" fans, take a good hard look at The Mountain. The most pirated show of 2013 won't be back on the air until spring, but its newest cast member, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, took to Instagram to reveal a character photo.

Björnsson will play Gregor "The Mountain" Clegor, The Hound's brutal brother. The Icelandic native is the third actor to be cast in the violent role, after two men were recast in Seasons 1 and 2.

But if George R. R. Martin's books give fans any indication of what's to come in Season 4 -- and let's hope they do -- The Mountain will take on a much larger role in Westeros.

Björnsson posted the below photo and wrote, "Game of thrones season 4 #dubrovnik #got #mountain #croatia #sword #big #lovethis." Let's see how long that jolly face lasts.



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Need another sign that the NSA's phone surveillance program is considered legal? The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is happy to oblige. This week FISA renewed the agencies' authority to collect call metadata, echoing an October approval from ...

It might not be as wacky as the virtual world of sports glitches, but it's certainly just as facepalm and chuckle-worthy.

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This is the future of libraries around the globe! Well, that is until they are sued by Apple. Texas has seen the future of the public library, and it looks a lot like an Apple Store: Rows of glossy iMacs beckon. iPads mounted on a tangerine-colored bar invite readers. And hundreds of other tablets stand ready for checkout to anyone with a borrowing card. Even the librarians imitate Apple's dress code, wearing matching shirts and that standard-bearer of geek-chic, the hoodie. But this $2.3 million library might be most notable for what it does not have — any actual books. Comments

In this really sweet video, two men feed a hungry wild fox who cautiously approached them while they were fishing in the Saratov region of Russia.

video by Alexander Tourenkov

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Hi! Microsoft here. We p0wn you, so don't use our products

Entities claiming to represent the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have hacked Skype's social media presences and used them to post anti-Microsoft messages.…

Filed under: Etc., Bugatti, Luxury

For automotive enthusiasts, the name Bugatti is synonymous with high speeds. For racing fans, the name still reflects dominance in the pre-war era of grand prix racing. But in other circles, the Bugatti name is a status symbol, one that stands for the exclusivity that comes with such a high price tag.

It's no doubt to the latter category that Swedish pipemaker Desvall is marketing its Bugatti-branded hookah, and it's undoubtedly the same market to which Roland Iten is pitching this high-priced belt buckle.

Yes, a belt buckle. Not one designed to fasten the safety belt in an actual Veyron, mind you, but the high-priced clasp for a strap of leather to hold up your pants. The mechanical buckle is crafted in Switzerland using watchmaking techniques. The intricate mechanism uses 100 components to ratchet the belt tighter rather than relying on pre-cut holes in the leather.

Roland Iten will only make 44 examples out of materials like gold, stainless steel and titanium, with a price tag of $84,000 to reflect the intricacy of its craftsmanship - not to mention the name with which it's associated.

The Bugatti of belt buckles costs $84,000 originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 Dec 2013 08:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Christmas came and went last week, but Marvel’s got a couple more gifts for us before we launch into 2014. The studio has just revealed the first still and the official synopsis for Guardians of the Galaxy, coming next summer with Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, and Vin Diesel in the lead roles and James Gunn at the helm. Hit the jump to check it out.

Obviously, that’s not really Cooper or Diesel we’re seeing here. Cooper voices the feisty Rocket Raccoon (center), and Diesel the tree-like Groot (far right). Rounding out the team of heroes are Saldana (far left) as alien assassin Gamora, Pratt (center left) as the group’s Earthling leader Peter Quill, and Bautista (center right) as vengeful warrior Drax the Destroyer.

The image appears to be from a scene we glimpsed in the Comic-Con footage this summer. The Guardians have just been taken in by Nova Corp, and are acting all sassy as leader Rhomann Dey (John C. Reilly) identifies each member of the team to a colleague (Peter Serafinowicz). The photo also bears a close resemblance to a bit of concept art we got a while back.

As for what exactly this ragtag gang of misfits will be doing onscreen next summer, the new synopsis provides a few clues.

From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team — the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits — Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Peter discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand — with the galaxy’s fate in the blanace. Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” is presented by Marvel Studios. The film releases August 1, 2014, and is distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Guardians of the Galaxy opens August 1, 2014. Lee Pace plays Ronan the Accuser, and Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, Glenn Close, and Benicio Del Toro are also among the cast.

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The Wolf of Wall Street is all about obscene excess in every vice imaginable. Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his associates do more blow, screw more hookers, toss around more money, and piss on more legal documents than most of us could ever dream of.

So it only makes sense that they’d be more profane than just about everyone else, as well. As it turns out, The Wolf of Wall Street has more utterances of the f-word than any other non-documentary film in cinema history. Find out just how many fucks it gives, as well as which films it had to beat out to get there.

