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New Sony Playstation NEO Confirmed To Be In Development

Early this year, rumors of a new Playstation 4 model began to surface, with many specualting its release to be in the summer of 2016. These rumors, while unfounded at the time, were echoed across tech based media and has …

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Titanfall 2 Announced for a Multi-Console 2016 Release

Earlier this week, Respawn entertainment announced that the sequel to its hit 2014 title, Titanfall, will be available later this year, and more importantly, will have a multi-platform release. Titanfall originally released in 2014 as an Xbox One exclusive title, …

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Iceland’s Prime Minister Resigns Amid Panama Papers Controversy

The financial crisis of 2008 rocked the world economy, destroying markets, destabilizing countries, and throwing the world in complete financial disarray. This crisis was largely the result of poor, borderline illegal financial decision of the world’s most prosperous banks and …

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2.6 Terabytes of Political Corruption Data Unleashed in Leak

Over a year ago, an anonymous source contacted the German media outlet Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) to submit encrypted internal documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that sells anonymous offshore companies around the world. These shell firms allow their …

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2016 the first year of Consumer Virtual Reality?

We’re only a few months into 2016 and we’ve already had major leaps and strides towards real, consumer level VR. Between options like the Oculus Rift (soon to launch for around 599 USD) and the HTC Vive blasting into the …

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Hulk Hogan wins $115 Million Lawsuit against Gawker media for stolen sex tape.

In a bout that read like a headline straight from the WWE, Hulk Hogan has veritably leg dropped the media conglomerate, Gawker, in a $115 million lawsuit over the posting of a hidden camera sex tape of the former wrestler …

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The Internet: A Shrinking Haven of Free Speech?

The internet, the worlds greatest haven of free information. It has for decades been a way in which people can connect, share ideas and innovations, and simply enjoy free time. Many of these aspects today remain, but there is an …

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Long Term Study Finds No Real Link Between Gaming and Sexism

A recent study out of Germany has come to the conclusion that playing video games has no association with sexism. A seemingly odd comment given the recent online media storms about the alleged sexism in gaming.

The study, which was …

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Hollywood Hospital Extorted by Cyber Terrorists

So, something seemingly crazy happened last week, the Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital on Wednesday February 17th announced that it paid nearly $17,000 to resume normal operations after digital extortionists knocked its computer systems offline for a period of time. Thats right, …

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The Discovery of Gravitational Waves, and Why its A Scientific Breakthrough

On Thursday, at 10:30 a.m. EST, the National Science Foundation gathered scientists from Caltech, MIT and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration in Washington D.C. to update the scientific community on some of the efforts being made by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave …

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