Monthly Archives: December 2014

The Most Popular Christmas Gifts of the Last Decade: Elmo, Apple, Elmo

By Leslie Horn

The Most Popular Christmas Gifts of the Last Decade: Elmo, Apple, Elmo

The most popular Christmas gifts over the past 10 years speak volumes about what people like. Which apparently is Elmo and iPods (but mostly Elmo). But if we look a little closely, it also says a whole lot about just how far tech has progressed. Let’s take a look.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/HTIAxknUFaU/the-most-popular-christmas-gifts-of-the-last-decade-el-1672470315

      

An intriguing retelling of the birth of Jesus set in the space age

By Jesus Diaz

An intriguing retelling of the birth of Jesus set in the space age

Here’s a strange Christmas film—weird, sad, and hopeful all at the same time. According to its creators, Anomaly is ‘a retelling of thetraditional Christmas Nativity which explores, through a modern-day lens, the events of two-thousand years ago, set against the space-race canvas of the 1960s.’

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ZdtvFKTxdNY/an-intriguing-retelling-of-the-birth-of-jesus-set-in-th-1675170837

      

Everyone Is Torrenting The Interview 

By Chris Mills

Everyone Is Torrenting The Interview

After much humming and hawing, Sony released The Interview to the internet yesterday, charging $6 for the privilege of seeing a CGI Kim Jong-Un go pop. And, because this is the internet, hundreds of thousands of people are repaying the favor by torrenting the crap out of it.

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/FJQ0jProsMg/everyone-is-torrenting-the-interview-1675156722

      

Armored truck spills $4.5 million on road, everyone rushes to grab it

By Jesus Diaz

Armored truck spills $4.5 million on road, everyone rushes to grab it

Dozens of Hong Kong motorists and pedestrians rushed to grab loads of money after an armored truck’s doors opened by accident on a busy road, spilling about $4.5 million dollars in HK$500 notes (US$65) on Christmas Eve, …

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Source:: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/Pj3a_F9Za9g/armored-truck-spills-4-5-million-on-road-everyone-rus-1675119372

      

2014’s best, worst and most notable quotes

By Stephen Shankland Plenty of high-profile people suffered from foot-in-mouth disease this year. Here, CNET catalogs some of the silly, smart and interesting things said in the world of tech in 2014.

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Source:: http://cnet.com.feedsportal.com/c/34938/f/645093/s/41c47036/sc/36/l/0L0Scnet0N0Cnews0Cthe0Ebest0Eworst0Eand0Emost0Enotable0Equotes0Efrom0E20A140C0Tftag0FCAD590Aa51e/story01.htm

      

I streamed ‘The Interview’ and now I need some eggnog

By Anthony Domanico It’s the film that got North Korea’s goat and turned Sony Pictures inside-out. Crave’s Anthony Domanico streams it to see if it’s worth the fuss.

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Source:: http://cnet.com.feedsportal.com/c/34938/f/645093/s/41c0b71f/sc/21/l/0L0Scnet0N0Cnews0Ci0Estreamed0Ethe0Einterview0Eand0Enow0Ei0Eneed0Esome0Eeggnog0C0Tftag0FCAD590Aa51e/story01.htm