Each of the four individual telescopes in the ESA’s Very Large Telescope are, by themselves, very capable. But by working together, they’re supposed to be able to link up to effectively form one single massive telescope, and for the first time, this has actually worked.

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With their powers combined, four VLT telescopes form 130m mirror

I’m with Ray in that I don’t really care all that much about the actual football played during the Super Bowl. You know what? If the Giants were actual giants and the Patriots were Skyrim-loving freedom fighters, well, that would get me interested.

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Video: using Skyrim to predict the Super Bowl winner

As awful as paper is to use, it still has some things going for it: it’s thin, it’s light, and it can be folded into complex structures that predict the future . Instead of trying to cram paper books into digital e-readers, we should instead force our digital content to behave more like paper, and this prototype foldable touchscreen is exactly how it should happen.

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Double-sided, foldable touchscreens should be the future of books

As the robots would say, “Resistance is futile!” A new study fresh out of Chicago University’s Booth Business School claims that Twitter and email are harder to resist than drinking and smoking. Agree or disagree?

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Study: Twitter more addictive than alcohol and smoking cigarettes

Nowhere does there exist such a disparity in function as there does between the different kids of smartphone apps. They can be used to save your buns from driving too drunk , and now they can be used to shoot people. Of course. Laser tag for our post-laser age, the Xappr or Micro-Zappr Gun can attach to your smartphone and turn any place into a battlefield, at any time.

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Gaudy Xapper turns your smartphone into an app-ready pistol

Even if you hated football, the Super Bowl used to be something to look forward to. After all, it’s an excuse to round up your friends, put out a sweet spread of snacks and get so drunk you miss work the next day. Beyond the game, the chips and dips and the drinking, there was always an entertainment provided to the rest of us one that, thanks to the dear ol’ Internet, has now been ruined .

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The Internet ruined the only reason I’d watch the Super Bowl

You may have heard, but there are some folks out there who aren’t too pleased with all the plastic we have in clogging our landfills and killing our wildlife. Luckily, now all these anti-our-giant-and-oh-so-necessary-3-friggin’-liter-bottles-of-sugar-water might be able to throw a party replete with tofu cubes and spring rolls: a mushroom has been found in the Amazon that might simply eat it all. Yep .

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Horror movie-type mushroom found that devours plastic

Nobody wants to eat poultry with Salmonella and die. Good thing some food researchers at Drexel University have figured out how to use plasma to blast the bacteria off raw chicken so that not only is your food safe, but so is your kitchen.

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Plasma torch is effective for destroying bacteria on raw chicken

Desperate times call for desperate measures. For RIM, things are so rocky , the company’s now resorted to begging Android developers to port their apps to BlackBerry App World in exchange for free PlayBooks .

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. For RIM, things are so rocky , the company’s now resorted to begging Android developers to port their apps to BlackBerry App World in exchange for free PlayBooks .

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RIM tries to entice Android developers with free PlayBook tablets