portscan writes "There is an entertaining and telling article in the Wall Street Journal about iPhone use by Microsoft employees. Apparently, despite it being frowned upon by senior management, iPhone... |
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Acidspew writes "The Australian Government's plan to filter the Internet has caused furore and has been with vehement objection. Many people have put their opinions forward regarding this matter but t... |
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Levenger offers a nice lap desk with room to read, write, or use a laptop computer on its cherry wood surface. There’s a bean-bag cushion on the bottom for comfort and to protect your lap from ... |
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Benny Johansson sent in a link to his site where he demonstrates how to make your own holders for flashlights, bicycle pumps and other items. His photography and clear instructions are great. I’... |
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If you’re looking to get away from the bright city lights, there are few places on earth darker than a moonless night out on the Western frontier of Afghanistan. A good light source is indispens... |
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If you’ve ever considered the humble urinal, you might have noticed that it uses much less water than a toilet. It only makes sense - since they don’t receive any feces, urinals don’... |
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Remarkable new imaging technology developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin can not only capture the heart in 3D showing blood flow, direction, and velocity, but can also show them relat... |
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Does the name Charles Thacker mean anything to you? Here’s a hint – he has recently been awarded the Turing Award – the most prestigious award honor in computing and considered to be... |
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Chances are, you wouldn’t be on this website if you didn’t love gadgets. And one thing that gadget-lovers seem to go especially ga-ga over are multitools, like the Leatherman or the Swiss ... |
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From the MAKE Flickr pool:
Flickr user arms22 built this neat Arduino-based camera, including a LS20031 GPS receiver and a C328 640x480 camera module, with a SD card to store images. The maker ... |
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Happy Pi Day from Makers Market! This sterling silver Pi Pendant and Pi Earrings from Oregon jewelers Nicholas and Felice would be a great gift for the mathematician, engineer, or scientist in yo... |
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We're not going to engage in too much wild speculation on this piece of information, but there are certainly a few raised eyebrows in Engadget-land right now. Apparently Plastic Logic is no longer of... |
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Are you desperate for an iPad-like device, short on cash, and long on the desire to completely jack up your netbook? Well you're in luck, friend, as the proprietor of MSI Wind fansite Insanely Wind h... |
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A lovely pie for Pi Day (3/14), by Boing Boing reader Genise Schnitman. I wish I could taste a bite....
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Mike Mitchell, the artist who created the now-iconic “I’m With CoCo” image of Conan O’Brien that has circulated through Facebook profile pictures and blogs since NBC’s The Tonight Show scheduling cont... |
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The SXSW festival in Austin, Texas is currently ground zero for a war, the location war . While over a dozen services have launched new products or features around location, two still seem to stand ab... |
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Social news site Digg announced an upcoming launch of a radically overhauled site, new.digg.com, that will go public in the next few weeks. Personalized homepages and faster performance are among the ... |
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A quarter-century ago, the Charleston Gazette examined all the newspapers in West Virginia (the Charleston Daily Mail exempted) and found them all to fail to meet the Charleston Gazette’s standards. T... |
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In our Scamville series of posts last October we exposed the massive user fraud occurring Facebook and MySpace social games. Fake quizzes tied to long term mobile subscriptions, malware-laden toolbar ... |
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The homicide rate in New York City is double that of West Virginia. Rather than beef up security there, Mayor Mike Bloomberg is sending cops to buy guns undercover in West Virginia. The purpose is to ... |
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Nestled in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and fueled by leaders and social hubs such as Micah Baldwin , Tech Stars mentor, #followfriday creator and now chief community caretaker at Graphic.ly o... |
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Google, to its credit, is rolling with the punches thrown in response to its Buzz launch. Members the product team spoke on a inside-the-scenes panel at SXSW today, facing industry-wide criticism as w... |
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Shopping integrity and its Countermeasures Open google or search engines such as Baidu can be found with the "online shopping" related pages a staggering 117 million, Taobao, eBay and other online sho... |
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In terms of location data, few get more than Skyhook Wireless. The positioning technology is in use in tens of millions of devices around the globe, including, notably, on every iPhone. And now the co... |
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TechStars, a seed stage investment program which has outposts in Boulder, Boston and Seattle, has invested $16.5 million in 39 companies. OF the total, 29are still active, five were acquired and four ... |
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Web publishing startup DocStoc is launching a customized document viewer today, allowing anyone to create easily embeddable, branded document viewers. The new feature is open to all DocStoc users and ... |
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An extended outtake sequence from director Ron Howard’s “ Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion ” featuring Will Ferrell as George W. Bush and Dana Carvey as George Bush Sr. is making the rounds on the ... |
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The battle between Google and Apple continues. RJ Pittman , a prominent product manager at Google, has left the company to join Apple. We've been tipped off to a tweet he sent out two days ago that sa... |
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Google (GOOG) “appears increasingly likely” to close its Chinese-language search engine, The Wall Street Journal reports. The paper says Google is likely to take action “within weeks.” The story notes... |
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It seems that the upcoming Dell Streak (Mini 5) will have a few services from Amazon preinstalled, most notably, the Kindle app. A promo picture for the Streak shows “Kindle book reader applications” ... |
