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“I never liked salmon until my husband, Jim, created this healthy, delicious entrée,” confesses Pat Ockerman. “Now, all we have to do is mention to friends we're having salmon for dinner and we have happy guests!”

Here are the Sesame Street Muppets in a mashup doing the Beastie Boys’ Sure Shot.

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Ryan Hoover is 28 years old and heads Product Hunt, an app that raised over $7 million. What does it do? List new apps, describing them in a single line. On the face of it, a little resentment would be natural, especially if you’re a technology journalist, a startup founder, or just someone stuck in a job that isn’t their passion. “This kid got $7 million to write a single line about new apps and geeky delights?” But there’s a lot more to Product Hunt, and there is a lot more to Ryan Hoover. A One-Man Community Hub In the past...

Read the full article: At 28, He’s Running A $7 Million Company That Just Recommends New Apps

Today, I can't decide what's worse: the fact that my mother found my vibrator or that, as a prank, she replaced it with a realistic tarantula replica. She won't tell me where it is. FML

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You thought that near-impossible Super Mario World glitch completion time was fast? It was just the beginning.

While the guy who first demonstrated the glitch, SethBling, has whittled his world-record-setting completion time all the way down to 3:07.2, he's been completely blown out of the water by another player who goes by the handle Dotsarecool. In the past week alone, he's managed to use the same glitch to break Super Mario World's "any% credits warp" (as this category of run has become known) world record five times in a row. His current best time? 1:52.5. (Note: it displays as 1:53.31 in the video because he didn't reach to stop his timer until after he'd finished the run.)

At this point, Dotsarecool is in a race with himself to shatter that record, and he's confident he can pull it off, too. "Actually this run was only just average—there are still maybe about 4-8 seconds or more to cut off with better movement," he wrote of his most recent record-breaking run. You can see how he's improved from record break to record break on his YouTube channel.

For those only just joining us, this glitch—which warps players from the game's first level straight to the credits—was only recently accomplished on a console. It does not involve any emulation and can be done from a good old-fashioned Super Nintendo, just as god and the pioneers intended. As a result, it's added a whole new dimension to Super Mario World speed-running.

I suppose what I'm saying is, right now Dotsarecool gets to wear the crown, but he's gonna have to hang onto it awfully tight if he doesn't want someone else to pluck it right off his head.

To contact the author of this post, write to nathan.grayson@kotaku.com or find him on Twitter @vahn16.

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An app can “be misused by those with criminal intent to endanger police officers and the community”, claims a letter sent to Google last week. The app in question: the social navigation app, Waze. The letter, from LAPD police chief Charlie Beck, caused a stir last week by asking Google to remove the police tracking feature – mostly used by drivers hoping to avoid speeding tickets. Amongst the criticisms levelled at Waze’s police tracking feature, Beck argued that it puts officers in danger. Is there any merit to this claim? What Is Waze, And What Does It Do? Waze is an app that can make your commute...

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We get it: No one likes Facebook. Twitter is full of trolls. Social networks can be a pain, but they're also great ways to stay in touch with friends and talk to new people. Even so, every few weeks we hear from someone who wants to just "quit" Facebook altogether. Here's why that's a silly idea, and what you can do instead that'll make you just as happy.

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Like it or not, we are nearing the age of humans creating autonomous, self-aware super intelligences. Those intelligences will be part of our culture, and we will inevitably try to control AI and teach it our ways, for better or worse.

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An anonymous reader writes: Today Staples announced plans to buy Office Depot in a deal worth $6.3 billion. This is a huge consolidation within the office supply industry. Office Depot and OfficeMax were the second- and third-biggest suppliers when they merged in 2013. Adding those to the enormity of Staples would effectively bring the U.S. under a single office supply chain. "The move is expected to draw scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission, though regulators have been increasingly willing to approve retail mergers in light of burgeoning e-commerce competition. ... This isn't the first time Staples has tried to buy Office Depot. In 1997, the FTC derailed Staples' acquisition of its rival as anticompetitive. By 2013, though, the agency's view had shifted. When the FTC allowed Office Depot to buy OfficeMax, it said the advent of online retailing ensured competition in the market for office supplies. Consumers today also rely more heavily on big-box chains such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for office products, the commission said."

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Reports of RadioShack's demise are nothing new, but now it seems like the electronics retailer may be done for good. Bloomberg reports that company is in talks with Sprint to hand over around half of its remaining stores to the wireless company. The ...

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Can we just stop and appreciate Nicki Minaj’s face for a moment. She looks genuinely very concerned for Josh here, like she thinks he was actually in an arena full of kids trying to kill him, and is confused as to why no one else finds this as shocking as she does.

What do you expect? People from the Capitol just don’t understand.

People from the Capitol just don’t understand.

People from the Capitol just don’t understand.

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I don't think anyone, including the game's creator, expected Gunman Clive to be such a massive hit. As an homage to retro platformers it was a joy to play, and the ridiculously cheap base price made it easy to take the plunge.

Gunman Clive 2 delivers pretty much everything you'd want out of a sequel, even if it doesn't push the envelope.

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GMG is launching a "2014 Revisited Sale" which includes many AAAs that are now at more than half off. Most titles are price cut by 50%, and with stacking coupons, that discount rises as high as 73% off. Some of the better deals last for 24 hours only, while others cover the entire weekend.

It looks like GMG will be rotating in new deals through next week, so we'll update the list below when new stuff shows up. Our personal picks include Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition (if you don't already have the game) and Wolfenstein: The New Order -- both excellent titles.

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At long last, Google Now will support third-party apps. That means that in addition to serving you helpful information like when your next appointment is and how long it'll take you to get to the airport, Google's predictive search app will now push ...