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We're moving further away from Uncharted 3 as time moves on, and the franchise has left us needing some sweet, sweet Naughty Dog projects on which to set our sights and hearts. We're pretty excited about Naughty Dog's upcoming original, The Last of Us, ever since we saw it premiere at the VGAs. There's a new trailer to whet your appetites, and it involves a truck barreling through everything it can hit. Check it out.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/new-the-last-of-us-trailer-ambush/

You can use arduinos to do a lot of cool things, a lot of cool things that we like to cover on Geekosystem. But what about using an arduino as a means to its own end? John Edgar Park, writer for MAKE magazine, has an answer for that; you can make a really big arduino, one that's six times the size of traditional microcontrollers. Enter the Arduino GRANDE, a macrocontroller, if you will.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/arduino-grande/

We knew Verizon was removing unlimited data plans in favor of tiered pricing plans, but as a very cheesy, extremely repeatable line in a certain movie once said, "Not like this." Verizon CFO Fran Shammo has declared that Verizon will be nixing all unlimited data plans that have been grandfathered in. Yikes.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/verizon-to-end-grandfathered-unlimited-data-plans/

Rumor has it the next iPhone will have a bigger screen (The Wall Street Journal) The Google Docs research sidebar seems pretty awesome (The Verge) Listing of all of the most valuable asteroids we've found (Asterank) 11 facts about the ambidextrous (Mental Floss) 4 ways to play Battleship online (GeekSugar) Lighthouses + nighttime = pretty (Environmental Graffiti) An over-the-counter HIV test? (The Week) (title pic via reddit)..

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/geekolinks-51612/

Who doesn't want faster Wi-Fi? No one, that's who. Researchers in Japan are working on a new kind of Wi-Fi that might be able to help you out in the speed department. Terahertz range, or "t-ray" wireless transmission has reached speeds up to 20 times faster than conventional radio Wi-Fi. It also lies in a currently unregulated area of the spectrum, meaning it could be fair game for Wi-Fi use someday.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/t-ray-wifi/

At Geekosystem, we feel honored to have witnessed the birth of floppy drive music. In the past few months since renditions of popular songs performed on antiquated removable memory became vogue, we've brought you some excellent examples of the newly minted genre. Sadly, this latest one -- featuring the theme song from HBO's Game of Thrones -- leaves a lot to be desired. Unless you desire what sounds like old xerox machines farting uncontrollably...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/floppy-game-of-thrones/

Interesting bugs found trapped in amber aren't solely the realm of Jurassic Park; it happens in real life too. In this case, however, the imprisioned bug doesn't contain dino DNA or anything so crazy but it does contain the oldest evidence of pollination ever found, dating back over a 100 million years.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/pollination-evidence-in-amber/

The latest video promoting the forthcoming Ridley Scott directed Alien prequel Prometheus has dropped, this time focusing on Noomi Rapace's character Dr. Elizabeth Shaw. Like the previous video with Michael Fassbender, the video gives us a glimpse of a cold, intrusive future and has an ever-present sense of menace just at the fringes of our perception. It's not quite as successful as some of the other promotional videos, but it does serve to reinforce that this movie looks pretty great...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/noomi-rapace-prometheus-video/

The Facebook IPO keeps rumbling toward completion while Facebook scrambles to monetize anything and everything as fast as it can. The announcement of the App Center and the testing of highlighted posts are only the beginning of what we can expect from Facebook as a public company, but what about where it is at right now? Not a bad place. Mark Zuckerberg makes a hefty $66.94 per second and is heading for a valuation larger than Boeing or even Starbucks. Does it deserve that? We'll find out soon. In the meantime, you can study up on all the interesting facts and figures with this infographic from MBA Online and come to your own conclusion. Check it out after the jump.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/facebook-ipo-infographic/

The Pirate Bay has been widely unavailable for many users over the past 24 hours, and reports suggest it may be due to a DDoS attack from an unknown source. Pirate Bay downtime is not unheard of, but the length of this outage has been particularly long and its proximity to the recent blockage of the site in the U.K. and the site's open criticism of an Anonymous attack on Virgin mobile is suspicious, or if nothing else, at least a crazy coincidence. On its Facebook page, Pirate Bay alleges the source of the outage is in fact to due to a DDoS attack and if true, the consequences could be troubling.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/pirate-bay-under-ddos/

