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Alien Invasion 2017 timeline

April, 2017April 16: An apparent "meteor" traveling at an unusually low altitude flies over Nice, France, before apparently crashing into the Mediterranean Sea. Numerous videos and photos of the...

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six new Fast Radio Bursts

Astronomy experts with the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have discovered six new Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) emitting from a region far beyond our Milky...

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Why Hollywood is Dead

Hollywood has no problem being dumb, sleazy and violent. Those are all known and marketable qualities. What it does not look is appearing desperate. Desperation however is what the Oscars of this year...

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A giant mystery: 18 strange giant skeletons found in Wisconsin: Sons of god;...

Here's one for your "Forbidden Archaeology" file.Scientists are remaining stubbornly silent about a lost race of giants found in burial mounds near Lake Delavan, Wisconsin, in May 1912. The dig site at...

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Why Millennials are Trending Toward Minimalism

You will certainly find short-term worry about not enough people buying enough stuff—but that worry has always existed. In a society that bases its measures of success in terms of home prices, market...

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Snapchat lost its magic

If you ever used and liked Snapchat, I’m sorry. It’s ruined now.Snapchat stories were beautiful in their simplicity. You could only upload snaps to your story that were taken as they happened, inside...

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Videogame Sales Are Fading and It’s Crushing GameStop

GameStop may need a new start. The videogame retailer released details about its holiday sales Friday, and they weren’t pretty. It’s yet another sign of the eroding business for physical games. Sales...

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Nintendo Switch Impressions

We go hand-on with Nintendo's latest home console, the Nintendo Switch. And in typical Nintendo fashion it is at once impressive, charming, and confusing.It was hard to not to feel a little confused...

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Nintendo is Lazy and You Don't Care

n New Super Mario Bros. Wii's multiplayer mode, you can play as icons Mario, Luigi or two versions of sideshow character Toad. So when famed Nintendo designer and development leader Shigeru Miyamoto is...

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Nintendo Switch tech specs

Nintendo, unlike Microsoft and Sony, has been keen not to mention the hardware power of the upcoming Nintendo Switch. We’re mere weeks from launch and there isn’t a single piece of official information...

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Only 50% of Game Developers think Switch will beat Wii U

If the people who make video games for a living know what they’re talking about, Nintendo’s upcoming Switch console has a good chance of being a disappointment for the company. In a new State of the...

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Top Presidents

1 Abraham Lincoln (16)Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865 . Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War -...

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Nintendo Switch impressions

Expectation is a tricky thing to manage, especially when your business is a famous name. Companies like Sony, Apple and, yes, Nintendo all struggle with issues of expectation; everyone knows you're...

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I'm too Old for Videgames, but I Still Play Them

We tend to be very critical of the video game industry here, and damn it, the industry deserves it. They charge more per-copy of their product than any home entertainment medium, and are always looking...

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higher Nintendo Switch cartridges costs affect third party game sales

This week, Eurogamer has published an interesting piece about why a few games are just flat-out more expensive on the Switch than they are elsewhere.They look at a pair of indie games Rime and Puyo...

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Death of Simple Technology, As Told Through the Fall of Nintendo

1/2by Andrew SamuelTechnology has come to define how we live our lives. It constantly changes the way we talk with our friends, do business, travel, and even wake up in the morning. A large part of...

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MAME roms for free

https://archive.org/details/messmame has a free archive of arcade roms like what I played in US in the 1990s and 2000s.  It has disappeared from stores, but lives on in archive.org.  My favorite arcade...

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Why are Mensa top 10 picks 8-bit retro

Here are the top 10 video games as selected by Mensa members:AsteroidsDonkey KongTetrisMs. Pac-ManCall of Duty 4BioshockSuper Mario Bros.Diablo IIChrono TriggerThe Legend of ZeldaI have a bone to pick,...

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Grey aliens clone themselves to survive and Humans have 6 billion.

According to Sitchin, and other researchers, the mysterious ‘bag’ is some sort of box where the ancient Anunnaki deposited the so-called Water of Life”, something like a mobile Gene Bank used in their...

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Greys are sophisticated biological robots created by an extraterrestrial...

• Reveals the Grey’s nature as sophisticated self-aware machines created by a long vanished extraterrestrial civilization • Explains how their quest to capture human souls appears in the historical...

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