Bionic Soldiers

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What’s the best way to spend $600 on games right now?

Microsoft and Sony have just kickstarted the next generation of games with the new Xbox One and PlayStation 4. As of today, they’re simply powerful, relatively affordable new boxes that play games. Tomorrow, they could be capable of much, much more. 

Everytime I finish an exam

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The comedy of errors that are IMF forecasts is well known: it was covered most recently in “Hilarious Charts Of The Day: IMF’s “Growth Forecasts” Over Time.” Moments ago we got the IMF’s first forecast update for 2014 which also included the Fund’s first 2015 forecasts for growth around the world. Not surprisingly, they were largely higher across the board except for China which has seen its 2014 projected GDP growth collapse from 8.5% a year ago to 7.5% now, and is expected to drop modestly to 7.3% in 2015. The charts showing the progression of said hilarious forecasts are shown in their entirety below, about which one thing can be said with certainty: whatever the GDP growth rate in the world is in 2014 and 2015 it will be anything but what the IMF predicts it to be.

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Would you pay $2,000 for a GIF?

The artist Molly Soda, 24, is what you might call “Tumblr famous.” The short, green-haired Chicago native has about 30,000 followers on the platform, where she posts GIFs, selfie performance pieces, and undulating word art. “I’ve never sold any work that I wasn’t directly commissioned to do,” she says. 

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