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No, not The Police song. This is the way Canadians communicate.

If you’re a parent, you may find this YouTube series hilarious.

French artist Philippe Pasqua has installed a life-sized Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton made of chrome by the banks of the river Seine in Paris.

This was well done.

Amar Bose, the 83 year old founder of audio company Bose Corp., has passed away.

There’s something you should know about that lawyer who is suing Apple for his Internet porn addiction.

The U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington issued the import ban in May 2012 after deciding that Motorola Mobility devices infringed a Microsoft patent for a way mobile phones synchronize calendar events with other computers. Microsoft’s lawsuit, filed yesterday in Washington, says that order isn’t being enforced.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, after having secret meetings with Google, continued to let the Motorola Mobility mobile phones enter the country even though Google has done nothing to remove the feature at the heart of the ITC case, Microsoft said in the complaint.

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Something to chew on from a master storyteller.

Uber is accused of hideously spiking prices on Torontonians recently stuck in bad weather, then backpedaling when they’re called out on social media.

A team of researchers at the University of Southampton have demonstrated a way to record and retrieve as much as 360 terabytes of digital data onto a single disk of quartz glass in a way that can withstand temperatures of up to 1000 C and should keep the data stable and readable for up to a million years.

Harry McCracken, ex-Editor in Chief of PCWorld, muses on IDG’s decision to kill the print magazine.

I’ve seen the new version in action and it’s really good.

James Stratford bought a Blu-ray movie and was met with advertisements when he put it in the machine. He brings up a good point—we pay for the damn movie, don’t advertise to us or at least let us skip it.

That’s one way to protect your beer.

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I love this new site. It takes some of the stupidest articles from the media and makes fun of them.

Just in case you needed to know what beer is called in different countries.

Remember, this is a controlled test. A dog will start to panic, making the experience even worse for them. A dog also can’t perspire. If you see a dog in car, call the police.

If you leave your dog in the car, you’re an asshole.

Nike’s campaign is one of the best ever.

Terrible accident.

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I know, I know, but it’s funny.

A recent paper presented by researchers from the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, IBM Research Labs and the University of Maryland found that it was possible to identify tweets containing fake Sandy images with up to 97 percent accuracy.

Clearly some images are fake, but in breaking news situations like Hurricane Sandy, fakes are often spread as real images.

Just click on the logo.

Samsung’s latest ad in Iceland makes me feel like I’m tripping balls.