Both come in optional gold trim, but only one is the 18-karat real deal. Read the rest

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Ethopia's despotic regime has become the world's first "turnkey surveillance state," thanks to technology sold to it by western companies, including, it seems, Italy's Hacking Team, whose RCS spyware product is implicated in an attack on exiled, US-based journalists reporting on government corruption. Read the rest

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I've recently become obsessed with Waterlogue, an Iphone-only app that takes photos and transforms them into watercolor-style images. Read the rest

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Jump From Paper sells pop-art backs and knapsacks that look like something that Dick Bruna's Miffy would own. (more…)

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The two gents in this car tried to surreptitiously jettison a huge stash of weed they were hauling in Arizona, but in the end they were captured and charged.

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"I live with thirteen dead cats, A purple dog that wears spats"

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Seventeen posters with quotes from unhinged gasbag Rudy Giuliani.

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Clickhole is best known for ruthlessly satirical articles that take aim at clickbait, so I wasn't sure what to think when I heard that it had posted an adventure game called The Mysterious Shadows Of Skullshadow Island. Read the rest

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If you think text games are mostly just a relic of the pre-graphics age, think again: We're in a renaissance. Read the rest

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Self watering containers super charge my garden. Which works better, however, store bought or DIY?

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David Lynch's mysterious TV classic has inspired a wealth of indie games Read the rest

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A computer security company has developed two kinds of anti face-recognition eyeglasses.

One uses infrared LEDs in the frame to dazzle video cameras. The other uses retro-reflective materials to bounce back a camera's flash.

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Hendrix, $18K; Baez, $10K; CCR, $10k; Janis, $7500; Sha Na Na, $700; the Dead, $2250. Multiply by 6.37 for inflation adjustment. (Thanks, Spooky!)

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On my first trip to a comic shop as a complete novice, I asked where a person should start if they were completely new to the world of comics and graphic novels. After a quick crash course, the girl behind the counter handed me a book: Understanding Comics. Read the rest

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Hey folks! I'm Clive Thompson, and I'm a journalist who writes about the impact of technology and science on everyday life.

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Ben Krasnow is the modern Way Things Work. In this video, he shows how Digital Light Processing projectors work. Read the rest

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I'm headed to San Francisco and expect to see watches priced, features explained, and a nigh-legendary new MacBook. Read the rest

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More perfect for being unfinished, The Last Guardian is a a yearning soul-whisper for its sentimental fans, the lost game of a microgeneration. Read the rest

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Billy X. Curmano, from Winona, Minnesota, plans to spend 24 hours on a bed of nails (and a pillow of tacks) later in March.

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