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moodboard/Getty Images/moodboard RF The self-proclaimed geeky dad has decided to let the Internet name his daughter, who is expected April 2. Take our Poll Baby girl Which name do you like the most of the current top 5? A Canadian couple is doing the unnamable — asking the Internet to name their baby girl. Stephen McLaughlin, of Kelowna, British Columbia, ...

If you were to ask 100 people to pick the single greatest superhero power or sci-fi technology, time travel would almost certainly win. And believe it or not, time travel isn’t entirely outside the realm of reality — for some unified theories of the universe, such as general relativity, traveling in time is actually fairly easy. That’s why two American researchers ...

What do you get if you combine Christmas, jury-rigged electronics, 22,000 lights, over a dozen inflatables, webcams, and custom server software running on a Linux server? Alek Komarnitsky’s controllable Christmas lights, of course! Every year, Alek — who is one of the world wide web’s most infamous OGs — lights up his house with 22,000 lights and over a dozen inflatables, ...

Now that Steam, PSN, and Xbox Live are widespread and feature-rich, it’s easy for some of us to assume that we’re already living in the all-digital future. With super-fast fiber-optic internet connections and huge hard drives, many gamers haven’t touched physical media in years. Sadly, not everyone is so lucky. Within the United States, many of us are stuck with ...

The internet has brought some of the strangest things [ TUMBLR] With a dog for a head and the body of a bird, images of Dirds are spreading quickly. Internet jokers have tried to out-do one another with their new designs of the hybrid creatures. From a pug and a sparrow to a labrador and an eagle, the cross-breeds just ...