According to Wikipedia, the word “fuck” is used 506 times over The Wolf of Wall Street‘s 180-minute running time. Previously, the record was held by Spike Lee’s 1999 drama Summer of Sam with 435 instances. Neither hold a candle to the single most “fuck”-filled movie of all time, which drops a jaw-dropping 857 f-bombs and is itself titled Fuck — but that’s because Fuck is a documentary about the use of the word “fuck.”

Scorsese in general is well represented on the list of the most profane movies ever. It seems fitting that The Wolf of Wall Street‘s closest thematic siblings, Casino and Goodfellas, are pretty high up as well. The former comes in at fourth place with 422 f-words, while the latter is in eleventh place with an even 300. Further down the list, Scorsese’s The Departed has a “fuck” count of 237.

In truth, the number of bad words in The Wolf of Wall Street is probably the least offensive thing about it. It’s certainly the least of Belfort’s numerous crimes against humanity. For starters, given the amount of (rather awful-looking) sex the Stratton Overmont boys are having, it’s possible The Wolf of Wall Street also has the most fucks, in a literal sense, of any non-pornographic movie.

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I don't know anything about this guy, but it's refreshing to see a politician savvy enough to take bitcoins for his senate run. Rep. Steve Stockman is the outsider's outsider — what other Texan would spend a freezing New Year's hundreds of miles away in New York City? Stockman's attendance was a favor to Center founder Nick Spanos, a real estate developer and Bitcoin enthusiast. Spanos helped phone bank on Stockman's most recent Congressional campaign. Comments

Butterfly flapped its wings and caused internet hurricane

A Slovenian virus writer who created an infamous strain of malware used to infect an estimated 12 million computers worldwide has been jailed for almost five years.…

From her current role as Dr. Joan Watson on "Elementary" to past stints like "Charlie's Angels" and "Cashmere Mafia," Lucy Liu is a big name in Hollywood these days.

But in an interview with Metro, the actress admitted that she almost turned down the role that kickstarted her career: Ling Woo on "Ally McBeal."

"I had auditioned for a more regular role on Ally McBeal and I didn't get it but then they came back a few weeks later with this guest star role and at the same time I was being offered a play," she said. "I wanted to do the play because it was more artistic. But my manager insisted I take 'Ally McBeal.'"

Interestingly enough, Liu initially turned down the part of Watson on "Elementary" (CBS' "Sherlock Holmes" series) as well.

"I said ‘no.’ I passed on it a couple of times," she said, according to the British newspaper The Independent. "I just thought, you know what, to take something that’s a movie that was very recent and a current TV show, I just didn’t know what could be different about it.”

Hey, sometimes playing hard to get is the way to go!

Catch Liu on "Elementary" tonight, Jan. 2 at 10 p.m. EST on CBS.

This case kills two birds with one stone -- building a new PC and hunting for a new desk.

Two INSERM research teams led by Pier Vincenzo Piazza and Giovanni Marsicano (INSERM Unit 862 "Neurocentre Magendie" in Bordeaux) recently discovered that pregnenolone, a molecule produced by the brain, acts as a natural defence mechanism against the harmful effects of cannabis in animals.

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Steam's servers have been hit with intermittent outages throughout Thursday evening, leaving users unable to access Valve's storefront. A pair of Twitter users called chF and Larceny have claimed responsibility for the outages, hitting Steam with repeated DDoS attacks.

While some of Isaac Asimov's predictions didn't come true, he sure hit the nail on the head with a lot of these. Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books. Synchronous satellites, hovering in space will make it possible for you to direct-dial any spot on earth, including the weather stations in Antarctica. Comments

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Michael Schumacher's condition has reportedly improved slightly, but the retired Formula One driver remains in critical condition in a medically induced coma.

After doctors at the university hospital in Grenoble observed an improvement in Schumacher's condition late Monday night, they opted to undertake a second operation to remove an additional cranial haematoma on the left side of his brain in order to reduce inter-cranial pressure. The Schumacher family, which remains by his bedside, were reportedly consulted on the decision, and he appears to have made it through the procedure. His doctors say that he will, however, remain in the coma for as long as necessary, and that it's too early to make predictions on the extent and timeframe of his eventual recovery.

"We have a strategy to correct a number of anomalies that continue and we want to give ourself some time during this phase of stability," said Professor Jean-Francois Payen. "There are some important matters we need to think about for the future."

The seven-time World Champion was taken to the hospital on Sunday following a skiing accident in which he hit his head against a rock, and has been listed in critical condition over the days since the incident.

Slight improvement shown in Schumacher's condition originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 31 Dec 2013 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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