Charter Communications plans to acquire Time Warner Cable in a $78.7bn deal . The acquisition follows an earlier attempt by Comcast to buy TWC, a plan foiled by regulators worried about lack of competition in the market for high-speed internet. Read the rest
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Amazing sea floor maps reveal California’s offshore depths
The California Seafloor Mapping Program is the most extensive of its kind, initiated in 2008 and bearing fruit in a series of beautiful maps. Read the rest
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Amazing sea floor maps reveal California’s offshore depths
1860s photos of the last Samurai
Felice Beato photographed Samurai in the 1860s and hand-colored the prints. According to Getty, he “made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. Read the rest
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1860s photos of the last Samurai
Heavy Metal band-name generator
The internet’s official heavy metal band name generator : pretty good names, with a brilliant presentation. What webfonts are for! ( Thanks, Eirik! )
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Heavy Metal band-name generator
MAME going open-source
MAME , the arcade-game emulating software under constant development since its creation by Nicola Salmoria in 1997, is “going open-source.” Read the rest
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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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Hourglass full of magnetized "sand"
This $14, 100-second hourglass is filled with magnetized iron filings that form beautiful fans and other shapes as the sand drains into the bottom bulb. ( via Canopy )
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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Whoa, it’s Zelda: A Link To The Past’s world map, in living detail
Encrypting your laptop demystified
On The Intercept, Micah Lee follows up on his great primer on NSA-proof passwords with a soup-to-nuts tutorial on encrypting your laptop. Read the rest
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Encrypting your laptop demystified
Ransomware decryptor
If you or someone you love has been hijacked by Coinvault ransomware — malware that encrypts your data and won’t decrypt it unless you transfer Bitcoin to criminals — Kaspersky may be able to help you ( via Hacker News )
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Ransomware decryptor