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By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS) With Superman reboot Man Of Steel nearly upon us, and the Dark Knight trilogy complete, constant speculation surrounds the future of the DC universe. Indeed, since the emergence of Marvel and Disney's The Avengers tentpole franchise, Warner Bros. are under even more … [Read more...]
By Deborah Zabarenko - WASHINGTON (Reuters) A 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus skeleton from the Gobi Desert that was smuggled to the United States in pieces and auctioned for more than $1 million was returned on Monday by the U.S. government to Mongolia. The huge Tyrannosaurus bataar's skull … [Read more...]
By Madeline Chambers - BERLIN (Reuters) New wind farms off Germany's North Sea coast will provide an ideal habitat that could help restore the lobster population near Heligoland after British bombing during and after World War II drove them away. (Check out photos below) Biologists at the … [Read more...]
By Steve Pond - LOS ANGELES (TheWrap) The Academy has tweeted a picture of a model of its upcoming Academy Museum of Motion Pictures - and from the looks of things, they're building a "Star Wars" Death Star adjacent to the former May Company building in the Miracle Mile district of Los … [Read more...]
By Belinda Goldsmith - LONDON (Reuters) Rudeness and throwing insults are cutting online friendships short with a survey on Wednesday showing people are getting ruder on social media, and two in five users have ended contact after a virtual altercation. As social media usage surges, the survey … [Read more...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) A business analyst from Virginia beat out 8.15 million other entries to win ESPN's annual prediction contest for the NCAA basketball championship - but has gained more attention for the handle he created than his powers of prognostication. Craig Gilmore, inspired by several … [Read more...]
By Joe McDonald (Reuters) Play doesn't need to stop for sports fans taking a bathroom break at a Pennsylvania minor-league baseball stadium that has installed video games in men's room urinals. The "hands-free" video game is played by directing oneself right or left in the urinals at the Lehigh … [Read more...]
By Barbara Liston - ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) A national survey found 301,874 "zombie" properties dotting the U.S. landscape in which homeowners in foreclosure have moved out, leaving vacant property susceptible to vandalism and degradation. Florida tops the list of zombie properties with … [Read more...]
By Kim Palmer - CLEVELAND (Reuters) With a snow storm expected to batter the Plains, Midwest and East Coast this weekend, a spring-deprived Ohio prosecutor is taking out his frustration with the long winter on a famous prognosticating groundhog. "I decided it was about time we indicted … [Read more...]
Stop the Cyborgs website organizes resistance against Google Glass By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) It appears that there's some serious pushback brewing over Google Glass. First, there was talk that various bars and restaurants where banning any patron who chose to wear Google's $1500 wearable … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) So, I came across a documentary project on Kickstarter last week which I decided I just had to blog about. It's calledThe Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? by Jon Schnepp, and tells the tale of Tim Burton's failed Superman movie, and the script written by … [Read more...]
By Barbara Liston - ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Prospects for a disabled farm animal born without the use of its hind legs are normally grim. That is not the case for Chris P. Bacon, a month-old piglet from Florida whose videotaped struggle to learn how to use a tiny wheelchair have turned him an … [Read more...]
Google X Developer Caught on Subway with Google Glasses By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) We've seen Sergey Brin skydive, drive along a California highway, and now he's taking the New York subway. All the while testing Google's Project Glass glasses. Man, he's started to be like that "can you … [Read more...]
By Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) - A Cheesecake Factory pasta dish with more than 3,000 calories - or more than a day and a half of the recommended caloric intake for an average adult - is among the headliners on this year's Xtreme Eating list of the most unhealthy dishes at U.S. chain … [Read more...]
Online shopper gets defrauded, not once, but twice on same camera purchase By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) eCommerce fraud. It's cost consumers and merchants $3.4 billion in 2011. And that was a good year. Which is why when you're looking to buy a high-end item like, say, a Canon 5D Mk. III, you … [Read more...]
Rebuffed by Cupertino, cleared way for Palm PDq By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) When Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs delivered the keynote address at this year's opening of the Consumer's Electonics Show (CES) - the first time the show hasn't been opened by Microsoft in many years - the news came of an … [Read more...]
