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30 July
Boing Boing
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Kevin Kelly has compiled a list of the 100 greatest long-form magazine articles ever published. He has found links to the text of each article, and says: "I'd like to have folks start to vote up the best (although they can still add). There's a Top Five that has emerged. Maybe we can get a top 10." Here are the top 5 (based on the number of people who have recommended them to Kevin): David Foster Wallace, "Federer As Religious Experience." The New York Times, Play Magazine, August 20, 2006. David Foster Wallace, "Consider the Lobster." Gourmet Magazine, Aug 2004. Neal Stephenson, (...)
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Rocky and Balls's "Girls Like Boys With Skills" is probably the dirtiest double-entendre ukulele ditty since George Formby sang "With My Little Ukulele In My Hand." -- music
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Team America lives on. Jeff Koyen sends this along and asks, "Anyone remember Evil Bert spotted alongside Osama in Bangladesh?" Indeed. At left, a snapshot of the original Kim Jong Il puppet from the Team America movie. I shot the photo during a visit earlier this year to South Park Studios. The little guy does get around. Team America preview screening in Hollywood Team America puppet sex scenes revealed Wired: South Park's Puppet Regime MPAA freaks out over puppet sex scene in "Team (...) -- Funny, International, News, war
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A press alert received by Boing Boing from the U.S. Army Public Affairs Office reports that PFC Bradley Manning— who is believed to have provided Wikileaks with a trove of classified data including the "Collateral Murder" video and the recent "Afghan War Diaries" archive— was today transferred from the Theater Field Confinement Facility in Kuwait to the Marine Corps Base Quantico Brig in Quantico, Virginia. Snip: Manning remains in pretrial confinement pending an Article 32 investigation into the charges preferred against him on July 5. Manning was transferred because of the potential for (...) -- Technology, security, war
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"An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for uploading YouTube videos discussing classified facilities, according to an Army official with direct knowledge of the incident." Wired News has more. -- News, Technology, security
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02:01Google computer and Western media report China outage, actual humans in China beg to differ Boing BoingRebecca MacKinnon reports: "Numerous major American and European news outlets are reporting that Google is blocked in China, based on the information appearing on Google's Mainland China service availability page. However no journalist has actually confirmed with a human being at Google that this information is correct. What's more, I've heard from several dozen people all over China who say that Google isn't blocked for them when they access it on their Internet connections from Beijing to Shanghai to Sichuan to (...) -- Technology, censorship, privacy
CNET News.com
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Hoping to energize the electric car industry and make the Bay Area the electric car capital of the United States, San Jose, Calif., installs the first of hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations.
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But those reports, which said nearly all of the Internet giant's services were blocked Thursday, turned out to be erroneous.
AllPodcasts
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News on 3DS's price/release, SOCOM 4 delayed, & PS3 sales are up.
Read/WriteWeb
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A few months ago we wrote about how big-name companies are starting to talk about the Internet of Things - a term for the network formed by real-world objects connected to the Internet - indicating that the idea is picking up speed. Today Chief Futurist for Cisco Systems Dave Evans appeared on the company's netcast, Talk2Cisco, to answer questions about the next 50 years and beyond via email and Twitter. Turns out one of the world's biggest technology companies is betting the Internet of Things is going to be big. Sponsor There are already about 35 billion devices connected to the (...) -- Internet of Things
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Google has begun opening up access to a new Application Programming Interface (API) called the Places API. Developers building apps that include a "check in at this place" feature can use the Places API to search across all the places users might check in for basic information like business name, address, phone number and other descriptive information. That information will be editable by the businesses listed and no caching of data is allowed, so apps will have to ping Places regularly for real-time data. Making this data as free and easy to use as Google Maps is today could create a (...) -- Analysis
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Throughout the spring, we covered the financial reform legislation as it wound its way through committee and Congress. The final version - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act - was signed into effect by President Obama on July 21. And while some of the provisions that were most troubling in earlier versions were axed before the final bill was passed, there is still a sense that the repercussions from the legislation might dampen investment, particularly at the early stage and particularly from angel investors. Sponsor Liz Fries, a partner at Goodwin Proctor (...) -- Analysis
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In a recent survey by Evans Data, Google gets accolades for its public cloud. IBM gets top marks from developers for its private cloud. But what do developers want the most? They want the cloud to be simple to use. They want it to be as as easy to get your data in as easy it is to get the data out. And they want it to be secure. Evans Data survey took a look at the whole gamut of issues related to cloud computing in an annual survey, and its conclusions focus on the dichotomies between private and public clouds. Sponsor Google and IBM share a common denominator. Both apply the basic (...) -- Cloud Computing
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A Google Web site that monitors access in China is reporting that Google Web search, which was fully or mostly accessible yesterday in mainland China is being completely blocked. But the company is now saying that service is fine. The company's stock had slipped nearly 2% in after-hours trading as of 6 p.m. EST. Sponsor Google.cn has been blocked multiple times in China, most recently a month ago, before China chose to renew the company's Internet Content Provider license. Google had been automatically redirecting google.cn to google.hk, its uncensored site in Hong Kong, but stopped (...) -- Google
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We labor under two major misperceptions about technology: Technology from one point in time is better than one further in the past and anything new displaces what came before. When we actively think about these ideas, we may dismiss them. But it's my contention that these are in fact our unconscious, default positions. (These notions would no doubt be scoffed at by medieval Europeans who spent years desperately dreaming of copping a squat inside like the Romans did. But they are operant in the here-and-now.) As people who live in and among the very latest of technology, I think it's a (...) -- Web Culture
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We posted yesterday about the price war that's currently raging between Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Sony, makers of some of the top-selling e-readers in the U.S. Today a public relations representative sent us a statement on behalf of Sony that suggests the company may be pulling out of the race to the bottom. Sponsor "Pricing is one consideration in the dedicated reading device marketplace, but Sony won't sacrifice the quality and design we're bringing book lovers to lay claim to the cheapest eReader," said Phil Lubell, VP of digital reading at Sony Electronics. "Our global customers (...) -- E-Books
The Jason Calacanis Weblog
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MacRumors
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Several readers have informed us and we have confirmed that Apple Store representatives are telling potential buyers of the company's new Mac Pro announced earlier this week that the updated models are set to become available for ordering on ...
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Steve Ballmer demoing Windows-based HP slate at CES in January 2010 CNET reports on comments from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today at the company's conference for financial analysts revealing that Apple's longtime rival is continuing ...
Engadget
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We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Ryan, who reckons it's about time he stopped playing with Lego blocks and began playing with a real man's robot platform. Just kidding about the Lego bit. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com. "I am an aspiring roboticist who has been using Lego Mindstorms NXT for a few years and I am looking for the next step up. I have a budget of about $400. I am looking (...) -- Permalink
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It's really no surprise that Redbox is going nationwide with its $1.50 Blu-ray rentals, at every step along the way of its Hollwood dealmaking, the company has pointed out its aim towards procuring a supply of high definition movies, and now the day is finally here. The high definition disc packing kiosks currently number 13,300, and the plan is to have Blu-ray in all 26,000 locations by the fall. While we spotted plenty of Blu-ray enabled locations with a San Francisco zip code, other areas in the Midwest and East Coast weren't so lucky. The site points out a few of the movies on offer, (...) -- Continue reading Redbox rolling out $1.50 Blu-ray rentals at 13,000-plus kiosks, nationwide by fall, Permalink
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You might remember that an LTE modem for Verizon passed FCC muster not long ago -- now, it seems we're getting our first glimpse of it. As is usually the case with these early devices on next-gen networks, this USB stick doesn't look quite as svelte as we'd probably like it to be, but we have little doubt that they'll get progressively thinner and sexier over the course of a year or three. And hey, in the meantime, far be it from us to steer clear of faster download speeds just because the modem's a little chubby, you know? LG VL600 LTE / CDMA modem for Verizon in the wild? originally (...) -- Permalink
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It's one thing to expect in-flight WiFi on a commercial flight serving two or three hundred addicted peons, but how on Earth has it taken until now for NetJets to hop onboard this bandwagon? For those unaware, NetJets hosts the world's largest fractional fleet of business-oriented aircraft, and those that lay claim to portions of its herd are amongst the most wealthy this world has to offer. Currently, the outfit has just over 800 planes, and starting next month over 250 of them (in the midsize and large-cabin categories) will be equipped with Aircell's high speed internet service. In (...) -- Continue reading NetJets begins Aircell in-flight WiFi installations, won't stop anytime soon, Permalink
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01:44Google search blocked in China, again; other services partially blocked (update: false alarm, says Google) - EngadgetA conciliatory end? Looks like we spoke too soon. Yes, Google and China seem to be on a collision course yet again, with the company's "Mainland China service availability page" showing that web search and ads have once again been fully blocked. Additionally, image and news search have been downgraded from "fully accessible" yesterday to "partially blocked" today. YouTube, Picasa, and other services already blocked remain as such. Looks like the saga continues. Update: TechCrunch reports hearing back from Google, who now say this is all much ado about nothing -- or rather, it's a false (...) -- Permalink
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It seems like a no-brainer, but at this point Microsoft has yet to confirm a separate 250GB HDD for its new Xbox 360 consoles -- and really, if you're picking up the 4GB model next month, that might come in handy. Newer press shots show a different side of the packaging, however, and if you get a high-res snapshot, you can see that it's touting the various accessories you can buy to enhance your new Xbox 360 4GB experience: wireless controllers, Kinect, and... a 250GB HDD. Now, it could very well be misleading advertising -- such a disc drive already exists, but you have to buy the (...) -- Permalink
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01:06Obama says presidential BlackBerry ownership is 'no fun,' should've gone with the Sectera Edge - EngadgetIt's hard out there for a prez, you know? Hardly anyone knows better than one Barack Obama, who sat down this morning on ABC's The View in order to talk smack with a few ladies who undoubtedly helped put him in office. If you'll recall, Obama fought hard early on for the privilege of maintaining his prized BlackBerry, and while he eventually won out, we learned today that a grand total of ten individuals are authorized to ping it. Yeah, ten. Needless to say, he described that depressing fact as "no fun," and even the folks that are cleared to make contact with it won't send over anything (...) -- Permalink
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Filed under: Accessories, iPhone Here at the TUAW giveaway headquarters near Denver, Colorado, we get a lot of fun items to give away to readers. So many, in fact, that sometimes we neglect to give away some of the items until they reappear from the bottom of a pile. With sincere apologies to the wonderful folks at Fusion of Ideas, that's what actually happened to the four StealthArmor for iPhone 4 kits they sent to us. For iPhone 4 owners who want to resolve the "grip 'o death" issues without an Apple bumper, StealthArmor provides a classy solution. Each of the four kits we have to (...) -- Accessories, iPhone, Permalink
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04:00Civil War: America's Epic Struggle comes to the iPad and iPhone - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Filed under: App ReviewCivil War: America's Epic Struggle (US$4.99) from MultiEducator Inc. is a full history course in an iPad and iPhone app. It contains at least as much information as most textbooks on the Civil War at a fraction of the cost, while adding elements that no textbook can. There are 24 multimedia presentations, some as long as nine minutes, a nice selection of music popular during the Civil War, and a wonderful navigation system that just makes sense. When starting the app, information can be sorted 18 ways, from a changing Categories bar including Battles (sorted either (...) -- App Review, Permalink
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03:00Rumor: Sprint working on iPod touch-friendly 4G hotspot called "Peel" - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch I was first introduced to the wonders of the mobile Wi-Fi hotspot at Macworld earlier this year -- our own Mike Rose was carrying one around, and it was like magic. A Wi-Fi connection for up to five people anywhere you go? Yes please. I don't think the charges make it necessarily feasible for someone on a budget (say, a humble blogger like yours truly) to carry around every day, but it's certainly handy to have around, especially if you're traveling. And now Sprint is apparently looking to piggyback one of these devices on Apple's iPod touch. Macrumors (...) -- iPhone, iPod touch, Permalink
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00:45iPhone 4 launch takes place in New Zealand, but confusion reigns down under - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Filed under: iPhoneImagine if Apple's handset prices in the US weren't announced at WWDC, and the subsidy pricing was up to AT&T. Imagine if AT&T told potential iPhone customers that the iPhone 4 would launch on July 30, and pricing info would be released well in advance of that. Now imagine the weeks leading up to July 30 went by, and AT&T didn't say a word about the iPhone 4's pricing, even though many other countries had already released handset and plan info. It's July 29, and instead of working with its customers, throwing them a bone, giving them some sort of (...) -- iPhone, Permalink
Wired News: Top Stories
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Being able to legally jailbreak your iPhone is cool and all, but think where this type of legal reasoning could take us.
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An Army private suspected of leaking classified information to WikiLeaks was admonished as a trainee in 2008 for uploading YouTube videos discussing classified facilities, according to an Army official with direct knowledge of the incident.
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San Franciscans gets a peek at what's involved in building a new bridge when builders place the first segment of a tower that will soon hold up a brand-new span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. Wired.com shoots photos of the new bridge on a recent tour of the massive construction project.
