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10 years ago+27 27 0Microsoft Said To Be Considering A Free Version Of Windows 8.1
Microsoft is looking at a cost conscious crisis, relative to both mobile and desktop hardware, and on the heels of the news that it might be reducing its Windows Phone software license fee, there’s new evidence that it’s looking at pursuing the same ...
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10 years ago+13 13 0 x 1Google will start teaching people how to build their own smartphone parts this April
Google announced today that it will host the first Ara Developers’ Conference this April. The series of three conferences will show developers what they will be able to do with the company's modular phone project. This is the first word about Pr ...
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10 years ago+43 43 0Harold Ramis Dead - 'Ghostbusters' Legend Dies at 69
According to his family, the writer-director passed away early this morning at his Chicago home from complications stemming from autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare disease involving the swelling of blood vessels. He was surrounded by his fami ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0For Facebook, It’s Users First and Profits Later
Technology companies have always been paranoid about missing the next big thing, be it email, e-commerce or social media. Yet today, with Google, Facebook and others all fighting for the same customers and wallets, the competition has never been more ...
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10 years ago+27 28 1BioShock Studio Irrational Games Is Shutting Down
Irrational Games, the studio that makes BioShock, is shutting down. BioShock creator Ken Levine said today that he plans to move on to smaller, narrative-heavy games that will be released digitally.
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10 years ago+22 22 0What Google really means when it calls Android 'open'
Google loves to woo app makers to Android by whispering the sweet sounds of 'openness' and 'open source' in their ears. While that's not entirely accurate, they heed the call for good reasons. Read this article by Seth Rosenb ...
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10 years ago+15 16 1Twitter Testing Major Profile Redesign That Looks a Lot Like Facebook
Twitter is testing a major redesign that's very reminiscent of Facebook and Google+. Mashable assistant features editor Matt Petronzio spotted on Tuesday a huge update to his Twitter profile page, with the main picture and bio scaled to the left ...
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10 years ago+15 15 0Why Smoking Pot Makes You So Hungry
If you've ever smoked weed, chances are you've also taken that regrettable trip to 7 Eleven and stocked up on cheese puffs, microwave burritos, and, well, everything else edible. Then, when you wake up surrounded in wrappers, you wonder: WH ...
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10 years ago+31 31 0 x 1The Day We Fight Back: can an internet protest stop the NSA?
On January 18th, 2012, the world’s free encyclopedia went dark. "Imagine a world without free knowledge," said a black splash page, warning users of a bill that could "fatally damage the free and open internet" and urging them to ...
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10 years ago+17 17 0Indie smash hit 'Flappy Bird' racks up $50K per day in ad revenue
The enigmatic and oppressively difficult mobile game Flappy Bird has turned into quite the cash cow for Vietnamese developer Dong Nguyen. In an interview with The Verge, Nguyen revealed that the game, which has been sitting atop the App Store and Goo ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0What can we actually learn from the UK's first marijuana 'overdose'?
Gemma Moss recently became the first woman in Britain "ruled to have been poisoned to death by smoking cannabis," her sudden death referred to by tabloids as "the tragic proof that cannabis can kill." But Moss's story, while ...
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10 years ago+18 18 0The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Facebook
Political discussions on Facebook are, in fact, undermining both people’s relationships and use of the website. A new study from researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found that users who try to talk about politics on Facebook are often ...
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10 years ago+28 28 0 x 2How to stop giving a F@$% what people think.
Everyday from the moment we wake up, we live our lives caring what other people think of us. We accept the status quo for what it is because everyone around us does. We tip toe our way through life by doing things in order to please others, not becau ...
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10 years ago+19 19 0Everyone has bizarre secret fears. Here they are in comic form
Sometimes while the mind is ticking away, it comes up with absurd terrors that are unlikely or even impossible. But that doesn't make them any less frightening. Deep Dark Fears pulls back the curtains on the strange personal fears we think no on ...
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10 years ago+12 12 0The Ugly Side of Pretty
Ten years ago, I was almost 60 pounds more than I am now. I had cut my hair short, added a few highlights and really had this frumpy vibe going on. I had two kids at the time, ages 6 and 2. I was trying to be taken seriously as a good mommy and had l ...
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10 years ago+13 13 0My Dad Will Never Stop Smoking Pot
My entire life, my dad has smoked pot. It's so synonymous with him that I've made a joke out of it. “What does your dad do?” comes that age old question. “He's a pot-smoking hippie” is the easiest answer. And he is. Several times a day ...
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10 years ago+14 14 0 x 1Studies Confirm: Kids Ruin Your Life
The greatest virtue of science is that it uses irrefutable facts, data, and evidence to force us to accept the harsh truths that we, flawed humanity, may wish to ignore. Like the fact that children are--scientifically speaking--small bundles of miser ...
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10 years ago+11 11 0N.S.A. Devises Radio Pathway Into Computers
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
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10 years ago+15 15 0Federal Court Strikes Down Net Neutrality Rules, Sides with Big Telecom
A U.S. Appeals Court just invalidated the FCC's net neutrality rules that would've made it illegal for telecom companies to favor certain types of traffic over others. The court ruled that the commission lacked the authority to implement an ...
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10 years ago+17 17 0NSA Inside
This Is the Sticker That Should Really Be on Your New Computer