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By Walt Hickey Clunkers France may offer the owners of old, high-pollution cars the chance to give the vehicles over for scrap in exchange for €2,500 (…
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By Walt Hickey Internet A judge ordered Charter Communications to fork over $19,179,392.45 to Windstream, a rival telecom, after sending out a mailing …
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By Walt Hickey Time Warp Prior to the pandemic, The Rocky Horror Picture Show had played at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland every Saturday night…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Another Castle Speedrunner Niftski became the first person to break 4 minutes, 55 seconds in a speedrun of Super Mario Bro…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Kim Bhasin, who wrote “One Couple’s Fight to Stop the ‘Gentrification’ of S…
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By Walt Hickey Have an excellent weekend! Hack Last month, 8.2 terabytes of data from 100 million people using Indian mobile payments app MobiKwik hit …
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By Walt Hickey Knives Out A pair of sequels to the hit murder mystery film Knives Out has sold to Netflix for $469 million, a colossal sum for the righ…
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By Walt Hickey Cards Topps Co., which makes sports trading cards, will go public through a special purposes acquisition company that values the company…
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By Walt Hickey Get To The Chopper A 4-pound solar-powered helicopter successfully endured its first nights on Mars, having been deposited by the Persev…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome back! Titans Godzilla vs. Kong made $48.5 million in its first five days over the course of the Easter weekend domestically, the…
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By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Katharine Lusk, who wrote “City Dwellers Gained More Access to Public Space…
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By Walt Hickey Have a great weekend! To hear the audio version of last week’s Sunday interview with the brilliant Karen Hao, anyone can check out the N…
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