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The Amazonification of Reality, Now in video Gaming

The Amazonification of Reality, Now in video Gaming

Death Stranding 2 is not just a sequel, it’s a layered commentary on the modern human condition. Along with presenting a futuristic world where players deliver packages Kojima paints a picture of a civilization emotionally crumbling beneath the weight of technological progress. One of the game

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Groupon is cutting about 10% of its workforce

Remember a few years ago when Groupon turned down a $6 billion acquisition deal from Google? Yeah, I can pretty much guarantee the company is regretting that decision. To be fair, the company was growing at a ridiculous pace back then and staying independent actually seemed like a good move, but Gro

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How exactly did the area code come to be?

Despite the rise of the internet, the 10-digit telephone number remains an ubiquitous and all-encompassing method of communication. But it hasn’t been that long since human operators were responsible for completing telephone calls, and The Atlantic has put together a look at how the 10-digit n

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Poll shows that 58% of Americans still have a VCR

CES this week allows technology developers to showcase the latest gadgets that may become must-haves for many Americans. As attendees get a glimpse of the industry’s future, Gallup finds that the devices Americans own have changed over the past decade, with ownership of laptops (64%) and iPods

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Norway to digitize all Norwegian books

In most other countries, if those books were still under copyright, the digitized versions (assuming publishers even allowed them to be made in the first place) would probably only be available in a specially constructed room deep in the basement of the National Library on a small screen, and with g

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Is the US losing control of the web?

After revelations pointed to the NSA and other spy organizations as using worldwide communication tools, including the internet, to spy on the rest of the world, many organizations decided that they had enough. The NSA will get the blame if the US loses “control” of the internet but the

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What exactly is a JPEG?

If you use the internet (and obviously you do) you likely see JPEGs every single day. What are they? We know that they present the images that we see on websites to us in visual form, but let’s take a deeper look into the Joint Photographic Experts Group. In 2012, the photograph of Barack and

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Winners of the Red Bull Illume Photo Contest 2013

The winners have just been announced in the 3rd edition of the Red Bull Illume Image Quest photo competition. The overall winner, top 10 category winners and top 50 finalists were unveiled at a ceremony in Hong Kong earlier today. The contest invited photographers to submit images of the world of ac