Om Malik
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Y Combinator put on a tour de force Thursday. After five impressive years’ worth of molding fresh batches of startups, it packed 150-odd people with money into a room and schooled them in the art of giving its companies funding. The incubator’s second Angelconf, held at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. today, packed the room with people with an interest in breaking into the frothy angel investing space — a mix of people from recently successful tech startups as well as those from outside the industry. Y Combinator founder Paul Graham In the Y Combinator world, as formulated by (...) -- Liz's Posts, Startups, Angelconf, Paul Graham, Y-Combinator
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Ian Drew, executive vice president of marketing at ARM Holdings, a Cambridge, U.K.-based company that makes semiconductors powering a majority of the smartphones, tablets, 70 percent of world’s hard drives and half the world’s printers, is on a whirlwind tour of Silicon Valley. And what everyone (including me) wants to talk to him about is servers, or rather low-power server chips that can power the data centers of tomorrow. With this foray into the fast-growing data center business, the company, which can trace back its roots to Apple Computer, is slowly becoming a bane to Intel’s (...) -- Cloud Computing, Om's Posts, Semiconductors, Intel, ARM
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OK, I’ll finish the punchline . . . that a decades-old networking technology, which has disappeared from pretty much all other industries and has a fraction of the bandwidth of current networks, is still one of the most common choices for digitally connecting parts of the power grid. More specifically, according to Pike Research, utilities are commonly using leased telecom lines attached to 1200 baud modems to digitally connect electrical substations in their power grid network. Most 1200 baud modems have a bit rate (how much data they can move) of 1,200 bits per second. For comparison, (...) -- Uncategorized
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange WikiLeaks, the crusading anti-secrecy organization that just published 90,000 pages of secret government documents about the war in Afghanistan, has gotten a lot of attention for its campaign to become the world’s repository of whistle-blowing and embargo-busting information, and leader Julian Assange has become the star of the political talk show circuit. But the most interesting thing about WikiLeaks and the release of the secret Afghan documents isn’t the details of the U.S. campaign — it’s what the incident says about the evolution of a truly distributed (...) -- Media, Social Web, New York Times, journalism, Wikileaks
Lifehacker
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#forwhatitsworth Street Slide is an experimental Street View killer, libraries quietly beat Netflix in DVD rentals, an Android wallpaper app jacks data from 1 million users, we get a peek at Internet Explorer 9, and Google's mobile search share is colossal. More » -- For What It's Worth, Clips, in brief, Remainders
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#hivefivecallforcontenders If you're managing a pile of projects—and you're the only one working on them—the massive feature lists of most business-focused project management applications are overwhelming and unnecessary. So we're wondering: What tool do you use for managing your personal projects? More » -- Hive Five Call for Contenders, Hive Five, Management, Organization, Organizers, Personal organization, Project, Project Management
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#diy We've shown you how to play video games on your iDevice with a Wiimote, and you can do the same on Android, too. Some clever DIY hackers have made this experience even better by creating Wiimote attachments for their phones. More » -- DIY, Android, Cellphones, Clips, DIY Creations, Emulation, Fun, Gaming, iPhone, Smartphones
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#featuredworkspace People often joke that their office is so small it feels like they are working in a closet. This well laid out and organized home office actually is in a closet. More » -- Featured Workspace, Desk, Desktop, Workspace, Workspace Show and Tell, Workspaces
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#batchscripts Windows only: The SysInternals suite of utilities, including the excellent Process Explorer tool, are a must-have for any serious geek, but they don't come with a built-in way to keep them updated. Here's how to keep them automatically updated. More » -- Batch scripts, Automation, Command Line, Portable, Portable Applications, Tips, Updates, Utilities, Windows
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#clutter If you feel like you clean up but never really get rid of clutter perhaps you need a perspective shift. Use a still or video camera to record your spaces and get a fresh look at things. More » -- Clutter, Cleaning, Clever Uses, Home, Household, Organization
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#readerpoll Google regularly updates its Chrome web browser in three channels: the Stable channel, Beta channel, and Dev channel. They've even added a Canary build for people who want bleeding edge features next to stable ones. Our question: Which are you using? More » -- Reader Poll, Google Chrome, Web browsers
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#todolist Divvy/us is a new, simple web app for quickly creating and sharing task lists with individual task assignments. More » -- to-do list, Productivity, Task manager, tasks, Todo manager, todos, Webapps
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#downloads Windows only: Popular BitTorrent client uTorrent added a web interface, so you can remotely access your transfers from a web browser. Since then, they've added support for the web interface to the iPhone, and, more recenly, iPad and Android devices. More » -- Downloads, BitTorrent, Featured Windows Download, Top, utorrent, Webapps, Windows
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#shortcuts While lots of us are pretty big BitTorrent users, we still use our browser to manage most of our downloads. If your download gets interrupted, though, reader KayDat shows us how you can continue downloading it with BitTorrent. More » -- Shortcuts, BitTorrent, Downloads, Republished, saving time
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#updates Reader choebear writes in to point out that if you're using the Dev channel of Google Chrome, you no longer need to use the command-line switch to enable extension sync in Chrome—extension syncing is now enabled by default. To use it, just open Chrome's Options/Preferences and head to the Personal Stuff tab. Looks like this actually happened earlier this month and it slipped past us, but the default integration likely means extension syncing is getting closer to the stable release, which is great news. More (...) -- Updates, Chrome, Chrome Extensions, in brief, Syncing
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and President George H.W. Bush go sledding outside Camp David in 1991. -- Celebrity
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Russian special forces detained a man on Thursday who had taken control of an aircraft on a domestic flight to Moscow's Domodedovo airport, ITAR-TASS news agency cited a police spokesman as saying. -- World News
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Buying food in bulk can save you a lot of money — unless the food goes to waste. After all, how many families are going to eat five pounds of strawberries in one week? -- Business & Finance
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Inside the Glenn Beck Goldline scheme -- Political News
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There are certainly some radical thoughts out there regarding the Nazis. But The Daily Show's Jason Jones uncovers some interesting theories from one radical organization that are truly unbelievable. Really. Not believable. -- Television
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Will Call of Duty and Halo fans ever settle their differences? We tracked down the two biggest fanboys from each opposing side to duke it out. -- Gaming Industry News
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The network has already recast the lead (Jonathan Sadowski will replace Ryan Devlin), a move that means that “most scenes” of the pilot will need to be reshot, Tassler explained — probably a good thing, after the lukewarm impression it made on the network and critics alike. -- Television
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Zach Galifianakis sits down for a pleasant chat with Steve Carell. Things quickly change. -- Comedy
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Sixty percent of the energy used in buildings in New York State goes to heat and hot water. This power heavy fact has been the the driving force behind a newly devised solar thermal energy plan that could eventually save New York State residents $175 million a year. -- Environment
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DeGeneres' exit is part of the massive Idol overhaul currently underway, as Fox and producers FremantleMedia and 19 Ent. look to reboot the popular brand..TV News, news from the entertainment source: Variety.Ellen DeGeneres leaving 'American Idol'. -- Television
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With unemployment at its highest level in decades, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report Tuesday suggesting the crisis is primarily the result of millions of Americans just completely blowing their job interviews. -- Comedy
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Recent West Coast earthquakes have experts concerned about the safety of Northwest cities such as Portland and Seattle. In fact, on July 19 a 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia and a 5.2 earthquake struck Wed. morning, July 28, off the Oregon Coast. -- Environment
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Tameem Antoniades, co-founder of Ninja Theory, has gone on record saying that, in his opinion, story is more important than gameplay, and "if you get it right, both story and gameplay can be elevated". -- Gaming Industry News
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A car accident claimed the life of professional German Counter-Strike 1.6 player Antonio "cyx" Daniloski yesterday. According to a statement released by his team, Mousesports, 19-year-old Daniloski was on his way home from the Frankfurt airport when a flat tire caused a fatal car accident. RIP. -- PC Games
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As America prepares for the second season of MTV's Jersey Shore, JWOWW, The Situation, and the rest of the well-bronzed crew are doing everything they can to cash in on their unlikely fame. -- Television
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Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We’ve heard you, and today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve increased the upload limit to 15 minutes. -- Tech Industry News
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We know overfishing has a devastating impact on the environment, and we've seen weird things happen to fish as a result of a changing environment before, but a new finding has perplexed scientists... -- Environment
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Some see these back garden bandits as a nuisance. A sort of street criminal-type bully. A rat with a bushy tail. Others think they are geniuses of light-fingered looting. The gentleman thief of nut-nickery. Which ever way you look at them, now you can eat them. -- Food & Drink
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The UN declares that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right, in a non-binding resolution. -- World News
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J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot banner are tackling the tale of a robot set in the Victorian Age. -- Movies
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Never assume you're safe. Follow these tips before you cash out. -- Security
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After the Emmy success of the miniseries JOHN ADAMS, Paul Giamatti will re-team with HBO to star in a telepic centered around Nikita Khrushchev. -- Television
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TechCrunch reader checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message. -- Tech Industry News
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Bored with your sex life? Try these tips. -- Health
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A study of 400-year-old oyster shells offers a rare glimpse into life amongst North America's first colonists' settlement in Jamestown. -- General Sciences
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The end times are near. -- Political Opinion
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A bill has just reached the floor of the Senate that would double penalties for any edible products combined with medical marijuana in California and the 13 other states that provide compassionate relief for patients. The worst part is that the bill was written and sponsored by Dianne Feinstein, a Democratic senator from California! -- Food & Drink
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Some people achieve world records buying running marathons and swimming across oceans. These are not those people. -- Odd Stuff
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If you were reading a rather provocative ESPN story about LeBron James partying at a Las Vegas night club, and now you're not, there's a reason for that. ESPN yanked the story off the Internets after only a few minutes of life. The piece tells of a banquet-style blowout nofollowing James' announcement of his move to Miami. -- Basketball
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Google said it was the first time the site has been blocked since March. -- Baidu, China, Google, Google.cn, Company News, Internet, Policy and Law
Pe scurt... Romania!
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Noua iubită a lui Ilie Năstase suferă deja enorm că "dragostea ei" nu se află in ţară. Acesta este plecat in China, la Shanghai, unde participă la Ziua Romaniei, din cadrul Expoziţiei Mondiale...continuarea articolului citeşte AICI ! [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Hotel Comandor este situat in nordul statiunii Mamaia, intre hotelurile Amiral si Orfeu. Datorita dispunerii paralele cu linia tarmului o parte dintre camerele hotelului au vedere spre mare si o parte au vedere spre lac. Pe langa spatiile pentru cazare si masa, hotelul Comandor pune la dispozitia turistilor piscina pentru adulti si copii cu acces gratuit, sala de conferinte, salon de infrumusetare, salon de masaj, loc de joaca pentru copii si parcare gratuita. Camerele luminoase au [ PeScurt.ro (...) -- PeScurt.ro
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Ioan Neculaie îl acuză pe Dinu Gheorghe că a plecat cu maşina de la club şi că l-a sfătuit pe Dani Coman să depună memoriuPrietenia dintre patronul lui FC Braşov, Ioan Neculaie, şi Dinu Gheorghe, fostul conducător de sub [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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01:45Misiune îndeplinită » Nou-veniţii Tameş şi Axente au semnat victoria bănăţenilor Pe scurt... Romania!Jocul lui Poli nu a strălucit în faţa lui MyPa, dar bănăţenii s-au impus graţie reuşitelor lui Tameş şi Axente. Gafa lui Pantilimon a fost singura emoţie a lui Poli în FinlandaStres maxim pentru Vladimir Petrovici la debutul [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Peste 11.000 de suporteri ai "cîinilor" au făcut aseară o atmosferă ca pe vremuri. Fanii şi-au însuşit critica de joia trecută a antrenorului şi s-au înghesuit ieri la stadionArena Dinamo are 15.300 de locuri, însă 11.000 de [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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01:45Dinamoviştii s-au încăierat cu croaţii la Piaţa Unirii » Bătaie în avanpremieră Pe scurt... Romania!Fanii lui Dinamo şi Hajduk au transformat Piaţa Unirii într-un cîmp de luptă înaintea partidei de asearăDacă în stadion nu au existat incidente, croaţii nefiind lăsaţi să pătrundă în urma suspendării dictate de UEFA, [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Atacantul suedez Zlatan Ibrahimovici a decis să rămână la FC Barcelona, punând capăt speculaţiilor privind viitorul său, a anunţat, joi, clubul catalan pe pagina sa de web, informează AFP."Sunt jucătorul echipei FC Barcelona [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Andrei Cristea (penalty), Garat şi Kone au marcat, iar Curcă a apărat aproape tot. Returul meciurilor din Europa League are loc joia viitoare Mircea Rădulescu: "De mult nu am mai văzut pe stadioanele noastre un gol ca al lui Kone" [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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La primul concurs important după o pauză forţată de doi ani, Marian Oprea a cucerit aseară titlul de vicecampion europeanDupă Nicoleta Grasu, care a cucerit miercuri medalia de argint în proba de aruncare a discului din cadrul [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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01:45Suporterii croaţi au văzut meciul cu Dinamo la o terasă din Centrul Vechi al Bucureştiului Pe scurt... Romania!Aproximativ 100 de susţinători ai echipei croate Hajduk Split au urmărit meciul cu Dinamo, din turul trei preliminar al Ligii Europa, la o terasă din Centrul Vechi al Capitalei, a declarat purtătorul de cuvânt al [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Andone le mulţumeşte fanilor pentru suport şi-l critică pe Pulhac pentru golul încasat de Dinamo. Antrenorul vrea mai multă atenţie în defensivă- Domnule Andone, v-au surprins croaţii?- Doar prin sistemul în care au jucat, [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Iker Casillas şi-a dus logodnica în vacanţă şi la Los Angeles, lăsîndu-se pozat pe şezlongAleasă cea mai sexy reporteră sportivă din lume, Sara Carbonero şi-a etalat formele pe plajele americanePaparazii au surprins-o pe [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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E ora 1 noaptea. Băiatul doarme dus. Mama la fel. Pe jumătate adormit, tatăl se uită la televizor.Pe casa scării, lanternele luminează în beznă. Ochii mijesc în semne pe sub cagule. “Doi în faţa uşii, doi sus, restul pe [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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01:45Dinamoviştii spun că trebuie să aplice la Split aceeaşi reţetă cîştigătoare de ... Pe scurt... Romania!"Cîinii" sînt echilibraţi, nu se gîndesc încă la adversara din play-off-ul Europa League Dinamo este în sărbătoare după victoria împotriva croaţilor. Totuşi, alb-roşiii spun că nu au rezolvat deocamdată calificarea în [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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01:45Şumudică vede un egal în Ghencea între Steaua şi Craiova! Dă şi tu scorul corect! Pe scurt... Romania!Antrenorul Rapidului dă scorurile pentru etapa a 2-a. Vezi care sînt pronosticurile tehnicianului! [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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După numai o săptămână de pauză, Formula 1 revine în acţiune cu Marele Premiu al Ungariei, motiv pentru care a venit momentul să-ţi faci echipă în F1 Champ, singurul manager de Formula 1 din România. Intră în cont, [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Ce s-a schimbat în fond? Stadionul e la fel de vechi, cu tribunele acestea joase şi depărtate de gazon, de combini amintirile cu dioptriile, “o fi Torje sau o fi Ţălnar?”, nocturna luminează din mileniul trecut, iar clădirea Spitalului de Urgenţă e şi ea tot acolo, cu oamenii în pijama ieşind pe balconul dinspre “Groapă”. [...] [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Dinamo a învins formația croată Hajduk Split cu scorul de 3-1, în prima manșă a turul III preliminar al Europa League. Golurile "cîinilor" au fost marcate de Andrei Cristea, din penalty, Garat și Kone. Vezi o galerie foto de la partidă! [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Piata pamântului a mai "alunecat" cu 50% în acest anPreturile din perioada de boom sunt istorie, acum 1 mp într-o localitate de lânga Bucuresti a ajuns si la 50 de euroPentru cei care detin lichiditati, pe piata ex [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Noutatile se succed într-un ritm alert în aceasta perioada, în segmentul coupe-urilor europene de lux cu 4 usi. În timp ce Audi prezinta oficial noul A7 Sportback, iar la Mercedes noua generatie CLS se pregateste si ea pentru "iesirea în lume [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Sezonul estival de anul acesta se traieste în ritm de Formula 1 la malul marii. Forza Rossa, reprezentantul oficial Ferrari în România, aduce la Mamaia doua dintre cele mai sportive modele Ferrari. Acestea pot fi testate zilnic de catre amatorii de senzatii tari, [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Concernul Continental a depasit în ce priveste rezultatul operativ (EBIT) din primul semestru din 2010 nivelul atins înainte de criza în primul semestru al anului 2008. Pe baza revigorarii continue a pietelor auto, precum si performantei mai ridicate în tranz [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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În vara acestui an, pe piata turistica din România s-au constatat mai multe cereri pentru vacantele tip charter comparativ cu vara anului 2009. Charterul permite tarife mult mai reduse decât pe liniile regulate ale unui avion cu destinatia dorita. Turcia, [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Propulsiile electrice vor ocupa un rol important în dezvoltarea conceptului "Porsche Intelligent Performance"Pentru începutul anului 2011 este prevazut startul testului practic Propulsiile electrice vor ocupa un rol din ce &ic [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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00:45Ministerul Justitiei va folosi specialisti pentru elaborarea de acte normative, fara sa ii plateasca Pe scurt... Romania!Guvernul României a aprobat în sedinta de miercuri, la initiativa Ministerului Justitiei, o hotarâre prin care ministerul poate folosi colaboratori externi pentru elaborarea actelor normative si a unor documente de politica publica, fara sa îi plateasca, [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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00:45Bota i-a cerut lui Vladescu scutirea de la penalitati a firmelor care isi platesc datoriile in 6 luni Pe scurt... Romania!Senatorul PSD Marius Bota i-a cerut într-o scrisoare ministrului Finantelor, Sebastian Vladescu, sa negocieze cu reprezentantii FMI si UE posibilitatea emiterii unei ordonante prin care sa fie scutite de la penalitati firmele care îsi platesc datoriile la stat î [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Liderul UDMR Sfântu Gheorghe, Antal Arpad, ar dori desfiintarea prefecturilor, el considerând ca institutia care reprezinta Guvernul în teritoriu "nu îsi are rostul", potrivit Mediafax. Presedintele UDMR Sfântu Gheorghe a declarat, ieri, î [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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00:45Oprea spera ca legea privind taxarea averilor mari va fi dezbatuta in sesiunea extraordinara Pe scurt... Romania!"Ma bucur sa vad ca tot mai multi oameni politici, atât de la Putere, cât si din Opozitie, sunt de acord cu taxarea suplimentara a averilor mari si foarte mari si sustin initiativa UNPR privind introducerea impozitului de solidaritate" [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Nova Invest Satu Mare s-a retras din activitatea de brokeraj, întrucât a înregistrat pierderi în ultimii doi ani, iar actionarii nu au vrut sa participe cu bani pentru sprijinirea firmei, a declarat pentru Mediafax presedintele CA si directorul general al Nova Inves [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Ieri, la Sibex au fost tranzactionate, în premiera, contracte pe uncia de aur, denominate în lei, cu scadenta în data de 20 august, la un pret de 1.168 lei.În ceea ce priveste lichiditatea, aceasta cobora, în jurul orelor 17:15, la putin peste 3.700 [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Brokerul de la Tradeville atrage atentia ca indicii multor burse se afla în zona unor rezistente importanteTestarea cu succes a acestora sau depasirea lor va determina investitorii sa reactioneze mai violent dupa stabilirea directiei [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Strazile sunt ca si oamenii. Mai degraba aidoma logicii unor oameni: ori duc undeva anume, ori nu duc nicaieri. Simplu. Noi avem probleme cu denumirea strazilor, cu afisarea acesteia pe tablite indicatoare (care, în multe cazuri, mai ales în Bucuresti, lipsesc cu des [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Faptul ca Trezoreria a atras acum doua zile, la o licitatie de titluri de stat denominate în euro, o suma tripla fata de valoarea initiala a emisiunii, care a fost de 400 milioane euro, pentru care va plati o dobânda de 4,9% cât si mentinerea pe un trend descende [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Volksbank România a initiat la începutul lunii iulie implementarea unui proiect de instruire a personalului operativ si de conducere, în valoare de 8,2 mil. lei, cofinantat din Fondul Social European prin programul operational sectorial pentru dezvoltarea resurs [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Ministerul Finantelor Publice (MFP) vrea sa atraga în luna august 4,6 miliarde de lei (1,1 miliarde euro) de la banci prin emisiuni de titluri de stat, similar cu valoarea programata pentru luna iulie, dar cu mult peste suma împrumutata în aceasta luna. Finantele [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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ING: Probabilitatea este destul de ridicata pentru ca tintele actuale de deficit fixate de Fond se bazeaza pe o contractie economica de doar 0,5%''În mod normal, orice revizuire a estimarii privind evolutia economiei ar trebui sa fie urmata de rev [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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00:45Baconschi invita investitorii chinezi sa construiasca autostrazi si hidrocentrale la noi in tara Pe scurt... Romania!Ministrul Afacerilor Externe, Teodor Baconschi, a declarat, ieri, cu ocazia Zilei Nationale a României la Expo Shanghai, ca asteapta "cât mai multi turisti chinezi în România" si, totodata, a invitat investitorii din China sa construiasca autostrÄ [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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00:45Problematica romilor si a persoanelor nomade, subiect de dezbatere la cel mai inalt nivel al statului francez Pe scurt... Romania!Romii ce se fac vinovati de atentate la ordinea publica, de fraude sau alte infractiuni vor fi retrimisi în tara natala. Sunt vizati îndeosebi romii veniti din România, Bulgaria, fosta Iugoslavie   [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Adriean Videanu le-a spus reprezentantilor FMI, CE si BM ca are pe lista si IOR, Santierul Naval Mangalia, Cuprumin si MoldominAnul trecut se discuta despre parteneriate sau asocieri în participatiune sau crearea unei societati cu capital mixt pentru rela [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Profitul Siemens a urcat cu 40% în perioada aprilie-iunieGrupul german Siemens si-a ridicat prognoza pentru acest an dupa ce a anuntat cresterea profitului operational cu 40% în trimestrul aprilie-iunie, al treilea al anului fiscal 2009-2010, datorit [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Fondul Monetar International (FMI) a aprobat joi un acord pe doi ani si jumatate cu Ucraina pentru un împrumut de 15,2 miliarde dolari, scrie Mediafax. Guvernul de la Kiev s-a angajat sa-si reduca deficitul bugetar, de aceea a realizat deja o majorare semnificativa a pretur [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Sanofi-Aventis a depasit estimarile analistilor în trimestrul doi, datorita cresterii vânzarilor si reducerii cheltuielilor pe cercetare si dezvoltare, informeaza Mediafax. Grupul francez, prezent si în România, nu a oferit vreo estimare privind rezultatele v [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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În iulie, indicatorul climatului de afaceri a crescut cu 1,4%, fata de iunieSectorul industriei si al serviciilor au sustinut acest avans În luna iulie 2010, indicatorul climatului de afaceri din Bulgaria a crescut cu 1,4 punct [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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"Amnistia fiscala pentru oamenii de afaceri români pentru a-si transfera banii din conturile straine în România ar crea mai mult un haos moral'' Ministrul Economiei, Adriean Videanu, a afirmat ca din informatiile sale n [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Stanleybet a deschis azi, în orasul Brasov, o noua agentie de tipul "Stanleybet LIVE SPORTS", aceasta fiind agentia cu numarul 300 deschisa de companie în România, din anul 2004 si pâna în prezent, a anuntat ieri casa de pariuri. "Este un [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Grupul farmaceutic A&D Pharma vrea sa deschida în acest an 10-20 de farmacii Sensiblu, dupa ce în ultimii patru ani numarul acestora a ramas aproape constant, a declarat ieri într-o conferinta de presa CEO al companiei, Robert Popescu.Reteaua de farmacii Se [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Centrul Medical Unirea (CMU) a avut în primele sase luni venituri de 10,16 milioane de euro, cu 36% mai mult decât în aceeasi perioada a anului trecut, a anuntat ieri compania de servicii medicale, într-un comunicat.CMU mentioneaza ca veniturile maternitaÅ [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Vânzarile Coca-Cola Hellenic în România au scazut în trimestrul al doilea în volum cu putin peste 10%, din cauza mediului economic dificil si a inundatiilor, iar compania anticipeaza ca masurile de austeritate vor reduce încrederea consumatorilor si [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Veniturile Orange în România au scazut în primul semestru cu 8,8% fata de nivelul din aceeasi perioada a anului trecut, de la 531 milioane euro la 484 milioane euro, dar grupul francez a remarcat în trimestrul al doilea îmbunatatirea trendului încasÄ [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Compania a depus miercuri la Tribunalul Bucuresti planul de reorganizare, urmând sa fie aprobat pâna în septembrieDoi investitori au ramas în cursa pentru achizitia pachetului majoritarRetailerul este optimist si vrea afaceri de 110 mil. eur [ PeScurt.ro ] -- PeScurt.ro
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Delicious Froyo will be hitting the huge and controversial EVO 4G starting in early August, according to Sprint. The update will begin its OTA rollout on August 3rd and they expet it to be done by “mid-August.” Once it goes public, I’m sure there will be a way to force it onto your handset if you don’t feel like waiting. We’ll detail that once it happens. The improvements we’ve been talking about for weeks and weeks are forthcoming! But will it make the EVO last a full day on one charge? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, here’s the full press release, minus a bunch of EVO review excerpts they (...) -- Analysis
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Now in production: the final film in Gary Hustwit’s documentary trilogy on design, nofollowing Helvetica and Objectified: Urbanized looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design, featuring some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers. Over half the world’s population now lives in an urban area, and 75% will call a city home by 2050. ★
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Interesting, but not surprising. ★
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Nearly two years ago, we wrote about a company, called Leader Technologies with an incredibly broad patent (7,139,761) that covered associating a piece of data with multiple categories, that was suing Facebook for infringement. Our usual group of patent system defenders rushed to the comments to quickly declare that I was an idiot for daring to question this patent. The case took a weird turn when the court actually ordered Facebook to hand over its source code. We were confused as to how this made sense. Since the lawsuit was about patents, not copyright, the specific source code (...)
