We got our first tidbit about Star Wars: Episode IX during a Sundance Film Festival press conference last week. It was a panel discussing the benefits of shooting on film featuring Colin Trevorrow, […]
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Google paid ‘Google’ to the guy that owned Google.com for one minute
A few months back, an ex-Google employee managed to buy the domain Google.com for a measly $12. Now, his purchase has finally paid off. In case you missed it, Sanmay Ved happened to […]
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The best Norse gods to start worshipping right now
With the news that Ásatrúarfélagið, an Icelandic neopagan religious organization, is building the first new temple to Odin, Thor, Loki, and friends in 1000 years, a lot of people are talking about the old Norse […]
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Geek deals: Dell XPS 8900 Skylake desktop PC for $630
If you’re looking for an affordable desktop with powerful internals, take a look at the new XPS 8900 from Dell. With a new Skylake CPU, fast DDR4 memory, and plenty of customizability, this […]
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The most badass Latin phrases
Want to impress your friends with your erudite ways? Eager to utter completely vicious phrases that people will have to look up later? Looking for a more educated way to talk trash online? […]
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The wackiest conspiracy theories people still believe
Our favorite crazy conspiracy theories that are clearly nonsense, but people keep taking about.
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NASA is developing a Mars 2030 VR experience using Unreal Engine 4
NASA is currently targeting the 2030s for a manned mission to Mars. There’s a lot of research and planning that needs to be done before that, but the agency is also developing a […]
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Metal Gear Solid V sells more than six million copies worldwide
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain was expected to be a big success for Konami last year and it certainly came through in that regard. The stealth-action game has sold more than […]
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Snapchat Challenges Twitter And Facebook For Sports Talk
Possession wins trophies or, in this case, ad dollars. That’s why Snapchat stepped up its game late last year by quietly partnering with Stats.com. Now TechCrunch has learned that Snapchat has rolled new Live Score geofilters at every NBA arena and some other matches. They let anyone attending overlay real-time updated score graphics atop their photos and videos. Just last week, Live… Read More
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Beef Twitter
Why do we allow ourselves to be dragged into pointless, likely fruitless, micro-arguments on Twitter? Is it because the pithy length lends itself to misunderstanding? Perhaps the ego has a hand — no one likes to be called out publicly by peers in the same network, especially when you know everyone you both know can see. Then there’s good old fashioned obstinance. Read More
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Apple could add long-range wireless charging to phones in 2017
Apple is always looking for the next must-have feature to include in the next iPhone in order to drive upgrades, and wireless charging might be the next big one. Android and Windows phones […]
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Cancelled Saints Row game now available to download for free
Earlier this week we reported on a Saints Row game for the PSP which was never released. Though initially hesitant to even show it to the world, Volition, the developer behind the game, […]
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Everything you need to know about mechanical keyboards before you buy
Whatever you end up choosing, it'll probably be with you for years to come. Don't be afraid to be picky.
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The future of walking sims and empathy games
Empathy games and walking sims might have seemed like a fad, but 2015 was full of them, and 2016 is already off to an empathic start.
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Prepare yourself for the new The Venture Bros. season with this primer
Seasons of The Venture Bros have been farther apart with each passing block of episodes and since the show premiered in February 2003, the characters have gone through a lot of changes.
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New Smash Bros. game rumored to be Nintendo NX launch title
There’s nothing a new games console needs more on launch day than a solid line-up of games to sell alongside it. Typically, this isn’t the case and we’re lucky to get a single […]
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EA helps confirm Microsoft has sold 19 million Xbox One consoles
It was October last year when Microsoft announced that it wasn’t going to release Xbox One sales figures anymore. It made sense to do that because the Xbox One was so far behind […]
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Aliens and magic in this month’s Loot Crate and Loot Anime
It’s time for a two-and-a-half-fisted Loot Crate unboxing. This month’s theme for Loot Crate is INVASION, and it’s joined by INVASION-themed LVL UP items. Loot Anime is in its second month with ENCHANT, […]
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Geek’s what to watch this week: You, Me and the Apocalypse, Kung Fu Panda 3, more
Dark comedies, nautical dramas, animated martial arts epics and prequel television top this week’s list of things we definitely want to check out. You, Me and the Apocalypse chronicles the end of the […]
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GameStop will publish its first game, Insomniac Games’ Song of the Deep
I know that headline may throw you off a little bit (or a lot), but it’s true. GameStop, the world’s biggest video game retailer, is partnering with Insomniac Games and is set to […]
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Indie game bundle to pay Curiosity winner what Peter Molyneux never did
University student Bryan Henderson thought he was pretty lucky when he unlocked the top prize in Peter Molyneux’s experimental online game Curiosity – What’s Inside the Cube? He was supposed to get a cut of […]
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Inside Parlio: Egyptian Activist Wael Ghonim’s New Platform For Social Change
Wael Ghonim is an activist who helped spark the Egyptian Revolution, a wave of protests and demonstrations in Egypt that were part of the Arab Spring, and which helped overthrow the long-reigning Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak. Ghonim, who worked for Google at the time, used social media to unite Egyptians and create the movement in his country and was jailed for it. Thanks to social media… Read More
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Nintendo NX will be a console and a handheld, set to release this year, report says
There have been a lot of rumors and speculation about Nintendo’s plans for their upcoming console, code named “NX.” While we still don’t have any official confirmation from Nintendo about what its next […]
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Facebook Takes On Periscope By Giving Live Streaming To All U.S. iPhoners
Get ready for the big Live streaming showdown. Finally we’ll see who’s approach wins: Twitter and Periscope with a separate app and replays that can only be watched for 24 hours, or Facebook Live with its feature integrated into the popular social network and allowing replays to live on permanently. After 5 months of tweaks and slow rollouts, today Facebook is opening its Live… Read More
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DC sends Scooby-Doo into the apocalypse, gives Hanna-Barbera a gritty reboot
It seems that a variety of companies of realized they’ve been sitting on a goldmine of cartoon characters just waiting for new life. Nickelodeon just announced plans to make one big movie based […]
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Fallout 4 DLC: Reasonable speculations and wild pipe dreams
Here is what we know, what we hope for, and what we're likely to get in Fallout 4's upcoming DLC.
