In his third guest installment, the illustrious tech writer Steven Levy explains what it's like to play arcade Space Invaders while totally shitfaced.
When game historians recall the late '70s wave of video arcade games, they will correctly identify the major time-wasters, which include Asteroids, Breakout, Missile Defense Command and Space Invaders. (Pong was sort...
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Steven Levy, Wired senior writer and the man who found Einstein's missing brain, joins us to recollect his gadget-laden life back in 1979. He starts, fittingly, with the last typewriter he ever owned.
In 1979, I wrote all my stories to the accompaniment of a grating hum, which sometimes modulated to a low growl. These,...
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It's time for another roundup of pundits espousing heartfelt admiration and none-too-bloody criticism of a pretty hot Apple product. How did they—I mean "it"—do this time around? Have a look-see...
As usual, this matrix is just the tip of the molehill—if you want to really get in deep with these colorful characters, here's where to...
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NEW YORK--Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was...
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When a bunch of reviews hit, it's useful—and sometimes funny—to see how they echo each other, and how they differ.
In the Palm Pre reviews, nobody used the word "iPhone" as much as WSJ's Walt Mossberg—he was a third more likely to use it than his colleagues David Pogue (NYT) and Ed Baig (USA Today)...
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