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A bunch of folks have sent over the story from TechCrunch, based on a tweet from Chris Dixon that patent hoarding giant Intellectual Ventures isn't doing so hot for those who invested in it. Now, it's no secret that I'm no fan of Intellectual Ventures. I believe the company represents a huge tax on innovation and has a variety of very questionable business practices. I would be very happy to hear that it was doing poorly. But, unfortunately, the numbers being revealed are mostly meaningless. To understand why this information is even out there, you have to go back to 2002. Historically, (...)
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00:31White House Seeks Easier FBI Access To Internet Records, Blocks Oversight Attempt... Just As FBI Caught Cheating On Exam To Stop Abuse - TechdirtWe're still at a loss to explain why there's been so little outrage over the fact that the FBI got a total free pass for its massive abuse in getting phone records. As you may recall, reports came out about how the FBI regularly abused the official process for obtaining phone records, avoiding any of the required oversight, but right before that info came out the White House issued a ruling saying that it was okay for the FBI to break the law. That's not how things are supposed to work. And, it appears that since there was no outrage over all of this, the White House keeps pushing (...)
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Kgr_Sz: 起床なう！おはよう！ -- movatwitter
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bayuzen: ABIS senam heboh (ⓐ SMK Negeri 36 Jakarta) http://4sq.com/d84yc5 -- foursquare
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miss_caramel06: #np..Wifey By Next -- T-Mobile Sidekick
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03:13PortiaAlexis: Make the money, don't let it make you (Old Diamond quotes)RT ⓐKaiMorae: Off work at last #deepbreath but will be back at it tomorrow #shrug TWITTER PublicPortiaAlexis: Make the money, don't let it make you (Old Diamond quotes)RT ⓐKaiMorae: Off work at last #deepbreath but will be back at it tomorrow #shrug -- ÜberTwitter
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TaT2_RRR_Skoote: Im on my shit babe!!!! Big plans gone fall through any day now!! -- twidroid
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03:13jadzor: RT ⓐchrsptn: Check out this new Augmented Reality App from CBA and RPData - http://bit.ly/bGKlR4 TWITTER Publicjadzor: RT ⓐchrsptn: Check out this new Augmented Reality App from CBA and RPData - http://bit.ly/bGKlR4 -- Seesmic
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aegyangyo: #nkp Beast - Easy Sincere Vers. -- Twitter for BlackBerry®
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03:13cardosoeline: seu colega na escola já colou de você e ainda tirou uma nota melhor que a sua ? http://4ms.me/a70ohX TWITTER Publiccardosoeline: seu colega na escola já colou de você e ainda tirou uma nota melhor que a sua ? http://4ms.me/a70ohX -- formspring.me
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JokerTattoo: Mobster shows up in court with new facial tattoo http://bit.ly/bHsIoJ -- twitterfeed
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03:13MarianaHerreraV: RT ⓐJuanEnriqueQH: ⓐMarcyQh raw is apparently ur natural state jaja / q familia caray! TWITTER PublicMarianaHerreraV: RT ⓐJuanEnriqueQH: ⓐMarcyQh raw is apparently ur natural state jaja / q familia caray! -- UberTwitter
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VinaBabi: give it to me babyyy, ah huh ah huh!
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03:13nona_angie: Tapi bener ya burung merak itu memang bulunya paling indah, ah jd pengen meluk burung unta #jiah #ditoyormerak TWITTER Publicnona_angie: Tapi bener ya burung merak itu memang bulunya paling indah, ah jd pengen meluk burung unta #jiah #ditoyormerak -- Mobile Tweete
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03:13rcarrens: #listeningto #TEDLikes! Blue Eyes by The Reivers (Translate Slowly (Group Aka Zeitgeist)) TWITTER Publicrcarrens: #listeningto #TEDLikes! Blue Eyes by The Reivers (Translate Slowly (Group Aka Zeitgeist)) -- API
TechCrunch
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With the debut of Groupon personalization, I have little doubt that the daily deal site will double the number of deals (and double its revenue run rate) in just a few months. According to CEO Andrew Mason, the service is churning out 75,000 transactions per day. Through personalization, Groupon will be able to offer 20, 30 or more deals per city per day. Assuming the current growth rate in subscribers — in the last four months the site has more than doubled to 12 million registered users— 2x is likely a prudish estimate. It’s hard to fault a company that is making money hand over fist; (...) --
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Despite their clear commitment to the hardware version of the Kindle, Amazon continues to make the Kindle apps that run on the iPad and iPhone better. Today, version 2.2 of the app brings a full dictionary with it. This matches the functionality of Apple’s own iBooks app, but the Kindle implementation is even a little better. Now in the Kindle app when you highlight a word, a definition will automatically appears at the bottom of the screen. And that’s not all — there you’ll also find links to further investigate the word on Google or Wikipedia. Though this dumps you out of the app and into the (...) --
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We’ve just received official word from Google confirming that they are not currently blocked in China and that a server issue was most likely the cause of their dashboard misread. One month ago, Google put up their watered-down engine to avoid being shut down completely in Mainland China. Because the Chinese government did not like the auto redirect to Google Hong Kong previously in place, the new degraded version at the center of all today’s confusion simply links to Google Hong Kong. From Google, in an email today: Because of the way we measure accessibility in China, it’s possible that (...) --
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At Google I/O in May, the search giant indicated that they were about to take their commitment to location to the next level. Sure, Latitude had been around for a while, but everyone knew that Google could do more in the space. The announcement of some new location APIs seemed to a big part of the solution. And now comes the fun part. Today on their Geo blog, Google is announcing that they’re beginning to open the Places API for business. The first developers getting access? Those working on check-in services. Here’s what Google has to say: We are going to focus initially on check-in (...) --
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Panasonic announced today that it will buy out two of its subsidiaries, Sanyo and Panasonic Electric Works, for $9.4 billion. Sanyo is the largest lithium-ion rechargeable battery producer and 11th-largest solar cell producer in the world with a quickly-growing solar panel manufacturing arm according to company statements. Panasonic Electric Works makes a wide range of electrical products including temperature, lighting and motion sensors and controls. Last year, Panasonic acquired a 50.27% stake in Sanyo for $4.4 billion. The pair of acquisitions should help the company best known (...) --
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I honestly laid in bed last night thinking about the Chevy Volt’s $41k price tag. Seriously. When I got the press release shortly before it crossed the wire yesterday, the price seemed about right for a first-gen Voltec vehicle. The $350 lease program looked even better. I was already totally sold on the Volt after driving an early mule over a year ago and the price tag didn’t even bother me one bit. It’s not like I planned on buying one, but I could see where GM was coming from. Then my post went up at 12:00 pm yesterday and quickly filled with commentors railing against the $41,000 price (...) --
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According to Google’s Mainland China service availability page it looks like Google Web Search, Google Images and Google News are down in China, again. In fact, if you parse the chart it looks like just about the only thing still up is Gmail. However reports on Twitter say otherwise, as many users claim that the service is working just fine. We also tested Google.com.cn on Webpulse and received a big thumbs up in terms of availability. Google search was similarly blocked in China last January, when the search giant pulled out of the country reportedly over its censorship policy. The (...) --
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When asked about Google’s partnership with Zynga, Mr. Schmidt said “we haven’t announced it” but “you can expect a partnership with Zynga” in the future. Google’s partnership with Zynga was reported earlier by the blog TechCrunch. That sure sounds like an announcement to me, buried 13 paragraphs deep in an article summarizing an interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt with the Wall Street Journal. Or an announcement of an announcement. Or perhaps an announcement of an expectation of an announcement. We broke the news about Google’s investment in Zynga and negotiations around a Zynga partnership (...) --
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00:26Peixe Urbano Founder: “Perhaps Groupon Thought It Was Fine to Arrive in Brazil With Fake Deals” [Video] - TechCrunchPeixe Urbano means, in Portuguese, “Urban Fish”. That’s a fun fact. Here are a few more: Peixe Urbano is a Rio-based Groupon clone that’s doing very nicely indeed by tailoring its service precisely to a Brazilian audience. The site offers 30 deals a week, across multiple cities. According to the company’s own numbers, they’re averaging a little over 1000 purchases per deal: 30,000 sales a week. Peixe Urbano takes 50% commission on every sale. The site’s popularity is growing fast amongst traders too: 300 companies a day apply to have their deals sold through Peixe Urbano. Brazil is one of the (...) --
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Last night, Amazon unveiled the latest edition of the Kindle, which sports a better screen, slimmer profile, and — most important — a relatively affordable $139 pricetag for a Wifi only version (the 3G version still goes for $189). To mark the occasion, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made an appearance on the Charlie Rose show, where he discussed the future of the E-book, and why there’s plenty of room for the Kindle in a world where tablet PCs like the iPad are on the rise. You can watch the full episode right here, and the show has graciously provided us with the clips and transcripts below. The (...) --
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01:32Wendy Schmidt, wife of Google CEO, funds $1.4M X PRIZE Challenge for oil spill cleanup - BetaNews.ComBy Tim Conneally, Betanews At the National Press Club in Washington, DC Thursday, the X PRIZE Foundation launched its $1.4 million oil spill clean-up competition called the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge. The Foundation, which currently also has a $10 million challenge to develop a 100 mile per gallon car, first announced this competition at an independently organized TED event in June dedicated to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. But it was not announced at that time who the benefactor of the prize would be. Today, it was announced that the funds for the (...)
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: Google Confirms: We're Not Currently Blocked In China — We've just received word from Google that they are not currently blocked in China and that a server issue was most likely the cause of their dashboard misread. From Google: … While their statement also confirms that there was a small amount …
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Antony Bruno / Billboard.Biz: Sources: Spotify Reboots U.S. Label Negotiations — Spotify's licensing negotiations with the major music labels have reverted back to square one, Billboard.biz has learned from multiple sources. — Having failed to persuade the major record labels to go along with its vision for a U.S. version …
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Ina Fried / CNET News: Ballmer says Microsoft at work to rival iPad — REDMOND, Wash.—Acknowledging Apple's early success with the iPad, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer insisted Thursday that the software maker is hard at work on Windows-based tablets. — “They'll be shipping as soon as they are ready,” Ballmer said …
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01:00Microsoft: We are focusing on eight core businesses (Mary Jo Foley/All about Microsoft Blog) TechmemeMary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog: Microsoft: We are focusing on eight core businesses — Microsoft critics tend to knock the company for being either too reliant on its cash cows (Windows and Office) or too scattered, chasing too many nonprofitable businesses. — At the kick-off of the company's annual Financial Analyst Meeting …
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Reuters: Google says China Web search fully blocked — Google Inc's (GOOG.O) Web search and mobile services in China were fully blocked on Thursday, according to a message on the company's website. It was unclear whether access had been blocked by the Chinese government or if it was a temporary service disruption.
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Michael V. Copeland / Fortune: Google: The search party is over — Yes, the company is still growing at rates that would be the envy of the rest of the Fortune 500. But its core business is slowing, its stock is down, its Android mobile platform generates scant revenue, and competition (hello, Facebook) is fierce.
Mashable!
