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  Anonymous may be 'the most powerful organization on Earth,' says hacker

  By Adi Robertson on May 14, 2012 09:15 am + 34 comments

  Christopher Doyon or Commander X, head of Anonymous offshoot the People's Liberation Front, doesn't Continue reading…

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  Revisiting Futuro, the sci-fi house from 1968's future

  By Sam Byford on May 14, 2012 04:28 am + 5 comments

  Finnish designer Matti Suuronen created a round, prefabricated house called Futuro in the 1960s, but Continue reading…

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  Recent Art Lebedev designs include a safety pin USB drive and a dinosaur radiator

  By Sam Byford on May 14, 2012 01:50 am + 13 comments

  Russian designer Art Lebedev is best known in the tech world for his Optimus series of OLED and LCD Continue reading…

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  The Batmobile from 'The Dark Knight Rises' is coming to a town near you

  By Sam Byford on May 14, 2012 12:38 am + 22 comments

  Can't quite wait for The Dark Knight Rises? You may have to settle for checking out a part of the Continue reading…

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  How to light your photos on Mount Everest

  By Sam Byford on May 13, 2012 10:15 pm + 2 comments

  Grayson Schaffer of Outside magazine is currently stationed at Mount Everest's Base Camp, with the Continue reading…

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  New and improved bubble display prints letters with air and water

  By Adi Robertson on May 13, 2012 02:28 pm + 3 comments

  Coder Matt Bell is continuing to improve his exceedingly clever water-based display screen. Inspired Continue reading…

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  Inside Hitachi's risk-taking path to profitability

  By Bryan Bishop on May 12, 2012 04:55 pm + 12 comments

  Once a well-known consumer electronics brand, Hitachi has undergone a radical transformation in Continue reading…

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  Deep Blue: 15 years after IBM's supercomputer beat the chess world's champ

  By Bryan Bishop on May 11, 2012 08:10 pm + 14 comments

  On May 11th, 1997, a supercomputer named Deep Blue did what at the time seemed impossible: it Continue reading…

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  'Prometheus' writer Jon Spaihts on science fiction worldbuilding

  By Adi Robertson on May 11, 2012 05:20 pm + 7 comments

  We've been eagerly following Prometheus, the Ridley Scott space epic, so we're glad to see io9 give Continue reading…

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  Unpublished works of modernist James Joyce digitized by National Library of Ireland

  By Evan Rodgers on May 11, 2012 12:44 pm + 3 comments

  The manuscripts of renowned modernist author James Joyce have been made available online by the Continue reading…