We knew Ashton Kutcher will be playing Steve Jobs in an indie biopic, and we also knew Sony was planning a rival Steve Jobs movie. It turns out Sony has brought in the big gun to pen their rival flick, as Aaron Sorkin is now set to pen the screenplay. It's obvious we're big fans of Sorkin here at Geekosystem, slipping in mentions of Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and his upcoming HBO show The Newsroom whenever we can (just like that, actually!), so we're thrilled that he'll be handling the movie adaptation of the life of Steve Jobs. After all, he did a pretty solid job handling another famous tech figurehead, Mark Zuckerberg, in his Facebook movie, The Social Network. You may have seen that...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/aaron-sorkin-write-sony-steve-jobs-movie/

Crows are already regarded as remarkably intelligent birds, having been the first feathered creatures to independently discover the art of snowboarding. However, a new study from the University of Vienna suggests that crows can tell the difference between humans by their voice alone -- and what's more, they seem to remember us...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/crow-voice-study/

Warner Brothers has unveiled their latest Watchmen tie-in and it's a toaster. Let me say that again: A toaster. In addition to ripping out Alan Moore's soul and converting regular bread to crispy bread, the officially branded toaster officially brands your toast -- presumably with the logo displayed on the side of the device. This makes Before Watchmen look like an exciting, artistically respectful project...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/watchmen-toaster/

Confidence in Facebook's plan to take its company public may have taken a blow today as U.S. automaker General Motors announced that it would no longer be advertising on the social network. The world's largest automaker is reportedly questioning the value of ads on the website but, interestingly, will not be abandoning the site entirely...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/gm-quits-facebook-advertising/

In honor of the passing of Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch, otherwise known as MCA, James Winters and family made this adorable video of little kids reenacting the music video for "Sabotage."

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/kids-reenacting-beastie-boys-sabotage-video/

Technology moves fast. Often, you'll be hard-pressed to force devices that are just a few years apart to interface. Sometimes though, it's surprisingly easy. Aliencurv accomplished quite the feat in that regard by modifying a 1983 TRS-80 with 20kb memory to control a 2012 Wall-E robot. Sure, it's not quite modifying a telegraph key to tweet, but I'd argue this is somehow crazier.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/wall-e-1983-notebook/

Though you may turn up your nose at the very thought of basketball, and would much rather dive into things that piss off Alan Moore, or control a robot made in 2012 with a 1983 computer, the NBA playoffs are in full swing, and wouldn't you know it, there's a bunch of science going on.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/the-science-of-the-nba/

Guy Fieri will keep drivers from killing themselves in the Indy 500 (The Braiser) Make the Curiosity rover an official LEGO set (Universe Today) Apple may be looking to upgrade iCloud (The Wall Street Journal) There's a game-breaking Diablo III bug, but that's no surprise (Piki Geek) Virgin Atlantic to allow in-flight calls (GeekSugar) The alien landscapes of the human eye (Environmental Graffiti) 12 really forced portmanteaux that didn't catch on (Mental Floss) (title pic via reddit)..

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/geekolinks-31512-2/

Though Diablo III only released less than twenty-four hours ago, you can imagine that after waiting twelve years for Blizzard's next clicktastic, hack-and-slash crawler, fans went hard in the paint. Like with new World of Warcraft level caps, there are always people who try to get to the "end" first, whatever the end is in any scenario. So, it's probably no surprise that reports are surfacing around the web that multiple groups have already beaten Diablo III, and not very long after the 3 AM EST release time. The most compelling reports state that a single player beat the entire campaign in twelve hours and twenty-nine minutes, and two multiplayer groups, one of which comprised of four players, each have tackled the campaign in seven hours.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/groups-beat-diablo-iii-7-hours/

Modern astronomy has finally begun to find planets outside our solar system, but it's also tracked down some weird objects orbiting our own sun. Objects like Sedna have surprised astronomers, but one researcher is suggesting that something much larger might be out there: A never before seen planet in our own solar system. Of course, proving such a claim will be tricky...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/rodney-gomes-mystery-planet/

