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Out with the old and in with the new, First it was Reader, now iGoogle, too. While Nexus and Android are bathed in attention, iGoogle's passed over with barely a mention. Confusing of name, though with a personal touch, Ladened with gadgets, it all proved too much. But oft go astray, it's said of ...

It's time for phase two of our latest Kotaku Co-Op where we're deciding what you think is the best graphics card for the money. Remember, it's not just about power, it's about value. Unlike previous Co-Ops, the nominations this time were very much concentrated around these five choices, and it should be a close vote to watch play out.

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According to state law, justices on the S.C. Supreme Court have 60 days to file their decisions from the time a term ends after hearing a case. So why aren't they doing it?... From Charleston City Paper.

Today, while working customer service, I instructed a customer to press the pound key on her cellphone. She hesitated a moment before asking, "Um, the pound key? You mean the hashtag, right?" FML

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Darren Drouin of Toronto, Ontario can do amazing things with his hands. You may be able to snap your fingers, but can you work them like musical instruments? Mr. Drouin can. He’s also figured out a clever way to use his fist as a variable drum. Watch him use snap and clap like an entire percussion section. You can skip to 1:20 in the video to see him in action.

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Daniel_Stuckey writes "The group, called UnSystem, are self-proclaimed crypto-anarchists led by Cody Wilson—who you may remember as the creator of the controversial 3D-printed gun. After getting himself in hot water with the government for making the digital files to print an unregulated weapon freely available on the internet, Wilson's now endeavoring to bring Bitcoin back to its anarchist roots. Like other Bitcoin wallets, you'll be able to store, send, and receive coins, and interact with block chain, the Bitcoin public ledger. But Dark Wallet will include extra protections to make sure transactions are secure, anonymous, and hard to trace—including a protocol called "trustless mixing" that combines users' coins together before encoding it into the ledger."

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Quick what does the United States have in common with Serbia and Yemen? No, not just that they all have the vowel E in them. No, not because they start with letters in the second half of the alphabet. And no, not nothing either. According to popular estimates, the US, Serbia and Yemen make up the top 3 in countries of the world that have the most guns per 100 people. We're number one, unsurprisingly.

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The Xbox One will play audio CDs and is DLNA compatible, allowing users to stream media from their compatible home networks, Microsoft told Penny Arcade Report. This follows Sony's FAQ for the PS4, which revealed the console won't be able to read CDs, won't support DLNA and won't read .mp3 files at launch.

Xbox One won't read .mp3 files directly, but it works with Microsoft's Play To service, which streams from any device with Windows 7 and up, including PCs and Windows Phone.

What timing, Microsoft.

Xbox One will play audio 'compact discs' (ask your parents) originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 01 Nov 2013 23:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In the transaction of receiving real-time titillation via pixels over the Internet, it's easy to forget how complicated some situations can be. Sure, there are gobs of money and endless credit card numbers being punched through but sometimes it's just a prettier version of indentured servitude.

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Artist Jeff Bennett (DeviantART member RolandDeschane) takes the works of Thomas Kincade and improves them with elements from the Star Wars universe, in a series called War on Kincade. The pastoral landscapes now have spaceships cruising above, or Storm Troopers patrolling, or various war machines bringing destruction! The reaction so far has been "Shut up and take my money!" but they are not yet available as prints. See the entire series at his DeviantART gallery. -via Geekologie

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THIS JUST BLOWS MY MIND.

Bloober Team has released this teaser trailer for their upcoming PlayStation 4 title, Basement Crawl, a competitive multiplayer maze game with a decidedly unsettling tone. In the video, we hear a child's voice addressing her grandmother, questioning why she cannot go out into the world and make friends, while being shown dark corners, strange technology and a really ugly clown.

Well, the tone is set. Now if I just had some real idea of what the game looked like in play, I could start getting genuinely excited for this.

Basement Crawl is expected to release on PS4 by the end of the year.

Boooooo!

Resident Evil 5 has overtaken Street Fighter II as Capcom's best-selling game of all time, CVG reports, having sold 6.5 million copies. Resident Evil 5, you'll remember, is a really dumb game that aped Resident Evil 4 wholesale while destroying everything that made Resident Evil 4 great. It even managed to break some fundamental gameplay systems, like the inventory.

