🛸 SciFi books, Mario news, the end of computer magazines, and more - This Geek in Review for 2023-04-21
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Internet Travels
Geek
Retro
Videogames
- Sega Sammy launches $772 million offer for Angry Birds-maker Rovio | Ars Technica
- Mario’s 1-Up Mushroom Has A Secret Origin Too Dark For The Movies
- Candy Crush Mom Accidentally Entered $250k Tournament, Kills It
Technology
- The End of Computer Magazines in America | Technologizer by Harry McCracken
- The Unexpected Reason Apple Is Dominating the U.S. Smartphone Market
Science
- Detecting stress in the office from how people type and click
- A First-of-Its-Kind Signal Has Been Detected in The Human Brain : ScienceAlert
Pop Culture
- For Lee Tilghman, There Is Life After Influencing - The New York Times
- Best TV Series That Defined Gen X, Ranked
- So long, red envelopes: DVDs-in-the-mail version of Netflix ends in September | Ars Technica
- National Recording Registry Inducts Music from Madonna, Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, Daddy Yankee
- Michelle Yeoh’s Star Trek: Section 31 Now a Movie, Filming 2023
- That Galaxy Quest TV series might finally be happening and we have mixed feelings | Ars Technica
- Netflix is shutting down its original DVD business after 25 years
- AI Drake just set an impossible legal trap for Google
Pot Pourri
- McCheapest - What are the prices of Big Macs from around the US?
- The Party Game With a Built-In Swear Filter – Now I Know
- Social media is doomed to die