Samsung didn't pay Apple $1.05 billion in 5 cent coins

Over the past couple of days, various rumours have indicated that Samsung paid Apple $1.5 billion in 5 cent coins. A California jury had awarded Apple the amount in damages, at the end of a long-standing patent infringement dispute with Samsung. The news of Samsung paying the damages in nickels spread widely via the website MobileEntertainment, though it had originated on a Mexico-based parody website El Deforma, and then made it to 9gag as...

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RIP Neil Armstrong, A Huge Loss for Mankind

Apollo 11 and Apoll0 17 composite portrait of Neil Armstrong saluting the U.S. Flag by Stuart Atkinson. Image from NASA. Neil Armstrong‘s first step on the moon made him famous, but his “one small step for man… one giant leap for mankind” immortalized him. Today, August 25, 2012, GeekMom, NASA, America, and the entire world, lost a great man. Neil Armstrong passed away today, at the age of 82, of cardio-vascular complications...

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Tips and Tricks for Linux Mint after Installation [Mint 10 and 11] Updated

Introduction Linux Mint is one of the top free operating systems widely used in the world and currently receives the highest hits at DistroWatch. Even though it's an Ubuntu-based system, Linux Mint features only one panel at the bottom which looks closer to the taskbar in the Windows system, and a well-organized start menu complete with a useful Search box. It also pre-installs some proprietary software, including the Adobe ...

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