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These GIFs of Video Game Backgrounds Are Mesmerizing Works of Art
May 23, 5:00AM
Did you ever realize how silly 2D video game backgrounds are? Especially those in fighting games like in Street Fighter 2 or Samurai Showdown. Random people watching you fight with random objects like planes and dogs around them in random places of the world. Let's fight in an aquarium! Or an airport hangar! Or a gym filled with beefcakes!
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These Brand New AMD Processors Could Be Your Next Laptop's Brain
May 23, 4:01AM
Intel's new 4th-gen chips may be on the horizon, but AMD is taking the opportunity to strike first and get out their with its new family of third-generation A-series processors ahead of time. Enter the "Temash," "Kabini," and "Richland," processors that will make themselves at home in upcoming tablets, midrange notebooks, and powerhouse ultrathins soon.
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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Dumbass (NSFW)
May 23, 4:00AM
Ai Weiwei is one of China's preeminent contemporary artists, having won numerous worldwide accolades for his architectural feats (such as that awesome Beijing National Stadium from the 2008 Olympics). Problem is, Ai isn't what you'd call a "company man," riling Chinese authorities for years with his brand of political activism that inbcluded producing documentaries on political dissidents and subjects considered sensitive by the party. This ultimately resulted in his 81-day detention in 2011 on flimsy tax evasion charges.
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Google Thinks Gayest and Worst Mean the Same Thing
May 23, 3:03AM
When you search for something on Google, Google knows what you're looking for even if you're not saying it exactly. Google search is smart like that. Like if you search for 'hilarious videos', Google will also show you results for 'funny videos' too (words that Google equates as synonyms pop up in bold in Google search results). Which is why it's troubling that Google thinks 'gayest' and 'worst' mean the same thing.
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Behind the Scenes of How Man Works with Machine in Pacific Rim
May 23, 1:42AM
The monstrously giant mechs of Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim are controlled by two different people at the same time. The two pilots interact with the computer in Drift Space to control the giant mech and this featurette explains a little about how that works.
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Haha, Microsoft Uses Siri to Make Fun of the iPad in a Commercial
May 23, 12:55AM
Microsoft, which has been trying to force Windows Phone into the Android and iPhone conversation in its recent commercials, is going head on against Apple in its latest spot. That's not surprising (as Samsung loves to pick at Cupertino all the time), but what's hilarious is that Microsoft is using Apple's own Siri to do the ribbing in the commercial. You can hear Siri poke fun of the iPad when compared to the Surface in the ad. It's pretty good (for a commercial). [Windows Video]
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How to Make Your Own DIY Etch A Sketch
May 23, 12:00AM
It's human nature to immediately pick up and play with an Etch A Sketch whenever you see one. It's in the Hall of Fame of toys (does that exist?) and almost everyone has struggled making anything more than squiggly lines with its knobs. But did you know that you can actually make an Etch A Sketch toy at home? Yeah.
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Xbox One: All the Nerdy Details You Don't Know Yet
May 22, 10:37PM
You saw the news yesterday. The Xbox One was everywhere, and everyone talked a lot about it. But when a new console hits, often we'll latch onto the biggest, shiniest new baubles. Now though, having slept on it, let's dig into the real nerd porn. It's worth a look.
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Drops First Aid: Knowledge You Need to Save a Life Right in Your Pocket
May 22, 10:00PM
Of all the things you never leave home without, your phone is usually somewhere near the top of that list, ready to whip out at a moments notice. You keep all your most vital information on it: birthdays, important meetings, reminders, beloved images, what have you—but all of this is worthless without the people behind each of these things. And Drops First Aid for iOS wants to make sure that your phone helps you keep them around too—or strangers, for that matter.
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Here's the Document that Started Apple's Hidden Irish Tax Scheme
May 22, 9:37PM
The mega-valuable company that makes your laptop is under congressional scrutiny this week for offshore tax-dodging. It all started in 1980, when Apple's California execs moved their operation to Ireland with a fake company with the codename "Waldwill Limited."
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Jezebel This Week in Tabloids: Look Inside Amanda Bynes' Weird-Ass 'Drug Den' | io9 9 Reasons Green
May 22, 9:29PM
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A Steeping Scooping Tea Strainer That Cuts Down On Dirty Dishes
May 22, 9:00PM
If your kitchen lacks a dishwasher, you'll do everything you can to reduce the amount of dishes you dirty. From eating directly off the counter, to drinking everything from the container, to making tea with this ingenious $21 Loop strainer that doubles as a scoop so you don't need to dirty a spoon.
