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Did you know that 5% of Americans believe that they're "allergic" to Wi-Fi? Thankfully, they can all move to a crazy town in West Virginia, where wireless signals (even cell phones) are banned for 13,000 square miles.

In a study involving Angry Birds, it was proven that male gamers are 35% more likely to buy the full version of a game after playing the trial version.

Amazon is currently in negotiations with book publishers, trying to work out the details for a "book rental" program. Unlike the library, renting books from Amazon would cost money.

Scientists have genetically altered several cats by using a combination of monkey genes and jellyfish genes. According to test results, these cats have developed a resistance to feline AIDS.

Researchers conducted a survey of 3,000 adults, asking them to rank things that "they couldn't live without". Facebook ranked fifth, while having a toilet ranked ninth.

When infected by a baculovirus, a gypsy moth caterpillar's brain is hijacked, causing it to climb. Once at the top of the tree, the virus liquefies the caterpillar, raining virus-ridden goo onto other caterpillars.

Did you know that your MacBook Air can double as a kitchen utensil? It can cut apples, peel carrots, dice mushrooms and even de-vein shrimp.

Remember when Twitter was launched in 2006, many analysts predicted that it would be "a passing fad"? Well, looks like they were very, very wrong. Twitter has just passed 100 million active users.

Researchers have created an electric "motor" that is essentially a tiny molecule only one nanometer wide.

You really haven't experienced boredom until you're suddenly cut off from the internet. At least, that's the main consensus among people who have had their internet service interrupted due to the outages caused by hurricane Irene.