John Paczkowski

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So Many Phones to Pick From, and I Had to Steal the Mot-Ebola

No need for any further deliberation: We have our 2012 Darwin Award winner. An opportunistic thief who stole a cellphone from a Ugandan hospital has gotten a particularly nasty comeuppance: The Ebola virus. His big mistake was taking the device from a patient in the Ebola isolation ward. That patient has since died, and now the thief, in an epic instant-karma smackdown, is back in the same hospital for treatment.


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When you go down a pit in Super Mario Bros., you don’t feel like, ‘Aah! I’m going to die!’

— Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey, on the immersive quality of virtual reality over traditional videogame interfaces