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World of Warcraft just took a big step towards going free-to-play

Going free-to-play is, rather unfairly, considered a sign that an MMO is dying. World of Warcraft is pretty much the only MMO that has managed to maintain its monthly subscription fee for...

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HTC and Valve have a collaborative virtual reality headset

Virtual reality is a rapidly growing field that everyone seems to want a foothold in, even Valve. Confirming earlier rumors, it has been revealed that the PC gaming giant has...

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Alien 5 will pretend like Alien 3 and Resurrection never happened

Alien was one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever released, and certainly the greatest space horror film. The sequel, Aliens, was just as good, perhaps even better if you ask...

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Bitcoin is now being stolen at knifepoint

Bitcoin's tendency to be stolen by hackers is one of the cryptocurrency's biggest flaws but its not exactly the kind of thing you'd expect a common thief to steal at...

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Mouse Box is a working PC and a working mouse all in one

Micro-PCs may not have become very popular, but that hasn't stopped companies from designing some pretty interesting ones. Obviously you have your standard mini box, even a few dongles, but...

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Heat your home for free by housing data servers

The idea of cloud heating won’t go away. Germany now has a company, Cloud&Heat, which offers free hot water from a distributed data center installed in your office. Cloud&Heat places...

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Anonabox has been resurrected on Indiegogo

Kickstarter’s decision to pull the plug on Anonabox, the alleged Tor-powered online cloaking device. and cancel all pledges to the controversial project left many Internet anonymity seekers disheartened. Now, as...

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ISS performs evasive maneuvers to avoid space junk

The International Space Station (ISS) has been forced to fire the thrusters of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) in order to maneuver the station and its crew out of the...

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The Vatican is digitizing thousands of rare and important manuscripts

Don’t you think that it is long overdue for the Vatican to perform a digital scan of all of its manuscripts? After all, the Vatican happens to be an organization,...

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G.Skill announces extremely fast 480GB PCIe SSD

Today's high performance SATA 6Gbps solid state drives top out at around 590MB/s for read and write transfers. If you need something faster, you can slap a pair in a...

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