Game Battle: GeoGuessr
A Google Maps-based game that makes you guess a location just based on a Street View image. What’s your high score?
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Google Drive Is Down
Google users across the internet are experiencing outages on desktop. The outage appears to be limited to the desktop. Update: It’s fixed.
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What Does It Mean To “Like” Your Own Facebook Status?
Depends: Are you terrible? Also: post-date Twitter rules, and untagging exes.
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8 YouTube Channels You Might Actually Pay To Watch
YouTube recently announced subscription-based channels, and you probably won’t want to pay for most of them. But for a channel dedicated to ’90s cartoons, or for The Rap Battle Network, you just might.
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Why The FBI Will Love Google Glass
As we enter the era of wearable computing, government requests for user data are at an all-time high.
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45 Minutes With The First PlayStation 4 Game
Watch Dogs, Ubisoft’s William Gibson vision of digital life.
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Mesmerising Colour Footage Of London In 1927
Shot by British film pioneer Claude Frisse-Greene. It’s worth remembering that the BBC didn’t begin colour broadcasts for another forty years.
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The Worst Graph Search On Facebook
Who works at Facebook and is trying to bone their buddies?
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Everything You Need To Know About Dating In Six Seconds
The experts at HowAboutWe have written a book, and now they’re Vine-ing the whole thing.
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Printer Capable Of 3D Ultrasounds Is Super Cool, Super Creepy
A Japanese company named Pioneer has developed a printer capable of making wallet-sized 3D printouts from ultrasounds.
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How Humans Have Changed The Earth In The Last 30 Years
Google has a new site that lets you see timelapse satellite images from the early 80s to now. Here are a few things we’ve have changed on our planet’s surface.
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23 Unforgettable Things About Playing “The Sims”
It’s 2001 and you’re sitting at your desktop computer for the fifth consecutive hour. Yes, The Sims 4 is coming out in 2014, but the original game is actually the most nostalgic part of your youth.
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The Biggest Hacks Of This Year Weren’t Hacks — They Were Tricks
The modern hack isn’t a “hack” at all: It’s a lie, another lie, and some simple web design.
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Vine Has Been Taken Over By Teens
The Teens Have Spoken. And they like Vine.
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Tech Refugee John McAfee Answers 9 Questions
The Slashdot community tracked down notorious software legend and international man on the run John McAfee and asked him WTF was going on. Pictured here in his latest disguise.
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Chinese Netizens Appeal To "Chairman Obama"
Their petitions to White House: Take official stance on tofu, extradite a student, liberate Hong Kong — and China. “If we vote, will we be asked to drink ‘coffee’?”
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Why Glassholes Always Win
The Law of Distraction has held true for the last 40 years of tech: The more distracting a gadget is, the more successful it will be.
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Life Behind The Wheel In The New Rideshare Economy
In streets across the country, taxis, rideshare companies, and regulators are locked in a fight to the death. To sort out the confusion and controversy, I got behind the wheel.
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7 Things You Can Never Do In New York That You Can Easily Do In Animal Crossing: New Leaf
It turns out village life has its perks.
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What Happens When You Leave Your Phone Number On The Internet?
Textastrophe will tell you.
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The Internet Is Off In Syria
Real-time traffic reports show internet traffic has virtually disappeared throughout the country.
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New iPhone App Finds Nearest Pizza, Understands Life
Marry me, Pizza Compass.
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Why Two-Factor Authentication Won’t Stop The Hacking Crisis
Important? Yes. But not foolproof. Hackers find their way through the internet’s next great safeguard.
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You Will Never Look At An N64 Controller The Same Way Again
And neither will your partner.
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MASH But With Vines
Just close your eyes and click on the Vine and wherever it stops is what’s going to happen to you. Mansion, apartment, shack or house?
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40 Most Controversial/Creative PlayStation Ads
Sony pushed the boundaries. Sometimes, a bit too far.
. Lara Christ ( Catholics went ballistic, of course)
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Let’s Stop Calling Games “IP”
They’re better than that. We hope.
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Will People Pay To Watch YouTube?
YouTube may be announcing paid subscription channels as early as this week — but will viewers pony up?
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An Ode To Halfcat
Meet Halfcat, the first animal species native to Google Street View. Or a weird Photoshop? Either way:
