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Play Wikileaks: The Video Game

Adrian Chen · 12/12/10 11:42AM

Want to know exactly what it feels like to run Wikileaks? Play this game. You, Julian Assange, must sneak into the oval office and download 300,000 classified documents from Barack Obama's laptop using a thumb drive while he sleeps.

The Top 100 Videos of 2010 in 170 Seconds

Sarah Natochenny · 12/10/10 12:35PM

Between pranks, sports, tech, video games, singing, dancing, and television, there was a lot to choose from this year! Here are the Top 100 videos that became famous on the web in 2010—all in under three minutes.

Ancient Greek Computer Remade with Legos

Richard Blakeley · 12/09/10 02:56PM

The Antikythera is an ancient mechanical computer designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was found in a wreck in 1900 and it's complexity and significance were not understood until decades later. Now it's been remade with Legos.

Gawker Dating: Uniting You in Awkwardness

Richard Lawson · 12/09/10 11:48AM

As something of a social experiment, Gawker is introducing a relatively lo-fi dating service! It'll take place in the comments, under the tag #gawkerdating. Leave a want ad, a picture, or both!

Rent Mark Zuckerberg's House!

Max Read · 12/02/10 01:24PM

Looks like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has moved out of his Palo Alto rental. A tipster emailed us the listing for the 26-year-old billionaire's former digs—$7,850 a month for a "gorgeous" four-bedroom with "charm and functionality."

MySpace Is for Sale; Could Google Buy?

Ryan Tate · 11/30/10 02:40PM

Who would buy MySpace? When News Corp. bought the social network for $580 million five years ago, it was on top; now MySpace trails Facebook and isn't trying to catch up. And News Corp is finally talking about selling.

If Wikileaks Broke the Espionage Act, So Did the New York Times

John Cook · 11/30/10 01:22PM

Attorney General Eric Holder says the criminal investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is more than just "saber-rattling," and Justice Department officials are claiming he violated the Espionage Act. If that's true, isn't the New York Times guilty as well?

Watch a Visualization of 200 Countries' Health, Wealth Over 200 Years

Matt Cherette · 11/29/10 05:21PM

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that life expectancy/income across the world was less in 1810 than in 2010, but how—and where—did the statistics tick up over time? In this stunningly visual presentation, Hans Rosling explains.

How Twitter Scooped Wikileaks (Updated)

Adrian Chen · 11/28/10 11:40AM

Twitter has out-leaked the leakers. About 12 hours before Wikileaks latest enormous leak was scheduled to be released, a Twitter user bought a copy of a German news magazine outlining the leak after it was placed on newstands too early.

Why the iPad Newspaper is Doomed

Ryan Tate · 11/24/10 02:25PM

Rupert Murdoch is putting $30 million and 100 journalists behind an iPad newspaper called "The Daily." He even has support from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. But no one really believes this thing will last. Here's why.

Shep Smith Reads the TSA List of Prohibited Items

Ena Brdjanovic · 11/23/10 04:42PM

In case your only access to the outside world is Fox News, don't fret; Shep Smith has your back. Watch Shep list all the prohibited food items that the TSA will confiscate (and later consume) during Thanksgiving travel.

Google Fired an Apple Legend for Leaking Internal Memo

Ryan Tate · 11/23/10 11:54AM

The saga of Randy Wigginton is long and lively. He was employee number six at Apple. A distinguished engineer at PayPal and eBay. And now word out of Google is that he's been fired there for leaking a raise.