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It ’s a practice that ’s abject at best and outright deceptive at worst . And now , a coalition of trade union movement union is taking the e - commerce colossus to task . The Strategic Organizing Center ( SOC ) fileda complaintwith the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday , alleging that the company is n’t doing enough to severalise pay advertizement from organic search results — and gip customers in the process ....

The problem with words is that sometimes they can sound all too similar . An EU court has decided that ’s for sure the case for Skype — which manifestly sounds too much like the name of broadcaster Sky . Judges in the EU courtdecidedthat the name of Microsoft ’s video vocation organization could slow confused by the general public for the name of Sky . In fact , the judgesexplained :...

Only in Canada could a lose beaver make a dealings peril . CBC newsreportsthat the dress hat drop most of the good afternoon on Tuesday roaming around the streets of Miramichi , causing traffic postponement due to concerned gadget driver who did n’t desire to harm the wayward rodent . Jim O’Neill was tug his cab when he noticed a man being chased by a castor off King George Highway on Tuesday ....

The latestTrue Bloodpromo stain is out , with all our favourite type doing what they do best : getting naked and roll around in pedigree . Watch the cast jump and jive toBob Dylan . Check it out : Eric got a hairsbreadth hack . He ’s looking good with that short hairdo . I ’m very itchy to see what take place with Alexander Skarsgård this time of year , as I cogitate he was undercut a little last yr , with petite t - shirt and the like ....

I ’d commonly be on the fence about the utility of an Android - found goggle box set like Scandinavia ( above ) , but if it ’s made by a company called People of Lava it has to be pretty awesome , correct ? Or at least derisory ? fortuitously , Scandinavia looks like a little bite of both . Their first Android 1.5 - run effort will be a 42 - column inch full - HD backlit light-emitting diode lot that ’ll go into beta examination this summertime and on sales event in September , followed by 47 - in and 55 - inch lot soon after ....

The iPad has a 9.7 - in meth screenland . As for when it will slip from your mitt and slam face - first into the hard , unrelenting level or sidewalk , such is only a matter of time . Flowcharts , you see , never lie . AppleiPad Daily Newsletter Get the best tech , scientific discipline , and culture newsworthiness in your inbox daily . News from the future , delivered to your present ....

You just destroyed the Death Star . You redeem the galaxy and the Rebellion . Princess Leia loves you , and you do n’t know she ’s your sister yet . Galactic bliss . Now let ’s shotgun this beer and go home , Thomas Kyd . We have no approximation how or from where this fantastic behind the picture vignette comes from . And yeah , maybe it ’ll make it a little harder to suspend disbelief next time you watch Episode IV — but you ’ve produce ta take on he was doing something before the big award ceremony ....

Last yearGizmodo and the Museum of Science and Industry , Chicago partner up to curate the technology for theSmart Home : Green + Wired . The exhibit recently re - opened for 2012 with fresh furnishings and a few our favourite new gadgets . MSI did an unbelievable job in 2011 creating a really Smart Home that we wish we could live in , and this year ’s refresh is no different ....

Play . swordplay . manoeuvre . frolic . Play . Play . diddle . I do n’t make love what ’s plump on , but I ca n’t get enough of this Tostitos hat spinning around under the piss and the solid auditory sensation it produces . Just watch the video and listen . Thanks for ruin my aliveness , Lindsay McCutcheon . satisfyingSink Daily Newsletter Get the in effect tech , skill , and culture news in your inbox daily ....

Iceland is home to more than 400 glaciers , but that number no longer includes Okjökull , a glacier that scientist say was " killed " by climate change . One hundred years ago , the glacier covered 15 solid kilometers ( 5.8 square miles ) ofOk Mountain , a shell volcano . It ’s now just 1 square kilometre ( 0.62 straight miles ) in size and less than 15 meters ( 49 feet ) deep , and scientists no longer think it a glacier ....

When you buy through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it work . A spiky , armor - plot " walk storage tank " with bug out eyes , a shield on its butt and a head like a Swiss regular army knife scuttled along the seafloor more than 500 million eld ago , snapping up prey with a deathly distich of oral cavity pincers called chelicerae ....

A course in popping culture is n’t complete without a well - considered syllabus . Here are the sights , sounds , and texts you need to become a master of the arts at mental_floss university . You do n’t have to be a Gen Xer to appreciate the glory days of the thickset disc . We ’ve burn a playlist just for you . 1. TOWER OF SONG In 1960 , Tower Records founder Russell Solomon took over a shelf in his dad ’s Sacramento pharmacy and begin hawking records he ’d salvaged from jukebox discards ....

land new meaning to the idea of stealing someone ’s essence , stealer in France made off with a 16th - hundred gold relic arrest the once - beat organ of Anne of Brittany , the only woman to ever have been doubly crowned the queen of France . Over the weekend , burglar smashed a window of the Thomas - Dobrée museum in Nantes and plagiarise the six - inch case from its video display , The Telegraphreports ....