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Google has indicated it’s going to be working with developers on checkins for location-based applications through its Places API. This spring, Google announced Places as a revamping of its local and local-business listings. Originally, we saw Places as a SEM/user review mechanism, perhaps a Yelp competitor. However, with the recent preview of the Google Places API at Google I/O, the company showed developers a whole world of geographical, commercial and social information attached to each Place on its vast radar. In a May blog post, Maps API Product Manager Thor Mitchell wrote, “Each Place (...) -- Follow Mashable Dev & Design on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Dev & Design channel, iPhone, iPad
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According to several reports and data from Google, the search engine is fully blocked in mainland China as of today. Also fully blocked are ads and mobile access. Image search is partially blocked, as are Google Docs, Google News and Google Groups. Other sites and apps that were previously and remain blocked include YouTube, search suggestions, Google Sites, Blogger and Picasa. Google and China have been at odds since at least the beginning of this year, when a “highly sophisticated and targeted attack” was conducted on Google’s corporate infrastructure; the attack originated in China. As a (...) -- Follow Mashable Tech on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Tech channel, iPhone, iPad
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A Day’s Outing, a website dedicated to helping users find nearby day trips, weekend get-aways or quick excursions across the U.S., has just launched its new iPhone app [iTunes link], making it easy to find ways to spend these dog days of summer, whether you’re traveling with family, in small groups or on your own. We got a chance to play with the app to see what it offers and how it compares to other location destination apps, like Goby. We’ve also got 100 copies of the app to give away to our readers (it normally retails for $2.99). Many mobile applications utilize location, but most of (...) -- Follow Mashable Mobile on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Mobile channel, iPhone, iPad
MAKE Magazine
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MAKE subscriber Hans writes in to tell us about the gigantic LED Wall project by Kenny, Cat, Sevan, Jeff, Ginger, and Norm of elnormo.net. They used an ioBridge module connected to an Arduino to create a 20x7 LED array that you can control over the web. And why? Apparently, just for fun of it! [thanks, Hans!] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Arts | Digg this! -- Arts
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Good news for London makers/hackers- the London Hackspace just relocated to a newer, bigger venue, and is having a spacewarming party to celebrate the move! Here's the details: The London Hackspace is a non-profit, community-run hacker space in central London. We provide a space where people who make things can come to share tools and knowledge. We've just signed the lease on our new workshop - "Laboratory 24" - in Shoreditch. This larger venue will enable us to provide many more facilities than were possible in our previous space. To celebrate our move we're having a party/open evening (...) -- Events
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I moved to Detroit eleven years ago, in what I thought was a short stay exclusively to attend graduate school. After witnessing the potential to work, educate, and maintain a studio practice here, I never used my ticket home to the East Coast. In just a few years after founding my neckwear design company, The Cyberoptix Tie Lab, I was able to quit the proverbial "day job" and work full-time in my studio without having to worry about the outrageous overhead costs that plague start-ups in many other major cities. This freedom allowed me to quickly grow my business to a level where my work (...) -- Making Detroit
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Emperor be praised! Holy Machine God! Priests of Mars, eat your steam-powered hearts out! Via Kotaku (by way of DudeCraft) comes this unreal Warhammer 40,000 Dreadnought casemod -- yes, there's a PC in there somewhere. I love the way the assault cannon actually spins up. In the future there are only incredible case mods Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Gaming | Digg this! -- Gaming
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Tristan Shone rolled out the 'big guns' for Maker Faire Bay Area 2010. His Industrial Sound Controllers are a musical force to be reckoned with and their sheer size and weight demand considerable attention upon seeing them firsthand. Tristan took a few moments out from setting up to speak with Becky Stern and myself before performing, explaining some of the functionality of his custom gear. Fore more on his unique brand of 'heavy metal', be sure to check out the interview in MAKE, Volume 22 and the how-to on building your own 8-mic MIDI controller. Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in (...) -- mfba2010-IndSoundControllers.m4v, MAKE Podcast
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Born in Ohio in 1885, Ernest "Mooney" Warther took work in a steel mill at age 14. In his spare time, he whittled, and developed great skill. At 28, he built a modest workshop in the backyard of the family home and undertook what would come to be regarded as his masterpiece: A series of 64 carvings, starting with Hero's Engine and ending with the Union Pacific "Big Boy" locomotive, depicting the history and evolution of the steam engine. He was "discovered" in 1923, quit his job at the steel mill and, after touring the country for six months, devoted himself entirely to carving and (...) -- Makers
Boing Boing
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In this Instructable, talbotron22 shows how to make "Kitty Crack," an ultra-potent catnip extract containing nepetalactone, catnip's active ingredient. One pound of catnip yielded 143mg of nepetalactone. A note about safety. Yes, it is safe to use this extract on cats. I have looked into it, and there are a number of studies (very interesting in their own right) using pure nepetalactone on cats in experiments trying to figure out why it causes them to go bonkers. The upshot is that it's pretty safe. In the last of the references below, the LD50 of nepetalactone was determined to be 1550 (...) -- Science
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Prepare to have your mind blown. Certain dinosaurs—physically disparate enough that we've always thought of them as different species—may actually be the same animal at different stages of its life cycle. Also: Those big, protective-looking bone formations surrounding some dinos' heads and necks probably weren't all that useful as a defense against predators. Case in point, triceratops. Or, maybe we should be calling it torosaurus now, I'm not sure. See, according to research done by scientists at Montana's Museum of the Rockies, the familiar triceratops is really just the juvenile form (...) -- Science
CNET News.com
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CNET Car Tech spent some time with the Mitsubishi i-Miev in San Francisco.
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Get schooled by CNET editor Jasmine France. This week she gives tips on how you can use technology to do good things for fellow humans.
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Updates to the Firefox cloud-based syncing tools for iPhone and for the Firefox browser correct three of users' top complaints, according to Mozilla.
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Airprobe software, combined with hardware and crypto cracker tool, allows people to test the snoop factor of their GSM mobile phones--and even intercept calls of others.
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The New York Giants and Jets will soon offer replays, statistics, and live feeds of other games to fans at the New Meadowlands Stadium.
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Does David Jaffe have a bone to pick with Beyond?
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Death threats aimed at Iranian atheist blogger, Fariboz Shamshiri. "One electronic threat was that someone would 'cut his throat.' In another message they wrote 'the death is coming to you soon soon.' He says he still doesn't know who send these messages (they're all anonymous), but he suspects -- based on past experience -- range from Basij militia, Revolutionary Guards Corps Cyber Affairs Division and/or some mullahs or students of seminary schools." His main blog is Rotten Gods and he is the editor of Stop Torturing Us. Iran's lucky to have him. And seriously. Maybe he'll have to (...) -- Government
Engadget
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00:48Canadian iPhone 4 launch details emerge: Rogers offers 6GB for $30, iPad sharing for $20 (update: Bell's iPad deal cheaper) - EngadgetThe iPhone 4 may be launching on all the major Canadian carriers tomorrow, but we're only just now starting to get the actual details on what they'll be offering. Rogers is the first out of the gate and, for a change, it looks like folks in the US may just be a tad jealous of their northern neighbors. It's not only offering the iPhone 4 for a further discounted price -- $159 for the 16GB and $269 for the 32GB on a three-year contract (for both new and existing customers eligible for a hardware upgrade) -- but it's bringing back its 6GB data plan for $30 a month as well. On top of that, (...) -- Permalink
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Poor guy can't catch a break. Talking to analysts today about the world of tablets, Steve Ballmer put on a brave face about his lack of a strong competitor to the iPad, saying of Windows 7 products in the works with third parties: "They'll be shipping as soon as they are ready." Unfortunately, Apple's iPad looms large, with Ballmer stating that "they've sold certainly more than I'd like them to have sold." Perhaps more revelatory, Steve likened the tablet challenge to the situation Microsoft faced when the netbook started out as a Linux product, mentioning that part of their chore is (...) -- Permalink
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00:02The Engadget Show returns Wednesday, August 4th with game designer Peter Molyneux, Windows Phone 7, and much more! - EngadgetWell ladies and gentlemen, it's that time again -- the Engadget Show is back in a big way on Wednesday, August 4th at 8pm! This time around, we'll have the inimitable Peter Molyneux, one of the world's most forward-thinking game designers and creator of "Black & White" and the "Fable" franchise. What's more, we'll have a rousing roundtable with Josh, Paul, and Nilay, some fine, fine music from Zen Albatross, mind-bending visuals from invaderbacca, and a few other big surprises. As usual, we'll be doing tons of giveaways at the live show only, so make the trek and join us at The Times (...) -- Continue reading The Engadget Show returns Wednesday, August 4th with game designer Peter Molyneux, Windows Phone 7, and much more!, Permalink
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Filed under: iPadIt was earlier this week that Jeff Bezos, father of the Kindle and CEO of Amazon was saying that "A color screen doesn't make an Ernest Hemingway novel any better." True enough -- the Kindle has a beautiful sharp screen that is a pleasure to gaze at. Not all books, however, are Hemingways, and we're starting to see so-called multimedia titles showing up in the Apple iBooks Store. One example is the 'Enhanced Edition' of Nixonland, by Rick Perlstein, a chronicle of our 37th President. The book contains the full text of the book first published in 2008. It also includes 27 (...) -- iPad, Permalink
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Filed under: iPadCNET's Crave blog compiled a great list last week of twenty great, free comic books to read on your iPad. For me, more than anything else, the iPad seems perfect for a visual, interactive medium like comics. Movies are better on my big screen, and books can be read on a Kindle (or just on paper -- weird, I know), but for the iPad, having the ability to zoom in on a great piece of comic art or download new comics straight to the device to be read on that big, colorful screen seems perfect. Enter this list, which has some great free samples from both the DC and Marvel (...) -- iPad, Permalink
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Filed under: iPhone Rocknor's Donut Factory is due to hit App Store on Monday. It is an iPhone update of a Windows game that was critically acclaimed back when it was released in 2003. It offers terrific puzzles and fun gameplay that's unfortunately hampered on the iPhone by a too-literal transition from the original game. In this game, you move dough through a factory -- shaping it, cooking it, topping it, and shipping it out -- using a variety of assistive machines. You have to be clever. Some of the factory floor layouts are fiendish. Getting each donut produced to order to meet your (...) -- iPhone, Permalink
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At the university where Diogo worked, the Computer Science program outgrew its status as an unloved child of the Mathematics department. It was to become its own department, and that meant it finally deserved its own building. Since the university in question had a very strong architecture program, the university searched for the biggest names to design the building. Enter Laurent. He flew in to consult and prepare designs for the building; he was fresh off a project in Dubai and his next port-of-call was Tokyo. He was a name that could name names. The exterior renders he provided were (...) -- Feature Articles
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You know, it's not surprising that most game publishers knew to stay the hell out of the way of the only video game franchise that is a national sport, but frankly, I can't even imagine a hypothetical game that we'd be playing instead of StarCraft II for this week's Thursday Night Throwdown. Halo 7? OK, we'd probably play some Halo 7. But that's not a real game, so guess what? StarCraft II. That's what. We were there when the Battle.net servers went live some sixty-odd hours ago, and we're gonna do it again, tonight, between 4PM and 6PM Pacific Daylight Time. If you want a (...) -- national sport, Official Giant Bomb Channel on Justin.tv
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When we looked at adoption of the latest iPhone operating system, iOS 4, last week, we suggested that one reason 49% of users had yet to update might be "that some of the iPhones running iOS 3 are doing so because iOS 4 would slow their phone down." After seeing site after site reporting issues with iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has finally caught on to the issue and "is looking into the matter." Sponsor From the beginning, users were told that a number of features would be missing from iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G - most notably multitasking - but (...) -- Apple
MacRumors
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As announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs earlier this month and confirmed in a company press release earlier this week, Apple has begun its second round of iPhone 4 launches, bringing the device to 17 new countries. Countries in this round of launches i...
Engadget
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We're not experts or anything, but cutting down trees to manufacture your headphones ($30), ear buds ($20), and iPhone cases ($25) does not really seem all that "green" to us. But what good is selling stuff made from "reusable, environmentally friendly and recyclable materials" if you can't broadcast your sense of social responsibility with "rustic wood grain finishes and smooth earthy tones" that "mirror the true beauty that surrounds us?" Is we right, or is we right? The Grass Roots Collection (get it?) starts shipping August 1st. PR after the break. Update: A rep from iWave just sent (...) -- Continue reading How many trees must die for iWave's Earth-friendly headphones, iPhone cases? (update), Permalink
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21:18EVO 4G's Android 2.2 update starts trickling out tomorrow, loads of new features and fixes in store? (update: official for August 3rd!) - EngadgetWe're not certain that this date is going to hold -- things like this have an uncanny tendency to slip at the last possible moment -- but we're at least hopeful to see some internal Sprint communication that they're trying to get the EVO 4G updated to Froyo as soon as tomorrow, July 30. It'd be the perfect way to kick off the weekend, wouldn't it? Turns out this is no mere 2.2 upgrade, though -- they're making a bunch of changes, too, including a host of new preloaded widgets, a flashlight mode for the camera's LED flash, light-assisted 720p video, and "improvement" to the quality of said (...) -- Continue reading EVO 4G's Android 2.2 update starts trickling out tomorrow, loads of new features and fixes in store? (update: official for August 3rd!), Permalink
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Billed as "the Segway's little sister," this self-balancing electro scooter comes from a small German company called Ewee. The idea behind it is pretty simple: file down all the extraneous bits, keep the stuff that keeps you going, and presumably try to sell it to hardy macho types who like the barebones aesthetic. You accelerate by leaning forward and decelerate by doing the opposite, while steering is handled by a joystick (apparently "driving pleasure is gauranteed"). We're not sure how much trust we're willing to invest in either the company or its product, but exclusive retailer (...) -- Continue reading Ewee-PT is how you say 'Segway' in German (video), Permalink
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Nokia's Symbian^3 flagship -- the 3.5-inch N8 with 12 megapixel camera -- just went up for pre-order on Espoo's Italian storefront showing an end of September availability. Now before you get up in arms about the €469 price tag (about $610), remember, the €370 estimated retail price announced was pre tax and pre carrier subsidy. That's just how Europe does things, deal with it. We're not seeing the preorder available elsewhere but we'll update you if that situation changes. [Thanks, Faisal] Nokia N8 up for official €469 pre-order in Italy, available in September originally appeared on (...) -- Permalink
Wired News: Top Stories
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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen is ordinarily a mild-mannered man. But they could barely contain his anger on Thursday at WikiLeaks for publishing tens of thousands of secret documents about the Afghanistan war.
Lifehacker
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#bandwidth SpeedTest.net is the most well-known connection testing tool on the web. Using SpeedTest.net's data, Net Index ranks your local ISPs by download and upload speeds, along with user ratings. If nothing else, you'll know your flaky connection isn't just your problem. More » -- Bandwidth, Broadband, Cable, Isp, speed test
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#iphone If you're still a loyal iPhone 3G owner and upgraded to iOS 4, you've probably noticed one major new thing: slowness. You can downgrade to 3.1.3, but more than one Gizmodo commenter suggest a fix that's worked for them. More » -- iPhone, Annoyances, Clips, Firmware, ios, iOS 4, iPhone 3G, Top
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#socialengineering If you're literal-minded about it, attending conferences, trade shows, networking nights, and other social-minded affairs doesn't seem to have much real-world pay-off. Skip them all, though, and you'll definitely miss out. One experienced schmooze analyst offers advice on picking the winners. More » -- Social Engineering, Business, Business Networking, Career, Conferences, Events, Networking, Social
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#downloads Chrome: If you're not enamored with the default Chrome start page, Start! offers a polished and customizable alternative. More » -- Downloads, Chrome, Extensions, Featured chrome extension, Google Chrome, Start pages
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#relaxation NatureSoundsFor.me is a nature sound mixing board that not only lets you mix together sounds but share and download them too. More » -- Relaxation, Ambient Noise, Music, Sound effects, Sounds
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#webapps Plenty of sites offer a quick IP address check, disposable email, URL shortening, image uploading, and quick text saving. 1dl.us offers all of them, on one page, for your nonofollowing convenience. More » -- Webapps, Disposable Email Address, Email, IP address, Text, URLs, Utilities
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#brownbag Packing a lunch can save you money and save your diet balance, but it's easy to get sick of your own creations. CNN's Eatocracy suggests finding a like-minded soul at work and setting up a grade-school-style lunch swap. More » -- brown bag, Eating, Food, Lunch, Office, Office culture, Work
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#dealhacker Discounted laptops, phones, and cameras are but a few of the deals in today's Dealhacker roundup. Come for the cheap tech gear, stay for the pile of freebies. More » -- Dealhacker, Deals, Electronics, Gadgets, Money, Saving Money
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#automation What if your phone automatically went silent when you step into the movie theater? Texted your significant other when you finished your long commute? Or automatically turned down the volume when a particularly loud friend called? It can; here's how. More » -- Automation, Android, Cellphones, Clips, Feature, Location Awareness, Scripts, Shortcuts, Top, Utilities
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05:07Remains of the Day: 100 Million Facebook Users' Info on BitTorrent [For What It's Worth] - Lifehacker#forwhatitsworth Microsoft shows us what's new in Office for Mac and IE9's typography, Android developers get some anti-piracy options, Verizon smartphones eat more data on average than iPhones, and millions of low-privacy Facebook users are combined into a 2.8 GB directory. More » -- For What It's Worth, Clips, in brief, Remainders
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05:07From the Tips Box: Copy and Paste, Trash Bags, and Credit Card Labels [From The Tips Box] - Lifehacker#fromthetipsbox Readers offer their best tips for quick copying and pasting, getting trash bags out of the can, and finding credit cards quickly in your wallet. More » -- From the tips box, Republished, Tips
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#asklifehacker Dear Lifehacker, I've got some old RAM lying around that I'm looking to use. What are the rules on mixing RAM? As long as they're the same modules (DDR, DDR2, etc.), should I experience any performance issues? More » -- Ask Lifehacker, Compatibility, Hardware, RAM, Top
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#documents Whether you lost the manual you had or your latest eBay purchase didn't come with one, Retrevo's extensive manual archive can help you find a replacement in no time. More » -- Documents, Appliances, Electronics, Household, Manuals, RTFM
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#downloads Android only: While Android has a few multitasking tricks built-in, Power Strip re-assigns your Home button to bring up a dock containing app shortcuts, folders, and even widgets that you can launch at any point, without returning to the home screen. More » -- Downloads, Android, apps, Cellphones, Featured Android Download, Multitasking, Smartphones, Widgets
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#autohotkeyanswers Earlier this week we shared a handy file renaming shortcut that works in Windows 7 and Vista (see video). Reader derilium put together a script that brings the same functionality to XP. More » -- AutoHotkey Answers, Autohotkey, Explorer, Keyboard Shortcuts, Timesavers, Windows, Windows Explorer, Windows XP
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#autohotkey It's no secret that we're huge fans of the simple but powerful AutoHotkey scripting language, and we use it religiously to automate Windows tasks and save time. Here's a handful of useful scripts and tricks to help you become an AutoHotkey expert. More » -- Autohotkey, AutoHotkey Answers, Automation, Feature, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, Shortcuts, Top, Windows
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#lists Listiki is a crowdsourced list creation service. You create lists and others participate in adding to and ranking the contents of your lists. Best Windows applications, vampire movies, restaurants in Reno, worst CG movie—anything you can rank is fair game. More » -- Lists, Clips, Collaborate, Collaboration, Collaboration Tools, crowdsourcing, Sharing, Video, Wiki
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#downloads Windows: Shotty is a lightweight and portable screen capture tool that captures screenshots in Windows Vista and 7 while preserving the transparency of Aero-Glass effects. More » -- Downloads, Aero, Featured Windows Download, Portable, screen capture, Screenshot, Screenshots, Windows
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#diy Inductive charging is a pretty convenient way to charge your phone, but kits for less popular devices are hard to come by. Here's how to hack your phone to charge wirelessly, using another phone's kit. More » -- DIY, Cellphone, Cellphones, Charging Station, Clips, Electricity, Smartphones, Top
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#googleschool If you're bad at keeping time zone conversions straight, save yourself the embarrassment of a poorly timed phone call with a quick Google search. More » -- Google School, Google, Search, Search Techniques, Time Zones
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report
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Update! Episode 14 is now available for your listening and viewing pleasure at 5by5.tv. Josh Williams, founder of Gowalla, is our guest at 1:00 PM ET today, July 29, in Episode 14 of The Big Web Show. Whether you’re a social media user/creator, an entrepreneur, an application developer, an iconist or illustrator, a freelancer with big dreams, an API wizard, a devotee of marketing 2.0, a web designer, a Gowalla fan, or what, you won’t want to miss this episode. The Big Web Show is taped in front of a live internet audience, and you can be part of it. Join co-host Dan Benjamin and me at (...) --
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Strong demand for a line of smartphones using Google’s Android operating system helped sales. -- Company Reports, Motorola Inc|MOT|NYSE
MobileCrunch
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BGR just managed to get some pictures of Verizon’s LTE USB modem, which is apparently currently under testing. The modem is made by LG, and uses the next gen LTE SIM card. Because this is a prototype and still in testing, there’s not really any other information available at this time, but the hardware sure looks good. -- Analysis
TechCrunch
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Former Yelp VP of Finance/Administration Vlado Herman takes a step up the ladder and becomes, as of today, Yelp’s Chief Financial Officer. The Yelp Blog introduces his promotion with an adorable poem: Faster than BP’s falling share price. More powerful than a bull market on steroids. Able to leap across the Atlantic in a single bound. Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s our new CFO! Founded by former PayPal employees Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons in 2004, Yelp has recently tried to cash in on the GroupOn craze by offering local deals, while Google is attempting (...) --
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Just a couple hours ago, news broke of the $99 Copia Wave5 e-reader, or tablet, or whatever you want to call a 5″ LCD-based device focused on reading. That isn’t the extent of the lineup, however: Copia has two more LCD-based tablets coming out soon, as well as two E-ink-based readers with Kindle-esque designs. As they’ve said since their CES debut, the draw is supposed to be their unique social platform, which allows a community of readers to exchange reviews, recommendations, and so on — and although it will start as an exclusive to Copia-branded devices, they’re trying to go OEM and make (...) --
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As you’re undoubtedly aware, location is one of the hottest fields out there right now. Startups, services, devices, and advertisers are all hovering around it. As you’re also likely well aware, Apple likes to be in control of their own devices. So it should come as no surprise to hear that Apple is moving to be in complete control of their own location database. Back in June, Apple changed its privacy policy to reflect some of the newer things they were doing with regard to location. This worried some people — including two U.S. Congressmen who sent a letter to Apple asking about the (...) --
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Yesterday, mobile security firm Lookout announced at the Black Hat security conference that it had discovered a seemingly benign wallpaper application for Android that had been downloaded millions of times — and allegedly harvested user data like text messages and browsing history, which was being sent to servers in China. At least, that’s what was reported. Turns out, it looks like the press jumped the gun on reporting this as a major security issue, and the company has posted a clarification to its blog. According to the post, while there is something suspicious going on here, the data (...) --
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23:40Personal data of 170 million Facebook users exposed, collected, and shared without any hacking - BetaNews.ComBy Ed Oswald, Betanews Using publicly available information on Facebook, a researcher has been able to gather personal details of nearly 170 million users of the service, or about a third of all users. The data includes names, addresses, e-mails, phone numbers, and birthdays: essentially anything that was not marked as private is now part of this file. The file has now ended up on The Pirate Bay, and so far has seen over 10,000 downloads. This could mean hackers would have an easy way to obtain personal information necessary for identity theft and other malicious uses. Skull Security (...)
