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In the world of 'virtual computing,' IT meets 'Inception'
The video game community has a proud history of pushing games to their absolute limits: hacking, modifying, exploiting and building in ways never intended or even imagined by game designers. For some,...
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Why is NBC resurrecting the one show no one cares about?
Remember that time a cult TV show got canceled, and lots of people were very very upset and spent a long time shouting about it on the Internet? And then after years of letter-writing campaigns and...
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Hip-hop's indie raunch queen lives a double life
A rapper called Boyfriend is giving voice to those who want to shout about their vaginas from the mountaintop. The New Orleans emcee recently released the video for “Swanky,” a new anthem for...
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LCD Soundsystem frontman wants to make NYC subways sing
Since LCD Soundsystem played its last show, frontman James Murphy has had three years to soak up New York’s ambiance. Now he wants to improve it in a small but meaningful way. Instead of the series of...
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Daft Punk uploaded its new album to YouTube while you were sleeping
Overnight, the entirety of Random Access Memories, Daft Punk’s latest album, was uploaded to YouTube. The robotic duo’s YouTube account now features every song from the album, with the new audio...
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Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' video sparks outrage in Muslim community
Katy Perry has been on a roll with cultural appropriation lately. After dressing in “geisha drag” at last fall’s American Music Awards and angering members of the Asian community, Perry has apparently...
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Cut Copy wants you to torrent its new single
You know times are tough in the music industry when bands are trying to monetize torrents. For its latest single, “We Are Explorers,” Cut Copy teamed up with BitTorrent, Inc. to release a BitTorrent...
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'Stop Making Indie Films' petition mocks New York Times, Salon
Rightfully appalled by the handwringing from would-be cultural gatekeepers at the New York Times and Salon over a recent deluge of independently produced movies, Kentucker Audley has assembled a...
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This is what happens when you turn blockbusters into mumbly indie films
As promotion for IFC’s Independent Spirit Awards on March 1, host Patton Oswalt is touting an amazing invention: The Indie-izer, a device that magically turns blockbusters into mumblecore films. With...
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We found the only Rick Astley video worse than the Rickroll
No doubt, the three worst songs of the last 30 years are Chumbawamba’s “Tubthumping,” Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” and anything that’s been released by Avicii. It makes sense that someone...
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Shameless self-promoter Russell Crowe won't stop tweeting at the pope
When it comes to attracting audiences, actor Russell Crowe sets his aim pretty high. He wants Pope Francis I to see his latest movie Noah. The film, starring Crowe in the title role, tells the story...
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Paramount Pictures squashed our favorite new Twitter account
It's a sad day indeed for fans of experimental Twitter accounts and homoerotic action thrillers alike: The genius who was screening Top Gun frame by frame via the handle @555uhz has been silenced by a...
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Vine and Twitter are coming to a movie theater near you
The six-second video app Vine has become an experimental platform for comedy, and making “Vine stars” out of certain users. Where does it go from here? This summer, you’ll be seeing more than just...
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Did the 'True Detective' crew just Instagram end-of-season spoilers?
HBO’s densely layered True Detective has brought out the Internet sleuths in all of us, and now a redditor may have cracked the case wide open, albeit by non-traditional means: there’s a trove of...
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The music in your favorite kids' TV show was weirder than you remember
If you’re of a certain age, you likely remembering watching Sesame Street or Pee-Wee’s Playhouse as a kid, but do you remember the music? Philip Glass and Herbie Hancock provided music for Sesame...
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Did 'Grand Theft Auto' rip off this reality star's life?
Karen Gravano, a reality television star and daughter of New York mobster and informant Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, is suing the makers of Grand Theft Auto V for $40 million. Gravano claims her “image...
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It's time to raise the curtain on the Muppets' Instagram
You don't have to try very hard to get me to admit that Instagram is not my favorite thing in the world. However, this promotional collage of Muppet-themed photographs is too cute for even a cynic...
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Here are all this year's Oscar nominees in their earliest acting roles
As the 2014 Oscars approach on Sunday, the Internet will be spending a lot of time dissecting the merits of the nominated films, the sad plight of an Oscar-less Leonardo DiCaprio, and the Academy's...
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Tumblr that restarts 'Back to the Future' Photoshop hoax every day is pure evil
Apart from a GIF out of The Walking Dead presented as an image from an actual MRI scan, the most annoyingly persistent Tumblr hoax concerns Back to the Future trivia. In the middle of the trilogy,...
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From Beyoncé to Coldplay, the art of the surprise release
By dropping her own self-titled record last year with no promotion, an album recorded entirely in secret, Beyoncé didn’t just break the Internet. She broke our ability to release music. On Tuesday,...
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