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Hayao Miyazaki has become a household name because his animated features are some of the best in the biz, and fans particularly enjoyed Spirited Away, the story of a young girl who encounters mythological creatures and spirits out of Japanese folklore as she tries to find a way to save her family.

One such fan is animator Alan Becker, who is showing his love of Miyazaki by re-creating the world of Spirited Away in Minecraft. His designs are spot on and just as colorful as the originals, and even though he claims to be only 80% done with his virtual sets they already look 100% awesome!

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Want to stroll down virtual memory lane? You could futz around with classic software on a virtual machine or rummage through yard sales for a working model of your first computer. Or, you could cruise the classic Windows and Mac OS emulator sites found by Ars Technica. Which sounds a hell of a lot easier.

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11 year old Aidan Fisher performs Eruption and You Really Got Me with Steel Panther on Thursday, December 19th, 2013 at The Midland Theater in Kansas City, MO.

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I always wanted to travel to The Legend of Zelda's Hyrule, among other amazing fantasy worlds I've virtually visited; that is until I saw these amazingly disturbing pictures by artist Nate Hallinan.

Seriously look at that skulltula... WTF! And I thought Australia had it bad when it came to eight-legged critters.  

When an advanced Soviet submarine sank in the Pacific in 1968, the CIA decided to risk World War III on a daring covert mission, using this massive barge to raise the sunken vessel and pry out its secrets.

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Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm is currently held in a Danish prison, where he’s a suspect in a large hacking case.

At the same time, the 29-year-old is caught up in one of the first cases under Russia’s new anti-piracy law.

In Russia copyright holders have targeted several websites, including the popular Rutor.org, which stand accused of distributing their content without permission.

The authorities found out out that Svartholm’s name appeared as the domain registrant for two of the sites, Rutor.org and Kinozal.tv. In addition, PRQ, the hosting company founded by the Pirate Bay founder, was listed as the registrant organization.

Last November, Svartholm was ordered to stop the distribution of these copyrighted works by changing the domain name information, and pay the fees for the publication of the verdict.

While it’s unclear whether Russia made any attempts to reach out to the Pirate Bay founder, a friend and former colleague at PRQ tells TorrentFreak that Svartholm can’t help them, even if he wanted to.

Andreas Carsbring says that PRQ offered customers the option to use the hosting company’s contact details, as a privacy shield. However, the client would have full control over the domain and bear the legal responsibilities, as defined in their contract.

“The service we offered at PRQ was to register the domain names as ‘Customer of PRQ’, so the domain still belongs legally to the customer even though the contact details for PRQ are being used,” Carsbring says.

There are additional signs that in the case of Rutor, the people behind the site filled out Svartholm’s name themselves, as it’s misspelled.

“In this particular case with Rutor.org it appears that the customer has registered the domain themselves using PRQ’s information, and by mistake they misspelled his last name. That might also explain why it says PRQ Inet KB, and not Customer of PRQ Inet KB as is the standard procedure.”

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Even if PRQ were legally responsible there isn’t much Svartholm can do as he sold the company years ago before he left for Cambodia. In other words, Svartholm can’t help Russia in the case, even if he wanted to.

That someone else than the Pirate Bay founder has control over the domains is backed up by a recent Whois change for the Kinozal.tv. The domain no longer lists Svartholm as the contact person, a change the Pirate Bay founder himself could not have made from prison.

Carsbring, who recently launched the free.anakata.info website, believes that Svartholm may not even know about the Russian case. He hopes that the Rutor people will remove Svartholm’s name to avoid more trouble.

“I’m not sure if he’s aware of it. I’ll try to get this information through to him as soon as possible and see what he says. Hopefully the people behind Rutor.org can sort this out with PRQ Inet and update the registry to remove his name since it shouldn’t be there since years ago,” he says.

Meanwhile, Gottfrid has enough other things to worry about. The Pirate Bay founder remains in prison for now as a Danish court recently extended his custody until February 5.

Source: TorrentFreak, for the latest info on copyright, file-sharing and VPN services.

Anyone with the goal of playing PC games at a competitive level should know the importance of equipment. Gamers often think about their mouse and keyboard as the first, and most important piece of the equipment, and they aren’t wrong, but there is another piece of the puzzle: the mouse mat. This is where that high-end mouse meets the surface, and for gamers looking to maximize their performance, a good mat is critical. Don’t skimp here, because spending $200 on a top-of-the-line mouse and using a cheap mouse mat will void much of the performance gained. Don’t worry though, we...

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Solve this for Wifi password? Nah I guess I won’t be needing any free internet today.

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I somehow doubt anyone expected this Mazda 626 Coupe to flip onto its roof after this fairly massive jump. I somehow doubt anyone expected everyone to walk away from the wreck, too.

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Passive aggressive notes left by angry roommates may soon be a relic of the past — at least in the kitchen — thanks to self-cleaning dishware.

Swedish design studio Tomorrow Machine has come one step closer to helping us realize our dream of mold-free sinks by releasing a self-cleaning plate-and-bowl prototype.

A super-hydrophobic coating on the dishware repels dirt and water. The coating causes muck from past meals to slide right off, much like water droplets rolling off a lotus leaf. The plate-and-bowl combo is lightweight, malleable and strong — it won't break even if it's dropped. This is largely because the dishware is made out of nanocellulose, a super material derived from wood fibers. Read more...

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Despite the strangely familiar name (hint: "rift" is a synonym for "split"), Time Rifters is not about gallivanting through various eras and throwing bricks through windows. Rather, it has more in common with the early vision of Super Time Force, where players fight through a level as one character, then rewind to the beginning and fight alongside a ghost version of previous attempts.

By the end, players will have controlled four different shooters, with the goal of destroying all of the red blocks on a level. To help keep things from being too confusing, not only are past selves visible, but so are the locations where each is looking at any given moment. It's classic divide and conquer, except that you are your only teammate.

Time Rifters was originally developed for use with Oculus Rift, but functions fine on a standard display. It is currently sitting at #4 on Steam Greenlight, so there is a decent chance we will be seeing a full Steam release in the near future.

Besides "anywhere he wants," where does a 1,200-ape sit down for diner? The extinct 10-foot tall Gigantopithecus probably found a seat near the bamboo salad bars of Southeast Asia's forests from approximately 9 million to 300,000 years ago.

However, that bamboo buffet may have disappeared as the Tibetan Plateau rose and ushered in a cooler climate. Without bamboo, the apes may have turned to sugary fruits that rotåted their teeth, reported New Scientist.

Near the end of apes' time on Earth, the animals' now-fossilized teeth bore deep erosion and potential signs of decay. This may mean they ate increased amounts of acidic, sugary fruit as the bamboo dwindled, the lead author of recent study in Quaternary International, Yingqi Zhang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told New Scientist. Read more...

It's only a matter of time before things go the way of Skynet, and this new algorithm is a stepping stone along the way: it can learn to identify objects all by itself, with zero human help. Gulp.

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Nathan Yau has turned the American Film Institute's 100 most memorable quotes from American cinema into chart form. Here they are, in all their wonderful geeky glory.

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