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• HO£IDA¥ GUID€$: How to spend your money on Star Wars day, May the Fourth

  There’s a simple rule in the entertainment world: if it’s popular, merchandise it. And, let’s be honest, what’s more popular than Star Wars? Religion? Not these days, buddy. Let’s put it this way: Passion Of The Christ only made $612 m at the box office, while the latest ...

  • Callum Booth

• Robot does the unthinkable by assembling IKEA furniture in 20 minutes

  IKEA is cheap, stylish, and a superb solution for furnishing an entire dwelling on a budget. It's also the leading cause of divorce in couples who attempt to assemble its furniture at home, according to a poll I just made up for the sake of this joke. Researchers at Nanyang Technological ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Sony commissioned a 50-foot shrine to God of War on the side of a building

  Billboards are so last century... unless you paint them on a six story building and add some really cool tech to bring them to life. If you weren't stoked for the God of War release this Friday, you are now. And while 48 hours is an eternity, you can quell some of your jonesing by ...

  • Bryan Clark

• These free fonts let you write like David Bowie, John Lennon, and other music legends

  Have you ever considered writing in a font that mimics your favorite artist's handwriting? No? Well, now you can anyway. A website creatively named 'Songwriters Fonts' hosts free typefaces modelled after legendary musicians. So far these include the scrawls of Kurt Cobain, David ...

  • Napier Lopez

• Full-sized Elon Musk masks aren't a flame thrower, but they'll do in a pinch

  An Elon Musk probably isn't going to move the needle in the same way as a Boring Co. flamethrower, or -- I hate myself for this -- a Model 3 that actually moves off the production line. But look, it's Friday and in an effort to keep things light heading into the weekend I thought ...

  • Bryan Clark

• These tech ads from back in the day show how far we have (and haven't) come

  A digital artist is compiling old computer ads into a compendium that singlehandedly reminds us how far technology has come in just a few short decades. The ads come from Byte Magazine, which ran from 1975 to 1998. It might be but a distant memory of a bygone age, but back in its ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• LinkedIn is forcing some users to use #hashtags to post updates

  LinkedIn has admitted it is currently running a small test to understand how people use hashtags... so it is forcing its ...

  • Mix

• 'Buy the Dip' is like 'Silicon Valley' for crypto nerds – but funnier

  'Buy the Dip' is a satirical short film that pokes fun at the most ridiculous trends from the world of cryptocurrency and ...

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• These clumsy robots prove AI is far from perfect

  If watching robots fail at simple tasks is wrong, we don't want to be right. It's good to know that, for all the recent advances, ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Watch this AI figure out how to place blocks in Minecraft

  A German researcher recently released a white paper detailing efforts to improve training methods for neural networks using ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Unannounced Tomb Raider sequel leaked through teaser site source code

  Gaming studio Square updated the Tomb Raider website to tease a new announcement, but accidentally gave away the full secret ...

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• Dictionary.com now explains slang like basic bitch, cuck, and fuckboy to normies

  Dictionary.com is trying to keep up with the cool kids: the service has now added definitions for a bunch of slang, including ...

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