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You won't like him when he's angry. You probably won't like him, period.

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

Look out Ben Heck, you don't want to be overcome by one of your own followers, now do you? Merely months after the clearly talented hailrazer churned out a mighty impressive portable Nintendo 64, the guy has done it again by creating an on-the-go Dreamcast -- using the same style of Lazer Doodle shell, to boot. After acquiring another chassis, a Dreamcast, a Quantam controller, PSOne LCD, power supply and some serious battery power, the DarthCast was created. Reportedly, the thing can go for around three hours before puckering out, and you'll know your time is short when it starts sighing heavily in a muffled tone. Check the vid after the break, and pay your respects in the read link, son.

Continue reading Ben Heck apprentice strikes again with DarthCast

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Filed under: Transportation

The drama never stops at Tesla Motors -- following a morning of feverish rumors, the company has officially announced that it's replacing CEO Ze'ev Drori with board chairman Elon Musk. Tesla says that Drori will remain "active" with the company as a vice chairman of the board, but it looks like it's now more Musk's company than ever before -- and his first order of business is apparently to lay off staff to get the company "cash positive" in the next six to nine months. Other than the closing of the Detroit Tesla office, it's not clear what the layoffs will entail -- Musk say they'll be "modest" -- but hopefully we'll start to see more cars and fewer headlines from the upstart electric car company in the near future.

Read - CNET report
Read - Elon Musk blog post

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Filed under: Laptops

There were few surprises from Apple yesterday -- MacBooks were in the cards, and MacBooks are what we got -- and the jury's still out on whether these new laptops are exactly what the market needs right now, but there's no denying that Apple's pretty proud of its new all-aluminum lineup. We'll have a full review of the laptops shortly, but in case you missed anything, here's a look back at the mayhem.

The liveblog

Live from Apple's "spotlight turns to notebooks" event

First impressions

New MacBook / MacBook Pro unboxing and first impressions

Hands-on coverage

MacBook Pro first hands-on!
Apple MacBook aluminum and glass super-shiny hands-on
Apple 24-inch Cinema Display hands-on

Product announcements

Apple finally refreshes Cinema Display: 24-inch, LED backlit, $899
MacBook Air gets NVIDIA graphics, storage bump
Apple's MacBook gets a fresh face, NVIDIA graphics, original drops to $999
Apple's all-new MacBook Pro packs new NVIDIA GPUs, glass trackpad

In-depth / details

NVIDIA GeForce 9400 M, 9600M GT get official in new MacBooks
Apple's Steve Jobs calls Blu-ray "a bag of hurt"
MacBook Pro requires logout to switch graphics modes
Intel: MacBook Air sheds custom CPU for 45-nm Penryn "S"
Multi-finger MacBook trackpad gestures demonstrated on video
New MacBook Pro running HybridSLI?

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