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Oct 20, 2012
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The actual game play goes by faster than you can remember it happening. Clues come up an average of one every 12 seconds. If played well, you enter a sort of fugue state in which the board and Alex’s voice and the signaling button in your hand are all that you hear, see, and feel.What it’s like to be on Jeopardy - Boing Boing
Oct 20, 2012
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Oct 20, 2012
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The Vergecast 051 - October 18th, 2012
It’s time to get rid of all distractions — it’s time to Vergecast. Is it too much to ask to have your undivided attention? Please put your phone and tablet away. Unless, of course, you are using your device to watch or listen to The Vergecast. In that case, we grant you an exception, but please don’t watch video and text at the same time. We all know that’s impossible anyway.
Oct 20, 2012
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It’s like a weird corollary of how it’s also great to lose in sports games, because it feels “right” somehow. Sometimes there’s just too much losing in the real thing, and you need some virtual wins.inininoutoutout: The Consolations of Tecmo
Oct 19, 2012
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Oct 19, 2012
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Exclusive: 32GB Nexus 7 spotted, purchased at Staples
Throughout the course of the day, we’ve seen a stack of evidence hinting that the 32GB Nexus 7 is real, and now we know it for sure. An intrepid tipster just sent us this photo showing his receipt and the box for this still-unannounced update to Google’s flagship tablet device, which is selling for the same $249.00 price as the 16GB variant. Our tipster called his local Staples in Kissimmee, FL, which told him that three 32GB Nexus 7 tablets were in stock — he was then able to walk in, return his 8GB model and pay the difference to get the upgraded device.
Oct 19, 2012
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TSA switching to faster, less-invasive X-ray body scanners in larger airports
The TSA has started removing the controversial X-ray body scanners, known as backscatters, from larger airports in the United States in exchange for faster millimeter-wave scanners.
Oct 19, 2012
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How the non-existent Sony Nexus X fooled the tech world
We’ve just witnessed what’s arguably the cutting edge of smartphone hoaxes this week. Remember the Sony Nexus X? It’s a fake, impressive 3D render combined with superb attention to detail. It worked so well that it managed to throw off intelligent readers and publications alike. Now the person behind it all has decided to publish a rundown of how he pulled it off, and why.
Oct 19, 2012
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I am 33. I’m afraid of this data. I can go through my Drobo and RAID to find pieces of my life I’d like to forget. Parts of it that were sad, depressing, anxiety inducing and scary. I can also find happiness, joy and triumph. I can both wallow and bask in files and photos. And I always leave the confines of the drive feeling nostalgic and wary.On Permanence | Inside the Moral Kiosk by Ethan Kaplan
Oct 19, 2012
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Behind the mask: being yourself as someone else at New York Comic Con
It was a privilege to work with my amazing colleagues at The Verge on this feature about the people who make New York Comic Con (and cons in general) culturally valuable and generally awesome places. Take a look.
Bonus: our video time likes horse masks.
Oct 19, 2012
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Well, on the 16th — the same day Microsoft announced Surface RT pricing, availability, and pre-orders — Apple sent out an invitation to an iPad mini event on Oct. 23, just days before Microsoft’s big show in New York. On Wednesday, Google announced its own Android event on Oct. 29, which will take place just three hours before Microsoft’s launch in San Francisco, and a day before Build in Redmond. Oh, and can you guess when Apple — now the world’s biggest company — announces its first earnings post-iPhone 5? Oct. 24.Mat Honan elucidates Why Windows Just Can’t Win, and why David just can’t sleep for a couple weeks. (via davidpierce)
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Oct 19, 2012
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