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Wiki-History shows the chronology and conversation around Wikipedia edits

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Wikipedia lives and dies by its edits, and the process of adding information to the site is not without controversy. With debates flaring up around most pages dedicated to contentious subject matter, the edit history of the page itself can be a valuable source for points of view that don't make it into the article for long. That's the thinking behind NYU Tisch student Kate Tibbets' Wiki-History...

More than 40,000 Orthodox Jews rally against the internet at New York baseball stadium

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A rather unusual event took place in New York City this past Sunday: the New York Mets' Citi Field was filled to capacity with Orthodox Jews — males only, in keeping with the religion's code — who were there to attend a rally about the dangers of the internet. So populous was the gathering that nearby Arthur Ashe stadium (20,000 capacity) had to also be rented out, while women interested in observing events were provided "viewing parties" in Orthodox neighborhoods of Brooklyn and New Jersey.

"The siren song of the Internet entices us! It brings out the worst of us!" Eytan Kobre, event spokesperson
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Can Facebook live up to its $104 billion valuation?

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Facebook’s $16 billion IPO values the young company at $104 billion, bigger than McDonald’s, Citigroup, and Amazon. Its debut on the stock market today caps a remarkable run for the eight-year-old social network. Begun in a Harvard dorm room, it is now one of the largest companies on the web in terms of its user base and global reach. Mark Zuckerberg has proven a ruthless leader with an eye...

UK bookstore chain Waterstones signs deal with Amazon to sell Kindle alongside its own services

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Waterstones, one of the UK's largest booksellers, has signed a deal with Amazon to sell Kindle devices together with "new e-reading services." Details of the partnership are very thin at present, with more announcements said to be coming this fall. James Daunt, Managing Director of Waterstones, said that the store won't simply be reselling the Kindle, but rather offering its own services on top:

O2 announces Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy Y Olympic Games editions

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O2 has announced new Olympic Games editions of its Galaxy Note and Galaxy Y smartphones, which feature either the Union Jack or Team GB logo emblazoned across their back covers. The Olympic editions also include a £1 (around $1.55) contribution to Team GB athletes of the future, and the chance to win an "exclusive Team Samsung experience." The prize consists of a pair of tickets to the games, the Team GB training camp, and a "Team GB celebration event taking place in London." The handsets are available through O2's website, and also come with the standard black back cover.

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If you're a Facebook user as well as a fan of staying on top of the ever-churning news cycle, you're going to love this. As you know, The Verge is able to track long, complicated news stories over time thanks to our StoryStream technology (part of the ingenious Chorus platform which powers all of Vox Media). What you might not know is that now if you "like" one of our StoryStreams on Facebook, you'll automatically see major updates to that...

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LG Optimus 3D Max review

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The Optimus 3D Max is perhaps the most puzzling entry in LG’s 2012 lineup. Priced at €499.99 (around $635) SIM-free in the EU, it's something of a second flagship (behind the incoming Optimus 4X HD) for the Korean conglomerate, and as such...

Oregon law offers generous tax breaks to data centers

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A new Oregon law that goes into effect on June 4th is set to provide handsome tax breaks to data centers within the state, offering significant savings to Amazon, Google, and other companies that have have already created facilities there. Under the law, Oregon's data centers will be taxed only on their local value, and not on intangible assets such as their national brand value. This exemption would therefore...



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On The Verge episode 006 teaser: Damon Lindelof on working with 'Prometheus' director Ridley Scott

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Getting to speak with Damon Lindelof, the co-creator of Lost and screenwriter of Prometheus, was undoubtably an On The Verge highlight. In this teaser from our show last Thursday, Lindelof tells our own Joshua Topolsky about director Ridley Scott's strong hand in the creative process during the making of Prometheus — it turns out that when you're working with a director like Scott, screenwriting can be somewhat comparable to Mad Libs, with Lindelof filling in the blanks around Scott's vision.

The full episode will be available Monday, including the full interview with Lindelof, Paul Miller's encounter with Masi Oka (of Heroes and Hawaii...

Twitter blocked by Pakistani government (update)

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Reports came in this morning that Twitter has been blocked in Pakistan due to tweets regarding a competition to post depictions of the Prophet Muhammad — an act that many believe to be blasphemous. According to BBC News the country's Ministry of Information Technology directed internet service providers to block access to the site, and there's no word when the service will come back online. The competition itself was apparently hosted on Facebook, and the Associated Press reports that...

Play this: 'Super Strict Farmer'

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The Ludum Dare game jam, themed this year around "tiny worlds," has previously proved a fertile source of browser games, most recently Extensionism. Super Strict Farmer (built, like several of the others, in 48 hours) takes inspiration from S...


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The best tech writing of the week, May 20th

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We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on a hazy weekend morning in need of something to read, and that pile of unread books just isn't cutting it. Why not take a break from the fire hose of Twitter and RSS and check out our weekly roundup of essential writing from around the web about technology, culture, media, and the future? Sure, it's one more thing you can feel guilty about...

Charting the futures of science fiction

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Everyone who reads science fiction can probably name some of the movements and fads that have come and gone in the last century. Stephanie Fox of io9 has gone a step further and actually analyzed the distance into the future that science fiction was set during different decades. Fox collected 250 random works of science fiction (in book, movie, TV, and comic form, although it's limited to works readily available in America) created between...