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9 days ago
Current Event mariogiThis week’s dead Google product is Google Trips, may it rest in peace
Frequent travelers will need to look elsewhere for a trip info app.
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9 days ago
Expression mariogi
EverQuest’s long, strange 20-year trip still has no end in sight
A game born in an era of dial-up Internet is still doing well after all this time—how?!
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12 days ago
Analysis mariogi
Procrastination is an emotional problem
If you stop treating procrastination like a time-management issue, it becomes easier to manage.
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2 weeks ago
Expression mariogi
Sorry, FCC—killing net neutrality probably didn’t expand internet access
FCC chairman Ajit Pai had claimed that rosy broadband numbers showed his deregulation approach was working.
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2 weeks ago
Current Event mariogi
Russia Deployed Its Trolls to Cover Up the Murder of 298 People on MH17
The same Putin-backed agency that hit the U.S. elections went into conspiracy-theory overdrive when Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine blew a Malaysian airliner out of the sky.
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2 weeks ago
Analysis mariogi
The Music-Making Site That Can Get You a Global Hit (Or a Lawsuit)
Lil Nas X bought the beat for “Old Town Road” for $30 from a website called BeatStars. Inside the new world of cheap music marketplaces that has the music industry scrambling
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2 weeks ago
Current Event mariogi
Fallout Shelter is getting a sequel with PvP – but only in China
A sequel to the popular free-to-play online RPG Fallout Shelter is on its way - but only to mobile users in China, it seems. Trailers and gameplay footage have started to emerge giving us the first proper details about the mysterious new Fallout game you might never get to play.
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2 weeks ago
Current Event mariogi
Motorola announces the Moto Z4 with a 48MP camera, a headphone jack, and more
After various leaks, Motorola today finally announced its Moto Z4 handset. Indeed, there are no surprises left with the device. It's powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 chipset, a 2GHz octa-core SoC. Motorola opted for a single-lens camera this time around, which means you lose features like Selective Black & White and Selective Focus. It does have a 48-megapixel sensor though, which uses quad pixel technology. In other words, it combines four pixels into one for better low-light photo...
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3 weeks ago
Comment mariogi
Good luck with that!
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3 weeks ago
Comment mariogi
Is the crank just a gimmick or does it actually power the thing?
Posted in: Playdate. A New Handheld Gaming System
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1 month ago
Analysis mariogi
The moon is shrinking and shaking, Nasa says
Our neighbour has shrivelled up like a raisin
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1 month ago
Current Event mariogi
Petition to remove judge who gave leniency to pastor who raped teen daughter surpasses 11,000 signatures
On Thursday of last week, former pastor David L. Richards Jr. was sentenced to 12 years in prison after he was convicted for raping his adopted daughter over a period of two years, starting when she was 14. Richards’ sentence went viral not for the punishment he received, but for the punishment he didn’t receive. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, the sentence was 60-years less than what prosecutors were seeking because the judge was so impressed with Richards’ life as a pastor and ...
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1 month ago
Analysis mariogi
What It's Like To Work On Ultra-Violent Games Like Mortal Kombat 11
Mortal Kombat 11 is a brutal game. That’s what you come for — sensational, over-the-top violence that’s inventive and gratuitous on a level that doesn’t exist anywhere else. It can be shocking in its detail and funny in its execution, but it’s always arresting.
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1 month ago
Comment mariogi
It better be 2019, so sick of waiting
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1 month ago
Current Event mariogi
US Policy: Mass Murder of Migratory Birds Not Our Problem
Birds are, quite literally, the proverbial “canary in the coal mine.” How birds fare in the world indicates how all wildlife and habitat, and by extension human populations, will fare. It is not just poetry that led Rachel Carson to title her seminal work Silent Spring. All the past administrations for which we have worked have struck a balance and worked diligently and in good faith with industries that had significant impacts on birds...
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1 month ago
Analysis mariogi
A mathematical method for calculating black-hole properties from gravitational-wave data
Sean McWilliams, an assistant professor at West Virginia University, has developed a mathematical method for calculating black hole properties from gravitational wave data. He has written a paper describing his method and posted it on the arXiv preprint server. The paper has been accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters.
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1 month ago
Current Event mariogi
UK Couples Are Having Less Sex, Revealing a Deeper, "Disquieting Trend"
In bedrooms all over England, things have changed since 2001. According to analysis released Tuesday in the BMJ, couples in the UK just aren’t getting it on like they used to in the early 2000s. This represents a dearth in sexual activity that scientists say is just as “interesting” as it is “unexplained.”
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1 month ago
Current Event mariogi
Chinese Ivory Queen has been sentenced to 15 years in a Tanzanian prison
Tanzania has charged a Chinese businesswoman for leading the country’s most notorious ivory poaching ring. Yang Fenglan was sentenced to 15 years in prison for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 elephants worth millions of dollars over several years to Asia. Two Tanzanian men were also found guilty of involvement in the ring. The verdict ended years of prosecution and dealt a major blow against elephant poaching and ivory smuggling operations in the country, especially given the high profile...
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1 month ago
Current Event mariogi
Microsoft Solitaire inducted into World Video Game Hall of Fame
It joins Doom, Tetris, Pokémon, and The Legend of Zelda
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1 month ago
Current Event mariogi
Fans Have Decided That ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 8 “Sucks”
Upsetting things that have happened on Game of Thrones season 8: Jon Snow rejected Ghost without so much as giving him a pat on the head. Jaime left Brienne after sleeping with her, completely abandoning his redemption arc in the process. Another dragon was killed. Bran Stark keeps claiming he can see everything and then not even bothering to warg over to King’s Landing and get details about Cersei’s plan. Oh, and the Battle of Winterfell was so dark that half the viewers couldn’t even see it.