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DARPA's Web Warrior Support System Helps Soldiers Hoist Heavy Loads
May 22, 8:45PM
It's not as exciting as seeing Big Dog or Petman in action, but infantry in the US Army should be happy now that DARPA's begun testing its Warrior Web support system. One day robotic exoskeletons will allow humans to easily lift and carry hundreds of pounds, but for the immediate future DARPA has set its sights on a more immediately achievable goal with what could be described as the future of supportive undergarments.
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Good, Bad, and Evil Things: Cataloging Crimes Against Taste
May 22, 8:36PM
The nebulous territory of "good" and "bad" taste have always confused me. Who are you to tell me what completely unaffordable couch I should or shouldn't buy, well-meaning Architectural Digest editor? Well, back in 1909, a German art historian named Gustav E. Pazaurek devised a system to help us all out. Let's call it a bad-design-o-meter.
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Forget 3D-Printed Guns; Here Are Some 3D-Printed Shotgun Slugs
May 22, 7:50PM
The fact that we can 3D-print guns, each scarier than the last, is unsettling enough. But why would we stop at weapon itself? Why not 3D-printed ammo? Like, say, these devastating shotgun slugs, fresh from a Solidoodle 3 printer.
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How We Imagined the Internet Before the Internet Even Existed
May 22, 7:34PM
In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. Sounds obvious today. But in 1968, a full year before ARPANET made its first connection? It was downright clairvoyant.
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Twitter Finally Has Two-Factor Authentication: Here's How to Get It
May 22, 7:22PM
It's about damn time. After an endless, occasionally entertaining—but mostly disconcerting—string of high-profile hacks, Twitter has finally introduced two-factor authentication to verify that yes, it is, in fact, you logging in.
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The Newest iPod Nano Is Your Deal of the Day
May 22, 7:00PM
If you've been looking for a good, tiny MP3 player, the latest and greatest iPod Nano is currently $90 over at Walmart.
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A Peek at the Secret Lab Where Google Tries to Invent the Future
May 22, 6:55PM
Google's got its hands in a lot of cooke jars. It's juggling Android, and ChromeOS, and maps, and Gmail, and Glass, and self-driving cars. But the real, secret goods are (presumably) hidden deep inside the secret "Google [x]" lab, and Bloomberg got an awful close—but not quite uncensored—peek.
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5 Grisly Decades of Workplace Safety Posters
May 22, 6:00PM
Worker compensation is a fairly new thing, dating only back to the Labor Movement in the early 1900s. Before that, injuries on the job were usually treated with either indifference or cheap payoff—after all, the average factory worker was making mere cents a day, so half a year's pay was chump change for large companies.
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Your Xbox One Is Going to Control Your Entire Home Someday
May 22, 5:42PM
Yesterday's Xbox One premier was a blazing hailstorm of announcements, each one more tantalizing than the next. And while all the new bells and whistles were exciting in and of themselves, the real endgoal, as FastCo. Design uncovered, probably won't be hitting us for another few years: a totally connected, totally integrated home control portal.
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Blow Through Nine Months of Mars Roving Photos in Just One MInute
May 22, 5:27PM
Since it touched down in August, Curiosity has been taking tons of pictures. We've already seen some of the best shots, but there's hundreds more where that came from. Fortunately, you can breeze through the whole nine months' collection in just a minute.
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Facebook's New Artist In Residence Builds Wood Domes On Wheels & Water
May 22, 5:05PM
When the San Francisco-based artist (and avid surfer) Jay Nelson wanted a car he could sleep in for his frequent trips to the coast, he didn't need an RV—just a new way of looking at a sedan. Nelson had acquired a rusting 1986 Honda Civic, and with the addition some plywood, fiberglass, and a set of porthole windows, he built himself a barn-style bedroom over the trunk. If Buckminster Fuller had been a beach bum, he might have arrived at a motor-pod like this. Sleeping in cars never looked so good!
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The Xbox One's Secret Killer Feature: Getting You in Shape
May 22, 5:00PM
Yes, the new Xbox One is highly covetable for many reasons. But once you get past the games and the TV integration and the rumbling controllers, you finally land on what might be its most useful purpose: The world's most sophisticated workout gadget.
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Drive Awake iOS App Can Tell When You're Drowsy, Directs You to Coffee
May 22, 4:48PM
Is there anything wrong with a chain of coffee shops trying to drum up a little extra business while they're ensuring drowsy drivers don't end up swerving off the road? Thailand-base Cafe Amazon certainly hopes not. Working with BBDO Proximity, the chain created an iPhone app that monitors drivers for signs of sleepiness, and when it catches them nodding off, it directs them to the closest Cafe Amazon store for a hit of caffeine.
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