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By Tim Conneally, Betanews While the superstar of the Black Hat USA 2010 security conference in Las Vegas this week was Barnaby Jack from IOActive showing off techniques for "Jackpotting" Windows CE-based ATMs, research from security company Lookout has had a much broader impact on consumers, especially those using Android smartphones. Lookout's "App Genome Project" is an ongoing study of the millions of mobile applications available, the user data that they collect, and threats they present. During their research for the project, the team found a series of simple Wallpaper apps in the (...)
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Techmeme
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23:30Feature: Microsoft should cut out the middlemen, build its own phones (Peter Bright/Ars Technica) TechmemePeter Bright / Ars Technica: Feature: Microsoft should cut out the middlemen, build its own phones — Microsoft has a long and illustrious history of operating system sales. The model has served the company well on the PC, but if it wants to make money in the phone market, it needs to start thinking like a consumer electronics company.
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Lauren Goode / Digits: How Low Will E-Reader Prices Go? — As Amazon prepares to release a $139 Kindle e-reader next month, could even cheaper e-readers be close behind? — A small manufacturer already plans to introduce a $99 device this fall. Copia, a subsidiary of DMC Worldwide, is set to offer a $99 …
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Mia / YouTube Blog: Upload limit increases to 15 minutes for all users — We want YouTube to be the best place to upload video. Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We've heard you, and today we're pleased to announce that we've increased the upload limit to 15 minutes.
Mashable!
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Thank the deities! The Sad Keanu Reeves meme is back — and this time instead of a sandwich, everyone’s favorite Little Buddha is sporting a helmet. (Yup. He was just asking for it. ) With such a setup, the possibilities for parody were endless. However, we’ve reined ourselves in and chosen only the best for your early evening pleasure. Last month, the Sad Keanu photo meme hit the ‘net with the force of a particularly fierce tropical storm — of the ilk that devours sandwiches, rather than towns. Folks seized upon the iconic snap and bent it to their own devious purposes. Our own Shane Snow even (...) -- Follow Mashable Entertainment on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Entertainment channel, iPhone, iPad
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Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: Urban Spoils Quick Pitch: Urban Spoils aggregates and recommends fantastic daily deals from 100+ social buying websites. Genius Idea: If you’re Internet-savvy and love a good bargain, you’ve probably already subscribed to a number of daily deal newsletters, like Groupon and LivingSocial, and/or signed up for rush buying sites like Gilt, which posts deep discounts on designer (...) -- Microsoft BizSpark., Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Social Media channel, iPhone, iPad
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It seems that one key feature of Facebook -– the ability to tag friends in status updates by using the “ⓐ” symbol –- has been broken since the social network rolled out a new publisher in conjunction with the new Facebook Questions product on Wednesday. In an e-mail to Mashable, Facebook says that the company is “working to fix the issue” and that it only affects users who have the new publisher enabled (like most major new features at Facebook, the rollout of Questions and the new publisher is a gradual one). We’ve noticed several other issues since the launch -– notably, our Facebook Page has (...) -- Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Social Media channel, iPhone, iPad
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This series is supported by Gillette. Learn more about Gillette and its products at Gillette.com. Video is a tricky spot for most blogs and personal sites, especially when that video is meant to represent you. While everyone likes to watch videos (just look at the exponential growth and popularity of YouTube), it’s a little more difficult to create, edit and host your own videos. This isn’t to say incorporating a video into your online presence is an impossible feat, but to do it properly requires some digital finesse and forethought. Technically speaking, simply making a video is pretty (...) -- Gillette.com, iStockphoto, kaisersosa67, Follow Mashable Web Video on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Web Video channel, iPhone, iPad
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This series is supported by Ben & Jerry’s Joe, Ben & Jerry’s new line-up of Fair Trade and frozen iced coffee drinks. Learn more about it here. Update: Google has just made this process significantly easier with the launch of its Font Previewer. For years, we’ve been stuck with the same old fonts: Arial, Georgia, Verdana, Times New Roman — web-safe fonts that a majority of web users have installed on their computer. But lately, the web design community is abuzz — and the source of the excitement is around web fonts. "Web fonts" is a generic term that refers to the method of (...) --
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Good news for everyone out there who’s ever thought to themselves: “A 10-minute video of my cat eating ribs on the kitchen floor is just too short.” YouTube announced today that it has increased its upload limit from 10 minutes to 15 for non-partners. So get kitty lookin’ pretty and start rolling! So why add the extra five-spot now? Well, on the YouTube blog, the video-sharing site explains that it’s been beefing up its copyright protection tools of late, i.e. the Content ID system (which lets copyright holders have more control over their content). Therefore, it’s less likely that users can, (...) -- Follow Mashable Web Video on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Web Video channel, iPhone, iPad
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The American Museum of Natural History today unveiled the American Museum of Natural History Explorer app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, designed to help users better navigate through the Museum’s various exhibitions. The Museum has been newly outfitted with indoor Wi-Fi, and users can use the app [iTunes link] to pinpoint their location and receive turn-by-turn directions through the 45 permanent exhibition halls, theaters, restrooms, cafes and shops. In addition, the app can be used to access customized visual and audio tours, a fossil treasure hunt, and further information about (...) -- Follow Mashable Mobile on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Mobile channel, iPhone, iPad
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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: MyDunkTank Quick Pitch: Anyone can do a dare to raise money for a cause they support, and their friends and family can vote with their dollars for the dare one has to do. Genius Idea: There are already plenty of sites like JustGiving out there that help you get donations for a cause by hosting events or just straight up asking for dough, (...) -- Microsoft BizSpark., iStockphoto, pinktag, Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Social Media channel, iPhone, iPad
MAKE Magazine
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Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool: Flick user Arms22 built this 7 Segment LED FAN Revolution Display to monitor the speed of a PC case fan. It's a pretty simple project, but a good introduction to sensing pulse durations and driving multiple seven segment displays. The write-up is in Japanese, or you can find a machine translated version here. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this! -- Electronics
Boing Boing
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Via our Submitterator, Fang McGee points us to this novel use of 3D printers: spitting out fabric structures for clothing. From Ecouterre: ...Designer-researchers like Freedom of Creation in Amsterdam and Philip Delamore at the London College of Fashion are cranking out seamless, flexible textile structures using software that converts three-dimensional body data into skin-conforming fabric structures. The potential for bespoke clothing, tailored to the specific individual, are as abundant as the patterns that can be created, from interlocking Mobius motifs to tightly woven meshes. "Are (...) -- Submitterator
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Kite designer Tim Elverston sent in this video through Submitterator, showing his friend making a piece of kite line move "magically" with the help of static electricity. Also, they got shocked. If you listen to the video through headphones, you can clearly hear an electrical buzzing every time their fingers get close to the kite line. Interestingly, the effect seems to have been dependent on the line material, and the bench the kite was tied to—both of which were made from plastic composite. The two other identical kites flying in the same conditions were not doing the same thing. They (...) -- Science, Submitterator
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On August 14-15, San Francisco's Golden Gate Park will host Outside Lands, a massive music festival with several dozen excellent bands, food, wine, art, and a big dose of Bay Area culture. Main stage performers include Kings of Leon, Furthur featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, The Strokes, My Morning Jacket, Al Green, and Cat Power. There are also a slew of killer acts throughout the day on smaller stages, from Gogol Bordello to Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars to Rebirth Brass Band. The best news is that our friends at Outside Lands kindly provided Boing Boing with two pairs of two-day (...) -- Entertainment
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I'm speaking Monday, Aug. 16th, at the University of New Mexico's INCBN IGERT Symposium, which focuses on the integration of neuroscience and nanotechnology. As the pre-symposium dinner entertainment, I'll be talking about "Those Fabulous Octopus Brains"—looking at cephalopod intelligence and brain structure. I fully admit that my topic choice is a blatant attempt to curry audience favor w/ cute pictures of octopuses. If you won't be attending, don't worry. It looks like I should be able to get video of the presentation, which will be posted here. (Unless I bomb, in which case we shall (...) -- Science
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In late 2005 Dirk Schwieger, a German cartoonist, went to live in Japan for a year. He got an office job, and started keeping a journal of his experiences in Tokyo. On his blog, he invited readers to email him "assignments," which he dutifully carried out and reported in comic strip format in a Moleskine notebook. The assignments included eating fugu (blowfish sashimi that has a toxin that could kill you if not prepared properly), going to a capsule hotel, visiting the Ghibli Museum, riding a roller coaster on top of a building in a shopping center, reporting on the "coolest of the (...) -- Art and Design, Culture, Reviews
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CNET News.com
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Talks to hire the former U.S. senator as head of the film industry's trade group fall apart.
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Ex-NSA and CIA head tells Black Hat crowd that rules for when military can attack foreign networks might exempt power grids and financial networks.
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Though short on details, Microsoft's CEO said it is "job one" to make sure that Windows 7 is an attractive option for slates and tablets.
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As Nvidia falters, AMD's ATI graphics unit is on the rise, spurred by "radical" shifts in a notoriously fickle market, says Mercury Research.
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Microsoft's CEO takes the stage at the company's financial analyst meeting. CNET's Ina Fried is in Redmond with coverage live from the event.
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The government using the Web to make its policies and processes more "open" sounds sunny, but the inability of a Supernova conference panel to go into much depth about it highlights its complexities.
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The names and Facebook profile Web addresses for 171 million accounts are scraped from the site and posted on file-sharing site Pirate Bay.
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Evatran introduces a "hands free" EV charging station that eliminates the need to remember to recharge at the end of the day--or dirty your hands.
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An experiment by Topspin and the Pixies for a couple of U.K. concerts demonstrates that in the future many acts won't need ticket brokers or promoters.
AllPodcasts
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July 29, 2010 - Conor Kilpatrick and staff writers Paul Montgomery and Ryan Haupt break down the latest DC Universe Animated Original film - Batman: Under The Red Hood! They discuss everything from the next short film Showcase: Jonah Hex, the movie itself, the extras, the Robins, it's all here!
Read/WriteWeb
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While not the political capital of Canada, Toronto is certainly the cultural and financial capital of the country. With over 5 million residents, Toronto is the largest city in Canada, sitting in a densely populated part of Southern Ontario. With over 200 ethnic groups speaking over 130 languages, Toronto's cosmopolitan population makes it one of the world's most diverse cities. Toronto also boasts a clean environment, low crime rates, a high standard of living, and incredibly nice folks who live there, all helping make it one of the world's most livable cities and according to a recent (...) -- Never Mind the Valley
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Earlier this year, Google added clickable phone numbers to its mobile ad offerings, making it easier for smartphone owners to connect with businesses when performing local searches. Today, the company has extended this feature by adding inline maps to business listings on mobile websites and apps in the Google Display Network. So now, when you're looking for the nearest pizza place and you don't feel like waiting for delivery, you're just one click away from getting directions from your current location in Google Maps. Sponsor According to Dai Pham, a member of the Google Mobile Ads (...) -- Google
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Mobile security firm Lookout announced today at the Black Hat security conference that millions of Android users had downloaded a wallpaper app that sends user information to a unknown site in China, reported VentureBeat. Concerns about app access to private information were raised last month, but this may be the first instance of Android malware in the wild. Android's enterprise-readiness has been controversial in analyst circles. Update: Lookout contacted us with the nofollowing clarification: The app does not actually steal users SIM card numbers or voicemail passwords. Instead, the app (...) -- News
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"In Google we trust." That may very well be the motto of today's young online users, a demographic group often dubbed the "digital natives" due their apparent tech-savvy. Having been born into a world where personal computers were not a revolution, but merely existed alongside air conditioning, microwaves and other appliances, there has been (a perhaps misguided) perception that the young are more digitally in-tune with the ways of the Web than others. That may not be true, as it turns out. A new study coming out of Northwestern University, discovered that college students have a decided (...) -- Digital Lifestyle
MacRumors
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AppleInsider points to a new Apple job listing that appeared on Monday looking for a software engineer to work on a "revolutionary" new Mac OS X feature. We are looking for a senior softwa...