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Snapchat Makes Adding People Way Easier With Profile URLs
Snapchat is ready to colonize the web with profile URLs that deeplink into its app and let you instantly follow someone. That makes it simple to add friends and celebrities so you fill your feed with content that keeps you coming back. By swiping down from the Snapchat camera to the profile screen, hitting ‘Add Friends’, and then selecting ‘Share Username’, you can… Read More
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11 Japanese games that need to be translated
Importing games is a simple affair, but some true classics remain unplayable due to heavy use of text and dialogue. Here's 11 we really hope will one day be translated.
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Raspberry Pi Zero cluster in development
When the Raspberry Pi first launched it didn’t take long for a range of supporting hardware to start appearing. Cases, add-on boards, power solutions, full kits, a display, and even a laptop. More […]
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Geek deals: Save up to 97% off online courses at Udemy
Whether you’re looking for a new career, or searching for ways to improve yourself, you’ll definitely want to take advantage of today’s deal. For a limited time, the folks over at Udemy are […]
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Tinder Makes Messaging More Fun With GIFs & Bigger Emoji, Finally Lets You Upload Photos Directly
Tinder users will now have better chatting tools, thanks to an upgraded messaging experience in the mobile dating app. Amid a flurry of changes that began rolling out last night to the iOS application, and soon Android, Tinder added support for sending your matches GIFs. It also upgraded the size of emoji in chat and also now lets you “like” the individual messages you received from… Read More
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The battle for eSports on prime time begins
Move over Monday night football, and you can put your March Madness on the back burner because eSports is gearing up to take on prime time television. Chasing the Cup is a docuseries […]
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Your favorite Nicktoons will be in a movie together
Nickelodeon and parent company Viacom are going to team up with Paramount Pictures and make a classics revival Nicktoons movie.
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Michael Jackson secretly wrote the Sonic 3 soundrack
Since Michael Jackson’s death in June 2009, there have been a few major posthumous releases like his This Is It concert rehearsal film and the B-Sides album Xscape, which saw Jackson’s peers honor […]
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Electrified concrete keeps itself free of snow and ice
If you live on the eastern coast of the United States, chances are good you’re still recovering from the epic amount of snow that just fell. Wouldn’t it be great if your walkways […]
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Accel Leads $10M Series A For JobToday’s Service Industry Hiring App
Can a smartphone messaging app replace the age-old CV in the service industry sector? That’s the premise driving European startup JobToday, which is targeting the fast flow of service and blue collar workers with a mobile app that aims to speed up and simplify the hiring process. It’s today announcing a $10 million Series A round, led by Accel, along with participation from… Read More
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Facebook Spikes 12% After Smashing Q4 Earnings
Facebook shares are spiking today, and were up as much as 13 percent after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings. The culprit? Once again, the company completely crushed expectations for its operating quarter. Facebook brought in $5.841 billion in revenue and earnings of 79 cents per share, compared to earnings of 68 cents per share and $5.37 billion in revenue. Read More
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Facebook Hits 100M Hours Of Video Watched A Day, 1B Users On Groups, 80M On Fb Lite
Everything at Facebook seems to be growing, according to Mark Zuckerberg’s Q4 earnings call comments. Facebook now sees 100 million hours of daily video watch time. There are 1 billion monthly users now users on Groups, up from 925 million at the close of Q3. 80 million people use Facebook’s stripped down app Facebook Lite for the developing world’s slow connections, up from… Read More
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Facebook Climbs To 1.59 Billion Users And Crushes Q4 Estimates With $5.8B Revenue
By courting users and ad dollars in the developing world, Facebook continued its growth streak. It hit 1.59 billion users today and crushed the street’s estimates in its Q4 2015 earnings with $5.841 billion in revenue and $0.79 earnings per share. That’s up from 1.55 billion users and $4.5 billion in revenue last quarter. Even with Q4 being the holidays, that 29.8% QoQ revenue… Read More
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Floating Bonsai trees are now a thing
As if Bonsai trees weren’t cool enough, there’s a Kickstarter campaign pitching a Bonsai tree set that will allow your plants to float. It’s a conversational piece that will really tie the room […]
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