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Alien drawing from 1906 edition of War of the Worlds sells for $32k

Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s fantastically beautiful pen & ink drawings for a 1906 special edition of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds were a hit at Heritage Auctions’ recent illustration art auction . Read the rest

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Alien drawing from 1906 edition of War of the Worlds sells for $32k

Could this beautiful game signal the end of our dystopia fetish?

Over the past decade or so, gritty, apocalyptic worlds were the favored setting of popular video games, and machinelike cyber-dystopias were a reliable aesthetic before that. But No Man’s Sky , a highly-anticipated upcoming world, is infinite and hopeful. Read the rest

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Whoa, it’s Zelda: A Link To The Past’s world map, in living detail

“Friendly tag-based Javascript animators” JADSDS have made a gigantic HMTL5 map of the overworld from The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past , also known as the best Zelda . Read the rest

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Uber charges rider $16,000 for a 7-mile trip

But Uber knocked $15 off Jaime Hessel’s bill because it agreed that the driver had taken an “inefficient route.” Gothamist : Hessel told us by phone that she e-mailed Uber at 12:30 today to ask them for an explanation. Read the rest

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Try performing in atmospheric Norse slam poetry competition

MadameBerry has made us a neat toy: EDDA , An atmospheric slam poetry battle based on a collection of Old Norse poetry . Alongside warm firelight in a great hall, you choose how to complete phrases in response to your challenger, with the aim of besting four different types of poets. Read the rest

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$17 radio amp lets thieves steal Priuses

If your car has a proximity-based ignition fob that lets you start the engine without inserting a key, thieves on the street in front of your house can use an amp to detect its signal from your house and relay it to the car, getting away clean. Read the rest

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Amazing demo gets 1000 colors out of 4-color CGA PC card from 1981

“Because there are so many technological world-firsts in the demo, and because we’re bending the hardware in ways that people have never thought to do so, it’s only fair that we try to explain exactly how this was achieved .”

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