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Celebrate Windows 95 With These Delightfully Terrible Retro Videos

Microsoft’s classic operating system turns 20 today. To celebrate, a nostalgic trip back to the ’90s via some deeply weird videos.

It might be news to many of today’s selfie-snapping, hashtag-happy millennials, but Windows 95 was a huge deal. I’ll never forget the day my dad came home from CompUSA with that blue, cloud-covered box and we cracked open the CD-ROM for the first time. The installation felt like it took took all night, but once the disc drive stopped whirring, we were in. This totally new interface—it introduced radical new concepts like the Windows “Start” menu and the taskbar—would be our gateway to so many new and wonderful computer things. It even came with a full-length AVI file of Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” music video, for some reason.

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Did Apple Cross Legal Lines By Revealing Its Continued Growth In China?

After Monday’s stock market decline, CEO Tim Cook personally assured an investor that Apple was doing just fine.

With the stock market in free fall Monday morning as a result of financial turmoil in China, investors may have been worried about their stakes in leading tech companies like Apple. To assuage such concerns, CEO Tim Cook wrote a note to CNBC analyst Jim Cramer, informing him that the company was still seeing “strong growth” in China through July and August.

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Like A Living Cabinet Of Curiosities, This Enchanting Installation Brings Insects To Life

Created for the London Design Festival, the Curiosity Cloud is made up of 250 hand-fabricated insects that fly around in glass bulbs when visitors approach.

The Austrian designers mischer’traxler are masters at marrying craft and technology in enchanting ways, as we’ve seen with their self-weaving, attention-craving basket and machine-weaved furniture that records the passing time. Now, the duo has hand made 250 tiny fabric insects and equipped them with motors and sensors for Curiosity Cloud, a new installation for London’s Design Festival.

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