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Paris movie theater opens VR experience arcade

Slash Gear - 11 Dec 2016 16:00
Paris movie theater opens VR experience arcade As 2016 has shown, the virtual reality market is rapidly expanding, and we’ve already seen the US movie theater industry heavily betting on it. But Paris’ MK2 movie theaters have taken this idea to a new level, openi...
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Petition to Commute Chelsea Manning's Sentence Has Enough Signatures to Force Response From White House Chelsea Manning's formal petition requesting President Obama reduce the remainder of her 35-year prison sentence surpassed 100,000 signatures on Saturday and now necessitates a response from the White House.
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The Canadian AI that writes holiday chiptunes

Engadget - 11 Dec 2016 22:35
The Canadian AI that writes holiday chiptunes Is there no industry safe from economic encroachment by automation and machine learning? A team from the University of Toronto have built a digital Irving Berlin that can generate Christmas carols from a single image.
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Twitter says no to law enforcement protest policing tool Twitter has cut off access for a tool that law enforcement was using to monitor the social network for protest-specific keywords. Those included "Mikebrown," "Blacklivesmatter" and "imunarmed" according to documents obta...
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Japanese spacecraft lifts off with ISS supplies on board The ISS crew won't have to worry about running out of supplies this holiday season. Japan's space agency loaded its ship called Kounotori 6 with 4.5 tons of food, water, spare parts and experimental hardware before sendi...
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Supreme Leader-Elect Donald Trump Has Summoned Silicon Valley Elites To His Lair Supreme Leader-elect Donald Trump (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Roughly a dozen leaders of Silicon Valley, from Apple CEO Tim Cook to Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, will assemble at Trump Tower in New York this wee...
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The Insides of Ordinary Objects in Macro Glory The advancements in consumer-level photography mean that we have a lot of good people out there giving us a fresh look at things we've seen a million times. Things like the inside of a tube of toothpaste, or a stick of d...
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Repairing a $30,000 Tire Is an Insanely Complicated and Satisfying Experience Repairing a $30,000 Earth Mover tire is not nearly as simple as fixing a flat on your Hyundai. Dozens of steps are necessary. Watching it all go down is an experience comprised of buffing, skiving, scooping, filling, str...
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NBC's Powerless Has Turned Bruce Wayne Into a Con Artist NBC's Powerless altered its office environment to better tie it into the DC Universe, but a seemingly innocent relocation will change Bruce Wayne from a beloved billionaire into that Monorail guy from The Simpsons.
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Open Channel: What Spinoff Should We See Next? Disney's CEO has confirmed that another standalone Star Wars film is on the way in a couple of years. We've got Logan coming out in 2017, Game of Thrones could get a prequel show, and the Harry Potter spinoff Fantastic B...
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Artist Turns 'That Pig Episode' of Black Mirror Into a Comic Book Cover An artist has created gorgeous comic book covers of some of Black Mirror's most iconic episodes so far...and yes, that includes an image of Porky Pig readying a bottle of lube. It's about as awkward as it sounds.
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Facebook adds a 'fake news' reporting option

Engadget - 11 Dec 2016 21:01
Facebook adds a 'fake news' reporting option Facebook has been getting dragged hard since November 8th -- and rightfully so -- given the unprecedented amount of shitposts and fake news that dominated the social site in the months leading up to the election. After h...
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Trump Says He Doesn't Need Daily Intelligence Briefings Because He's 'You Know, Like, a Smart Person' In an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday, Donald Trump, who has no idea what the office of the President entails and doesn't give a fuck about it, confirmed reports that he is indeed receiving intelligence ...
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Soft Robot Hand Brings a Gentle Touch to the Future Remarkable advancements in artificial intelligence have made it seem like uncannily human androids are just around the corner. But even though SIRI might be able to tell you a joke, robotics are still pretty clunky. That...
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Ghost Recon: Wildlands' huge open-world map revealed by Ubisoft Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands is the latest entry in Ubisoft‘s tactical shooter series, and when it’s released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on March 7th next year, it will feature the largest open-world environme...
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John Cena Punches a Teen Out of His Pants in SNL's Karate Kid Parody Credit: Screengrab via YouTube Ralph Macchio might have been the hero...but in any semblance of real life, all the crane poses in the world wouldn't stop that blonde goober from kicking his ass. Which is exactly what Joh...
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Nvidia approved to test self-driving cars in California Along with Michigan, California is a hotbed for autonomous vehicle testing, with big companies like Google, Ford, Tesla, Mercedes, and more all getting approval to put their cars on the road. Well, things are going to ge...
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After Math: Game over

Engadget - 11 Dec 2016 18:00
After Math: Game over This was a week of tremendous loss. America said goodbye to John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, Twitter accidentally murdered @-replies for a day, Fitbit cannibalized its new acquisition of Pebble and new ...
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This Mechanical Keyboard Is for the Ultimate Nintendo Fanatic Image: Hyperkin After years of being declared obsolete by video game fans, Nintendo is hot again. The house that Mario built has the hardest Christmas gift to get your hands on with the NES Classic Edition. Super Mario R...
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Even Will Smith Seems Sick of Nostalgic Sequels It feels like every beloved action, comedy, or action-comedy franchise is getting rebooted with new series and sequels. Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, and, of course, Independence Day. In a way, it makes sense. As Will Smith...
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Strafe is a procedurally-generated FPS with graphics out of 1996 Gamers who like first-person shooters have no shortage of the biggest, most graphic-intensive titles to choose from these days, but the upcoming indie game Strafe should appeal to those longing for the early years of the...
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Lexus' insane LED-covered car, and more in the week that was Transportation startup Lucid Motors is working on an electric car to rival the Tesla Model S, and it just announced plans to build a $700 million manufacturing facility to bring it to fruition. Meanwhile, Lexus unveiled ...
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