We'll admit, we'd kinda figured that HTC's venture into the seedy underworld of dumbphones with the introduction of the Smart earlier this year was a non-starter and that it'd quietly fade into the n... |
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Sonos owners, like most nerds, have been patiently waiting for three things: jetpacks and flying cars to go mainstream and the Spotify music service to play on their beloved whole home wireless audio... |
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There are eight million stories of chemistry laboratory disasters. They all end in explosions. (Except for the ones that end in accidentally making mustard gas.) You might think of this Reddit open th... |
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This cyclops turtle sure is a cute critter. (Thanks, Kirsten Anderson!) Adorable cyclops kitten Cy the cyclops kitty to go on display Cy has a posse -- painting...
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Apple showed off the latest editions of its iPod lineup and the Apple TV earlier today. The new iPod Nano loses the physical controls and adopts a multitouch display. The iPod Shuffle, however, gets t... |
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Apple's name for its new social network, Ping, is interestingly generic. With a long association to the sport of table tennis and a computer networking utility whose function resembles it, it carries ... |
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Here's more wonderful stuff from Brett Dickins, AKA MechanicalSculptor, who makes wall-hung mechanical clockworks that explode/disintegrate/transform and reform. I'm absolutely besotted by the self-sa... |
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IO9's Annalee Newitz has posted a great syllabus and book list for novice students of science fiction literature, filled with good suggestions for getting started in the field....
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A new proposed federal journalist shield law is under debate in the USA, which sounds like a great idea, except that the traditional press have agreed to amendments that would exempt Wikileaks from an... |
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Dr. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick (Ohio State) and Matthias Hastall, (Zeppelin University, Germany) have published an article in the Journal of Communication with their research showing that old people l... |
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Dora Lyakhovetsky, a gardner from Northbrook, IL, is fighting her village Board of Trustees for the right to keep tomatoes and flowers in her front yard instead of turf. The local code prohibits growi... |
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These Woody Guthrie-themed pencils are emblazoned "This Machine Kills Fascists," the motto Guthrie famously inscribed upon his guitar. Not sure how they compare to Blackwings, though! These machines k... |
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A gunman has taken at least one hostage at Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland. There's no official police statements about who the gunman is or what he wants, but there's... |
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The Mongoliad is live! This is the collaborative, participatory shared-world project from Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and pals. It's an epic fantasy novel about the Mongol conquest, told in installmen... |
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United Airlines threw nine high-ranking Pakistani military officers off a Washington-Tampa flight on Sunday and turned them over to Dulles security, who detained and grilled the men. The officers were... |
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Earlier today, a gunman entered Discovery Channel's headquarters with a gun or some explosives ( reports are still coming in ), took some employees hostage, and demanded better science programming. Mo... |
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Long before ever daydreaming about dashing Jedi knights, I hugged my teddy and imagined he'd lead me on adventures through forests. Artist James Hance has captured both of those innocent stages of ado... |
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We've confirmed that wunderkind Jessica Mah is one week away from closing a hotly anticipated round of seed financing for her banking startup InDinero. Confirmed investors in the round (which still ha... |
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Inflection , a company aimed to democratizing the public records system on the web, has raised $30 million in Series A financing led by Matrix Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures . Founded in 2006, Infl... |
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For some reason I expected a bit more explosion (thanks, Hollywood!), but these high speed photography shots capture the fantastic moment when a bullet passes through a drop of water, slicing it in ha... |
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is diving deeper into Google and Verizon’s proposed net neutrality framework with a public notice and inquiry into two of net neutrality’s key issues. The F... |
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New York City startup BankSimple today disclosed that it raised its first venture funding in a round led by First Round Capital , Roger Ehrenberg's IA Ventures , and Village Ventures , along with seed... |
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Is a cloud utopia possible? The idea being that someday everything will be elastic. Services scale up and down based on usage. You would never have to worry about updating an application on your lapto... |
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Remember when you couldn't figure out where July went? Well, now it's September. Summer is indeed coming to a close, but to help soften the blow, ReadWriteWeb has compiled a list of four essential tec... |
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A study of 1,089 official and unofficial law enforcement Twitter accounts shows about 21 percent don't tweet, nine percent tweet personal opinions about crime or criminal justice, and three percent ha... |
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If you're anything like me, you've been hitting refresh on the Apple iTunes website waiting for them to put iTunes 10 up for download. Sure, it has said it was available since this morning, but when y... |
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Dell Small Biz has a solid price for the Iomega Prestige 34866 1TB Hard Drive. Features include 1TB of storage, USB 2.0 interface, drop shock and more. The price is $159.99 – $50 instant off +... |
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THIS DEAL ENDS 9/2. Newegg has a 24 hour sale on the Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 Graphics Card With Free Game. The game is “Blacklight: Tango Down”. This card features a 128-bit GDDR5, PCI E... |
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THIS DEAL ENDS TODAY, 9/1! Dell Small Biz has the Dell Latitude E5410 Core i3 14.1-inch Laptop for a solid discount. It has the following specs: Windows 7 Home 32-bit, Intel Core i3-350m dual core 2... |
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Abe’s of Maine sells the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e 350828U 11.6-inch Notebook With Mouse for a combo swift deal. This computer has a 1.6Ghz Athlon Neo processor, WiFi b/g/n, 1GB of RAM, 6-cell batt... |
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Buy.com has a new low for the Samsung EX2220X 21.5-inch LED Monitor. It sports a 1920×1080 resolution, 5ms response time, 1000:1 contrast ratio, DVI input and energy efficient operation.
