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This month’s major Nintendo Direct video presentation included a reveal of another New Super Mario Bros. game—a Switch port of its last Wii U installment—with one curious twist. It includes a few new playable characters, and one of those, Toadette, can don a crown power-up and turn into a Toadette-Peach hybrid dubbed Peachette. Fans didn’t take […]
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Enlarge (credit: Boston Globe / Getty Images News) Shiva Ayyadurai, the Massachusetts man who for years has made a widely-disputed claim that he invented e-mail, has formally declared his intention to run as a candidate for the United States Senate in 2018. The Federal Elections Commission only recently published Ayyadurai’s statement of candidacy online. It has […]
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Mark Lopez/Argonne National Laboratory A group of researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory have developed a sponge that will collect oil from bodies of water, which could improve how harbors and ports are cleaned, as well as how oil spills are managed. The Oleo Sponge is made of a polyurethane foam whose interior surfaces are […]
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We get it Samsung, it’s hard playing second fiddle to Apple. You owe them a billion dollars from a four-year-old patent lawsuit, because the Samsung Galaxy was a lot like the iPhone. Another time you got a smartwatch to market, and then Apple descended from the clouds of Cupertino to declare to the world that […]
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In one of the wildest IP claims of the century, Florida-based Thomas S Ross has sued Apple Inc. for $14 billion for ripping off his idea in 1992: an idea that spawned the iPhone. According to Ross, he had filed a patent for an Electronic Reading Device (ERD) in 1992 – a rectangular, handheld gadget […]
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What happens when Daniel Kottke offers Steve Jobs a hit of acid at a Dead show? An excerpt from the new book Heads, by Jesse Jarnow. The post How an Army of Deadheads (And Their LSD) Invented Silicon Valley appeared first on WIRED.
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Never mind the nuclear rumblings , arbitrary executions and incessant famines: North Korea is Best Korea, because North Korea has invented hangover-free booze! Read more…
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HughPickens.com writes: Peter Moore has a fascinating article on BBC about how Admiral Robert FitzRoy, the man who invented the weather forecast in the 1860s faced skepticism and even mockery in his time but whose vision of a public forecasting service, funded by government for the benefit of all, is fundamental to our way of […]
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… in modern technology, what makes the Antikythera Mechanism truly incredible and noteworthy is that it was not only one of the first true “gadgets” in history, but also the earliest ancestor of the modern computer. 4. Cameras