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Stop the Music: How Britain’s Riots Harmed Its Record Industry

The following is a guest post by music journalist Mark Sutherland.

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’30 Minutes or Less’ Comedy Upsets Family of Real-Life ‘Pizza Bomber’

Remember the harrowing, horrifying real-life tale of Brian Wells, the pizza delivery guy forced to wear a live time bomb locked to his chest by a metal collar while robbing a bank in Erie, Pennsylvania? Well Columbia Pictures went and (sort of) made a comedy about it.

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Quote: LulzSec Ends Brazen Hacking Campaign

For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could…it’s time to say bon voyage. –LULZSEC, short for Lulz Security, a collective of fearless hackers who exposed security breaches in the networks of Sony, PBS and the CIA, [...]

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Crowdsourced Tribute to Michael Jackson Features Thousands of Fans’ Moves

Somewhere, the King of Pop is moonwalking to this video. Can you feel it?

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QUOTE: Sony Gets Blasted for PlayStation Security Breach

“As much as I think what the hackers did was downright criminal, the fact of the matter is they have done a marvelous job of showcasing Sony’s ignorance.” — TOKYO GUY, a commenter on AOL’s Engadget blog, discussing Sony’s monumental PlayStation Network security collapse (via Vancouver Sun)

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Hello, Andrew Garfield: Sony Releases Photos of The Amazing Spider-Man Star in Full Costume

Fans of the original Spider-Man will be happy about this, not to mention AG fans. 

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Thanks for the Memories: Sony to End Production of Walkman Tape Players

NewsFeed is fairly young, but it distinctly remembers rocking out to New Kids on the Block with an old-school Walkman cassette player. Now those days are finally gone.

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Video: Monitoring the E-Book Wars – A Cheap Kindle, Cheaper Nook

Prices are plunging in the E-Book world, leading Doug Aamoth to question: What’s the best bang for your book, when you stack the Kindle up against the Nook and the Ready Daily Edition? It’s a tough decision, but with prices this cheap, there must be a champion! (via Techland)

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Sony Casts New Spider-Man: The Very Talented, Very Unknown Andrew Garfield

He might not be the most recognized name in the movie industry, but he might just be one of the next generation’s most talented actors (via Techland)