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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Watching This Is the Closest You'll Get to Aerial Combat

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If you've ever dreamt of flying a jet into war—I see you, joystick jockeys—this incredible GoPro footage is your best new alternative. Watch it in fullscreen if you actually want to feel nauseous.

All that's missing is the g-force factor pulling at your face, and, of course, the risk of crashing or being blown out of the sky. But that's OK! These F-15 videographers were just training, anyway, as part of ACM (Air Combat Maneuvering) dogfight practice between the "Fighting Cocks" (hush) and "Vampire Bats" squadrons, based out of Japan. But man, it looks like the real thing: flares released, midair refueling, and best of all, the absolutely crazy maneuvering. All the Top Gun radio chatter helps with the mood, too.

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iPhone 4S activation proves to be difficult for AT&T

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With each release of a new Apple iPhone, AT&T has continually struggled over the years to keep up with the sheer amount of activations on launch day.

Customers of AT&T that purchase an iPhone 4S earlier today experienced a variety of problems when attempting to activate the new smartphone. Users that failed to activate the phone on the first try were placed in a queue and were sent an email when the activation process was complete. Many customers were stuck on the activation process for hours and were unable to utilize the phone’s features until the process finished

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Tips for Combating Spam Bots At Your Site

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Internet marketers often hear of the word “bots” in a good light. After all, every website owner wants Google’s bots to crawl their site all throughout. But plenty of webmasters are not aware that not all bots are good, just ask John Connor. But I digress.

Essentially bots can do either good or bad things depending on the person that created it. So while Google or Yahoo! bots are very much welcome in our site, there are also other bots that we need to be wary of. Case in point is the presence of bots created to harvest important information from different sites through the World Wide Web.

These little virtual critters are programmed to go through all web pages available to them and grab whatever information they are ordered to gather like email addresses. These are usually used by shady internet marketers who are in the business of gathering email address and selling them to other business which in turn send marketing pitches and promises of wealth from Nigerian princes.

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