Engadget
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Hitachi's already dipped its toes (or hands, as it were) into the gesture-based waters before, but it looks to have refined things quite a bit for its latest Minority Report-esque demo, which the company is showing off as part of its 100th anniversary celebration. While complete details are a bit light, the system does seem to be reasonably responsive, and appears to rely on a projection-based system and a single camera to track movements. Perhaps what's most interesting, however, is that Hitachi eventually sees systems like this being used in everything from digital signage to medical (...) -- Continue reading Hitachi shows off new gesture-based interface, touts grand plans, Permalink
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Been itching to get your hands on the Parrot AR.Drone ever since it first took flight at CES way back in January? Well, you can now finally get your $299 pre-order in to ensure it ships to you on the September 3rd launch date. What's more, Parrot has also announced that the Drone will be exclusively available at Brookstone stores in the U.S., where you'll be able to try it out first-hand through October 31st. Head on past the break for the complete press release, and be sure to check out our recent hands-on if you need a reminder of the iPhone-controlled shenanigans possible with the (...) -- Continue reading Parrot AR.Drone now available for pre-order, shipping September 3rd, Permalink
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20:57Droid 2 manual leaks, teaches you everything you need to know about a phone you don't have - EngadgetYou know the drill: blurry shots of phone get leaked... user's manual gets leaked... excited would-be buyers voraciously consume manual's contents... phone finally gets released. Indeed, that's precisely the same well-trodden path the upcoming Droid 2 is taking, so if you're looking at getting this thing in the next few weeks, you might want to start skimming the documentation so there aren't any embarrassing newbie missteps in your first few moments of ownership. As Droid Life notes, we've got more confirmation here that the phone will be running the same skin as the Droid X, complete (...) -- Permalink
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The electric Think City has been targeting an American release for well over two years now but, like many EVs, those dates just kept on 'a slipping. Now the cars are finally starting to hit the colonies and, as a reward for the wait, we're receiving models with more powerful batteries. The cells are supplied by Indiana-based Ener1, a new lithium-manganese pack that offers 25kWh. Those cells are said to double the car's previous expected range, up to 100 miles from 50, yet still recharge in a scant four hours -- if you're using a 240v plug. The folks at Green Car Advisor managed a maximum (...) -- Permalink
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If you're an iPhone user, the only privacy notice you'll see from an app regards your current location -- as much a warning about the associated battery hit from the GPS pinging as anything. If you're an Android user, however, things are different, with a tap-through dialog showing you exactly what each app will access on your phone. But, do you read them? You should, with Lookout running a sort of survey across 300,000 apps on those two platforms, finding that many access personal information even though they seemingly don't need to. One particularly scary instance, an app called Jackeey (...) -- Permalink
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Filed under: iPhone, iPadif(typeof AOLVP_cfg==='undefined')AOLVP_cfg=[];AOLVP_cfg.push(id:'AOLVP_us_115551290001','codever':0.1,'autoload':false,'autoplay':false,'playerid':'61371447001','videoid':'115551290001','publisherid':1612833736,'playertype':'pageload','width':480,'height':270,'videotitle':'TUAW','bgcolor':''); It's a tip calculator, check-splitter all-in-one app... and yes, there are a bunch of 'em on the store. Check out the demo to see if BistroMath combines the power you need with ease of use you're comfortable with. Ultimately, that's the differentiator in these calculator (...) -- iPhone, iPad, Permalink
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Filed under: iPhone, iPadMany developers and users of Apple's iOS devices bemoan the "walled garden" of the App Store approval process, but it appears that the company's measures have prevented mass data theft from iPhones, and iPads. At the Black Hat security conference being held in Las Vegas this week, mobile security firm Lookout announced that an app distributed in Google's Android Market had collected private information from millions of users, then forwarded it to servers in China. Worse than that, the exact number of affected users isn't known, since the Android Market doesn't (...) -- iPhone, iPad, Permalink
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Filed under: iPhone, iPad I'm not the most musically inclined person, but I do tend to try out a bunch of different music generating apps on both my iPhone and iPad. Sometimes the end result is more or less successful, while other times I may as well have been sitting in front of a Baby Grand with just my index fingers and the sheet music for Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor in front of me. The newly released Hexaphone from Impresario Digital, thankfully, fits the former quite well. Hexaphone uses samples generated from an expensive Nord Lead 3 synthesizer to provide you with (...) -- iPhone, iPad, Permalink
Engadget
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So, how do you feel about the look of this myTouch 3G HD we've been seeing this week? Haven't formed a complete opinion yet? Well, maybe this new shot -- seemingly of said phone's backside -- will help. As we've seen on past models, the rear features a tastefully-sized myTouch logo, lending a dose of credibility to the picture that seems to have been covertly snapped off a monitor where the render was being shown. In other words, we don't have much reason to doubt this thing -- and considering that the Vibrant isn't a member of the myTouch line, T-Mobile's overdue for a refreshed (...) -- Permalink
Wired News: Top Stories
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An Android app's data-collection practice has raised concerns about user privacy and security on mobile phones.
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A massive simulation of soot's climate effects finds that basic pollution controls could put a brake on global warming, erasing in a decade most of the last century's temperature change.
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A genomic hunt for virus genes traced sequences to Ebola and the closely related Marburg virus in no fewer than six vertebrate species. The genes appear to have been mixed in about 40 million years ago, and have stuck around ever since.
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A group of rocket enthusiasts used a rocket to send a Nexus One phone 28,000 feet into the atmosphere.
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If the Empulse RR runs as well as it looks, the competition should be very nervous.
Om Malik
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Microsoft should be making its own handsets, says Peter Bright of Ars Technica. Licensing an operating system in the smartphone space doesn’t earn much money, so I understand Bright’s point. But the window of opportunity for Microsoft to build its own phone closed down the minute it said it would license Windows Phone 7 to hardware partners. The time to make the break from licensing a mobile OS and start making hardware has passed Microsoft by – at least until the next time the company decides to reinvent its place in the smartphone market, and even then it would bring challenges. Bright’s (...) -- Hardware, Mobile, Mobile Phones, Web, Google, Microsoft, Windows Phone 7
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When Google CEO Eric Schmidt was asked if Google was a “one trick pony”, relying too heavily on advertising revenues, he replied: If you’ve got a one-trick pony, you want the one we have. We’re in the ad business, and it’s growing rapidly. We picked the right trick. Schmidt hopes display advertising and mobile will turn into two $10-billion dollar opportunities for the company: ‘If we have a billion people using Android, you think we can’t make money from that?’ Schmidt asked rhetorically. All it would take, he said, is $10 per user per year. Among other things, Google might earn such sums from (...) -- Web, Google, Eric Schmidt
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Twitter rolled out User Streams to its users for the first time this week, through limited beta offerings by third-party applications TweetDeck and Echofon for Mac. This new, streaming API has been long in the making for Twitter, but may not reach regular users until the end of the year. It’s a significant architectural change for the company that should make Twitter much faster and more reliable. TweetDeck’s Richard Barley called the upgrade “Twitter at the speed of ‘Wow!’” Twitter clients currently poll Twitter’s REST API as often as they’re allowed to — 350 times per hour is the standard, (...) -- Liz's Posts, Social Web, Twitter, User Streams
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If you’ve ever wanted to grab a piece of some of the hottest web startups in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, the upcoming initial public offering of Russian investment fund Digital Sky Technologies could be just what you’re looking for. The company has been widely rumored to be looking at a public share issue, and a report in the New York Times says that it has chosen Goldman Sachs as the lead underwriter for the IPO, which is expected to arrive sometime in 2011. The fund, which is controlled by one of Russia’s wealthiest men, has investments in what are arguably three of the hottest Internet (...) -- Mathew's Posts, Startups, Venture Capital, facebook, IPO, Zynga, Digital Sky Technologies
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Motorola announced today it sold 8.3 million handsets in the second quarter, earning the Mobile Devices division $1.7 billion in sales, and returning the unit to profitability after several quarters of losses. Over 2.7 million smartphones were part of Motorola’s overall handset sales, showing the vast growth in this segment, as the company reported zero smartphone sales in the same quarter in 2009. Although Motorola quarterly results don’t specifically name the biggest catalyst for such a change, it can be summarized in one word: Android. Starting with the original Droid in November, and (...) -- Mobile, Mobile Phones, Telecom, Google, Motorola, Android, droid, DroidX
kottke.org
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The next film in Gary Hustwit's design trilogy (after Helvetica and Objectified) is Urbanized, an investigation of urban design. Who is allowed to shape our cities, and how do they do it? Unlike many other fields of design, cities aren't created by any one specialist or expert. There are many contributors to urban change, including ordinary citizens who can have a great impact improving the cities in which they live. By exploring a diverse range of urban design projects around the world, Urbanized will frame a global discussion on the future of cities. Tags: cities design Gary Hustwit (...)
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A great anecdote from Daniel Ellsberg about what he told first-time government employee Henry Kissinger about the power and limitations of the security clearances he was about to receive. First, you'll be exhilarated by some of this new information, and by having it all -- so much! incredible! -- suddenly available to you. But second, almost as fast, you will feel like a fool for having studied, written, talked about these subjects, criticized and analyzed decisions made by presidents for years without having known of the existence of all this information, which presidents and others had (...)
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You wouldn't think a Korean man teaching his class how to swear in English would be so funny. I love his mannerisms when he says the swears in English; he channels Goodfellas-era Joe Pesci a little bit during his discussion of "fucking". (via mike industries) Tags: language video
Programmable Web
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Collaboration company 37Signals bought the popular Ember iPhone app, which uses the company’s Campfire API (our Campfire API profile) to display and update chats. The app has been renamed 37Signals Campfire and is now available for free (previously $9.99). Based on the 37Signals announcement, it does not appear that anyone will join 37Signals full-time. The news of the app acquisition is still a developer success story in at least two ways. Overcommitted, the company behind Ember, got the attention of 37Signals with its great work. When 37Signals decided to hire out its Highrise app, (...) -- Money, acquisition, chat, messaging
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Twitter has started early beta testing for a new User Streams API. Currently the service is just for desktop clients, but it could eventually fuel other types of applications that need access to data in realtime. Similarly, the stream concept may be one we see used by other services. Twitter’s Taylor Singletary described user streams in the mailing list announcement: The Twitter Streaming API allows a desktop client to efficiently and instantly receive nearly all updates required to keep a display up-to-date… Several interesting new event types are available: Favoriting, retweeting, (...) -- Twitter, realtime
The Doc Searls Weblog
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So I get an email from The River: Integrating Web Intelligence, subtitled “Bridging the Web and Physical Channels”. The first section is this: 1. Audio Tweet 4 min. : Clickstream Trust / Privacy in Telcos – Part 1/4 in the “Who owns Clickstream data?” Series – Courtesy of TelecomTV’s Main Agenda Interactive Paul Magelli – Nokia Siemens, Head of Subscriber Data Management, Nokia Siemens Networks I’m interested in the subjects — privacy, telcos, data ownership (or whatever we’d rather call it), clickstreams, Nokia — and Paul looks like a nice guy, so I click on the link (the one above) and it (...) -- Business, problems
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This graphic, of Apple’s revenues per quarter, broken down by products, tells several stories at once. One is that the iPhone remains huge. (I was amazed by how many I saw in the UK and France.) Another is that the iPod may be getting a bit stale. But the big one is the sudden size of the iPad business. We have one, a 3G model that arrived when we were in Paris in June. It was nice-to-have but something short of its full promise until a friend in Paris got us a 2Gb SIM so the unit became useful outside of our apartment’s wi-fi zone. (Orange, Apple’s carrier partner in France, requires of (...) -- Business, Gear, Technology, Travel
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report
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Just launched and just wonderful! The 10K Apart contest (“Inspire the web with just 10K”) presented by MIX Online and An Event Apart hearkens back to Stewart Butterfield’s 5k Contest of yesteryear while anticipating the HTML5-powered web of tomorrow … and encouraging us to design that web today. We want beauty. We want utility. We want excitement. And we want it all under 10K: SIZE — Total file size, including images, scripts & markup, can’t be over 10K. STANDARDS — We encourage HTML5, and apps must work equally well in IE9 Dev Preview, Firefox and a WebKit browser. LIBRARIES — You can use (...) --, , , , , , , ,
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The show’s over but the photos linger on. An Event Apart Minneapolis was two days of nonstop brilliance and inspiration. In an environment more than one attendee likened to a “TED of web design,” a dozen of the most exciting speakers and visionaries in our industry explained why this moment in web design is like no other. If you were there, relive the memories; if you couldn’t attend, steal a glance at some of what you missed: An Event Apart Minneapolis: the photo pool at Flickr. Next up: An Event Apart DC and San Diego. These shows will not be streamed, simulcast, or repackaged in DVD (...) --, , , , , , , ,
digg
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This Lego stop-motion video by Alex Kobbs captures so many classic moments from StarCraft that I don't know which is my favorite... -- PC Games
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Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten come to mind. Ren and Stimpy, too. Otherwise, I can't think of a more nonsensical and dangerous convergence of megalomania than the pairing of Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco. -- American & Canadian Football
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A House investigatory panel is alleging 13 violations of congressional ethics and federal law statutes by veteran New York Representative Charles Rangel. -- Political News
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The leaked film trailer for Thor in its entirety. -- Movies
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Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week. Sherrod made the announcement Thursday in San Diego at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention. -- Political News
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As we worked on this years 15th Dream Machine, we couldn't help but think about how far we've come. From the original 200MHz, 8MB-of-RAM 1996 Dream Machine up to this years 12-core, 24-thread, 24-gigs-of-RAM version, the ultimate computer has grown exponentially more powerful. But that's not much of a shocker (we've all heard about Moore's Law). -- Hardware
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Today, President Obama wades in to a controversy that threatens to split one of the Democratic Party's most generous source of donations and activists, the teacher unions, from the whole. -- Political News
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A French mother, Dominique Cottrez, has been charged by with murdering eight newborn babies and her husband has been charged with hiding the bodies in the village of Villers-au-Tertre, near Lille . -- World News
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22:30
The Internet has been around for a while now, and at this point we don't know what we'd do without it. Despite having ample time to adapt their sites to meet current trends and expectations, some people just don't get it. Here are 50 of the Web's most face-numbingly bad sites, all still active today. -- Tech Industry News
NYT > Circuits
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21:56
Confidence among venture capitalists in Silicon Valley weakened in the second quarter, according to a new industry report, as concerns over financing, the economy and new regulations added to an already tough working environment. -- ATV Capital, Institutional Venture Partners, Mark Cannice, National Venture Capital Association, Silicon Valley, Miller, Sandy, Venture Capital, National Venture Capital Assn, Financial Services, Technology, Telecommunications, Top Headline
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21:52
The Web site ifixit took apart Apple's Magic Trackpad showing a detailed view of what is under the hood of this new mouse replacement. -- Apple, Magic, multitouch, Trackpad, Apple Inc, Consumer Electronics, Personal Computing
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21:46
Two of the biggest European operators of Internet betting sites, PartyGaming and Bwin Interactive Entertainment plan to merge, forming the world's largest publicly traded online gambling company. -- Gambling, Computers and the Internet, Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Europe, United States
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21:11
For a first-time user of the iPad, some training wheels can help. -- iPad, apps, Mobile, Products, Tablets, Tech & Home, Tips and How-To's
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21:03
A new tool tracks the speed at which cloud services from Google, Microsoft and Amazon.com run, and then displays their worldwide performance. -- Amazon.com, Cloud Computing, cloudsleuth, compuware, gomez, Google, Microsoft, opsource, Company News, Enterprise Computing, Internet
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19:51
YouTube increased the time limit for uploaded videos to 15 minutes from 10 minutes. -- Copyright, Google, Online video, Viacom, YouTube, Recordings and Downloads (Video), YouTube.com, Company News, Internet, Music and Video
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04:20
The New Meadowlands Stadium will give fans free smart-phone applications and enhanced video. -- Meadowlands (NJ), Football, Smartphones, New York Giants, New York Jets, National Football League, Television, Digital and High-Definition Television
MobileCrunch
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21:43
You know how we’ll know when we’re living in the future? When user manuals for gadgets start leaking out before that gadget even officially exists. Oh, that’s now. Welcome to the future! If you’re just itchin’ to know all the right places to touch the Droid 2, you’re in luck: the user manual has just leaked out. Unearthed by DroidLife, the guide confirms some interesting tidbits: If you were hopin’ for vanilla, untouched Android.. sorry! From the screenshots, it looks like it’s running the same build of Motorola’s MOTO BLUR interface as the Droid X. The screenshots look oh-so-Android-2.2ish, (...) -- Analysis
Daring Fireball
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20:34
The comeback episode of Dan Benjamin’s and my podcast, talking about this week’s new Macs, the Magic Trackpad, Antennagate, and more. Sponsored by MailChimp. ★
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18:17Lookout, a Mobile Security Firm, Claims Android App Downloaded by ‘Millions’ Sends Personal Data to Server in China - Daring FireballDean Takahashi, reporting for MobileBeat: The app in question came from Jackeey Wallpaper, and it was uploaded to the Android Market, where users can download it and use it to decorate their phones that run the Google Android operating system. It includes branded wallpapers from My Little Pony and Star Wars, to name just a couple. It collects your browsing history, text messages, your phone’s SIM card number, subscriber identification, and even your voicemail password. It sends the data to a web site, www.imnet.us. That site is evidently owned by someone in Shenzhen, China. The app has (...)
Seth’s Blog
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21:15
Paco Underhill on women and retail. Nancy Lublin on learning from causes. Noah Boyd with an FBI thriller beach read. Better than the last Reacher novel, imho. And stunningly elegant (and lovely to hold) pottery inspired by some of my work from Lori Koop.
Techdirt
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23:22
It's been funny watching the usual anti-Google forces try to make something bigger out of Google's accidental WiFi sniffing via its Street View vehicles. As has been explained in detail, it's not hard to understand how the data was collected accidentally. Even though it is bad that Google didn't realize this, there is no indication that Google ever did anything with the data, or that any sensitive data was collected. After all, if you're doing something sensitive online, it's hopefully via an encrypted channel -- and most email and all banking sites would be. But, of course, lots of (...)
