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Pour One Out for Hiroshi Yamauchi With 974 'Super Mario Bros' Time Trials at...
A little part of me died today. Hiroshi Yamauchi, who made Nintendo a household name, died this morning at the age of 85. Not that I ever graduated beyond the SNES and N64 systems, and only a handful...
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New York's Tech Corridor Is Reshaping the Lower East Side
Renderings via With just months left in his final term, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg seems hell-bent on leaving an ever-bigger mark on the city. Having just broken ground with Google's Schmidt...
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Whistleblowers and the Crypto-Anarchist Underground: An Interview with Andy...
Andy Greenberg in a scene from This Machine Kills Secrets book trailer During the late 1980s, an online movement took hold that would shape the information upheaval we've seen in recent years. The...
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The Twelve Mile High Tower Is on "Pause" Thanks to the Jet Stream
Rendering of the Tower, via ASU Last year, one of the world's best science fiction writers teamed up with a respected engineer to build a twelve-and-a-half mile-high tower. For the record, that's 24...
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People Are Now Crowdfunding Their Funerals Online
The new frontier for online fundraising arguably has the single steadiest revenue source in the world: Funerals. It would cost about $10,000 to bury your dead ass right now. I’m talking to you, 18- to...
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Monetizing Immortality: How Silicon Valley's Tech Titans Are Trying to...
Who's going to live forever? These guys! Via Google On Wednesday, Google announced that it is getting in the immortality game, with the launch of an absurdly ambitious new venture that literally aims...
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I Camped Out in the iPhone 5S Line
Photo by Brian Ceballo 9:40AM — This is what it all comes down to. This is what dreams are made of. This is why I came here, and it was totally worth it. If anyone left the Apple store empty handed...
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Australia's New Prime Minister Thinks Climate Change Is "Absolute Crap"
Image: Wikimedia Australia has a new prime minister, and his name is Tony Abbott. He is notable for saying that "the climate change argument is absolute crap," leaving many with the impression that he...
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Play Your Super Nintendo Online, Thanks to This Open Source Hardware
When we all expect that any modern mulitplayer game has an online element to it, it can come as a bit of a shock to fire up Super Mario Kart and realize that, unless you've got a multitap squirreled...
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Facebook Is Building an Artificially Intelligent Brain with Your Data
A graph of a Facebook user's social network. Image via Flickr Make no mistake, Google's not the only web services-cum-big data company that wants to crack artificial intelligence. As the MIT Technology...
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If Obama's New Rule Holds, It's the End of New American Coal Plants
Image: Flickr If Obama gets his way, no new coal plants will be built in the US—maybe ever. The Environmental Protection Agency just released new carbon pollution rules today, and they're tough enough...
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Europe Plans to Lead the US to Better Privacy Laws
Vivane Reding via Olivier Ezratty/Wikimedia Commons Revelations about the extent of the NSA’s surveillance capabilities and interests pissed off not only American citizens but also the citizens and...
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Shark Overfishing Is Bad News for Coral Reefs
A grey reef shark, one of the species studied in the paper. Via Wikipedia Reef systems worldwide are in peril, with pollution and warming waters leading to coral bleaching, and overfishing of tropical...
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The Universe Was Born from a Four-Dimensional Black Hole, Says Big Bang...
An artist's depiction of a black hole – birthplace of our Universe? via We’re all familiar with the Big Bang theory, the one that states that the universe exploded out of a single, dense point. But...
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Watch This Man Video Blog His Brain Surgery
Skip to around 1:40 to see the actual surgery. Having surgery is a private moment for most people. It can be somber and scary, and we also tend to look and feel like shit. It's fairly reasonable to...
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Republicans Made a Taxpayer-Funded Buzzfeed-Style GIF List
It was bound to happen. Eventually some congressman was going to get around to reading that New York Times trend piece on GIFs, conclude that those neat multi-frame images would help him "connect" with...
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Behold the Beautiful Concept Art of 'OMNI'
The super special September issue of VICE was exclusively culled from the archives of Bob Guccione Sr.—the legendary magazine publisher who built a media empire that started with Penthouse. This...
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People Believe In Climate Change Once the Weather Screws Them
These cows believe in climate change now thanks to Hurricane Irene, via Wikimedia Commons One of the major impediments to actually doing something about the changing climate is that some people just...
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Watch These Techno-Loving Lunatics Recreate the 'Goldeneye' Bungee Jump
In 2002, seven years after the release of GoldenEye, Wayne Michaels's 220 meter bungee jump from the opening scene of the movie was voted the best movie stunt of all time in a poll for Sky Movies. At...
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Buildings of the Future May Be Designed Autonomously by Algorithms
Images courtesy of Digital Grotesque This spring, tech bloggers were abuzz over the new trend of 3D-printing houses, buildings, and maybe someday, skyscrapers and entire neighborhoods. Surely it's a...
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