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Viral Video: “John Carter” Is on Mars

December 2, 2011 at 2:12 am PT

What do you get when you mix classic science-fiction novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs with a Confederate solider and Mars?

Why, “John Carter,” of course.

Here is the trailer for the movie, which is chock-full of elaborate special effects:

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You Say Goodbye and We Say Hello

December 31, 2013 at 2:00 pm PT

Some of Our Fave D Conference Videos Before AllThingsD Signs Off in 3 … 2 … 1 …

December 31, 2013 at 12:24 pm PT

How Can You Miss Us if We Won’t Go Away? Paczkowski and Swisher Highlights From AllThingsD.

December 30, 2013 at 7:48 am PT

Viral Video: Even Jerry Seinfeld Has a Drone. What’s With That?

December 30, 2013 at 4:29 am PT

The Longish Goodbye: Highlights From AllThingsD Staffers Johnson, Del Rey and Cha

December 28, 2013 at 2:40 pm PT

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The NSA and the Corrosion of Silicon Valley

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You Won’t Believe All the Crazy Hardware the NSA Uses for Spying

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Uncovering a More Useful Android Lock Screen

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Lenovo’s Bendy Yoga 2 Laptop Makes All the Right Moves

Lauren Goode in Product Reviews

Space Monkey Peer-to-Peer Digital Storage System Offers Better Backup

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution

Diabetes Data Beamed to Your Phone

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Nokia Lumia 2520: A Solid Windows Tablet in Need of Apps

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik