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Will the Oscar Envelopes Ever Go Digital? Designer Tells All

Written by Brian Anthony Hernandez

Actor Tom Hanks clutched an iridescent gold envelope onstage at the Academy Awards two years ago and uttered, "These envelopes are works of art in themselves." Those eight words from Hanks, the evening's first presenter, praised the newly revamped wi...

Extreme Free Runner Conquers Snow Obstacles With Ease

Written by Neha Prakash

Sometimes snow flakes just gets in the way. Those slippery death traps will manage to land you on your butt every time. Unless you're Ronnie Shalvis, and you flip and glide over the icy tundra like a gymnastic Zamboni. Shalvis shows off how he jumps,...

Sesame Street to Release Secret Video After 1 Billion Views

Written by The Daily Dot

The Count is about to count his way to a milestone. Sesame Street is about 22 million views away from becoming the first nonprofit organization and the first U.S. children's company to reach one billion views on YouTube, Geekosystem reported. At pres...

5 Retro Asteroid Games to Play While Awaiting Earth's Destruction

Written by Christina Warren

While awaiting the fly-by of the 150-foot wide asteroid 2012 DA14, you might want to take some time to play some asteroid and meteor-based classic games in your web browser. We've tracked down five of our favorites, all with an asteroid and meteor tw...

Criterion and Hulu Offer Free Weekend for Film Fanatics

Written by Christina Warren

We made all our movies free on @hulu through the weekend. Enjoy. <3 ow.ly/hIUOP— Criterion Collection (@Criterion) February 14, 2013 In honor of Valentine's Day, Hulu and Criterion are opening up access to the Criterion Collection of streaming films ...

See How the Sci-Fi Cities of 'Looper' Were Created

Written by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

One of the best parts of sci-fi movies is to take a peek at the future and see how it might look. We loved movies like Back to The Future Part 2 (flying cars! 3D sharks in the middle of the city!) and Blade Runner (robots everywhere!) for that reason...

Robots Share Stage With Actors in New Show

Written by TechNewsDaily

A dying girl pressed a humanoid robot's hand to her face as the robot began reciting poetry. The scene showed a story from the future, and was acted out by a human actress and an android during a North American tour of the Japanese Robot Theater Proj...

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Hacking Hollywood: How Digital Insurgents Are Disrupting Film

Written by Eugene Chung

When Seth MacFarlane takes the stage at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday to host the Academy Awards, it will be 84 years after the first such ceremony in 1929 and 44 days after the death of Infogami co-founder and anti-Hollywood/anti-SOPA activist Aaron S...

Music Hacker's Nerd Magic Makes Great Dance Beats

Written by Fran Berkman

It has been a busy few months for dance-music maestro Robert DeLong. In January, he was voted one of MTV's Artists to Watch in 2013. On Feb. 5, he released his debut album Just Movement. Catching up with DeLong before his show at Webster Hall on Feb....

Jimmy Fallon Epically Fails at the PlayStation 4

Written by Chelsea Stark

The newly announced PlayStation 4 made an appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Thursday night, and Jimmy was one of the first people to get his hands on its new controller. Fallon tried out a section of one of the system's launch titles, Killzo...

How 'Skylanders' Creates a Superfan Economy

Written by Lauren Hockenson

To call Activision’s Skylanders franchise a success is an understatement. In just under a year and a half, the series’ two games, Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure and Skylanders: Giants, have raked in $1 billion in sales worldwide. They remain both the ...

Watch Sony Unveil the Next PlayStation Console

Written by Chelsea Stark

Live video for mobile from Ustream Sony is presumably announcing its next generation console to a crowd of journalists in New York City on Wednesday evening. The next console, codenamed "Orbis" by Sony and currently being referred to by most as the P...

PlayStation 4 a No-Show

Written by Chris Taylor

If you were hoping to see an actual console after Sony's PlayStation 4 launch event -- or even to learn how much it will cost -- you're sadly out of luck. The much-hyped two-hour event, watched by hundreds of thousands online, turned out to be long o...

10 Fun Facts About Oscar Statuettes

Written by Brian Anthony Hernandez

Here's everything you need to know about the Oscar statuettes, just in time for your Academy Awards' viewing party on Feb. 24. Impress your friends with these 10 fun tidbits.

Buzz Lightyear Mobile Game Is on Its Way

Written by Emily Price

Disney released a teaser photo Tuesday for a new Toy Story-themed mobile game coming soon. Posted to Disney Interactive’s Tumblr, the image shows Buzz Lightyear throwing a ball into a stack of blocks, presumably knocking them down in order to score p...

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'Game of Thrones' Trailer Premieres Ahead of Season 3

Written by Anita Li

Epic battles and stormy rivalries return to television with the third-season debut of Game of Thrones. Viewers are getting a sneak peek at the latest chapter of HBO's fantasy saga in this YouTube video. The minute-long trailer teases clips from the u...

8 Questions We Still Have About the PlayStation 4

Written by Chelsea Stark

Sony announced the PlayStation 4 with a lot of fanfare and in-your-face visuals. The two-hour presentation inundated the media and gaming industry with a lot of pretty lights and sounds, but left more questions that needed answering. While we're not ...

2014 World Cup Will Be First to Use Goal-Line Technology

Written by Sam Laird

FIFA, soccer's global governing body, confirmed this week that goal-line technology will be used at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. That will mark the first time the planet's biggest single-sport event uses the high-tech method of determining whether o...

50 Embarrassing Songs Invading Your Facebook News Feed

Written by Brian Anthony Hernandez

A new music station on digital streaming service Slacker plays only 50 songs -- the ones your Facebook friends cringe at when they see them in their News Feeds. The audio ad for "The 50 Most Embarrassing Facebook Songs" station says it all: "All the ...

PlayStation 4 Gets Early Support From Publishers and Developers

Written by Chelsea Stark

The PlayStation 4 unveiling Wednesday night proved to be just as much about the games and publishers already planned for the system as it was the new hardware. Sony took the time to trot out several different companies to showcase what each had been ...

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