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22:19Forging Science: The Story Of How Famed Painting Authenticator Likely Duped The Art World - TechdirtA couple years ago, on a whim, knowing nothing at all about the movie, I rented the documentary Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?. It's a really amazing documentary. Compelling, well-done and really entertaining. The reviewers loved it too. It tells the story of a truck driver woman, who bought a painting for $5 at a garage sale, and is convinced that it's actually done by Jackson Pollock. The movie has numerous amusing scenes with famed art experts staring at the painting and dismissing it in the most... condescending of tones. Eventually, the "hero" of the film is a guy named Peter (...)
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21:12
Years back, I was a Comcast cable modem subscriber. That was until they spent a whole month cutting off my service, every single day, from 10am until about 4:30pm. Each day I would call to ask what was up, and I was told it was "scheduled maintenance." I asked for said "schedule" so I could plan around it, and was told that there was no schedule -- which made for an odd form of "scheduled maintenance." I also asked if it would be happening the next day as well, and was always told that I wouldn't be able to find out until the connection disappeared again. I dropped Comcast and switched to (...)
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20:05
There's been plenty of talk about whether or not software patents should be legal, and one of the "debates" we often run into in the comments is over whether or not the "software industry" really believes in patents or not. Some patent system supporters claim that most of the industry does, in fact, support patents, but it's a noisy bunch who is against them. Unfortunately for those who believe that, some new research is suggesting quite a different picture. It seems that a rather large majority of software firms don't seek patents and don't believe they're helpful or provide any real (...)
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18:51Second Lawsuit Over School Webcams Involves Student Who Was Photographed 469 Times Over 2 Months - TechdirtRemember the school district in suburban Philadelphia involved in a lawsuit over secretly taking webcam images of students? The school initially denied things, and later said that it had only used the feature 42 times to help find lost or stolen laptops. However, a law firm brought on by the school to investigate its use of the LanRev system found 58,000 images were taken. That's led some other students to realize that they might have a beef with the Lower Merion School district as well. A second student has now filed a lawsuit against the school after discovering that the school took 469 (...)
Download Squad
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23:00
Filed under: Microsoft As the video above explains, moving around panoramic views of a street is great if you can go "bubble to bubble" of a panorama, looking for what you want. That is, a panorama with up and down info is much like a bubble. But if you want to "slide" down the street, you want a more linear view of that street, and what's in the sky or on the ground really isn't that important. Microsoft Research is really onto something here, allowing you to zoom out of a street view and enter a linear representation of that street, complete with signage for businesses and street (...) -- Microsoft, Permalink
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21:30
Filed under: Utilities, WindowsLike to spend as little time as possible mousing around your desktop? Windows has a built-in feature called Mouse Keys which lets you move your pointer by using the numeric keypad, but not every keyboard has one. If you're using a netbook or laptop without a number pad and you like the sound of Mouse Keys, check out MouseFIGHTER. It's a free program which lets you use the arrow keys to navigate -- I've never seen a keyboard without them, but I'm sure one of our loyal readers can probably tell us about an exception. Even still, MouseFIGHTER lets you customize (...) -- Utilities, Windows, Permalink
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20:00
Filed under: Fun, Games, Time-Wasters There are plenty of instances where a nofollow-up isn't as good as the original. This, however, isn't one of them. Crush the Castle 2 is, in fact, every bit as awesome as its predecessor. As before, you're in charge of a trebuchet and tasked with destroying structure after structure using a variety of projectiles. They range from logs to iron balls to bombs, and they're all loads of fun to chuck at unsuspecting targets. As you lay waste to the countryside, you'll also accumulated achievements. If you have a soft spot for trajectory games, Crush the (...) -- Fun, Games, Time-Wasters, Permalink
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19:00
Filed under: Video, Education If you love data visualization, this one's going to blow your mind: I just found an incredible IBM demo, called World Factbook Dashboard. It basically takes a ton of demographic and economic data (from the CIA World Factbook, I presume) and presents it in several beautiful ways that (mostly) make instant sense. This is one of those rare cases where screenshots simply would not do, so I rolled up my sleeves and took the World Factbook Dashboard for a whirlwind ten-minute video tour with some really funny moments and lots of interesting facts and figures. (...) -- Video, Education, Permalink
TechCrunch
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22:07
Launched during this year’s Super Bowl with its inaugural “Parisian Love,” Google’s Search Stories campaign is meticulously engineered to be relatable and tug at your heartstrings. Their latest offering, “New Baby,” portrays the joys and costs of parenting a little too well, heavy on the latter. So you’re clueless, your wife is pregnant and crazy and you have to sell your precious vinyl collection to be able to afford twins, which are an “expensive proposition”? And on top of it all you have to buy a minivan (and sell the Porsche presumably)! If I was that dad I’d be searching for “how to get a (...) --
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21:47
There are few more creative writers than the San Francisco-based Po Bronson. The author of four best-selling non-fiction books, two novels, a book of short stories and many articles for Newsweek, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, Bronson’s work has been translated into 19 different languages and his 2005 bestselling What Should I Do With My Life, social commentary about the meaning of work and identity was on the New York Times bestselling list for 10 months. Bronson’s creativity is manifold. Not only has he written hit books about Silicon Valley both in non-fiction (Nudist (...) --
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21:44
With the announcement of the $99 Ocean Reader Copia Tablet we are entering familiar territory. As you probably remember, netbooks went through the same race to the bottom as ebooks and this Ocean Reader is the first of the lot to hit our shores with any fanfare. While I’m sure a mention in the WSJ is fairly important, the Copia and the Alex and the Farfenugen or whatever is next to ride down the ereader/tablet pike will enter a strange market. There are currently two – if not three – popular platforms. I’d say the Kindle is far and away the most robust nofollowed by the Sony ereaders beloved (...) --
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20:20
Jesus. Maybe literally. Fox News has a long and illustrious history of saying some fairly outrageous things. A story today on FoxNews.com may be one of the best yet — certainly from a tech perspective. The post entitled “For Apple Followers, It’s a Matter of Faith, Academics Say” argues that while people may joke about Apple being a religion (JesusPhone, etc), to some, it may actually be a religion. Better, they wonder if Apple shouldn’t pursue that path. Here’s Fox News’ keys as to why Apple is similar to a religion: Apple’s creation story epitomizes the humble garage origin of its technology (...) --
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You’ve normally got two choices in site heatmapping (figuring out where eyeballs land on your site), you can either buy costly specialized equipment ($40K) or pay a consultant to use their own equipment, which costs upwards of $5K. Y Combinator funded GazeHawk has figured out a more pared down and innovative solution; Why not use webcams? Co-founded by Brian Krausz and Joe Gershenson, newly launched GazeHawk is less expensive than most already existing eyetracking services at 1/10 the price. And heatmapping, something that required custom hardware and bringing people into a lab, now (...) --
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19:23
Tomorrow, Friday, is our fifth annual yearly blowout party at August Capital – the event I look forward to all year. Tickets to that event are long gone, but a handful are left for the all day conference we hold prior to the party, the Social Currency CrunchUp. Here’s five reasons why you’ll want to attend: 1. Ron Conway and Paul Graham, the alpha deities of entrepreneurs, will kick things off at the ungodly hour of 9 am in the morning. 2. Playdom CEO John Pleasants is joining us for a special interview just days after he sold his company to Disney for $763.2 million. He promises to tell (...) --
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19:23
For years, YouTube has allowed its users to upload however many videos they wanted, but with a catch: unless you were part of one of YouTube’s special partner programs, no video could be more than 10 minutes in length. Today, YouTube is changing that: it’s boosting the maximum upload length to fifteen minutes, giving the site’s millions of amateur directors a bit more leg room. YouTube imposed the 10 minute restriction to help cut back on piracy (of course, it’s always been possible to simply string together multiple 10 minute clips to create a longer video, but that’s harder to distribute (...) --
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Google’s mobile ads are becoming more location-aware. Today, Google is introducing mobile display ads for both the iPhone and Android phones which can be geo-targeted. Advertisers will be able to check a “location extension for display” box and their ads will become geo-enabled when viewed in mobile browsers or apps. A little double-arrow will open up the ad and show the business pinned on map with two big blue buttons to get directions or call the business. Google will only charge for calls or clicks. Google already offers so-called “location extension” ads for mobile search, but this is (...) --
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18:29
TechCrunch reader Saul Lustgarten checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message, reading “fuck you bitches”. Yeah right, we thought. I checked it out on my Facebook profile and didn’t notice anything off. Then, I nofollowed Saul’s suggestion of switching my main language to Spanish instead of English, and lo and behold (click for full-size image): We’ve contacted Facebook to see if they really mean it or if their army of volunteer translators – there are two sides to (...) --
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18:03Why Do People Want The Kindle To Be The iPad? They’re Two Different Products For A Reason. - TechCrunchAmazon announced the Kindle 3 last night, and it doesn’t look too shabby at all. The most important part is the inclusion of the next-generation E-Ink display, previously only found in the too-big-for-casual-use Kindle DX. (The low price, $139 for the Wi-Fi version, certainly doesn’t hurt.) Immediately nofollowing the announcement, I saw something that confused me. For whatever reason, it seems plenty of people are comparing the Kindle to the iPad, almost as if these people want the Kindle to be the iPad. Why is (...) --
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How’s this for absolutely dominating an increasingly lucrative and fast-growing segment? Google currently boasts a mobile search market share of 98.29%, with it closest competitor Yahoo taking up just over 0.8% of market share and Microsoft’s Bing barely touching even half that, according to recent data from StatCounter as relayed by Pingdom. This graph, made by Pingdom, puts it all in perspective: As you can tell from the graph, put together using global visitor stats for more than three million websites, Google’s near-100% piece of the mobile search pie is even a good deal larger than (...) --
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BetaNews.Com
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20:21
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Cloud computing dominated the morning's Microsoft Financial Analyst Meeting 2010 presentations. COO Kevin Turner and Chief Research Strategy Officer Craig Mundie spent more time talking cloud computing than any other topic. For Mundie, it was a bold departure from previous years, where he spoke broadly and almost exclusively about forthcoming technologies -- typically years from release, if ever. Last year, he asserted that the successor to the PC would be "a room." Some reasons for Microsoft's cloud focus should be obvious: 1. Azure is available, as of six months (...)
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20:18
By Tim Conneally, Betanews Shaumberg, Illinois electronics company Motorola Inc. on Thursday posted its earnings for the second quarter of 2010. The company's total revenue was $5.41 billion, which beat Wall Street's estimates of $5.19 billion, but was still down against last year's $5.49 billion. The company reported a strong flow of cash for the quarter, with overall earnings of $162 million, up sharply from last year's $26 million. Total sales, however, were down some $83 million against the same quarter last year. Of Motorola's four divisions: Mobile Devices, Home, Enterprise (...)
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18:57
By Joe Wilcox, Betanews Microsoft COO Kevin Turner made the bold statement this morning during the company's annual FInancial Analyst Meeting. "One of the most exciting things about our cloud strategy is that 70 percent of the wins in the cloud that we had in Q4, ladies and gentlemen, were new Microsoft customers," Tuner told financial analysts. "Yeah, new Microsoft customers. They were IBM Lotus Notes customers, Novell e-mail customers. They were all this other stuff, in addition to the Microsoft customers, that we're actually able to grow our portion of the pie this next year in a very (...)
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16:37
By Tim Conneally, Betanews Amazon, online retailer and e-book pioneer announced Thursday the latest generation of its popular 6" Kindle e-book reader. The Kindle received an overhaul similar to the one its big brother Kindle DX got on the first of July, with a new graphite chassis, improved screen resolution, and lower price. Today's upgrade, however, goes a little further to improve the Kindle product line. In addition to the 20% smaller, 15% lighter enclosure and 50% higher-contrast E ink screen, the third generation Kindle has double the storage of its predecessor, built-in Wi-Fi in (...)
Techmeme
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19:25
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Google Introduces Location-Aware Mobile Display Ads — Google's mobile ads are becoming more location-aware. Today, Google is introducing mobile display ads for both the iPhone and Android phones which can be geo-targeted. Advertisers will be able to check a “location extension for display” …
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18:45
John R. Quain / Fox News: For Apple Followers, It's a Matter of Faith, Academics Say — Apple CEO Steve Jobs, with the Apple iPad displayed over his shoulder, delivers the keynote address during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Monday, June 7, 2010, in San Francisco. — Its tablet computer can't play …
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16:45
Sewell Chan / New York Times: Congress Rethinks Its Ban on Internet Gambling — WASHINGTON — With pressure mounting on the federal government to find new revenues, Congress is considering legalizing, and taxing, an activity it banned just four years ago: Internet gambling. — On Wednesday, the House Financial Services …
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16:35
ifixit.com: Magic Trackpad Teardown — Have you ever wondered what makes a trackpad magical? Well wonder no more. Join us as we delve into the deep abyss of Apple's ocean of magical peripherals to explore the mysterious Magic Trackpad.
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15:50
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room: Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring — The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. — The company is called Recorded Future …
Mashable!
