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The Haunting Legacy Of The Perfect 'SimCity 3000' Game In 2010, some random guy on the internet achieved gaming perfection. Vincent Ocasla painstakingly designed a city so complex and densely populated that it rendered all future attempts at "SimCity" pointless. It was beautiful and horrifying.

The Stolen Kids Of Sarah Lawrence What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate's father?

How Microsoft Learned From The Past To Redesign Its Future One room at Microsoft’s headquarters represents everything that’s changed about its design philosophy. via Digg http://bit.ly/2Llq1ei

Biker Expertly Hoodwinks The Authorities, Escapes Without Detection We don't condone road-rage or breaking traffic rules, however this nifty deception helped this biker avoid his police tail.

The Night John Belushi Died In 'The Castle on Sunset' — currently being adapted into an HBO series by John Krasinski and Aaron Sorkin — Hollywood historian Shawn Levy retraces the comedian's final days inside the legendary hotel where pal Robert De Niro stopped by to snort cocaine just hours before his death and the hotel's famed discretion was put to the ultimate test.

TurboTax Deliberately Hides Its Free File Page From Search Engines The makers of TurboTax as well as H&R Block promised the IRS to offer free filing for many Americans. But they're keeping Google from seeing it.

This Ape Figuring Out How To Use A Smartphone Is Getting Us Real Worried We had a good run, humanity, but now is the time for another simian species to succumb to the temptations of technology.

'If You Want To Kill Someone, We Are The Right Guys' via Digg http://bit.ly/2GEQEWU

Alex Honnold's Mom Wrote A Memoir Dierdre Wolownick gives us an inside look at what it was like to raise the "Free Solo" climber in "The Sharp End of Life."

The Inside Story of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s George Magazine In the '90s, John F. Kennedy Jr. founded and edited a revolutionary magazine called George, which covered politics like it was pop culture. Was it folly — or a glimpse of the Trumpian future?

A 'Blockchain Bandit' Is Guessing Private Keys And Scoring Millions via Digg http://bit.ly/2IMQ0bz

'Game Of Thrones' Fan Favorite Daniel Portman Has Big Pod Energy The most loyal squire in Westeros talks about Season Eight, his touching song in Episode Two, and why his sexually gifted character became so beloved by fans.

Blasts At Churches And Hotels In Sri Lanka Kill More Than 200 A series of coordinated bombings ripped across Sri Lanka on Sunday, striking hotels and churches, killing more than 200 people and shattering the relative calm that the war-torn nation had enjoyed in recent years.

Dog Finally Catches Tail Then Experiences Existential Dread After Max the dog caught his tail, he went through a roller coaster of emotions.

Living Off The Grid And Safe From Hurricanes In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, the Chaparros, like America's early frontier families, took matters into their own hands.

The Long, Strange History of Cargo Cults One day in 1900 or 1940, or at some point in between, a man whose name was John Frum — although he might not have been a man, and his name might not have been John Frum — arrived on Tanna island, in an archipelago that was then called the New Hebrides but is now called the Republic of Vanuatu.

A Brutal Supercut Of Fox News Hosts Bashing Obama For All The Things Trump Does Now The partisan tilt of Fox News is not exactly news, but this supercut from NowThis really puts into perspective the network's respective treatment of President Obama and President Trump.

Selfie Deaths Are An Epidemic A recent report found that 259 people died between 2011 and 2017 while stepping in front of the camera in often dangerous destinations. A writer goes deep into the psychology of selfies to figure out what's behind our obsession with capturing extreme risk-taking.

Seasteading Bitcoin Fans Say They're 'On the Run' From Thai Government via Digg http://bit.ly/2UBW8dE

The Best Hike In Every State Alpine scrambles and beach-front strolls; multi-day singletrack adventures and quick urban escapes; soaring trees and rolling sand dunes — every state in the country has something to offer intrepid hikers.

