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Welcome to The Verge: Weekender edition. Every Saturday, we'll bring you some of the best and most important reads of the past seven days, from original reports, to in-depth features, to reviews and interviews. Think of it as a collection of some of our favorite pieces that you may have missed — or that you may just want to read again. You can follow along below, or keep up to date on Flipboard.
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Review
'Elysium' review: class warfare heads to space
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is back with his sophomore picture — a huge sci-fi effort that finds Matt Damon in a grim, dystopian future. Elysium has a gorgeous, meticulously crafted world, but is a huge budget and Hollywood star power what Blomkamp needs to recreate the success of his debut?
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Report
Sex, lies, and subtweets: Ohio high school tormented by Twitter gossip
Thanks to tech, high school has only gotten nastier. Now teens are taking to Twitter to post anonymous, often cruel messages about their classmates — and word gets around the student body fast.
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Review
Moto X review
The phone that’s supposed to mark a new Motorola is about to hit the market. It has an incredible design and color options that set it apart from just about every other smartphone out there — but does it have the guts to back it all up?
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Report
Omni, reboot: an iconic sci-fi magazine goes back to the future
Between 1978 and 1997, the magazine Omni published some of the smartest sci-fi works around. Now the magazine is coming back — but science fiction today looks a lot different than it did back them. Be sure to check out our interview with science-fiction pioneer Bruce Sterling too, whose work is appearing in Omni’s debut.
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Interview
Welcome to ‘The World’s End’: a conversation with Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost
The trio behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are back for the final piece of their thematically connected comedy trilogy. We caught up with them to chat about their writing process, their time on set, and if we'll ever be lucky enough to see their team together again.
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Report
Russia's new neo-Nazi sport: terrorizing gay youth online
As Russian lawmakers push forward their anti-gay agenda, vigilante groups are only making the situation worse. Two groups in particular are now gaining notoriety for tricking gay men into visiting them, and then violently harassing them on camera.
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Report
'What if you could Amazon the news?' Why Jeff Bezos invested in The Washington Post
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos surprised the media world this week when he purchased The Washington Post almost out of the blue. Now the big question is how the tech entrepreneur will try to change the aging newspaper industry.
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Review
Withings Pulse review
Withings’ new fitness tracker clips onto your pocket and displays a ton of different details about your day. But having a matchbox-sized device hanging off you may not always go so smoothly, and the Pulse still has to figure out what to do with all of that data it's learned about you. Can Withings' latest pull it all together?
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Interview
Choire Sicha on 'Very Recent History,' a book that is '100 percent true'
Choire Sicha is cofounder of The Awl, an offbeat news site focused on culture and current events. His very first book was published this week, and we connected with him for an eccentric interview discussing the blurred line between fiction and nonfiction, how his website operates, and his love of the puzzle game Candy Crush.
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'Card Hunter' is the next great board game, and it's all in your browser
Card Hunter combines two of the geekiest and most enduring tabletop games, Dungeons & Dragons and Magic the Gathering, into a smart and irreverent digital board game. We spoke with the game’s creators to find out how they translated and mashed up the iconic titles.
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