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The ideas, apps, music, and film of SXSW 2014

SXSW, one of the year’s biggest celebration all things startup, kicks off this week in sunny Austin, Texas. We’ve traveled down to the state capital, where we’ll be covering a mix of the Film, Interactive, and Music conferences starting today and running through next week. Keep an eye on this Story Stream for everything you need to know about the future of the startup scene, upcoming films, music, and of course, taco trucks.

Mike Judge thinks we’re doomed

A natural glow: these plants produce their own light

Meet the tiny printer for libertarians

The era of Facebook is an anomaly

‘Godzilla’ is going to be a very different monster movie, says its director

Hucksters and hustlers: inside the hidden brand orgy of SXSW

Snowden calls on the geeks to save us from the NSA

Mondo and the lost art of the movie poster

Ernest Cline is the luckiest geek alive

Failure to launch: why startups are using SXSW as a testing ground

Apple partners with Vevo to stream iTunes Festival at SXSW

Edward Snowden: ‘Would I do it again? Absolutely yes’

The new gold rush: Bitcoin ATMs are coming

‘Veronica Mars’ review: a true detective returns

Join the masquerade: Banter tries to reinvent the chat room

Facebook’s ‘I Fucking Love Science’ making the jump to TV

Neil Young’s high-fidelity iPod competitor will cost $399

Google is finally getting serious about wearables

This is how supercomputers cook: IBM’s Watson dreams up creative dishes

‘Cosmos’ review: making science cool again

Kapow: Marvel adds sound to comics

The CUPID drone strikes with 80,000 volts to the chest

‘Mario Kart’ in real life is real weird

Julian Assange at SXSW: ‘national security reporters are a new kind of refugee’

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Google’s Eric Schmidt: ‘let us celebrate capitalism’

‘Game of Thrones’ and the Oculus Rift took me from Austin to Westeros

Revenge of the jocks: sports invades tech’s Texas utopia

IBM uses thinking computer to generate chocolate burritos and other weird food

iTunes Festival comes to US for the first time at SXSW

Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean

Tesla driver using Full Self-Driving struck and killed a man crossing I-80

Bill Gates says to prepare for 20 years of ‘tumultuous’ AI disruption

The iPhone Duo is a messy, expensive, good time

Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares

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