Monthly Archives: February 2015

The Chances of Your Texas Hold’Em Hand Winning, Visualized

By Jamie Condliffe

The baize rubs against your wrist. A small bead of sweat rolls down your forehead. You ease the corner of your two cards from the table to glimpse at what you’ve been dealt. “How much chance do I have of winning with this,” you think. Well, if you had …

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/k8FWsnyveP4/the-chances-of-your-texas-holdem-hand-winning-visualiz-1688406848

      

What Was Your Favorite (Non-Llama) Collective Internet Freakout? 

By Kaila Hale-Stern

Today the entire internet was riveted by a live llama chase in Arizona. All work ground to a halt while the world watched the furry creatures’ daring escape. This is hardly the first time the internet has had a collective breakdown. What’s the weirdest clusterfuck that got everyone talking? We need your help to remember.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/lyIOxrJEjfk/what-was-your-favorite-non-llama-collective-internet-1688311652

      

Verizon uses Morse code to mock Net neutrality ruling

By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: Verizon issues a press release suggesting that the FCC’s decision to regulate the Internet as a utility is archaic and sends the world back to the Dark Ages — of 1934.

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Source:: http://cnet.com.feedsportal.com/c/34938/f/645093/s/43d6d019/sc/21/l/0L0Scnet0N0Cnews0Cverizon0Euses0Emorse0Ecode0E19340Edate0Eto0Emock0Enet0Eneutrality0Eruling0C0Tftag0FCAD590Aa51e/story01.htm

      

The Golden Age of Jailbreaking Is Over

By Darren Orf

Your smartphone may be as powerful as a computer, but it’s also hobbled. You can only install apps on it from the walled garden of the official app store. Your options are limited to the small, vetted collection of “approved” apps as opposed to the unlimited options available for PCs. That’s where jailbreaking comes in.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/zYo6L-XgaZA/the-golden-age-of-jailbreaking-is-over-1687815496

      

NASA images show equivalent of 689,290 dust-filled semis moving from Sahara to Amazon

By Michael Franco A new report and video show how dust from an ancient lakebed in Africa is critical to plant growth on another continent.

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