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Identify
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla, rickde, Manish Achuth, Bipin Banavalikar, Ananth, raklodramA and KK
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SOFIA IR Laboratory. Very interesting.
Let's eat them later..
What is happening here?
Cracked by: Rogi, s m muneer ali, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, rickde, KK, jinz and Manish Achuth
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Boeing using potatoes instead of humans for testing Wi-Fi
Like the duracell bunny
Claim to fame?
Cracked by: Sumanth Patlolla and Ananth
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Microsoft terminated support for Halo 2 multiplayer on XBOX live, but there was a caveat: the service would stay on as long as people were still online. A few diehard fans tried to prolong its life by never logging out. APACHE N4SIR was the last one to log off, effectively ending Halo 2 multiplayer via XBL. In the process he kept it alive for almost a month past its final termination date.
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Plain-text question:
Something happened in 2012 that caused, at the very least, these sites to go down. It is very likely there were far more failures than this, so I will not claim this list to be exhaustive in any way:
- Mozilla
- Foursquare
- Yelp
- Gawker
- Stumbleupon
What caused the outage?
Cracked by: Bharat Shetty, Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, rickde and KK
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The gurus running the central NTP servers added a leap second in 2012. This triggered a couple of obscure bugs that brought down many services en-masse, leading to all these sites going down :)
Un-tss un-tss un-tss...
Not very geeky but I thought a bit of variety might be fun. The many faces of who?
Cracked by: Rogi, Sumanth Patlolla, raklodramA, s m muneer ali, Ananth, rickde, KK and jinz
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Daft Punk
'coz I'm free, free-fallin!
Simplish question. Identify.
Cracked by: Rogi, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla, Ananth, rickde and KK
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A Gravity Powered LED light.
Next time it rains and everything floods here
What is this? AutoRaja will look for its official name.
Cracked by: Rogi, Ananth and rickde
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SHOAL, a robotic fish that operates in swarms to detect oceanic pollutants.
Out of video games and in to the real world?
(2)’s treatment seems to have cured (1) of something. (1), (2) and the ‘something’, please?
Cracked by: Rogi, raklodramA, Sumanth Patlolla and Ananth
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(1) is Timothy Ray Brown, AKA The Berlin Patient
Ada-boy
This Lady’s been making waves in the Open Source community. Who?
Cracked by: Amit, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Rogi, Dibyo and Mayukh Bose
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Limor Fried, aka Ladyada - founder of AdaFruit industries and myriad Open Source projects
Hello! >>> d-.-b <<< !olleH
Identify the ‘revolutionary’ device in the images:
(I hereby grant myself 100 points for awesome ASCII art hint in the title)
Cracked by: Amit, rickde, Sumanth Patlolla, Anjul, Rogi, manas and Dibyo
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The Theatrophone, the first demonstrated Stereo audio system.