BlackBerry Sued An Executive Who Defected To Apple

The story goes BlackBerry senior vice president for software Sebastian Marineau-Mes resigned from his post in late December 2013 after Apple offered him a position as vice president of Core OS. But BlackBerry wouldn’t let him go and sued for breach of contract.

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What to do if your truck runs out of gas and you carry an excavator

What to do if your truck runs out of gas and you carry an excavator

The answer was obvious. If you’re Russian, anyway.

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Sushi chef makes miniature sushi with a single grain of rice

Sushi chef makes miniature sushi with a single grain of rice

Sushi is at its most delicious when it’s simple. Obviously years of training is required to become a master sushi chef and details matter immensely but you can boil down the essence of sushi to rice and fish. Yum, however you slice it. But could you make sushi even simpler? One sushi chef did. He used a single grain of rice to create flavor packed nibbles.

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Amazing Houdini cat escapes cages by opening locks

Amazing Houdini cat escapes cages by opening locks

This is Marshmallow—the incredible Houdini cat who can escape any cell at a veterinary clinic in Marseille, France, just by unlocking the door. The veterinary calls him the "king of evasion."

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Man hunts giant monster boar that weighs over 500 pounds

Man hunts giant monster boar that weighs over 500 pounds

Damn, that’s a big boar. Hunter Jett Webb took down this ginormous seven-foot-long and 500 pound boar on a hunt in North Carolina with just one shot from his AR-15 rifle from 50 to 100 yards away. Webb didn’t even realize how big it was until he came up next to it. It’s big. I mean, look at that thing.

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Lost Password Leaves Police Dept Complaints Unchecked…For 8 Years

Lost Password Leaves Police Dept Complaints Unchecked…For 8 Years

Until recently, the Delhi police department in India had been enjoying a baffling long streak totally free of complaints. Of course, it’s a lot easier to keep a clean slate when you never check the complaint database in the first place. Because someone lost the password. Eight years ago.

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This mind-bending optical illusion is freaking the hell out of me

This mind-bending optical illusion is freaking the hell out of me

It may seem like this guy has a space-time bending black hole on his skull, which is about to swallow that guy’s finger, but of course it’s just an awesome optical illusion, created by artist Cory Ferguson, instagrammed by Geometry Chaos. If you have to get a tattoo, you may as well blow people’s minds with it.

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Watch a crazy dude smoke 100 cigarettes at once with this contraption

Watch a crazy dude smoke 100 cigarettes at once with this contraption

Ah, that’s a good hit. 100 good hits, actually. Artist Wyatt Burns created a way to smoke 100 cigarettes at once with a crazy contraption and it looks, well, predictably suffocating. He lights up all the cigarettes with a torch and feeds all the smoke into a plastic bag. In his performance art piece, he basically becomes a smoke monster.

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Man builds giant 50-foot-tall snowman with entire trees for arms

Man builds giant 50-foot-tall snowman with entire trees for arms

A farmer in Gilman, Minessota, decided he have had enough of the snow that was ruining his greenhouses, so he decided to start piling it all up into this 50-foot-tall snowman. Because why not.

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Your Next Artisanal Salami Could Be Part Kanye

Your Next Artisanal Salami Could Be Part Kanye

The line between celebrity worship and cannibalism thinned ever so slightly this week. Meet BiteLabs.org, a website purportedly dedicated to growing artisanal meat from celebrity tissue samples. Because we could all use a little more Vitamin Bieber.

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