Here are your top tech news headlines for Tuesday, April 3, 2012: – Global Payments says up to 1.5 million credit card numbers may have been hacked – Web has fun with April Fools Day – BMW concept car i8 Concept Spider made of carbon fiber-reinforced-plastic – IBM developing new data management technologies for world’s [...]

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Have you ever wanted to get off the grid and create your own power? Now you can, thanks to the Kube X15 Mini Nuke. At least that’s what Tiger Direct was claiming yesterday. If only it hadn’t been April Fools Day. The popular consumer electronics retailer featured an ad for the “World’s First Home Mini-Nuclear [...]

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It’s April 1st and that can only mean one thing – it’s time for some epic April Fools Day pranks all around the web. – Google’s April Fools gag includes 8-bit Google Maps for NES – A government agency responds to a joke article – An art forger gets his own show Incoming search terms:johnny [...]

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Here are your famous & celebrity birthdays for today: 1981 Hannah Spearitt (singer – S Club 7) 1980 Randy Orton (WWE Superstar) 1977 Jon Gosselin (reality TV dad) 1976 Hugh G. Rection (adult film star) 1975 Sum Ting Wong (Asian supermodel) 1971 Phil McCracken (plumber) 1969 Oliver Clothesoff (adult film director) 1961 Susan Boyle (singer) [...]

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One news anchor over at Fox 5 played a pretty spectacular prank on his co-worker for April Fools. The reporter did a news story on a fake iPad app called “Virtual Sip”, which supposedly allows the user to smell and taste food directly through their iPad. Having convinced his gullible co-worker that she would be [...]

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Was it just a prank or wasn’t it?  Last week, Google got a good laugh with its annual April Fools prank.  This year, the search giant “unveiled” a new service called Gmail Motion which would allow users to control their email interface using bodily gestures. Of course, many people were fooled given that this technology [...]

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The BBC has uncovered something extraordinary. Apparently, a new species of penguin has been found. These penguins don’t need to huddle for warmth in the cold, because these penguins can actually FLY. They fly thousands of miles to the South American rain forests every winter when it gets too cold. Truly an astonishing discovery. Watch [...]

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Mozilla has hopped onto the April Fools bandwagon by launching a Firefox extension called “Do Not Fool” that promises to protect users from all those fake news stories generating headlines today… The Web is evolving quickly and so are the ways that practical jokes are disseminated online. Every April Fools’ day, uncountable person-hours are wasted [...]

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Improv Everywhere is at it again, this time hitting the New York City subway dressed as Jar Jar Binks from “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace”. But, wait…what’s this?  Things go terribly, terribly wrong when one big, burly fellow doesn’t want to be bothered.  He and his friends wind up beating the snot out [...]

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There’s certainly no shortage of April Fools Day fun over at Google today. Gmail Motion For starters, there’s Gmail Motion, which allows you to finally control Gmail with your body. The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet even existed. Since then, countless technological advancements have allowed for much more efficient human computer interaction. [...]

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Here it is, the most viral video of all time…and I’ll bet you’ve never seen it. This blows “Evolution of Dance” away.  It crushes “Friday”.  It makes the homeless man with the golden radio voice seem like chopped liver. This will be the most epic video you have ever seen, guaranteed. Check it out below. [...]

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The April Fools fun just keeps on going and going.  It looks like The Huffington Post it looking to raise a few eyebrows. The popular new AOL-owned site has put up a paywall that only applies to employees of the New York Times. The paywall message reads: Dear New York Times Employee, thank you for [...]

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