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  Status Symbols: Neo Geo Pocket Color

  By Andrew Webster on November 23, 2012 01:00 pm + 28 comments

  Status Symbols are devices that transcend their specs and features, and become something beautiful Continue reading…

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  Verge Favorites: Sam Sheffer

  By Sam Sheffer on November 23, 2012 11:26 am + 43 comments

  The Verge staffers aren't just people who love technology. They're people who love stuff. We Continue reading…

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  The best smartphone: what to buy on every carrier

  By Chris Ziegler on November 21, 2012 03:12 pm + 651 comments

  Late last year, we told you just about everything you need to know to buy a smartphone: how to Continue reading…

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  The Verge, Year One: our big stories, May 2012 through July 2012

  By Laura June on November 21, 2012 10:30 am + 12 comments

  This month marks the one year anniversary of The Verge. In online publishing, you tend to spend most Continue reading…

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  Revisiting Windows 1.0: how Microsoft’s first desktop gracefully failed

  By Sean Hollister on November 20, 2012 04:08 pm + 221 comments

  Two years ago today, when Windows 1.0 celebrated its 25th birthday, we didn’t yet know what the Continue reading…

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  First strike: how tech's superpowers could start an ecosystem war

  By Dieter Bohn on November 20, 2012 01:24 pm + 358 comments

  WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A COLD WAR BETWEEN THE LARGEST TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES IN THE INDUSTRY. It’s Continue reading…

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  The Iconfactory's David Lanham on what it takes to build home screen-worthy icons

  By Ellis Hamburger on November 20, 2012 10:30 am + 47 comments

  David Lanham is an illustrator at The Iconfactory, where he designed many of our favorite icons for Continue reading…

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  Japan shows its creative side at Tokyo Designers Week

  By Sam Byford on November 19, 2012 01:30 pm + 45 comments

  Japan is famed for its history of unique design, and Tokyo Designers Week is the biggest chance the Continue reading…

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  Prometheus in the desert: from atom bombs to radio astronomy, New Mexico's scientific legacy

  By Jesse Hicks on November 19, 2012 12:00 pm + 72 comments

  Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are Continue reading…

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  Big Science in New Mexico: Prometheus in the desert

  on November 19, 2012 12:00 pm + 1 comments

  From the atomic bomb to the Very Large Array radio telescope, New Mexico has been America's Continue reading…