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Sure sign of the apocalypse: Duke Nukem Forever is complete

It's been the butt of geek humor for more than a decade, considered the ultimate example of vaporware and game-industry excess. Nevertheless, the seemingly impossible has happened: Duke Nukem Forever...

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Saturday Night Fever was inspired 35 years ago, with a lie

Almost from the moment it was released in 1977, John Badham’s film Saturday Night Fever began molding popular culture and music. Sure, disco had been around for some time before John Travolta strutted...

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MTV turns 30, doesn’t look a day over 29

The letters MTV stand for Music Television, and while there’s not that much music on MTV anymore, that was hardly the case when the cable network launched 30 years ago today. MTV changed the music...

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Former UT star Kevin Durant catches fire at legendary Rucker Park

Kevin Durant visited a legendary playground basketball court on Monday. And became part of its legend. The former Texas star scored 66 points in an Entertainers Basketball Classic game on Monday at...

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The machine that changed the world – the IBM PC – turns 30 this week

IBM may have been out of the personal computing business for some time, but 30 years ago it kicked off a revolution by bringing small, affordable computers to the masses. Yeah, there were other PCs...

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Facebook’s algorithms, page changes decide what’s news to you

On the Web, news is not just what’s important in your town, state, nation or the whole world, but it’s also what’s important to you, personally. Facebook understands this as well as anyone. This week,...

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Apple’s Find My Friends app may already have uncovered a cheating spouse

There are actually a lot of ways to indulge your paranoia thanks to smartphones.

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Video appears to show Gadhafi being sodomized after capture

Thanks to an abundance of cell phones and videocameras, there’s no shortage of images of the capture and death of Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. But now a particularly gruesome one has surfaced that...

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AIM’s ‘running man’ icon comes to a stop

For years, AOL has used a the cartoon figure of a yellow, running man as a brand mark. The symbol graced the millions of floppy disks and then CDs that the company mailed out in its heyday, and in 2009...

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Search all of TV news since 2009 with the Internet Archive

Since 1996, the Internet Archive – also known as the Wayback Machine – has been capturing snapshots of sites on the Web, trying to build a digital record of the Net. It can be remarkably handy, and...

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Restaurants to patrons: No photos, please!

The ubiquity of smartphones with decent cameras, in combination with social networks used to share life’s better moments, means pictures are often being snapped in situations where doing so was...

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Are you a geek in love? Do these for your darling.

When in comes to technological savvy, most relationships are lopsided. Usually, half of a couple is more adept with all things digital. Sure, there are plenty of dual-geek pairs, but my instincts and...

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Content pirates, beware: ‘Six strikes’ plan launching

Five major Internet service providers, striking a deal with the music and movie industries, today will launch a  program in which they’ll first warn, and then penalize, suspected copyright infringers....

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Got app-crazy kids? Apple settlement may get you $5 or more

In-app purchases – the ability to pay for additional features or virtual goods within a program – are convenient for users and lucrative for developers. But until Apple made a change to the way in-app...

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How do you unplug?

Today is the National Day of Unplugging, according to a group that calls itself the Sabbath Manifesto, which has a website for getting the word out about getting away from technology for a day....

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