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Twitter is reportedly one of two finalists for Time’s Person of the Year award. Oh, man.

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Big-wave surfers can’t use GPS devices to figure out where they are on the ocean. Electronics don’t fare so well on 30-foot waves. How do they do it? By some simple and manual triangulation.

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Two London-based designers have created a dress embroidered with 24,000 full color LEDs and 4,000 Swarovski crystals for a museum exhibit in Chicago.

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NASA’s LCROSS lunar impactor finds clear evidence that water ice does, in fact, exist on Earth’s satellite, leading one scientist to declare, “This isn’t your father’s moon.”

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With his latest apocalyptic vision, director Roland Emmerich takes his obvious love of big-screen devastation to the max. The end result is an eye-grabbing movie that’s bursting with action but almost devoid of anything resembling a plot.

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Dell confirms long-standing rumors that it is working on a smartphone, but does not release any details on the phone, which it said would debut later this year in China and Brazil.

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Patrick McGoohan’s stunning spy-fi series The Prisoner only lasted 17 episodes before sadly disappearing in 1969. But its revolutionary mix of geopolitics, sci-fi and psychedelia has influenced not just television, but also music, comics, film and more. It even made a deep impression on the most influential band of all time.

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The U.S. military spent tens of millions of dollars and years of work developing a microwave ‘pain beam,’ but a combination of technical difficulties and political concerns kept the Pentagon from fielding the thing. Now, an Israeli team says they’re working on their own own portable version. And it’ll cost just $250,000.

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Mercedes’ new system all but puts a personal assistant in the seat next to you.

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Visually striking and fueled by powerful performances from Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel, AMC’s remake of the ’60s series proves ultimately disappointing for the things it leaves out: the risk-taking and rebellion that made Patrick McGoohan’s Prisoner an enduring classic.

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