Of course, a lot of people loved it because, let's face it, you could be playing Aliens: Colonial Marines with your mates and still have a giggle. Co-op is a great tool for masking creative bankruptcy.

Capcom's total sales are up 17 percent this year and net income is up 20 percent. Also, Resident Evil: Revelations and Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies reportedly "basically achieved projected sales."

Resident Evil 5 is now Capcom's best-selling game ever [CVG]

Husband and wife duo Wadjet Eye Games started a giveaway yesterday, offering up Steam codes for Blackwell Deception to celebrate Halloween. The indie developer opted to cancel the adventure game giveaway today after discovering that 30,000 Steam keys were stolen by hackers.

The problem was even bigger at first as founder Dave Gilbert discovered that, after issuing a press release to the media about the giveaway earlier this week, the generated keys unlocked Wadjet Eye Games' entire catalog. After sorting that issue out, Gilbert discovered that buyers were "ordering multiple copies of the game - hundreds at a time. And collecting Steam keys for reselling later," he told Red Door Blue Key. Gilbert asked his sales provider, BMT, to create an IP-detecting Steam code generator page, though it didn't stop resellers from masking their IPs to continue their thieving efforts.

After removing the link to the Steam key generator, Gilbert returned today to find that because the generator itself still existed, some 30,000 keys had been stolen. He announced via Twitter that Steam has disabled the keys generated after midnight and that, per his request, no bans will be issued to those that redeemed the Steam codes.

Blackwell Deception is the fourth game in the Blackwell adventure series, and was first made available on Steam in January 2012. The game can be purchased for $10, though Wadjet Eye Games is also offering a four-game bundle of the series to date for $20.

Indie dev gives game away, hackers steal 30,000 Steam keys overnight originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 01 Nov 2013 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You have to imagine that the next sentence is being read by the late, great Don LaFontaine. In a world where it feels like nothing you can do is right, there came video games!

Video games were definitely a way for me to escape from reality as a kid. Sure I made mistakes in video games, but I learned from my mistakes, I got better, and I was rewarded for them with new experiences and cheesy completion screens. Best of all, I wasn’t criticized for my mistakes as I learned (except for in Duck Hunt). Without video games there’s no telling where I might be right now. Maybe I would have experimented with drugs or even worse reading books. Thanks video games, you’ve always been a true friend.

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What started out as a bit of cover art for German artist Novoline has taken on a life of its own and mutated into this ominous digital blob. You can almost feel it pulsating through the screen and worming its way into the depths of your psyche.

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Like the Samurai's mempo, the uniforms of many of today's Special Forces units play dual roles. Not only do they protect the wearer's face and conceal his identity, they terrify the pants off of the enemy. Take the newly unveiled uniforms of Taiwan's Special Forces for example. They look like something out of Army of Two.

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It may seem like an odd question, especially on a first date. But under certain circumstances, the answer could be really, really important. Christina Cala of Popular Sciencedid some research on the issue. She determined that the average coffin has an interior volume of 886 liters. But the average volume of a human body is 66 liters, so that takes you down to a maximum of 820 liters of air, which includes 164 liters of oxygen.

Assuming that you breathe about half a liter of oxygen a minute, then you’ve got about 5 and a half hours before you run out of oxygen. But, of course, you’ll fall into a carbon dioxide-induced coma well before then.

It makes you kind of regret your life decisions, right?

Goodnight!

In the 1994 movie Forrest Gump, Forrest goes on a run one day and keeps running for 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours. He crosses the United States completely twice, and partially another couple of times. The estimated miles Forrest covered in the fictional story is 19,024. Can a person really do that?

Lauren Hansen asked a panel of experts to look at a possible real-life run of that magnitude. They picked apart what Forrest Gump did right (he had perfect form) and what he did wrong (the clothing). They speculated on the hardships of such a run, and they delivered their verdict. The deliberations on the way give us a look into the mind of a runner. Read the entire account at The Week.  

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Magnetic pulses to a part of the brain involved in empathy have improved the social skills of people with autism in the first clinical trial of its kind