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Luigi Hates Mario
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Four Lessons Role Playing Games Can Teach You About Fitness
In most people's minds, gamers are the furthest thing from the muscular, toned athletes they aspire to be...possibly because video games are often blamed for breeding a generation of couch potatoes. But In fact, there are many fit gamers out there, and many of them will cite parallels with the RPGs they know and love when talking about how they got fit.
An Important Reminder to Ask Who You Are Talking to When Calling a Call Center
What Makes the New Horror Film It Follows So Damn Good
It Follows is one of the best horror films of the year. It's time you got familiar with the three key players behind it.
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Explaining the “USB 3.1 Gen 1” port in the Retina MacBook
The announcement of the new Retina MacBook has prompted a flurry of attention to the USB Type C spec, a story we’ve been following since the port was just a gleam in the USB-IF’s eye. It’s not the first device to use Type C, but it’s certainly the most noteworthy, and it’s the first laptop that insists on using Type C for everything from power to data to display output.
Apple’s spec page for the new MacBook says that this port supports “USB 3.1 gen 1,” which there hasn’t been much discussion about. We know that the USB Implementers Forum finalized the USB 3.1 spec back in 2013, and that it raises the theoretical bandwidth of the USB bus from USB 3.0’s 5Gbps to 10Gbps. That’s not the version of the USB 3.1 spec that Apple is offering.
“USB 3.1 Gen 1” is USB 3.0
USB 3.0 was a major change to the spec. It introduced something called the “Extensible Host Controller Interface,” or xHCI, a single interface that could work with all extant versions of the USB spec. Supporting USB 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 previously required a mix of different interfaces, but xHCI brought them all together and made it easier to make future additions (hence “extensible”).
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How Facebook Got Even Apple to Back Open Source Hardware
A social-networking company has changed the way internet companies consume the hardware on which they run.
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Name Game
There's nothing wrong with naming your children after video games. Just ask my one girl Lara or my other daughter Batman: Arkham Asylum Game of The Year Edition. They will both agree it's a good idea.See more: Name Game
Goodyear Is Trying to Make an Electricity-Generating Tire
The company is working on a concept for a tire that creates a current just by rolling.
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Powers Turns a Great Comic Into a Lackluster TV Show
Powers, the latest entry in the capes-and-tights genre, is a big leap forward for Sony's PlayStation Network—and, sadly, also a huge misstep.
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Hide Your Home Theater Accessories Behind Your TV with Sugru and Hooks
Game controllers, streaming boxes, 3D glasses, and more—why keep these accessories cluttering your tables when the back of your TV can hold them all?
WIRED Binge-Watching Guide: Misfits
Talynebearit was a great series
Have you ever wondered what would happen if the X-Men were a bunch of British juvenile delinquents whose only interests were getting drunk, shagging, and punching people in the face? Enter Misfits.
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Khaleesi Stops Playing Around in New Game of Thrones Teaser
Didn't catch the new Game of Thrones trailer during today's Apple event? No worries, we got it right here.
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Googlers’ Epic Hack Exploits How Memory Leaks Electricity
Google's hack shows a fundamental flaw in basic computer hardware that could be impossible to fully patch in existing vulnerable computers.
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NASA Probe Finally Arrives at an Icy Alien World
Larry Lebofsky has always been fascinated with Ceres, the biggest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Even the license plate on his 2005 Toyota Matrix reads “1CERES.” In the late 1970s, the planetary scientist made some of the first observations that suggested Ceres—which is a dwarf planet, like Pluto—has bits of water ice […]
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All Together Now
Mega Man sure has defeated a lot of "interesting" robot masters over the years.See more: All Together Now
![Googling inevitably reveals that my problem is caused by a known bug triggered by doing [the exact combination of things I want to do]. I can fix it, or wait a few years until I don't want that combination of things anymore, using the kitchen timer until then.](http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/hard_reboot.png "Googling inevitably reveals that my problem is caused by a known bug triggered by doing [the exact combination of things I want to do]. I can fix it, or wait a few years until I don't want that combination of things anymore, using the kitchen timer until then.")
Final Fantasy High School
This is exactly how I remember my high school years, too. Kevin, I never stopped liking you!!See more: Final Fantasy High School
Nothing Lasts Forever
All characters appearing in this work are based on reality. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is absolutely intentional.
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Create Multiple Streams of Income In Case You Lose Your Job
No matter how secure you feel your job and industry are, there is always a chance things could go south. Take the time now to create multiple sources of income in case your main one is cut off in the future.
