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I Wouldn't Pay for 2013's Most Pirated Movie Either

Dec 31, 5:30PM

I Wouldn't Pay for 2013's Most Pirated Movie Either

On the heels of Torrentfreak's most-pirated TV shows of 2013 is their list of most-pirated movies. Not surprisingly, the list doesn't exactly represent the refined cultural taste you might hope.

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Inside the Design of the New Times Square New Year's Eve Ball

Dec 31, 5:00PM

Inside the Design of the New Times Square New Year's Eve Ball

The bright ball that hovers over Times Square on New Year's Eve is special this year. Sure, it's iconic and colorful and mesmerizing as it always is. This year, however, the ball will captivate us all with a brand new crystal coating. And, boy, is it pretty.

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Pirate Bay Uploads Up by 50 Percent in 2013 Despite Raids and Blockades

Dec 31, 4:40PM

Pirate Bay Uploads Up by 50 Percent in 2013 Despite Raids and Blockades

Authorities and copyright holders all over the world tried their damnedest to kill the Pirate Bay, but as data reported by TorrentFreak proves, the file sharing hub is a rogue ship that won't sink.

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The Most Monstrous Machines of the Year

Dec 31, 4:31PM

The Most Monstrous Machines of the Year

The future is all around us. From medical miracles that could cure our most deadly diseases to transportation revolutions that will change how we travel around the planet, these are the ten most impressive cutting-edge machines we've covered this year.

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How Gravity Would Be Different If the World Were a Cube

Dec 31, 4:00PM

How Gravity Would Be Different If the World Were a Cube

Perhaps the main difference if the earth were a cube would be that students would become much more frustrated trying to calculate the gravitational field. For a uniform cube with side length L and density rho, the gravitational force on mass m at position (x,y,z) is given by

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Incredibly enough, this helicopter is not going down in flames

Dec 31, 3:57PM

Incredibly enough, this helicopter is not going down in flamesThis incredible photo by Nir Ben-Yosef aka xniran Israeli photographer who specializes in aviation and air-to-air photography and production—may look really scary. But fear not, because this AH-64A Apache is not going down in flames. It's just releasing flares to show off.

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Gawker Israel Plans to Pay for All of Its Young Ladies' Abortions in 2014 | io9 Here's why Google is

Dec 31, 3:49PM

Gawker Israel Plans to Pay for All of Its Young Ladies' Abortions in 2014 | io9 Here's why Google is building a robot army | Jalopnik Air Canada Refuses To Transfer Voucher To Wife Who Kept Her Name | Kotaku He Played Missile Command for Nearly Three Consecutive Days

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Safely Ring In the New Year With an LED Fireworks Extravaganza

Dec 31, 3:49PM

Safely Ring In the New Year With an LED Fireworks Extravaganza

It's ironic that one of the nights of the year when fireworks are the perfect way to celebrate is also the one night when you and your friends should not be messing with explosives. But with this LED fireworks kit, you can drink yourself silly and still safely put on quite a show when the clock strikes midnight.

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Shit, Internet, Phone—But What Did You Tweet About This Year?

Dec 31, 3:23PM

Shit, Internet, Phone—But What Did You Tweet About This Year?

These are the words that appeared most often in my Twitter timeline. I know this thanks to Vizify's fun new tool that pulls highlights from all of your 2013 tweets—including popular topics, Vines, photos, and followers—and assembles them into a delightful short video.

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I Never Want This Best Vines of 2013 Compilation To End

Dec 31, 3:08PM

Picking a favorite Vine is like picking a favorite hilarious, non sequitur grain of sand from an endless beach of weirdness. Fortunately, some blessed soul has stitched together hundreds of six-second masterpieces for your near-endless amusement.

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Beat-Matching Glowing Sunglasses Are Perfect For New Years Eve and Morn

Dec 31, 2:37PM

Beat-Matching Glowing Sunglasses Are Perfect For New Years Eve and Morn

It's New Year's Eve and unless you've got children to tend to you'll probably be partying well into 2014 this evening. And while normally sunglasses aren't required for the middle of the night, these Dropshades are, since they feature a glowing pulsing EQ that stays in sync with whatever music you're listening to. And, the next morning when you're hungover and dodging the sun, you'll be even happier you're wearing them.

