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Nintendo Registers Web Domain for Super Mario 4

I’ve had a love-hate relationship with anything Super Mario related for as long as the game has been around. I spent more hours than I care to recall sitting around playing Super Mario Bros.… growing up with my friends. I hated the game, because I could never get that damned

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April 13th, 2012 by: Shane McGlaun

PS Vita Multitasking Limitation: No Web Browsing During Games

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We have some new PS Vita news for you today if you are among those who have been salivating over the portable console. When the new PS Vita launches, you will not be able to play games and browse the Internet at the same time. This is a bit strange…

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December 5th, 2011 by: Conner Flynn

Feedling Feed Reader Puts Feeds on Your Table, Um, Desktop

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Web addicts rejoice: you can now view your feeds right on your desktop. Or should I say right over your desktop. Open source program Feedling lets Windows users pin headlines over their wallpaper. The location, font, colors and update interval of the feeds can be customized.…

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April 28th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Youtube’S First Video: Historic, but Meh

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The first YouTube video was uploaded five years ago – April 23, 2005 to be exact. The site has gone a long way since then, being sold to Google for $1.6 billion, then wasting countless hours of our lives.

That’s Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube. Behind him…

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April 26th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Web Browsers Illustrated

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Caldwell Tanner is a cartoonist for College Humor and he made this great little cartoon comparing the different browsers to their equivalent modes of transportation…

I found this hilarious, especially when I saw what he chose to represent Firefox. I use Firefox as my main browser, but it’s true that…

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March 30th, 2010 by: Range

Google Executives Convicted of Privacy Violations in Italy

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The Observer reports that today, in Italy, 3 Google executives were convicted of privacy violations and charged with three to six months of suspended sentence. The case revolved around a video that was uploaded on YouTube in 2006, shortly after Google acquired the service. The video showed “an autistic student …

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February 24th, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

New Year’S Resolution Generator Reminds Us We’Re Not Perfect

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On one hand the New Year’s Resolution Generator is an absurd piece of code; surely you know what you need to change or work on or do to improve your… life. The person who can’t come up with a new year’s resolution (whether or not one sees the point of

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January 1st, 2010 by: Lambert Varias

Art Lebedev’S Fleksimus Camera

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Art Lebedev’s latest concept design is a digital camera with a flexible tube, allowing you to take pictures around corners.

The tube of the Fleksimus is flexible and is fitted with a lens on one end, while the other goes into a compact viewfinder or a 3-inch color display. Art…

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December 23rd, 2009 by: Range

Blump It Tablet Interface Tries to Outdo Joojoo

With all the buzz about tablet PCs like the soon-to-be-maybe-released CrunchPad JooJoo and sure-to-be-possible-someday Apple tablet, it was only a matter of time before the market will fill up with a variety of tablets and interfaces vying for a piece of pie in the great tablet landgrab of 2010. The…

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December 19th, 2009 by: Technabob

The Crunchpad Project is Dead… or is It?

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Unless something awesome happens, this will be our first and last post about the CrunchPad, TechCrunch head Michael Arrington’s nearly-there web tablet. Yesterday, Arrington announced on TechCrunch that the project “self destructed over nothing more than greed, jealousy and miscommunication.”… Goddammit. Some things are just too good to be true.

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December 1st, 2009 by: Lambert Varias

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