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HP Home has the HP Pavilion WA340AV dv6t 15.6-Inch Widescreen Notebook for a $25 coupon. Features include a Intel Core i3-350M at 2.26Ghz, Intel HD graphics, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB hard drive 7200rpm, 6... |
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For a limited time Dell Home offers a special $10 off the Cisco-Linksys E1000 Wireless-N Router. It has a the following features:
4 port switch
WiFi b/g/n
128-bit encryption
2.4Ghz connectivity
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MacConnection has a sweet low on the Apple MacBook Pro Core i5 15-inch Laptop. It has a 15-inch LED backlit display, Core i5-540m processor at 2.53Ghz, nVidia GeForce GT 330M, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 500GB ... |
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wiredmikey writes "Think you can bust out some silly fresh rhymes on the subjects of hacking, identity theft and computer viruses? In a somewhat untraditional partnership, Snoop Dogg and Symantec's No... |
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itwbennett writes "Starting this month, mobile carriers in China are requiring people who set up new mobile phone accounts to register with their real names as part of a new government measure to redu... |
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Geoffrey.landis writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, there's a new species of patent troll out there. These new trolls sue companies that sell products with an expired patent number on them. ... |
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thecarchik writes "It is not an easy task to compare the environmental effects of battery powered cars to those caused by conventionally fueled automobiles. The degree to which manufacture, usage and ... |
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Camera straps are accessories you usually do not think about, but Capturing Couture certainly did. They have created several lines of unique camera straps that can give your DSLR or point and shoot c... |
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The “one more thing” at Apple’s September 1 event was an updated Apple TV. Apple has certainly cranked up the ol’ shrink ray for a form factor that is 80 percent smaller than t... |
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Three years ago, Fallbrook Technologies introduced its NuVinci Continuously Variable Planetary (CVP) N170 transmission for bicycles. The device created something of a stir in the cycling community, as... |
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Einstein said it couldn't be done. But more than one hundred years later physicists at the University of Texas at Austin have finally found a way to witness “Brownian motion”; the instanta... |
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There's a lot to say about the new Apple TV that Steve Jobs presented today. But I'm not going to talk about the tiny little box. I'm not going to talk about your TV, either ... much. Instead, I’m goi... |
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Citizen Scientists: Show us your Erlenmeyer flasks, your test tubes, your centrifuges, your stereomicroscopes, your mutant science experiments yearning to be free. It's Citizen Science month here on... |
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While in town for the Kansas City Mini Maker Faire, we had the chance to visit the HMS Beagle, which is a gem of a science store located in nearby Parkville. Started by John and Carol Kuhns, they st... |
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Homebuilt meat smoker texts your phone when the meat is ready! - Gadget Freak Case #170: Smoking Permitted, but Bring a Roast...
Peter Rauch used a proportional-integral-differential (PID) contro... |
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Jeremy May's jewelry made from books -
Paper is many things: a carrier of text, illustration, history and emotion.Jeremy May has captured the beauty of paper via a unique laminating process. Littl... |
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Butter has been a part of the human pantry for about a week short of the
time we have been keeping cows. When cow's milk (straight out of the
udder, homogenization and pasteurization are still centuri... |
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Introduction: A paper button is an interactive element for
alternative interfaces with gadgets or computers. It is like a light
switch but than in a environmental friendly material like paper. Pa... |
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Interesting side note -- we understand that Erick Schmidt, Larry Paige, and Serge Brin all own this phone. Oh, and Digiboy777, of course.Fake Nexus One browsing fake Engadget originally appeared on E... |
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We're not quite sure when the Federal Communications Commission got into the habit of tearing devices limb from limb after testing their wireless radiation levels, but we have to say we're loving the... |
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It's not just the new iPod touch that's gotten the FCC treatment today -- what we can only assume is the new Apple TV has also just turned up in some newly published documents from the agency. Unfort... |
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We knew LG's C900 QWERTY-packing Windows Phone 7 handset was sliding towards an AT&T finish line, but it's looking like the company's E900 slate phone might play for Team Blue as well -- here's a... |
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Sure, they said it would be available immediately, but they lied. Now, the lie has become the truth, and the truth is just a fleeting dream, caught in between worlds we can't hope to understand, let ... |
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We had a chance to check out Philips' new GoGear Connect a few hours ago ahead of its IFA debut later this week, a brushed metal media player that pretty closely apes the Muse but adds a wee bit of g... |
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It's that time of the year again! Yep, the time when most laptop makers start thinking about the holiday season and unleash a massive amount of systems. Samsung's kicking off its announcements at IFA... |
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Not satisfied to simply trump Google's daily device activation numbers, Steve Jobs added insult to injury at the Apple press conference this afternoon, claiming that unspecified "friends" have been c... |
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T-Mobile is calling it "the fastest smartphone experience in America," but as it turns out, its Qualcomm Scorpion CPU is actually relatively slow -- the cellular carrier's insider newsletter T-Mobile... |
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It's no secret that Twitter for iPhone (née Tweetie) is often regarded as the gold standard for mobile apps -- it blends functionality, performance, and usability together with a dash of playf... |
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