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If You've Got Google Music All Access, You Can Get Glass Now

Dec 31, 2:15PM

If You've Got Google Music All Access, You Can Get Glass Now

Google Music All Access users are reporting that they've received an email inviting them to join the ranks of Glass Explorers. (Here's the sign up page you can try if you didn't get the email.) As far we can tell it's the first time Google has opened up the program to a subset of its users without demanding that they explain themselves.

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Mac Pro Teardown: An Apple Rig You Can Actually Tinker With

Dec 31, 2:01PM

Mac Pro Teardown: An Apple Rig You Can Actually Tinker With

It looks like a waste paper bin, costs a fortune and is, perhaps, the best workstation you've ever owned. But what lurks beneath that shiny black shell?

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The 38 Most Interesting Designs of 2013

Dec 31, 2:00PM

The 38 Most Interesting Designs of 2013

Welcome to the end of another year, people! We made it, and not without a ton of brand new stuff to carry us into 2014 and beyond. We saw lots of beautiful, interesting, and just plain weird things, but here we've rounded up the items that stuck with us; not just because of what they are, but also because of how they were made, or the interaction they required, or—yes—the way they made us feel.

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Get More Birthdays By Celebrating Mathematically Significant Dates

Dec 31, 1:10PM

Birthdays are great, aren't they? Really, we should have more of them—so why not try and do that by opting to celebrate mathematically significant dates rather than being a slave to the annual event?

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Where Emotions Hit You, Visualized

Dec 31, 12:23PM

Where Emotions Hit You, Visualized

Nerves make your stomach churn; embarrassment brings a glow to your cheeks. Emotions clearly have a direct physiological effect on our bodies, and now a team of Finnish researchers has analyzed exactly how—and represented them in this visualization.

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This Is London's Floating Bike Road Dream

Dec 31, 11:45AM

This Is London's Floating Bike Road Dream

A team of architects has updated and fleshed out its SkyCycle plan—a bizarre concept that would use the empty channels above some train lines to build floating, bike-only cycle superhighways.

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How the 20/20 Vision Scale Works

Dec 31, 11:00AM

How the 20/20 Vision Scale Works

With more than 150 million people in the United States (nearly half of the population) requiring some form of corrective eyewear to compensate for visual impairment, chances are you have had your eyesight graded on the 20/20 scale before. If you haven't, you have probably heard other people saying they have "20/20 vision" or even the phrase "hindsight is 20/20." The vision scale is so prevalent in American culture that there's even a TV news show named after it.

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Awesome ad erases all the animals in The Lion King's opening sequence

Dec 31, 10:54AM

This is a great ad by Greenpeace Netherlands, brilliantly executed by Studio Smack: They erased all the animals of The Lion King's opening sequence to show kids and adults how the African savanna would look if we don't protect its animals.

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Crooks Have Been Hacking ATMs With Infected USB Sticks

Dec 31, 10:15AM

Crooks Have Been Hacking ATMs With Infected USB Sticks

Criminals will go to all lengths to cheat an ATM out of its cash. But now, a team of researchers has discovered that skimmers may be a thing of the past: crooks have been targeting cash machines directly using infected USB sticks instead.

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Why Times and Timezones Still Confuse the Hell Out of Developers

Dec 31, 9:37AM

There have been no end of time and calendar mess-ups in software over the years, and they still seem to keep happening. So why is it that times and timezones still confuse the hell out of developers?

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The NSA Has Crazy Good Backdoor Access to iPhones

Dec 31, 8:47AM

The NSA Has Crazy Good Backdoor Access to iPhones

We already knew that the NSA had developed a taste for intercepting packages to put backdoors in electronics. Now, it turns out that those hacks provide it with almost complete access to the iPhone, too.

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: I Am the Walrus

Dec 31, 5:00AM

LSD is a hell of a drug.

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Holy crap, this train derailment created a massive freaking explosion

Dec 31, 3:37AM

Holy crap, this train derailment created a massive freaking explosion

Oh my. This is beyond scary. A mile-long train carrying crude oil derailed near a small town in North Dakota and sent explosions, flames and dark black smoke into the sky. Luckily (and almost unbelievably), no one was hurt in the accident that looked a lot more like a nuke exploding than a train derailment. Thank god.

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Watch one woman's face morph into many different faces with lighting

Dec 31, 2:54AM

Watch one woman's face morph into many different faces with lighting

Your eyes might tell you differently, your brain might make you believe something else and that gut of yours will say you're right but you're not. There is only one person in this video. You will only see one woman's face. It may look like a different person but it's not. The magic is in the lighting. Simple lighting changes can change a person's face so much that they look like different people.

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