There are two fairly amusing pieces of news regarding a new show that CBS has greenlighted. One, the show is a comedy about two guys who work at Groupon. Two, the show is -- for some reason -- called Friend Me. Remember, it's a show about two guys who work for a company that deals in group coupons, not some kind of social networking. Also, depending on how amused you are by McLovin, a third amusing facet to this tidbit of television news is that the it'll star Christopher Mintz-Plasse as one of the two Groupon buddies.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/cbs-comedy-groupon-friend-me/

Back in the day, there used to be some guesswork in photography. Those of you old enough to remember film will also remember the anticipation of waiting for your photos to be developed and the crushing disppointment of finding out they somehow all managed to be horrendously out of focus. Brian Matanda is trying to bring some of that joy fear excitement and uncertainty to digital photography with an interesting analog-inspired digital design called the Timeless Capture camera. Picture takin' used to be different, kids.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/display-free-camera/

We've seen different variants on the tried-and-true chopsticks, some of which are purely aesthetic, while others are trying very hard to improve your chopsticking endeavors by adding more useful utensils. The above pair of Spork Chops, with one stick topped with a small fork and the other topped with a spoon, ventures to make your not-sticky-enough Chinese food a little easier to deal with. These things are only $3.99 each, so you can order up a bunch if they revolutionize your day-to-day largely Asian food related lifestyle.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/spork-chops-spork-chopsticks/

The big news on the net today is that, according to a CNBC poll, a whopping 46% of Americans think Facebook is little more than a passing fad. In addition, the poll revealed that 51% of Americans think Facebook stock would be a good investment (31% don't), and 50% think the service is overvalued. Despite what those polled might believe, America is home to roughly 200 million Facebook accounts, or nearly two thirds of the population. Enlightening? Well, insofar that it reveals what Americans tend to think, sure. But about the facts of the matter? Probably not so much. It might be wise to consider a few of the other things polls have revealed about American beliefs. Let's have a look, shall we?

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/facebook-fad-poll/

There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth yesterday as Aussies discovered that by virtue of GAME Australia going "into administration" (similar to bankruptcy), customers who preordered Blizzard's Diablo III would not have their preorders honored or refunded. Thankfully, Blizzard rode up in shining armor to help those fans get the hack-and-slash fix they've been waiting for...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/blizzard-helps-aussie-gamers/

It goes without saying that being shot at can be, well, uncomfortable. For one thing, you're being shot at, but if you're wearing a bulletproof vest, you're likely to be quite hot and sweaty. Sure, it definitely beats having metal projectiles pierce your fleshy torso, but being hot and sweaty (and consequently dehydrated) is a problem that soldiers and police everywhere face. A very viable solution to this is a new kind of completely portable, air-conditioned bulletproof vest. It's a lot less frivolous than it sounds.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/air-conditioned-bulletproof-vests/

If you're anything like we Geekosystem editors, you probably imagine the terrible lengths each and every single one of your emails must go through to get to its recipient; the little guy traveling through muddy ditches, through dark, isolated forests filled with dangerous wild beasts, killing any and all other rogue emails that cross its path. Just so you can reply to that office memo with a smiley emoticon. Google Green is here to tell us that no emails are harmed in the sending of an email, and have explained the whole process with the above cutesy animation.

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Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/google-story-of-send-journey-of-email/

Reporters have held Amazon's forthcoming illuminated E Ink Kindle in their hands, and rumors about three new devices being unveiled this year have been floating around for weeks. Now a new report says that we can look forward to seeing those new products beginning this July when Amazon is rumored to unveil the first of its new reading devices. The sooner we can put an end to doofy Kindle booklights, the better...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/illuminated-kindle-in-july/

Fans over at the Halo Waypoint forums received a tantalizing email yesterday from Microsoft entitled "Your piece of the Halo 4 puzzle." The group quickly collected the 32 fragments of the image and eventually puzzled them together to discover what is likely to be the box art for the forthcoming game. You know you want to see this...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/halo-4-cover-puzzle/

In January of last year, China made a bit of splash when a never-before-seen jet suddenly appeared. It was dubbed the J-20 and though it's been photographed by fans in the months since its debut, not much is known about this stealthy new addition to the Chinese fleet. However, one thing is now certain: There is another...

Details: http://www.geekosystem.com/second-j-20/