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Watch the trailer for Battlefield 1, EA’s new World War I-era shooter

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Can Twitter's infinite monkeys write the complete works of Shakespeare?

By James Vincent 16

Amazon is leasing more Boeing cargo planes to expand its shipping network

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Supposed Bitcoin founder says 'goodbye' after presenting fake evidence

Russell Brandom May 5, 2016 10:53 am05.05.2016 29

Craig Steven Wright, the man claiming to be mysterious Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto, is abruptly withdrawing from public life. Wright posted today that he would offer no more evidence to prove his...

"I believed that I could do this...I cannot" Craig Steven Wright, supposed Bitcoin founder

You can now tinker with IBM's quantum computer over the web

James Vincent May 4, 2016 05:23 am05.04.2016

IBM has opened up its quantum computing research to the web, launching an online simulator that lets anyone run quantum experiments on the company's hardware. The machine in question isn't recognizable as...

try loading up google, i dare you

Nearly 80 percent of Reddit threads with more than a thousand comments mention Hitler

James Vincent May 5, 2016 05:46 am05.05.2016 35

Just as the second law of thermodynamics means that the universe trends toward disorder, so Godwin's law dictates that online discussions must trend toward Hitler.

This has been a common enough axiom on...

godwin's law in action

Opera brings native ad blocking to its desktop and mobile browsers

James Vincent May 4, 2016 04:37 am05.04.2016 9

Earlier this year, Opera introduced built-in ad blocking for the developer version of its browser. Now, it's making the same feature available in its regular software for both desktop and mobile devices.

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One of Japan's scariest ghosts has an Instagram account

Rich McCormick May 3, 2016 11:34 pm05.03.2016 6

Kayako is the white-faced, wide-eyed antagonist of classic Japanese horror movie Ju-on (The Grudge), a malevolent spirit of a murdered woman who kills everyone who steps into her house. She is also — a...

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Ellen Pao launches advocacy group to improve diversity in the tech industry

Nick Statt May 3, 2016 02:04 pm05.03.2016

Ellen Pao, a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist, today announced the launch of Project Include, an advocacy group aimed at improving diversity in the technology industry. The group was started by Pao...

Project Include brings together big names in tech

Amazon's new Prime Now site offers same-day deliveries on web as well as mobile

Rich McCormick May 2, 2016 11:41 pm05.02.2016 7

Amazon has launched a new dedicated site for its Prime Now same-day delivery service. Primenow.com allows Prime subscribers to order items for one- or two-hour delivery on their web browsers — providing...

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It's now illegal to Airbnb your entire apartment in Berlin

Amar Toor May 2, 2016 06:11 am05.02.2016

As of this month, Berliners renting out their full apartments on Airbnb can face a fine of up to €100,000 ($115,000), under a new law aimed at curbing a rise in housing prices. The law, called Z...

Law aims to keep housing affordable

Craig Wright claims he is the enigmatic Bitcoin inventor

Vlad Savov May 2, 2016 03:41 am05.02.2016 20

Craig Wright, the man already suspected of being the inventor of Bitcoin, has today come out and publicly claimed that he is indeed responsible for the cryptocurrency. The BBC reports that Wright "has...

Satoshi Nakamoto = Craig Wright?

The CIA is tweeting the 2011 bin Laden raid in 'real time'

Lizzie Plaugic May 1, 2016 02:35 pm05.01.2016

The official CIA Twitter account is a strange place, filled with ICYMI's from decades ago, facts about invisible ink, and images of counterfeit Nazi paraphernalia. The agency will often tweet about...

#UBLRaid

Anything is a bath bomb if you throw it in a bath

Lizzie Plaugic May 1, 2016 11:13 am05.01.2016

If you've been on the internet recently, you've probably come across the Lush Bath Bomb meme. It's the one where people throw random objects into a tub and say, "I LOVE my Lush Bath Bomb!!" even though the...

Get your memes wet

Justin Timberlake reminds us of the inevitable death of all things

Russell Brandom April 29, 2016 04:11 pm04.29.2016 8

Once, there was a meme.

At the end of every April, clever people on Tumblr and Twitter would post images from N’Sync’s "It’s Gonna Be Me" video, marked with the caption "It’s Gonna Be May." In fact, the...

It's gonna be May
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