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Ever since we spent afternoons flipping throughNintendo Powerand weekends watching and re-watchingThe Wizard, we’ve imagined that working at Nintendo must be awesome. This statue, awarded to a Nintendo employee after 20 years of work at the company, just proves it in spades. I mean, who wouldn’t want a bronze Mario statue hanging out on the mantle? Super cool. The man, Jerry Danson, has worked at Nintendo since 1991, making this is 20th year....

The Uno III is an electric motorcycle that drives on one wheel driving at slow speeds balancing like a Segway, and upon speeding up transforms to two wheels allowing for speeds for up to 35MPH. The electric powered transformer is the brainchild of Benjamin Gulak who designed the bike in high school after taking a trip to Asia and seeing the pollution bikes emit. The compact ability of the bike enables you to easily fold it up and take it into your home for charging....

If you’re in the market for a new set of hi-fi speakers or studio monitors, you might have come across the term ‘waveguide’ before. You might’ve seen a photo or illustration in marketing materials pointing to a fancy trim ring or horn-looking-thing around a speaker’s tweeter, as in the header image above. Sometimes a waveguide is even directly integrated into the speaker’s cabinet design itself. This is more than just an aesthetic frivolity....

WheniTunes Matchwas released yesterday to developers, we discovered that it seemed to allow you to stream music from your device or another computer as long as your music was uploaded to iCloud. Now Apple has toldAll Things Dthat it iCloud does not actually stream music and instead users are able to play songs back as they are downloaded. An Apple spokesperson told the site that any music that you want to access from iCloud will still need to be stored locally on your computer or iDevice while you’re listening to it....

Erin Simpson, associate director for technology policy at Washington, D.C.–based think tank The Center for American Progress, had a message for Facebook. Last year, she co-wrote a pair of reports advising major social media platforms, like Facebook, on how to better address the twin crises ofelection delegitimizationandhealth misinformation. But Facebook has also been pushing a message at her. For more than a year, Simpson had been noticing ads pop up with the same phrasing: Facebook “supports updated internet regulations,” the ads always said....