5-Star Phonies: Inside The Fake Amazon Review Complex I spent two weeks in the underbelly of Amazon's fake review economy and emerged questioning our collective trust in the stars.

An Astrophysicist On What The Black-Hole Image Reveals The great irony of black holes is that, in all the decades that we astrophysicists have talked about them, we never had any direct observational evidence for them. Until now. via Digg http://bit.ly/2UAYTfa

A New Super-Earth May Orbit The Star Next Door Subtle shifts in the motion of the nearby star Proxima Centauri suggest that it may host not one but two alien worlds. via Digg https://on.natgeo.com/2IiakSq

Stephen Curry Has A Popcorn Problem As the NBA playoffs begin, the Golden State Warriors superstar guard tells us all about his favorite snack and how it fuels his sharpshooting.

Here's The First Teaser Trailer For 'Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise Of Skywalker' There it is. We have the name — "Rise of Skywalker" — and the first trailer for "Star Wars" Episode 9, which features Daisy Ridley's Rey doing some wild fight moves.

It's Time To Panic About Privacy Here's the stark truth: We in the West are building a surveillance state no less totalitarian than the one the Chinese government is rigging up.

Scientists Just Unveiled The First Ever Picture Captured Of A Black Hole The Event Horizon Telescope, an international array of observatories teaming up to form a virtual, Earth-sized telescope in the hopes of capturing the first real image of a black hole, held six simultaneous press conferences across the globe today — and what those conferences announced did not disappoint.

Congress Is About To Ban The Government From Offering Free Online Tax Filing. Thank TurboTax A bill supported by Democrats and Republicans would make permanent a program that bars the IRS from ever developing its own online tax filing service.

Bill Hader Is Not Your Clown The former SNL star is much more serious than you'd think. Season Two of his Emmy-winning HBO series "Barry" proves how dark and deep the writer and actor can really get.

When It Comes To The Death Penalty, The Supreme Court Legalized Torture Long Ago The Supreme Court death penalty decision sparked outrage. But the court has long given constitutional cover to the most grotesque executions.

That Noise? The Rich Neighbors Digging A Basement Pool In Their $100 Million Brownstone The extremely loud and incredibly expensive renovations that have shattered a formerly quiet residential block in Manhattan. via Digg https://nyti.ms/2UwbWOp

 The Price Of A Pint Of Beer Across The Globe, Charted If you're planning a vacation around tossing back pints, your money will go a lot farther in Kraków than it would in, say, Rome. via Digg http://bit.ly/2CYvMrw

The 9 Big Things That Happened In January 2019 Good gymnastics, bad sexts and a whole bunch of no-good, very bad world events. Here are the ten big things that happened in January 2019, all in one big post. via Digg http://bit.ly/2UsTYbL

Why Is Stalking People On Venmo So Addictive? via Digg http://bit.ly/2UDLO3W

Apple cancels AirPower product, citing inability to meet its high standards for hardware via Digg https://tcrn.ch/2G4GTA7

Researchers Find Google Play Store Apps Were Actually Government Malware via Digg http://bit.ly/2WKuyHV

How The Big Five Tech Companies Make Money, Visualized via Digg http://bit.ly/2WNjvOg

YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant via Digg https://bloom.bg/2CYMI18

This Test Of Download Speeds On An Actual 5G Network Is... Whoa via Digg http://bit.ly/2OQS9nq

The IRS Tried To Take On The Ultrawealthy. It Didn't Go Well Ten years ago, the tax agency formed a special team to unravel the complex tax-lowering strategies of the nation's wealthiest people. But with big money — and Congress — arrayed against the team, it never had a chance.

How The Proliferation Of Cheap Knock-Offs Is Hurting American Industry via Digg http://bit.ly/2YTNW6W

Health Care's Huge Cybersecurity Problem via Digg http://bit.ly/2I0kBCK

The Golden Age Of YouTube Is Over via Digg http://bit.ly/2CXBs5a