Syfy's 'Robot Combat League' Makes Major Tech Dream Come True

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Robot Combat League, Syfy's new reality series pitting 12 expensive, 8-feet-tall humanoid machines against each other in tournament-style face-offs, ends Tuesday night with the final two robots. And while this season lasted only three months, it has been years in the making.

"I really couldn't believe how technologically advacnced they were," Chris Jericho, the show's host and popular WWE wrestler, told Mashable. "It's like being attacked by a Terminator. If you got hit by one of these things it would literally cave your head in."...

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Weird and wacky inventions at the Consumer Electronics Show

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The HAPIfork, made by HAPILABS, smart electronic fork is seen on display at the Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday, Jan. 8 in Las Vegas. The fork vibrates and lights up to help its user slow down to a healthy eating pace.

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The Science of Star Trek

At Best Computer Science Degrees, we thought it would be fun to take a look at the science and technology behind Star Trek. In this infographic, we analyze the scientific plausibility of various aspects of the Star Trek universe, listed from most plausible to least plausible.

Wormholes. Warp engines. Transporters. Replicators. Certainly, much of the universe as imagined by “Star Trek” creator Gene Rodenberry is truly science fiction. But how much of it is reality – or could ever be reality?

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37 years of Saturday Night Live [infographic]

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</p> <p>There are times when we love it and decades that we hate it, but like it or not, most of us can’t hear the words “King Tut” without thinking of Steve Martin or have a “D**k in a Box” earworm that just won’t quit (ha, you’re welcome). Here’s to an incredible thirty-seven years of SNL.</p> <p>Via CableTV.com.</p> <p>Like infographics? So do we.</p> </div></blockquote>

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There are times when we love it and decades that we hate it, but like it or not, most of us can’t hear the words “King Tut” without thinking of Steve Martin or have a “D**k in a Box” earworm that just won’t quit (ha, you’re welcome). Here’s to an incredible thirty-seven years of SNL.

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NASA Timeline "Walking On Air" - Amazing show of Earth's Lights

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This video features a series of time lapse sequences photographed by the Expedition 30 crew aboard the International Space Station. Set to the song “Walking in the Air,” by Howard Blake, the video takes viewers around the world, through auroras, and over dazzling lightning displays.

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How a Man Survived Without Food For Two Months in a Snow-Buried Car

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When a Swedish man drove down a deserted forest road near Umeaa, Sweden last December 19th, he was probably looking forward to Christmas. But that day, his car somehow became buried under a mountain of snow. He was trapped there for two months, suffering insanely low temperatures, with no access to food. Last Sunday, he was discovered. Alive. But how?

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Watch The Trailer For Hulu's Original Show 'Battleground'

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Creating original, scripted shows is the new fad for web-streaming services: Netflix is doing it, Yahoo's doing it, and now Hulu's doing it.

Hulu just unveiled the trailer for an original series about a senatorial candidate's campaign staff. It's called "Battleground," and the trailer is cliched, poorly written and melodramatic. In other words, it looks terrible.

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5 Secrets of Making Reality TV They Don't Want You to Know

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Making a reality show isn't as simple as pointing a camera at a person and hoping he or she is horrible. There are a lot of tricks and manipulations that producers use to make douchebags and handbag design more compelling. There's an argument to be made that no one should think about reality shows-- either turn off your brain and enjoy them or brag about how you don't own a TV.

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CES 2012: New technologies unleashed at show

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The first technologies have been unveiled at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

Waterproof smartphone coatings, diet-aiding armbands and a social network that warns drivers of the latest police speed-traps were all on show.

Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer will present his company's last keynote at the three-day event.

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Terra Nova is Ripe for Cancellation

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We’ve been a bit rough on Terra Nova, but it’s because we want an awesome show with Dinosaurs on TV. Unfortunately, it looks like the show won’t be sticking around. In the latest round of ratings, Terra Nova came in as the second lowest non-reality show on Fox. The only show lower than it was Fringe, and most people have started to accept that this may be the last season of the show. Terra Nova may not even make it through the entire season if its ratings continue this way.

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