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It's April 1, and that means pranks abound from around the Web. Here are some of our favorites.

Its April Fools Day, and tech companies this year are out in full force to put a smile on your face. If youre wondering where to go and get fooled online this year, look no further than some of the April Fools Day jokes that weve discovered.

If youve needed directions recently and resorted to Google Maps, you might have noticed that the map was in 8-bit. Nice touch Google. For the geography majors out there, this simplified map in fact is helpful in delineating exactly where the mountainous regions are located throughout the globe. But thats beside the point. The extent to which Google has gone to sell their prank on April 1st is rather extensive. Theyve outfitted the map with a Quest mode where users can scope out monsters and visit 8-bit landmarks. If you happen to drill down to Street View, youll notice that the landscape has been changed into a multi-colored 8-bit world.

To top off their homage to the NES, Google released a video revealing its 8-bit build for Google Maps in NES cartridge form.

For the complete YouTube collection on your choice of DVDs, videocassettes, laser disc or Betamax, you can have your selection shipped to you by freight, postage or boat for the low, low price of $2.7 million. Unfortunately, if youve place your order today youre in for a long wait. When checking out our items for purchasing, we were notified that we would be receiving our collection on June 16, 2045, Due to heavy demand. Considering the sheer volume of content being burned for countless people, wed say that a 33-year wait is a reasonable shipping time.

Weve noticed clever articles cropping up from The Registers breaking news on Apples patent on the rectangle, Stuff magazines 42-inch Apple iPad exclusive, and TechRadars coverage on the leak of Photoshop CS6s Content-Aware Age Tool, which will allow the users to, Dramatically increase or decrease the age of a person captured in a photograph.

Google announced a partnership with NASCAR to integrate self-driving cars into races. Stemming from the self-driving project, Google is driving forward with Google Racing, a groundbreaking partnership with NASCAR to help self-driving vehicles compete in the world of stock car racing. Havingrecently publicized a video of its self-driving car taking a legally blind man to run errands, we wouldnt be surprised if one day racers control theirrace carswith their Droid phones.

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