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Subscribe Advertisement 2/6/20 7:25 AM 1 Education 2/6/20 Education 2/6/20 Education High School Teacher Holds Class Via Videochat While in Coronavirus Quarantine Matt Novak 6 1 A high school math teacher in Australia who recently visited China has found a novel way to keep his students engaged while he sits in self-imposed quarantine over concerns that he visited a country with high concentrations of the new coronavirus. He’s conducting his class through videochat while sitting 5 miles away … 1/21/20 10:24 AM 1 Games 1/21/20 Games 1/21/20 Games The N64 Controller Almost Had its Own Private Second Screen Andrew Liszewski 14 1 Few controllers in the history of video gaming had to do as much heavy lifting as the N64's. It not only introduced Nintendo fans to analog control sticks, it also included a slot for memory cards, and eventually the heavy Rumble Pak accessory. A second screen accessory almost happened too , but instead found its way … Disney 1/6/20 1/6/20 11:11 AM 1 Disney 1/6/20 Disney Disney+ Edits Out Goofy's Smoking Scene in Supposedly Uncut Version of Classic Movie Matt Novak 42 1 Energy 1/2/20 1/2/20 10:29 AM 1 Energy 1/2/20 Energy Toyota CEO Predicted Peak Oil by 2020 Back in 2009 Matt Novak 18 1 Advertisement 1/1/20 10:20 AM 7 News 1/1/20 News 1/1/20 News Movies, Music, and Books That Enter the Public Domain Today Matt Novak 144 7 Today isn’t just a day to nurse your hangover from New Year’s Eve—it’s also a day to celebrate the public domain. Movies, books, music, and more from 1924 are all entering the public domain today, meaning that you’re free to download, upload, and share these titles however you see fit. And it’s completely legal. Politics 12/12/19 12/12/19 5:35 AM 8 Politics 12/12/19 Politics Watchmen Creator Alan Moore Explains Why He's Voting Today For the First Time in 40 Years Matt Novak 439 8 War 12/9/19 12/9/19 2:41 PM 3 War 12/9/19 War U.S. Army Worries Humanity is Biased Against Deadly Cyborg Soldiers Because of Movies Like Terminator Matt Novak 47 3 Crime 12/6/19 12/6/19 11:39 AM 3 Crime 12/6/19 Crime Bullets That Killed President Kennedy to Be Released as 3D Scans Matt Novak 32 3 Advertisement Movies 12/4/19 12/4/19 6:58 AM 3 Movies 12/4/19 Movies The Mandalorian Has Been Edited to Look Like a 1980s Sitcom and It's Strangely Perfect Matt Novak 97 3 Gadgets 11/27/19 11/27/19 11:03 AM 1 Gadgets 11/27/19 Gadgets This Wired Article From 2007 About Throwing Away Your Mobile Phone Makes Some Good Points Matt Novak 9 1 11/26/19 9:53 AM 2 Disney 11/26/19 Disney 11/26/19 Disney That Time Animators Brought a Guillotine to the Disney Labor Strike in 1941 Matt Novak 29 2 Today, we often think of labor strikes as fairly mundane affairs—at least in the United States. But there was a time when labor actions were much more intense. Like in 1941, when animators supporting the strike at Disney’s studio in Burbank, California brought a guillotine to show just how upset they were with Disney … 11/22/19 11:40 AM 4 11/22/19 Will Elon Musk's Cybertruck Arrive Before the Flying Car? Matt Novak 148 4 Building the future is hard. And nowhere was that more evident than at Tesla’s grand unveiling of the Cybertruck in Los Angeles last night. But if anyone can do it, Elon Musk can, right? Right? Advertisement News 11/15/19 11/15/19 4:10 AM 1 News 11/15/19 News Lawrence G. Paull, Oscar-Nominated Visionary Behind Blade Runner , Back to the Future, Dies at 81 Alyse Stanley 5 1 10/29/19 11:12 AM 4 Computers 10/29/19 Computers 10/29/19 Computers Here's the Internet's 'Birth Certificate' From 50 Years Ago Today Matt Novak 47 4 Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet was born. It was a humble beginning—a single login from a computer terminal at UCLA in Los Angeles to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the Bay Area. But it was a tiny baby step that would eventually catapult the world into the information age. Movies 10/1/19 10/1/19 12:23 PM 2 Movies 10/1/19 Movies The New World War I Movie 1917 Was Edited to Be One Continuous Shot That Plays in Real-Time Matt Novak 25 2 Privacy and Security 9/30/19 9/30/19 1:17 PM 3 Privacy and Security 9/30/19 Privacy and Security Watch Steve Jobs Assure Americans in 1981 That Computers Wouldn't Be a Privacy Nightmare Matt Novak 85 3 Advertisement 9/27/19 12:54 PM 3 Transportation 9/27/19 Transportation 9/27/19 Transportation The Motorized Scooter of 1959 Was Cool as Hell Matt Novak 50 3 Electric scooters are all the rage here in the 21st century, with companies like Lime, Bird, and even Uber dumping them in cities around the world. But our generation obviously didn’t invent the motorized scooter. If you needed any evidence, just check out this film from the Chicago Film Archives showing off the … Animals 9/26/19 9/26/19 6:30 AM 1 Animals 9/26/19 Animals Was Boris Johnson Trying to Quote Churchill During His Dystopian Chicken Speech at the UN? Matt Novak 14 1 Computers 9/19/19 9/19/19 11:40 AM Save Computers 9/19/19 Computers Huawei's 2010 Concept Video About the Year 2020 Is Super Awkward Matt Novak 28 Save 9/18/19 11:24 AM 3 Show Me Your Nerd 9/18/19 Show Me Your Nerd 9/18/19 Show Me Your Nerd A Peek Into the Soviet Computer Revolution Alex Cranz 29 3 One of the largest and coolest collections of Soviet computers in the world resides in an apartment complex in Mariupol, Ukraine. Dmitriy Cherepanov started Club 8-bit with a small collection of computers built when the Soviet bloc was crafting its own personal computers. Advertisement More stories Advertisement...