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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Many of you have probably had a moment where you wanted to quote a favorite line from a movie, but couldn’t quite get the wording right. A site called AnyClip can help. The New York City startup first... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Cheap Wholesale Jerseys for Sports Fan Nothing is more fun than wearing your very own NFL jerseys in your team's colors to a game! When you watch the games on television, you can see the sea of NFL je... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Here’s an interesting tidbit from Apple’s iPad FAQ: if your iPad’s battery goes dead, Apple will simply send you a completely new iPad and charge you 99 bucks (plus $6.95 for shipping) for the service... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Google's showdown in China and coverage from South by Southwest top today's headlines.Source : Between the Lines (subscribe)Explore : Google, SXSW Interactive Festival, Video Games, Xbox, Xbox 360Rea... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Last we heard through the rumor-mill, Verizon were readying themselves for a March 23rd launch of the CDMA version of the Google Nexus One . In apparent preparation for that, Chinese newspaper Economi... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Google’s list of serious problems may be longer than it has been since the company’s IPO. The search engine company is all but certain to close Google.cn, its Chinese website after an ongoing battle w... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Real Networks’ Rhapsody To Go subscription includes a mobile app that lets you stream music (they’ve got some 9 million tracks in their library) directly from your iPhone, for a $14.99 monthly fee. It... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
The U.S. Web giant appears increasingly likely to shutter its Chinese-language search engine, a step that would remove one of the last major foreign players from the world's largest Internet market.So... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
A website can be built easily with content management system because it has the ability to add Pages in simple format like text format and they are automatically translated into perfect to near perfec... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
On this day, back in 1985, the first ever dotcom URL was created, Symbolics.com . There were just six dotcoms registered that year, compared to the 100,000 that are created every day now. More Source... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Earlier this morning, social networking giant Facebook announced on its blog that, one week after it said it would be opening an office in Austin, Texas, it will set up an additional support center in... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
We caught this amusing pair of stories at WSJ.com this morning. It says all you need to know, doesn't it? Join the conversation about this story Source : The Business Insider (subscribe)Explore : Go... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
There's no question Rob Glaser was an Internet pioneer, but he was unable to stay ahead of the pack. CNET takes a look at what happened.Source : Cnet (subscribe)Explore : Information Technology, Tele... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Applications meant for the iPhone may look similar to their iPad brethren, but they present new challenges to the people creating them.Source : Cnet (subscribe)Explore : Information Technology, Telec... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Media and legal news pundit Dan Abrams is expanding his Mediaite, mini-empire today with the launch of fashion news site Styleite. Abrams announced late last year that he has a definitive plan for exp... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
From the Australian newspaper: “A court has ordered two young girls to spend weekends with their sex offender father provided he puts a door on their bedroom they can lock.” The father is a child porn... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Rather than flee the country, Google should outsource its censorship problem.Source : Forbes (subscribe)Explore : Business, GoogleRead Full Article ... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
The war between the enterprise-grade online video platform providers rages on, and Brightcove will announce later today at the SXSW conference that it was won another small battle by signing up EMI Mu... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
laron writes "In Israel, a new law is in the making: Holders of donor cards and their families would get preference if they should need an organ for themselves. Apparently this initiative faces resist... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
eldavojohn writes "The Guardian is reporting on the strained relationship that Scientology is having with the German government and the airing of a pesky documentary on Southwest Broadcasting. Until N... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
The LogicBUY deal of the day is a 21 Day Free Coupon Code + FREE Magazine for GameFly Video Game Rental. Gamefly has 7,000 titles for XBOX 360, PS3, PSP, Wii and PS2. Pre-paid postage; Keep as long as... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Cancer is a disease whose treatments are notoriously indiscriminate and nonspecific. Researchers have been searching for a highly targeted medical treatment that attacks cancer cells but leaves health... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Nick Thatcher's compact coilgun uses a coil of copper wire along the barrel to launch its projectile. It's powered by 15 photoflash capacitors juiced up by 2 AAAs. Of course the power of this gun ... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Maker Benjamin Blundell built a DIY iPhone RFID reader and documented the process on his website. [via Slashdot]
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Though cheap Android craptablets were a commodity item at CeBIT 2010, that doesn't mean we didn't find the occasional diamond in the rough. Specifically, the Hanvon Touchpad BC10C, a sleek, multitou... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
The good people of Tesla couldn't leave us with just stock studio photography of their new TAG Heuer special edition vehicle, oh no. They've treated us to a full gallery of the car out on the road, s... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Unless you're a fan of high-tech jewelry, few things are as irksome as an overblown wristwatch design (we're looking at you Tokyoflash). While a binary timepiece will certainly up your geek cred, it'... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Qualcomm isn't typically in the business of producing consumer-facing hardware -- the company prefers to just build the chips that make your devices go "vroom" -- but we've come across a patent appli... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Sony's successor to the Vaio W netbook made its debut a little prematurely earlier this month, which has now been followed by its first unboxing and preview. Encased in an appealing matte black plast... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Get ready for some buyer's remorse if you're one of the thousands who pre-ordered an iPad last Friday: your soon-to-be new toy already pales in comparison to the $19,999 diamond-coated iPad from Merv... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Believe it: $70 at Target takes home a new Philips (eh hem, Funai) BDP5010 Blu-ray player that once sold for as much as $250. Hell, it's listed for $139.99 right now on Target's online storefront. If... |
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
We've already witnessed ASUS' netvertible undergo some hands-on testing, but the units inspected up until now have all been pre-production devices. Well, finally a retail T101MT has made its way out ... |
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