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Can Wizards And Vampires Collect Unemployment?

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As the Harry Potter and Twilight franchises come to an end, the wizards, vampires and werewolves that have become household names will find themselves looking for work. But finding employment as a marquee fantasy actor is tougher than it may seem.

"Harry Potter" vs. The Greatest Movie Franchises of All Time

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How does 'Harry Potter' stack up in the 50 biggest film series ever?

Is this Sexy? (Pic)

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There's such a huge part of me that says "wrong, wrong wrong." And yet there's this other part that says "well, she might be hot under there and with that tattoo, there's no telling what limits this chick will go to."

70 Year-Old Grandma Threatened Over BitTorrent Download

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As the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits continue to pile up in U.S. courts, more stories of what appear to be wrongfully accused persons hit mainstream media. A 70 year-old retired widow from San Francisco falls into this category. The grandma was recently 'caught' sharing porn on BitTorrent and was offered a $3,400 settlement, or the option to risk a $150,000 fine in a full court case.

MIT Uses Video Games to Create the Smartest, Scariest Computer Ever

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Remember how much of a pain SimCity was? Now imagine trying to play it in Russian. Researchers at MIT have created machine-learning systems that are able to analyze instruction manuals to help them beat video games. The concept started with work by graduate student S.R.K. Branavan, working in the lab of Regina Barzilay, an associate professor in the computer science department at MIT. Branavan's group created a script that installed software in Windows by referencing instructions from Microsoft's website. Since then, they've taken it further, creating a program to play the turn-based strategy game, Civilization. The program has been a success too, winning 79 percent of the time with the help of the manual as compared to a near-random 46 percent win rate on its own. "Games are used as a test bed for artificial-intelligence techniques simply because of their complexity," Branavan said in an MIT press release. "Every action that you take in the game doesn't have a predetermined outcome, because the game or the opponent can randomly react to what you do. So you need a technique that can handle very complex scenarios that react in potentially random ways." A computer playing games is nothing new, whether you're battling the machine in Mortal Kombatw_CYrrk_ or chess. But in those instances the computer is always reactionary, at least in a sense. They're programmed to play based on an algorithm devised by a human, and no matter how cleverly that algorithm is designed, the computer is stuck with those rules. If you've ever been bored enough to have the computer play itself in, say, a hockey game, the play is generally sloppy and the outcome is mostly a coin-flip, just like the MIT program only winning half its Civilization games when it couldn't search for help. The winning program was more successfu

Drink Me Some Kool-Aid and Sleep like a Baby!

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Fox News Interviews The Only Woman Worth Interviewing.

Salt or cocaine, a fix is a basic instinct

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The genes activated when salt-starved rats consume salt are the same as those activated in drug addicts when their craving has been satisfied

15 Styles of Distorted Thinking [IMG]

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Obama's Call to Astronauts Assures US Future in Space Travel

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President Barack Obama made a long-distance call to space today (July 15) to the astronauts flying on NASA's final shuttle mission to the International Space Station, assuring the crew that the United States has a future in human spaceflight beyond shuttle era.

IBM Tops List of World's Most Energy Efficient Supercomputers

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IBM dominates the Green500 Top 10 list of the most energy efficient high-performance computers in the world and claims the No. 1 spot for a second time in less than a year.

APOD: 2011 July 15 - NGC 3314: When Galaxies Overlap

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Explanation: NGC 3314 is actually two large spiral galaxies which just happen to almost exactly line up. The foreground spiral is viewed nearly face-on, its pinwheel shape defined by young bright star clusters. But against the glow of the background galaxy, dark swirling lanes of interstellar dust appear to dominate the face-on spiral's structure. The dust lanes are surprisingly pervasive, and this remarkable pair of overlapping galaxies is one of a small number of systems in which absorption of light from beyond a galaxy's own stars can be used to directly explore its distribution of dust. NGC 3314 is about 140 million light-years (background galaxy) and 117 million light-years (foreground galaxy) away in the multi-headed constellation Hydra. The background galaxy would span nearly 70,000 light-years at its estimated distance. A synthetic third channel was created to construct this dramatic new composite of the overlapping galaxies from two color image data in the Hubble Legacy Archive.

Can you guess who it is yet? Risqué 26-foot statue of Marilyn Monroe to be unveiled today in the Windy City... where else?

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That pose, that dress, those erm, assets... The 26-foot tall statue towering above tourists in the middle of Chicago could only be one person. But that hasn't stopped workers, desperate to keep her identity a secret until tomorrow, placing a rather unsightly cloth bag over the poor girl's head, albeit it one in red, white and blue.

VIDEO: Girl hits ramp on bike, bails, flips, flips again & faceplants in pond

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How tough are you? Well we know someone who is! Watch this poor girl clip bails hard coming up to a jump before face planting into a pond. Damn that'd got to hurt!

Report: Android tops mobile OS usage for 7th straight month; iPhone still top device

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Millennial issued its June Mobile Mix report Friday morning, and it paints a picture that is very similar to May. Android was once again the most popular smartphone operating system in the month of June. Check out the rest of the key data from Millennial's Mobile Mix report.

Toshiba's New Honeycomb Tablet Already Feels Like It's A Year Behind

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It has full-sized USB and HDMI ports that make it thicker than the iPad 1.

Zanger Rinus And Romana Chill On A Scooter In Amazing Dutch Music Video

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Every once in a while a mythical beast of a YouTube video comes along where you can't tell if the people in it are kidding or being 100% serious. But, Zanger Rinus and his videos are completely genuine. He has been doing this for years, is mentally challenged and we think it's awesome that he has the bravery to put himself out there. More please!

The 9 Foods the U.S. Government Is Paying You to Eat

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Bread, burgers, and beer?

Rare Amur leopard caught on video

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A newly released video is cause for rejoicing among those trying to save one of the most critically endangered cats on Earth: the Amur leopard. Across the globe, only about 50 Amur leopards remain in the wild.

The Anatomy of a Doctor [Infographic]

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US is second as far as top countries with the most numbers of surgeons.

Rockin' Out (PIC)

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