This week, a global ransomware hack will make you WannaCry, Google‘s I/O Conference, babies made from skin cells, Apple builds a new spaceship, and a pizza box, plus much, much more.

If you love original limited edition art as much as we do, then the upcoming competition should have you excited. Today, Lucasfilm and HP are teaming up for an all new Art Awakens competition. As the press release tells us, Art Awakens will help celebrate the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens with “an exciting new program for Star Wars fans old and new, across the country to revitalize creativity by ‘Bending the Rules’ of the Force, themed around a galaxy far, far away.”

While it is exciting to see professional artists show their creativity seen in pieces displayed in galleries like Mondo, Gallery 1988, or Bottleneck Gallery, Art Awakens will give amateur artists the opportunity for a chance to have their own work displayed in a professional gallery. Check out the full details and list of rules below.

This week, HP splits in two, Chase gets hacked, the DEA imitates you on Facebook, Twitter sues the US, and Redbox Instant calls it quits, and the humble blue LED gets its day.

This week, Google Glass gets its first real review; will it alter the social contract? Turn any iPhone into a spycam, Groupon‘s CEO is fired, HP sells WebOS to LG, An Australian hacker knows the secrets of the next XBOX & Playstation, Is Reddit being gamed by marketers?, How NetFlix is using Big Data to turn us into their puppets, and How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” ruled the Internet.

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