A visual history of Nintendo consoles and other top stories.

• A visual history of Nintendo consoles

  Mario has made his way onto many machines over the years.NintendoNintendo’s future has arrived. It’s called the Switch, and, true to its name, it blurs the line between home console and portable gaming machine. We can’t say how good the new device will be just yet, but on concept alone, it looks neat. This is far from the first time we’ve said that about a Nintendo console. The Japanese giant has earned legendary status among gaming fans for making machines — and a whole lot of games — that ar..

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• Hillary Clinton will likely be as pro-innovation as President Obama

  

  Gregory Ferenstein Crunch Network Contributor Gregory Ferenstein is a San Francisco-based writer and teaches math for journalists through the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. He is the publisher of The Ferenstein Wire. More posts by this contributor: How to join the network Silicon Valley has not embraced Hillary Clinton in the same way it did Barack Obama. Donors from the Valley contributed just a third of what they gave in 2012 (roughly $3.3M vs. $8.8M by June of..

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• Who to Blame for the Attack on the Internet

  

  A version of this post originally appeared in the Cyber Saturday edition of Data Sheet, Fortune’s daily tech newsletter. Our worst hacking fears came true on Friday as criminals deployed millions of everyday objects—internet-connected cameras, printers, and so on—to launch an attack on a critical part of the Internet. The attack was a success, crippling the websites of major companies like Amazon, Netflix and Twitter for hours at a time. We now have a handle on what happened: Hackers used publi..

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• New MacBook Pro Line-Up Leaks Ahead Of Official Launch

  

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• 'Go Insta': The Future Live Video for Instagram?

  

  (Photo : BTV) Apps that uses live streaming platform proved that live videos attracts people's interest. News came out from a certain publication that Instagram was testing its new live feature called 'Go Insta!'. Instagram has not yet commented about this information. It is not yet clear if the 'Go Insta!' is true or not. A live streaming platform allows users to post real time photos and videos. This feature gives an impression that the one who is uploading the video and the one viewing it se..

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• Gotcha: Space Station Grabs Onto NASA's 5100-Pound Cargo Craft

  

  Enlarge this image The Cygnus resupply craft slowly approaches the International Space Station — and its waiting robotic arm, the Canadarm2 — Sunday morning. NASA TV hide caption toggle caption NASA TV The Cygnus resupply craft slowly approaches the International Space Station — and its waiting robotic arm, the Canadarm2 —..

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• How did ESA's Mars lander meet its untimely end?

  

  Just about a minute before it was supposed to touch down on Mars, Schiaparelli lost contact with mission control.At first it was unclear what became of the craft, designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian space agency Roscosmos to demonstrate soft landing technologies on Mars. Then, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter obtained low-resolution photos that appeared to show a wreckage.On Friday, ESA officials confirmed that the lander, which began its final descent about 2.5 miles abov..

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• What a new map tells us about the Milky Way

  

  By charting the concentration of neutral hydrogen, the most abundant element in space, a team of international researchers have created a detailed survey of the Milky Way. Combining 10 billion individual data points and thousands of hours of telescope observations at the Parkes Observatory in Australia and Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope in Germany, the HI4PI map shows concentration of stars in the Milky Way as well as the surrounding dwarf galaxies. The research, which began in 2006, was publ..

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• Dunk test video shows the Google Pixel is more waterproof than you might think

  

  As a premium priced device, it’s a bit surprising that the brand new Google Pixel is severely lacking when it comes to its ability to withstand dust and water. In fact, the Google Pixel only sports an IP53 rating which means that it technically isn’t designed to even withstand splashes of water. DON’T MISS: Everything we know about Apple’s exciting next-gen MacBook Pro Per the Ingress Protection (IP) chart, here’s how the Google Pixel stands up. It has a level 5 rating against solids which me..

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• Lives of snow leopards in danger; hundreds being killed every year, warns report!

  

  New Delhi: The animals that are essential for human sustenance are slowly disappearing. Of course, climate change is one of the culprits, but there's another culprit that humans can control, but aren't – illegal wildlife trade. Illegal wildlife trade is an unrivaled, flourishing business and is continually on the rise. The kind of torture and harassment that innocent animals are subjected to in the hands of poachers and traders is unfathomable. It is slowly taking up the guise of a sport for pe..

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