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  Who is Carl Icahn, and why does he want to buy Dell?

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 28, 2013 04:57 am + 26 comments

  On monday, word spread that Carl Icahn has made a bid for Dell that could oust its founder and CEO Continue reading…

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  For American gangsters, the internet is not much of a G thing

  By Jeff Blagdon on March 28, 2013 02:29 am + 23 comments

  What are America's gangsters doing on the internet? Not a whole lot, according to a recent survey. A Continue reading…

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  'Recalling 1993' transforms Manhattan pay phones into audio time capsules

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 27, 2013 05:25 am + 4 comments

  New York City was a very different place twenty years ago. Recalling 1993 surfaces memories of Continue reading…

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  'Bioshock Infinite' creative director Ken Levine talks about how to build a world

  By Sam Byford on March 27, 2013 02:51 am + 8 comments

  "For everything it has to say, for all the questions it asks — many of which have no easy answers Continue reading…

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  TurboTax maker lobbies to stop the government from making your returns easier

  By Sam Byford on March 26, 2013 08:44 pm + 74 comments

  In several European countries, filing tax returns is a near-automatic process: instead of Continue reading…

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  Why you can't put trees on top of skyscrapers

  By Russell Brandom on March 26, 2013 05:54 pm + 57 comments

  Despite countless architectural renderings to the contrary, the top of a skyscraper is actually a Continue reading…

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  Anonymous uses Twitter to highlight humanitarian crisis in Burma

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 26, 2013 12:57 pm + 13 comments

  The formless hacktivist collective Anonymous, which often hits the news for hacking governments, big Continue reading…

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  How one journalist cracked 8,000 passwords in 24 hours

  By Russell Brandom on March 26, 2013 12:48 pm + 12 comments

  In the name of journalism, Ars Technica's Nate Anderson trained himself to crack passwords. In a Continue reading…

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  The real center of the US lies in the woods of Missouri

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on March 26, 2013 11:23 am + 7 comments

  If you stood beside a certain tree in Plato, Missouri and began walking to the US border, you would Continue reading…

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  NYC's 'geek squad' combines public agency info with big data techniques

  By Russell Brandom on March 25, 2013 04:33 pm + 5 comments

  In an article this weekend, The New York Times takes a look at New York City's Office of Policy and Continue reading…