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Source : Grandgood (subscribe)Explore : Artists, Internet, Music, Rap and Hip-HopRead Full Article ... |
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RateItAll, the review site that has described itself as a “distributed Yelp for everything,” is going mobile. But it’s not just by releasing an iPhone app of its own — RateItAll wants to help companie... |
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Google really created quite a buzz around Buzz when it was rolled out in February. The first wave of buzz (pun intended although the whole Wave thing is another story altogether) for Buzz was reasonab... |
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At Google's panel today at SXSW in Austin, a Gmail team member named Jonathan Perlow asked the crowd to raise their hands if they think Gmail is too slow. We love Gmail, but certainly we can sympathiz... |
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EagleHasLanded writes "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence is 50 years old next month, and still no sign of intelligent alien life. Paul Davies of the Beyond Center (also Chairman of the SETI... |
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An anonymous reader writes "The Australian Informatics Olympiad programming test is being run in a couple of months. I'm an experienced programmer and I'm thinking of volunteering to tutor interested ... |
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adeelarshad82 writes "The open-source Arduino electronics platform has received a ton of attention from the hardware enthusiast community. And one more follower is joining the fray--Mario himself. The... |
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Scientists at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, have built on feats of Mother Nature to develop the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, which they hope will lead to producing... |
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It is known that intense sound can be produced by electrically-powered nanotubes stretched into sheets, but researchers from University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas) have furthered this principle by ... |
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As regular readers will know, we cover more than our fair share of breakthroughs promising next-generation super-efficient solar cells. Everything from growing photovoltaic crystals, applying special ... |
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Gizmag wouldn't normally advocate urban light pollution but there's no doubt the twinkling lights of the cities around the world at night create a pretty light show. The City Light Globe is a 6" revol... |
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Today watches are built to withstand varying degrees of water pressure and shocks and scrapes of all sorts. But a new watch from Seiko has been built to withstand the harsh environments found when the... |
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I suppose 'camerawomen' would be more appropriate, given that Athena is a woman's name. But what's in a name? Regardless of what you call it Gitzo's fully electronic, remote-controlled head was one of... |
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The iPad may not be out for several weeks, but there are still some excellent choices if you're looking for a tablet-like device for reading e-books. We compare 10 recent e-readers and tablets.
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Google has been cranking out new versions of Android operating system faster than handset makers can keep up with. As a result, the latest Android phones to hit the stores carry an older version of th... |
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Einstein, who would be 131 today, needs no introduction. The foremost mathematician of the 20th Century, he held a position at the Institute of Advanced Study, one of the most storied intellectual c... |
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Ebay seller nes_harmonica is offering three of these old Nintendo cartridges that have been modded to contain working harmonicas. Why the heck would you do that? Turns out it's kind of a retro in-... |
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Looking for a healthy, low-fat, easy, and delicious alternative to
store-bought fried potato chips? Look no further! What You Need 1
Potato 1 Microwave-safe plate 1 Microwave Flavoring
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We've rounded up an amazing collection of homemade pizza Instructables
to tempt any palette. Check out these great recipes for thin crust,
thick crust, individual pizza for one, and even pizza for ... |
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There are many articles on the web about making condenser microphones.
These projects are usually relatively easy. However, trying to make one
that allows X-Y and Wide Stereo positions for the mics th... |
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Now, these may have been around for ages, we can't really be sure because, truth be told, it's pretty rare for us to troll the aisles of Kohl's makeup section looking for KIRFs. Regardless, a helpful... |
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Sony intro'd some 3D Bravia HDTVs a while back, and while that didn't really whet our appetite an LCD with built-in storage is always palatable. To be released by Sony Japan, the BX30H is available i... |
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It's been something of a long road to this point (beginning with the company being founded by some laid off OpenMoko employees), but Qi Hardware's ultra-compact, open source Ben NanoNote (actually, R... |
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Not much here in the way of verifiable detail but we're hearing that a CDMAified Nexus One is en route to Verizon (or Google's warehouses, anyway) from HTC's factories. The Economic Daily News (EDN) ... |
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Impress your target audience with quality English language: A press-release for a company that will help you improve your English communications, written in fractured machine-translation-esque English... |
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CMU's Chloe Fan hacked an Arduino controlled 8x8 pixelboard to play a wicked side-scrolling game of Super Mario. What a fun and creative use of the board! Someone needs to start an Arduino summer-camp... |
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At SXSW (where my two of the games my wife commissioned just won Best Game and Best Edugame!), the trade-floor booth for hosting company The Planet is holding competitions to speed-assemble rack-mount... |
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According to the Financial Times, Google is now almost certain to close its google.cn site in the wake of the search giant’s public clash with the Chinese government.
Google has spent the past ... |
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Initially available only to US users, geotagging is a new opt-in Twitter feature that lets you tag select tweets with your geographical location. Other folks see a user-friendly location name next to... |
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iPhone users tend to use their devices in the evening and on the weekends, reports Localytics, a Cambridge, MA-based start-up offering mobile analytics services. According to as study conducted by the... |
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