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21 Signs We Should Give Up On Robots
Well, we tried.
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The Shady Facebook Plugin That Made $250,000 In Two Weeks
Dru Mundorff is building an empire in gray-market ad-replacers, and the courts can't touch him.
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The Future Of Facebook Was Born In 1932
Facebook talks about the "Social Graph" all the time, like it's brand a new thing. It's not. The social graph is 80 years old. And it's got a few clues about where Facebook might be headed.
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So Who Actually Got Rich Off Of Facebook Today?
As you may have heard, a bunch of people just acquired Scrooge-McDuck quantities of cash thanks to this morning's Facebook IPO. So exactly who is walking around with an extra billion dollars in their bank account? Here's a visual breakdown of everyone who sold their shares today, and how much they made.
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8 Catastrophic Tech IPOs (In GIF Form)
Tech IPOs aren't all champagne and dump trucks full of cash. Before you jump at Facebook's upcoming offering (set to arrive tomorrow), you might be wise to consider these past catastrophic, scandalous and downright embarrassing tech IPOs as cautionary tales. There were plenty to choose from.
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Why Draw Something Is Full Of Pictures Of Hitler
They've lost 40% of their users in the last two months, but there's finally good news for Draw Something. They've coined their first meme. It involves Hitler.
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6 Facebooks From Before Facebook Was Invented
Unfortunately, it turns out Lincoln didn't invent Facebook — but it wasn't as far-fetched as it seemed. We've dug up six other versions of Facebook from the pre-Zuckerberg era, covering everything from outlaws to high society.
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The Obama Photoshop Rumors That Won't Die
Why are conspiracy theories about the famous Situation Room photo are still circulating? Well, the science — and philosophy — of image verification makes it nearly impossible to stamp them out.
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The Wi-Fi Fast Food Challenge
Fast food places can be relied on for two things: high calorie counts and, now, free Wi-Fi. Maxim assesses both, with calorie counts and speedtests on chain spots from Burger King to Panera. The best speed to calorie ratio? McDonald's, with 803 calories per Mbps.
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What's The Web Without Words?
What would the web look like without words? A clever java hack, Wordless Web, strips the text from every site on the internet, resulting in a purely visual web — at this point, a lot of empty pages and a few jumbles of images and ads and videos. But I bet it looks better today than it would've five years ago.
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The Facebook Timeline Timeline
It's the iron law of social networks: For every redesign, there is an equal and opposite backlash. To put things in perspective, we've made a timeline of the site's most memorable uprisings. As an actual Facebook Timeline.
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Where The Old Facebook Still Lives
It's everything you remember from Facebook circa 2006. The only catch is, it's in Russia.
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The History Of "Upgrade"
Everything's getting upgraded constantly — our phones, our clothes, our lives — and it seems like we never have and never will stop. But when did we start "upgrading"?
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You Will Not Get Rich Off The Next Instagram
Why the new crop of crowd-funding sites can't promise you a payday.
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The Long Bromance Between Tech Billionaires And Space Travel
In honor of this morning's SpaceX docking, here are six of Silicon Valley's coolest private space programs. To the moon, Elon!
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How The Internet Turns Everything Into Marketing
The web is more and more a place to hand out business cards instead of a place to experiment and play.
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The Funklet
An interactive guide to some of the best funk beats ever recorded, from "Sex Machine" to "Cissy Strut." It's a godsend to any aspiring drummers or drum programmers.
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