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  Their only crime was curiosity: what today's hackers owe phone phreaks

  By Jesse Hicks on February 5, 2013 11:45 am + 44 comments

  Once upon a time, in the days before the ubiquitous and invisible internet, there was only one Continue reading…

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  Super Bowl XLVII in pictures: four days at the world's greatest shrine to football

  By David Pierce on February 4, 2013 11:22 am + 118 comments

  "Can you take a picture of us?" If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me that while I was Continue reading…

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  Bikini Kill is making things again

  By Laura June on February 1, 2013 12:50 pm + 69 comments

  In October of 1992, the 15 minute-long Bikini Kill EP was released on vinyl by Kill Rock Stars, an Continue reading…

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  Launch Party: a crowdfunding revolution ignites the next space race

  By Adrianne Jeffries on January 31, 2013 10:44 am + 76 comments

  Inside an old storage warehouse in an abandoned shipyard in Copenhagen, Kristian von Bengston and Continue reading…

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  How the 808 drum machine got its cymbal, and other tales from music's geeky underbelly

  By Trent Wolbe on January 30, 2013 02:15 pm + 28 comments

  This year marks the 30th anniversary of MIDI, the language that electronic instruments use to talk Continue reading…

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  Offline: my quest to find a ‘StarCraft’ replacement in my life

  By Paul Miller on January 30, 2013 09:00 am + 184 comments

  I miss StarCraft, man. I just miss it. StarCraft wasn’t a game for me, it was a lifestyle. It was Continue reading…

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  Elton John's phantom fingers: the remote presence piano show of your dreams

  By Trent Wolbe on January 29, 2013 10:10 am + 33 comments

  It was a dark and stormy night in Sherman Oaks and I was not ready to add a new emotion to my Continue reading…

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  MIDI turns 30: a revolutionary open music standard lives on

  By Alex Dunbar on January 28, 2013 01:35 pm + 65 comments

  The list of digital technologies that have remained in use for a decade or more is a short one. MIDI Continue reading…

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  29th Street Publishing’s Tim Moore on making apps like movies

  By Russell Brandom on January 28, 2013 12:32 pm + 1 comments

  Tim Moore is the Creative Director at 29th Street Publishing, an app development house that creates Continue reading…

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  The best writing of the week, January 27

  By Thomas Houston on January 27, 2013 10:30 am + 10 comments

  We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on Continue reading…