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  • Rumors on the Internet: The Prince of Persia movie will be in 3D, but rubbish 3D (Update: Wait, no it won’t.)

    Rumors on the Internet: The Prince of Persia movie will be in 3D, but rubbish 3D (Update: Wait, no it won’t.)

    Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
    Words cannot describe the anticipation all of CrunchGear feels for the upcoming Prince of Persia movie, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. You may remember him from... nope, nope, I have no idea who he is, either. But anyway, news! Despite the fact that every two-bit Hollywood movie these days comes in 3D in some capacity, well, Prince of Persia is no different. There's a catch, though.

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  • We talked to the Pirate Party of the United States: Here’s what it’s all about

    We talked to the Pirate Party of the United States: Here’s what it’s all about

    Posted on September 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Let's make one thing absolutely clear about the Pirate Party of the United States (PPUS): it has no interest in defending your ability to illegally download The Blueprint 3 from Waffles.fm. It just doesn't. If you had the idea in your head that the PPUS would somehow work to legalize your bad habits, well, tough break, kid: it's a legitimate political party whose goal is not to make it so that you can download the latest Lady Gaga release with impunity, but rather to effect change in the more general realm of copyright and governmental transparency. In other words, you may want to lower that skull and crossbones flag you've been flying.

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  • Record every moment of your boring life

    Record every moment of your boring life

    Posted on July 30, 2009 | No Comments
    urcorderIf you're anything like me -- and let's face it, you're reading CrunchGear, so chances are high that you are -- you had more than a fleeting notion to buy one of those pet collar cameras to use for yourself, rather than your pet. The very nice people at uCorder are here to save you from the embarrassment of wearing a dog collar out in public.

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  • Will anybody give a damn about your burnt DVDs 1000 years in the future?

    Will anybody give a damn about your burnt DVDs 1000 years in the future?

    Posted on July 17, 2009 | No Comments
    A Utah company claims to have developed a DVD that will last 1,000 years under normal, everyday conditions. (You don't have to be a professional archivist, in other words.) And while that's an impressive achievement, if it is indeed true, there's one small problem: what are the odds that, 1,000 years from now, Future People will derive any value at all from said discs?

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  • Patriotic Microsoft threatens to move U.S. jobs overseas rather than pay taxes

    Patriotic Microsoft threatens to move U.S. jobs overseas rather than pay taxes

    Posted on June 4, 2009 | No Comments
    Good for Microsoft, kicking the American worker when he's down. President Obama means to close a loophole in the taxcode that allows corporations to “deduct... cost at a high tax rate and report... profits at a low tax rate.” In other words, win-win for the corporation at the expense of the United State Treasury. You know how Microsoft's Steve Balmer said he's deal with the closing of this loophole? “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S. as opposed to keeping them inside the U.S.” Neat.

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