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Madeon: You Gotta See This S***



You know that shit feeling you get when you realize people younger than you might actually be more successful than you? If you're really not into that, it's probably best you stop reading right now. Just a warning, because it looks like the future of electronic music might be the a 17-year-old Frenchman who calls himself, simply, Madeon(@itsmadeon). He's currently enjoying his sensation status on YouTube thanks to his latest remix--which has netted over 620k views in 4 days. In case you aren't a part of that group yet, you might want to take a seat...…
Read | Posted by Mike Filicetti | Jul 18th 2011, 12:51pm | Music News, Technology, Mau5trap

And the Japanese one-up us yet again



While browsing my favorite borderline-NSFW website, What Would Tyler Durden Do, at work this morning (I'm a risk-taker), I came across this bizarre post. The headline reads: Hatsune Miku is a huge star in Japan, a 3D hologram. Usually I dismiss titles like this as being anything but the truth, but after watching the included videos I think it's safe to say holy shit, that Japanese pop star is a 3D hologram.

Now I've seen everything.

Hatsune Miku has sold "lots" of records, appears to sell out shows (unless the crowd…
Read | Posted by Kelly Mason | Nov 12th 2010, 10:31am | Video, Technology

New iPhone "4G" Leaked



May be old news to some, but on March 18th, Apple engineer Gray Powell left his phone, cleverly disguised as an iPhone 3GS, on a bar stool of a German bar in Redwood City, California. Long story short, the guys at Gizmodo got a call about this new "iPhone 4G" and offered to buy this prototype from the man who found it for $5,000, and apparently Apple wants it back.

This is about the right time as Apple has released it's 3 previous iPhones in the June/July months for the AT&T;Carrier. Speaking of which, there's also news…
Read | Posted by Keith Jones | Apr 20th 2010, 2:31pm | Technology

S-S-S-SUPERBOWL SUNDAY

Well everyone, Superbowl Sunday is here, and I still don't care about football. I do, however, care about the commercials that cost 3 million dollars per 30-second slot, and my marketing class requires that we watch these anyway. Go figure.

A couple of notable things that you may want to know about:

This is from a few days ago, but it's pretty huge in technology news. Basically, Steve Jobs is crazy(er than he already was). You know that whole "don't be evil" mantra that Google swears by? Jobs think it's bullshit. Shortly after, Google announced that they are…
Read | Posted by Kelly Mason | Feb 7th 2010, 2:09pm | Technology

Where is my iDad and iMom?!



The real question is where is my iPad?!

If you haven't heard about it, it's the hot new thing... the hottest trending twitter topic (this is an assumption, no solid evidence, too lazy to open new tab to check) and the hottest trending product. You know those mini laptops? Little netbook thingy majiggers? Well the iPad is the same idea; from Apple. They released it today and you can check it out now on Apple.com.

Epic.
Read | Posted by Jasenka Gracic | Jan 27th 2010, 12:17pm | Rants & Raves, Technology