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Tomorrow's looking like a perfect day for a rocket launch in Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX's second NASA-commissioned flight to the International Space Station is scheduled to take off in the morning. The mission will deliver a Dragon spacecraft with 1,200 lbs of supplies to the ISS, and will return to Earth loaded up with 2,300 lbs of things taken from the space station. We're looking forward to seeing the launch, and you can watch it right here.

Was the State of the Union earlier this week fun, but just not enough President for you? Well, good news -- Obama is doing a Google Hangout, and we'll have the live stream right here. This isn't Obama's first "Fireside Hangout" -- he did one about a year ago -- but it's the first one of his second term, and hopefully a sign that these will be a habit going forward. Yes, it's going to be at least a little canned and PR-ish, but hey, it's the damn President, nothing's not at least sort of planned. Still, it's a fun way to be interactive that doesn't make anyone leave the office, and that works for us. Plus, you might get an answer for why the hell we still make pennies, and wouldn't that be nice?

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We don't want to play into the stereotype that geeks don't like sports, but it goes without saying that puppies are adorable. Everyone loves puppies, and while Animal Planet's annual Puppy Bowl is always a welcome distraction from all the football goings-on of the day, this year there's even a camera to give us all a behind the scenes look into the puppy locker room. It's exactly as cute as you would expect it to be.

We here at Geekosystem are set to stream our Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 experience tonight from 6PM to 8PM EST. We're even looking at giving away our copy of the game to someone paying attention to the stream. That's right: You could win a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 by tuning in. Hit the jump for the stream.

The NASA livestream apparently did really well for itself this past Sunday during the Curiosity rover's landing on the surface of Mars. According to Tony Riggins, spokesman for Ustream, more than 3,200,000 folks watched the rover's descent via their streaming platform. Across the various streams, the landing had 500,000 concurrent viewers during its peak. Cable networks, on the other hand, did surprisingly poorly in comparison.

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NASA's Curiosity rover is almost to Mars. It should land later tonight, around 1:31 AM Eastern time, but that's just the climax. NASA has a livestream prepared for curious viewers who have been waiting with bated breath. The streaming of the mission begins at 11:30 PM Eastern time. The stream will almost certainly spend a majority of its time with mission control where folks will get to see just how nervous all those scientists and experts are during the landing.

For those of you that don't have much to do over the weekend, or need an excuse to do nothing, Evo 2012 has begun, and runs from today until July 8. For the unaware, Evo is an annual gaming tournament, focusing exclusively on fighting games. It's where a lot of professional gamers make a name for themselves. This year, the tournament features six main games: Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Mortal Kombat, Soulcalibur V, The King of Fighters XIII, and Street Fighter X Tekken. For all of your tournament fighting game needs, head on over to the Evo hub and get lost in it over the weekend.

Apple is out trying to sell its new, awkwardly-named MacBook Pro with Retina display, and Microsoft is getting all stoked about its awkwardly-named Microsoft Surface for Windows RT, but what kind of awkwardly-named new hardware will we be able to purchase from our friends at Google? We might be about to find out. Google's I/O conference is starting today, and you can (and should) watch their keynote live to catch the all-but-certain announcement of a Google-branded tablet -- possibly with a very awkward name -- or possibly some news on Project Glass, Android, and Google TV. Tune in below.

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference is upon us, and the keynote is running right now. There's a lot of rumors swirling around today's keynote from Apple, among them the possibility of a refresh to the MacBook Pro line, news about iOS 6, and OS 10.8. How much of this actually comes to pass, we'll just have to wait and see. See it all, after the break.

After a jarring last-second abortion on Saturday which was later blamed on a faulty engine valve, the SpaceX's rocket launch has been rescheduled to take place in the wee morning hours on Tuesday, May 22nd at 3:44 am Eastern Time. If you're interested enough to be awake at that time of day, you can watch the (hopefully successful already) launch on the livestream above. Until then, the feed will be playing various videos from NASA TV that you can check out. The upside is that those videos will definitely be happening. The downside? They don't necessarily include real-time footage of jets of flame. You'll have to wake up early to catch that.

Blast off of the first SpaceX mission to the International Space Station starts in just a few minutes! See the livestream, after the break.

Double Fine's wildly, wildly successful Kickerstarter campaign to fund the Double Fine Adventure game is finally coming to a close with a total of somewhere around $3 million, a lot more than their modest $400,000 goal. Raising over $1 million in only 24 hours, Double Fine shattered Kickstarter records and brought all kinds of attention to gaming Kickstarters in general. Now, their funding-window is coming to a close and they'll be celebrating its success and livestreaming said celebration during the Kickstarter's final 2 hours, 6-8pm EDT. You may not be able to work for Double Fine, but you can definitely watch this livestream and pretend like you do. I know that's my plan.

In order to celebrate Frozen Planet, a joint effort by the BBC and the Discovery Channel, the Discovery Channel and SeaWorld San Diego have teamed to stream SeaWorld's exhibit of socially awkward penguins: "Penguin Encounter". Well, it's technically an exhibit of "regular" penguins. But still, there's bound to be some awkwardness. The stream is going on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week until April 30th, so there's a lot of penguin to be watched. Several penguins have already attempted to hatch the camera, which looks a bit like a big black egg, so there are doubtlessly more hijinks in store. Be sure to check it out and check back every now and then, who knows what you might see.

It's here, ladies and gentlemen. It's almost time for the official, live release of Minecraft 1.0. I don't think I'm being sensationalistic when I say this is a historic moment in gaming, even if it is sort of a technicality. If you've been keeping up on your prereleases (like I have), you've been playing what is basically the 1.0 release for almost a week now. If you're like me, the release itself isn't going to have much of an actual effect. But all that being said: Minecraft is totally coming out, you guys. Like, actually coming out. For real. Even if it's in name only, we've been waiting for this for over a year. The game that shook up the whole indie gaming world while in beta is coming out. Also, Notch is giving a cool speech. Livestream after the jump. Don't miss it.