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The Computer Chronicles - Computer Games (1985)
Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchronicles
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Insight: How U.S. spying cost Boeing multibillion-dollar jet contract
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Dilma Rousseff was thoroughly charmed.Brazil had been struggling for years to decide which company to choose for a $4 billion-plus fighter jet contract, one of the world's most sought-after
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Carl Herold: Popular Reddit User CarlH Accused Of Raping, Torturing 9-Year-Old Son
Carl Herold was known to fellow Reddit users as CarlH, a popular poster who helped teach computer skills to others. But to police in Alabama Herold is a man accused of committing unspeakable acts of torture and rape on his own 9-year-old son, including producing photographs and video so disturbing that police had a difficult time even viewing them.
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Overstock.com Will Accept Bitcoin, Immediately Exchange for Dollars
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne made waves in the imaginary money world when he announced the retailer will start accepting payment in bitcoin sometime next year. In interviews, Byrne made his confidence in the cryptocurrency seem rock-solid. But if you look a little closer, it seems he's not really buying in at all.
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Dennis Rodman receives chilling open letter from an ex-North Korean prisoner
Shin Dong-hyuk is a human rights activist who was born in a North Korean labor camp. Shin escaped, and now writes to Dennis Rodman as the former NBA star visits North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong...
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Leading Russian actor on gays: ‘I'd burn them all alive in ovens’
"I'd burn them all alive in ovens," Okhlobystin said, reported a Russian website, NGS.Novosti. The actor was speaking on stage at an event being held in the east of Russia. "It's Sodom and Gomorrah, as a religious person I can't be indifferent to it. It's a living threat to my children."
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10 things Canada does better than anywhere else
Who wouldn't expect great things from the world's second largest land mass? This is a nation hoarding enough prosperity, natural beauty and curling talent to serve a population a hundred times its size. But Canada is more than elbow room, good roads, respected banks, promo posters of Mounties on horseback, sweet views of Niagara Falls and tired media frenzies about the odd crack-smoking mayor.
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FDA to require proof antibacterial soaps actually work, are safe
FDA will require studies to find out if antibacterial soap is effective at preventing germs, won't cause health risks like infertility
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McLaren to replace windshield wipers with a force field of sound waves
Buy any car today, regardless of make, model, or cost, and they’ll all have one thing in common: windshield wipers. They are a necessity, both by law and the fact you need them to be able to drive safely when it is raining. But if McLaren has its way, we could soon see cars that no longer require them.
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Should you really go to the best school you can get into?
Sometimes it's better to be a big fish in a small pond.
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World Cup: Team-by-team analysis
We examine the strengths, weaknesses and prospects of every team.
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6-year-old accused of sexual harassment and suspended for kissing a girl
A 6-year-old Colorado boy was suspended from school and accused of sexual harassment for kissing a girl on the hand. Did the school go too far?
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Mandela memorial sign interpreter 'has schizophrenia'
The sign language interpreter accused of using fake hand signals at Nelson Mandela's memorial has said he suffered a schizophrenic episode.
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Air strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake
SANAA (Reuters) - Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday.The officials
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N Korea leader's uncle 'executed'
The once-powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been executed after being purged for corruption, state news agency KCNA reports.
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Tenure Allows Bad to Teachers Prosper
Tenure provides job security and protects the academic freedom of experienced professors. Firing a tenured professor is almost unheard of.
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The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel
Why did it take so long to invent the wheelbarrow? Have we hit peak innovation? What our list reveals about imagination, optimism, and the nature of progress.
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Bourbon vs Whiskey (infographic)
Everything you ever wanted to know about the differences between bourbon and whisky (or whiskey, as many of you probably know it).
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How This 75 Year-Old Piece of Paper Started Modern Computing
Seventy-five years ago, this piece of paper started the modern computing trend and changed offices forever.
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Did Humans Arrive in Americas 30,000 Years Ago?
Cave art depicting early Americans’ sex lives suggests people inhabited Americas 18,000 years earlier than believed.
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How Columbus Sailed Into U.S. History, Thanks To Italians
Christopher Columbus became the face of a celebration of Italian heritage, amid discrimination.
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Hitler’s Killer Women Revealed in New History
A new book pulls back the veil on the widespread involvement of women in the Third Reich’s most murderous and brutal activities. An exclusive excerpt from Wendy Lower’s Hitler’s Furies.
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Marilyn Monroe plastic surgery notes, X-rays up for auction
A physician's notes on Marilyn Monroe that indicate that the Hollywood sex symbol had undergone cosmetic surgery will be up for sale next month along with a set of her X-rays, an auction house said on Tuesday.
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The Hunt for Houdini’s Airplane
Amateur detectives have found clues to the fate of the magician’s biplane.
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Merging the Past and Present of Anne Frank's Amsterdam
A representative from the iconic museum finally had the opportunity to reach out to us and let us know that our posts about the work of Sergey Larenkov have inspired them to create their own versions of images that merge the past and present. Like Larenkov's photography, the images that serve as the past are derived from the World War II era, though their version focuses primarily on Amsterdam, where Frank spent most of her time hiding.
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The little-told story of the massive WWII pet cull
At the beginning of World War II, a government pamphlet led to a massive cull of British pets. As many as 750,000 British pets were killed in just one week. This little-discussed moment of panic is explored in a new book.
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