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18:12
It seems that Kanye West is doing a tour of the Silicon Valley’s nerd hubs. After freestyling over at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California, the other day — and subsequently joining Twitter yesterday — he jammed on over to Twitter Central and treated Biz Stone and Co. to a performance as well. As we pointed out yesterday, Kanye West has an almost embattled relationship with the micoblogging service. Last year, he busted out with the nofollowing rant on his blog — which now only yields an “Error 404″ when you try to locate it. Regardless, here it is: “I DON’T HAVE A F*CKING TWITTER… WHY (...) -- Follow Mashable Entertainment on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Entertainment channel, iPhone, iPad
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17:42
Groupon’s model has always been to serve to up a single daily deal per city, per day. Yesterday, the company nearly reinvented itself when it kicked off its Personalized Deals initiative. With Personalized Deals, Groupon subscribers in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle and New York City will receive deals tailored to their personal tastes and previous purchase behaviors. Groupon subscribers who complete their on-site profile can also help the service better understand their preferences. The blog post on the update describes the personalization process as one that (...) -- Follow Mashable Business on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Business channel, iPhone, iPad
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17:20
Maria Ogneva is the Director of Social Media at Attensity, a social media engagement and voice-of-customer platform that helps the social enterprise serve and collaborate with the social customer. You can nofollow her on Twitter at ⓐthemaria or ⓐattensity360, or find her musings on her personal blog and her company’s blog. Whether you are actively developing a social media presence for your brand or just dipping your toe in the deep and ever-changing ocean of social media chatter, you probably realize that monitoring and measurement are quite important. Although there is no shortage of (...) -- iStockphoto, 123render, Follow Mashable Business on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Business channel, iPhone, iPad
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16:56
Amazon predicts that it will sell more e-books than paperbacks by the end of next year, and that they will eclipse both paperback and hardcover sales combined shortly thereafter. “I predict we will surpass paperback sales sometime in the next nine to 12 months. Sometime after that, we’ll surpass the combination of paperback and hardcover,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told USA Today. Kindle books have already eclipsed hardcover sales; Amazon recently said it sells 180 e-books for every 100 hardcovers, with the ratio constantly shifting in e-books’ favor. Many readers still favor the good old printed (...) -- Follow Mashable Business on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Business channel, iPhone, iPad
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16:37
Motorola posted its financial results for the second quarter of 2010, reporting solid overall results and smartphone sales that hint at better times ahead. Motorola’s sales in Q2 were $5.4 billion, while earnings were $162 million, up from $26 million in the second quarter of 2009. Motorola’s Mobile Devices segment sales were $1.7 billion, down 6% compared with Q2 2009. Operating earnings for the segment were $87 million, but this includes income from a legal settlement of $228 million. However, having shipped 2.7 million smartphones and 8.3 million handsets in Q2 2010, Motorola sees its (...) -- Follow Mashable Business on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Business channel, iPhone, iPad
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15:26
This series is brought to you by HTC EVO 4G, America’s first 4G phone. Only from Sprint. The “First to Know” series keeps you in the know on what’s happening now in the world of social media and technology. Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world today. We’re keeping our eyes on four particular stories of interest today. YouTube banned in Russia over Racist Video A Russian court has demanded that a Russian ISP block access to YouTube, as well as the Internet Archive and three online libraries, for (...) -- HTC EVO 4G, Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Social Media channel, iPhone, iPad
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Google has once again given an excellent new tool to designers and developers (and even CSS-savvy “common folk”) who long for better, more diverse typefaces on the web: a cool Font Previewer that makes adding a new font to your site as simple as copy/pasting a few lines of code. Back in May, Google rolled out its Font Directory and the Google Fonts API. The idea was that these tools would make it simpler for designers and devs to embed a wider range of fonts in their sites and applications. The previewer takes a few steps out of that process by giving you an idea of how a given typeface (...) -- Follow Mashable Dev & Design on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Dev & Design channel, iPhone, iPad
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07:21
Facebook’s newest feature, Questions, has the potential to bring social Q&A into the mainstream. But like most beta features and apps, Questions is somewhat fragmented, and suffers from usability issues and apparent bugs. It could also benefit from a more seamless and connected integration across the social platform. Perhaps most notably, the feature could be more effectively integrated with Facebook Pages, which are used by millions of users and brands worldwide. To better engage their audience and customers, brands and publishers will look to take advantage of the feature with their (...) -- Follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter, Become a Fan on Facebook, Subscribe to the Social Media channel, iPhone, iPad
MAKE Magazine
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22:31
Detroit is my hometown. I grew up here during the 50s and 60s, lived in a neat and homogeneous white, largely Jewish, neighborhood in Northwest Detroit, and walked to the tiny Arthur H. Vandenberg Elementary School every day from kindergarten through eighth grade, coming home for lunch at noon. My world changed when I (along with four 8th grade boys) was invited to attend Cass Technical High School downtown, near Tiger Stadium. Dating back to 1904, Cass Tech in the 60s was a huge place, occupying an entire city block; nine floors high; drawing about 4,000 students from all over the city, (...) -- Making Detroit
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22:01
Thingiverse user Chooch decided to print his own frostruder rather than pay $150 for Makerbot's official kit. Called the Pfiercestruder, Chooch's variant looks kinda badass! Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in 3D printing | Digg this! -- 3D printing
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Behold, the primo barrel waves of tarp surfing. Ruse Entertainment shows us how it's done. It's the little touches like the rash guard and dog tow-in that made me laugh extra hard! Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Toys and Games | Digg this! -- Toys and Games
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Live in or near Provo, UT, and want to test your project skills in an online competition? TheTransistor hackerspace is competing in a hackerspace build-off, and is looking for a few good makers to help with an upcoming mystery project. The competition is open to the public: Full details have not been release yet; but this will be open to the public (as long as you fill out the release form). Here are the details so far: 5 Hackerspaces will compete in a professionally recorded web-only event. theTransistor has already been selected as one of these groups. The build-off should start the (...) -- Events
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19:00
Great storage idea from user tluwelyn of survivalist community Alpha Disaster Contingencies. Dimensional lumber is bolted together to make Ts and Ls that, in turn, are bolted to the ceiling joists. Heavy-duty storage totes are then slid in and suspended by their molded-in rims. Looks like there's still plenty of room to park cars underneath. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg this! -- DIY Projects
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MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands now! In this special GADGETS issue, we show you how to make a menagerie of delightful machines: a miniature electronic Whac-a-Mole arcade game, a tiny but mighty see-through audio amplifier, a magic mirror that contains an interactive animated soothsayer, a self-balancing one-wheeled Gyrocar, and the Most Useless Machine — the creepy mechanical box whose only purpose is to turn itself off (as seen on The Colbert Report!). Plus: how Intellectual Ventures made their incredible laser targeting mosquito zapper, how to use the industrial-strength microcontrollers (...) -- MAKEvol23.m4v, MAKE Podcast
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John Harris of Willows, CA, build TOBI the ToolBot, a robot that packs a Propeller, a TPA81 Devantech 8 Pixel thermal sensor array, Parallax HB-25 motor controllers, and 3 Ping))) ultrasonic sensors. It can carry a full toolbox and a laptop up a ramp. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Robotics | Digg this! -- Robotics
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16:06
Mike Senese, cohost of the Science Channel's Punkin' Chunkin' and Catch It Keep It, rescued this tutorial about how to "pirate" a vinyl record from Internet oblivion and posted it on his personal site for posterity. [Thanks, Sam!] Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Music | Digg this! -- Music
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Michigan machinist GarE Maxton makes many different interlocking solid puzzles of this type, but this one, which he calls The Intimidator, is his masterpiece. Starting the disassembly process requires a special key. Once diassembled, about 20 of the pieces can be recombined to make a functioning single-shot pistol. Other parts of the puzzle separately and securely store "a customized set of tools, all necessary hardware, 45 caliber bullets, a standard sight, a laser sight, a cannister containing black powder pellets, a secure storage area for 209 shotgun primers, a spent primer removal (...) -- Made On Earth
ComputerZen.com - Scott Hanselman
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Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft in MSDN. I don't work for or with the Windows Phone 7 team in any capacity. I do know one guy over there, though. That said, I personally have an iPhone 3G (dead, the kids play Monkey Island on it), a iPhone 3GS (the wife won't use it, it's on a shelf) and an iPhone 4 (my non-work phone). I also have a work Samsung Blackjack (WinMo 6.5). I signed up and paid for a Windows Phone 7 developer account and I have ideas for 3 apps. No one has asked me to blog about the phone, my opinions are my own. Also, this is a developer prototype with whatever build they (...) -- WinPhone
Vitamin
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For our second free weekly helping from the Think Vitamin Membership video library we Jim looks at how to create the perfect login form using PHP. Don’t forget to check out the video library for free videos as well as learning more about our new membership service. -- Dev
Cool Tools
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So you decide you want to make pizza at home. And you quickly discover that there is just no substitute for a pizza baked on brick or stone. The crust just isn't the same. No problem - you get a pizza stone. You then discover that sliding a 12" pizza from a peel onto a 14" stone (that just fits) in the bottom of a 500F oven is possible but not easy. It's much more difficult than sliding a pizza into a large pizza oven at shoulder-eye level in your local pizzeria. After multiple smoky smelly messes caused by overshoots, misses, fold-overs etc. of the pizza when attempting to place it (...) -- Kitchen
Boing Boing
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I admire Sheila C. Bair, the chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, more than any other official in government. Ms. Bair's actions during the financial meltdown in 2008 and in intervening years has shown a steady hand, remarkably free of partisan favor, that likely prevented a much worse banking and mortgage catastrophe. Thus it is with a heavy heart I must reveal a book she's written that hasn't gained much notice, which is full of the bad ideas that led to low consumer savings, inflated investor expectations, and financial innumeracy. In this book, Ms. Bair advocates: (...) -- Featured, books, money
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I like haircuts and I like Popsicles -- hell, who doesn't? But I will apparently never be an art impresario, let alone a performance art impresario, because it never would have occurred to me to combine the two, as the downtown Los Angeles gallery Actual Size is doing this Saturday: Filmmaker Josh Lee will sell his inventively flavored popsicles to onlookers while they watch haircuts and buzz cuts performed by artists in the gallery space. The hair clippings will accumulate for the duration of the performance, resulting in a sculptural work. Walk-ins are welcome. No appointments are (...) -- Art and Design, guestblog
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Ibogaine, a hallucinogen derived from an African plant, is used (illegally) as a cure for opiate addiction. This month, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Research will test the effectiveness of Ibogaine on heroin addicts. Popular Science has a brief article about the upcoming trial. “As great as ibogaine seems, no one knows exactly how effective it is as a treatment,” says Valerie Mojieko, the director of clinical research for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Research (MAPS), a privately funded Massachusetts-based nonprofit. So starting this month, MAPS (...) -- Science
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MAKE Volume 23 is on newsstands now! In this special GADGETS issue, we show you how to make a menagerie of delightful machines: a miniature electronic Whac-a-Mole arcade game, a tiny but mighty see-through audio amplifier, a magic mirror that contains an interactive animated soothsayer, a self-balancing one-wheeled Gyrocar, and the Most Useless Machine — the creepy mechanical box whose only purpose is to turn itself off (as seen on The Colbert Report!). Plus: how Intellectual Ventures made their incredible laser targeting mosquito zapper, how to use the industrial-strength (...) -- Technology
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Russian manufacturer Lenpolygrafmash makes the computer component equivalent of brutalist architecture. According to the Russian culture blog Metkere.com, the devices such as the printer and scanner above are designed for harsh mechanical and climatic conditions. Lenpolygrafmash (via Submitterator, thanks Metkere!) -- Submitterator, Technology
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Glenn Beck's website, it turns out, can be manipulated into doing strange and NSFW things by messing with the URL. An insecure PHP utility accessible at the site allows for shenanigans like directory traversal, exposing all sorts of things that should not be exposed. Like password files, and a user group named for Rush Limbaugh. [Thanks, Dean!] Update: the discussion thread is down. Here's the Google cache of it. -- Technology, fail
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"The Flower" is a modern day version of The Sunshine Makers, with a sad ending. -- Art and Design, Culture
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Investigators say they've found concrete evidence linking Pfc. Bradley Manning with the "War Logs" ultimately leaked to the Guardian, New York Times and Der Spiegel. From the WSJ: A search of the computers used by Pfc. Manning yielded evidence he had downloaded the Afghanistan war logs, which span from 2004 until 2009, the official said. It's not clear precisely what that evidence is. The investigation is also looking at who might have helped Pfc. Manning provide the documents to WikiLeaks, a web-based group that earlier this week released 76,000 secret reports from Afghanistan. Evidence (...) -- News, afghanistan, mannin, waronterror, wikileaks
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Mike Senese shows you how to pirate vinyl by casting it in silicone. [Mike via Make] -- Gadgets
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The initial response to the Wikileaks Afghan document leak from the Pentagon and White House focused largely on the documents' purported irrelevance as "old news," and general condemnation of the leak as a violation of federal law. Now, the response has shifted more specifically to focus on the fact that within the massive cache of documents, names of Afghan informants are included in plain view, with no redaction. Those informants can now be located and punished or murdered by the enemy, the logic goes. For its part, Wikileaks frontman Julian Assange has stated in interviews this week (...) -- News, Technology, war
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The Obama administration wants to make it easier for the FBI to force ISPs to turn over records of individual Internet activity without a court order if agents believe the information is relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. "The administration wants to add just four words -- 'electronic communication transactional records' -- to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. " -- News, privacy, war
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If you're interested in becoming a science writer—or even just a writer, in general—hop over to Not Exactly Rocket Science, where blogger Ed Yong has started a collection of Science Writer Origin Stories. It's chock-full of career-path tales and helpful advice from people like the amazing Carl Zimmer, Wired's Steve Silberman, Newsweek's Mary Carmichael ... and, hey, me! -- Science
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Noah Shachtman reports at Wired Danger Room blog that the investment arms of the CIA and Google are together backing a firm that monitors the web in real time, and claims to use that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents -- both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine "goes beyond search" by "looking at the 'invisible links' between documents that talk (...) -- News, war
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Sources at YouTube tell us that online video giant will soon increase the maximum duration of uploaded video clips from 10 minutes to 15 minutes. The move may not mean much to some, but if you're a YouTube uploader, the increase would mean significantly less chopped-up installments of longer form works, and subtly redefine the medium, given that YouTube is the largest video hosting service online. YouTube Partners (online video companies like us and other content owners who have agreements with the company involving shared ad revenue) are already able to upload videos longer than 10 (...) -- Technology
CNET News.com
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The "essential use" exemption means that only customers can legally perform jailbreaks. And it doesn't stop companies such as Apple from various work-arounds, argues Stanford Law Fellow Larry Downes.
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Planning a barbecue, dinner party, or anything else that means group resource gathering? Divvyus lets you dole out those tasks in an orderly fashion.
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Want to put videos longer than 10 minutes up on YouTube? It's now a reality, with a new 15-minute limit.
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Click To Watch Video Lynch joins Nathan Drake and 50 Cent on the esteemed list of helicopter haters.
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"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." So said legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, but how do these words help us understand society?
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Mechanics and manufacturers have a loosely agreed upon a mileage range for most brake pads. Yet the life span of a brake pad depends on a set of variables ranging from driving style to the laws of physics. When can you expect to replace yours?
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Unless you're naturally a very tidy person, it can be tough to stay on top of all the little cleaning tasks around your home. But with a few minutes every day you can keep dirt and dust away, making your home a more enjoyable place to live.
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Torture was a very popular form of punishment in the Middle Ages, but it also served as a social deterrent and as entertainment for the masses. These 10 devices show how creative torturers became with their tools as a result.
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For the city of Silver Spring, Md., "Shark Week" doesn't stop when the TV is off. Every year, a great white shark affectionately known as Chompie takes up residence on Discovery Communications' headquarters.
The Dan Patrick Show: Podcast
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The best of interviews and segments from Dan Patrick's daily radio show. -- DP-Hr3_07-29-2010_stream.mp3, Sports & Recreation, Sports
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The best of interviews and segments from Dan Patrick's daily radio show. -- DP-Hr2_07-29-2010_stream.mp3, Sports & Recreation, Sports
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The best of interviews and segments from Dan Patrick's daily radio show. -- DP-Hr1_07-29-2010_stream.mp3, Sports & Recreation, Sports
Read/WriteWeb
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As part of its annual Financial Analyst Meeting today, Microsoft is touting its cloud momentum and announcing several new high-profile customers who've selected the company's cloud computing services: Dow Chemical, Hyatt Hotels & Resorts and the University of Georgia. Dow Chemical and Hyatt Hotels & Resorts have adopted Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite and the University of Georgia has selected Microsoft's Liveⓐedu service. Sponsor The 85,000 students, faculty and staff at University of Georgia join the over 11 million students and educators worldwide who have adopted (...) -- Announcements
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Microsoft Research demonstrated a new street-level image viewing option that knocks the socks off of Google Maps Street View this week at the SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles. Called Street Slide, the technology allows users to zoom out from the fish-eye pannable photos you see on standard street view options and instead see a series of flat panoramic photos stitched together like a timeline. It's a little hard to describe, but check out the video below. In addition to being less disorienting than zooming around inside Street View, the open space opened up for annotation in Street (...) -- Location
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MobileCrunch reports that Research in Motion has purchased the domain name blackpad.com, fueling speculation that RIM's long rumored enterprise tablet will be called the BlackPad. Others suggest it is merely a codename. One commenter at MobileCrunch notes the domain name was on sale at BuyDomains for $1,788. The domain blackpad.com doesn't revolve to any address at this time. Meanwhile, Reuters reports that RIM is likely to announce the launch of the BlackBerry Torch 9800, a device RIM hopes will compete with the iPhone, at an event with AT&T on Tuesday New York City. Sponsor (...) -- Mobile
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A mobile application which connects Android phone owners to their representatives in the U.S. Congress has just been released by the non-profit, non-partisan organization Sunlight Labs, a group dedicated to government transparency. After months of public beta testing, the newly finished application is now a comprehensive toolset that helps you stay on top of congressional activity, voting records, new bills and laws, and more. It even provides one-touch access to your Congressional representatives, allowing to you to call their office directly from within the application, watch their (...) -- Government
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Is the latest, cheapest Kindle ($139) evidence of an escalating e-reader price war? The Kindle has gotten pleasantly better and cheaper since its debut for $399 in 2007, when it sold out in hours. By last year, the price was down to $259. Then in June, Barnes & Noble slashed the price of its Nook e-reader to $199. Amazon dropped the price of the simplest Kindle to $189 almost immediately. That's when both companies stopped making money on the e-readers, according to iSuppli, an analysts' firm known for taking apart gadgets to estimate how much they cost to manufacture. Sponsor Then (...) -- Amazon
hack a day
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If you’ve got an iPhone or Android device that you use with a Wii remote when gaming, this quick hack will give you the third hand you need to manage all of that hardware. [Syanni85] mounted his Android phone to a Wii wheel for just a few dollars in parts. He ran across the wheel itself at the dollar store, and the phone is held in place using a universal mounting bracket. A small square pad sticks onto the back of any device and mates with a base. He cut off the unnecessary parts of the base and glued it to the back of the wheel. If you haven’t tried using a Wii remote with your phone yet, (...) --
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[Michael Vincent] turned his TI-84 Plus into a spectrum analyzer. By running some assembly code on the device the link port can be used as an I2C bus (something we’ll have to keep in mind). After being inspired by the cell phone spectrum analyzer he set out to build a module compatible with the calculator by using an I2C port expander to interface with a radio receiver module. Now he can sniff out signals between 2.400 and 2.495 GHz and display the finds like in the image above. [Thanks (...) --
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Our favorite Soviet-Era display that found its way into a present-day kit now displays time from orbiting satellites. A GPS module patched into an Ice Tube Clock with modified firmware will be able to provide a satellite-synced time. The firmware, modified by yours truly, parses the GPS module’s NMEA RMC sentences for the time and date information and then updates the clock’s time and date. Fun was had making sure the alarm went off at the correct times when the time was updated by the GPS. Overall, it was a fun project and we look forward to seeing additional Ice Tube Clock (...) --
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MacRumors
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Phone Scoop yesterday discovered new regulatory filings posted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission showing a new Sprint-branded 3G mobile hotspot device manufactured by ZTE that appears to be in the form of a designed case to wrap a...
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The Wall Street Journal reports that the Japanese government is continuing to pursue its long-standing concern over reports of first-generation iPod nanos overheating, nofollowing up on a warning to consume...
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With its ultra-thin design and single-use functionality, users might think that a teardown of Apple's new Magic Trackpad would be straightforward and uninteresting. But the experts at iFixit show us in one of their famous teardowns how Apple...
Engadget
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After a few years of teasing and smoke blowing, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance has finally released the skinny on major enhancements we can expect to see integrated into the HomePlug AV2 powerline networking specification that's scheduled for finalization in Q1 of 2011. Chief among them is MIMO (Multiple-Inputs Multiple-Outputs), which will expand home coverage by increasing the throughput speeds, and transmission ranges, without additional signal power or requiring more spectrum -- but you knew already that didn't you, MacGyver? Compounding this efficiency gain will be the expansion of (...) -- Continue reading HomePlug Powerline Alliance reveals features of new HomePlug AV2 spec, Permalink
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Speaking at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, a fellow named Barnaby Jack (really!) used custom software to hack Windows CE-based ATMs on stage. After using an industry standard key to gain entry to the machines (apparently many ATM owners are too lazy to install new locks) Jack was able to load a rootkit on the device using a USB thumb drive. From that point, it was just a matter of running another program that caused all the cash therein to shoot out in a comical manner. The machines used in the presentation were manufactured by Trannax and Triton, both of which have have had a (...) -- Permalink
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17:39iMac's latest 27-inch iteration requires special parts for your own SSD in second drive bay - EngadgetOne of the few highlights of the refreshed 27-inch iMac is the new SSD option for its second drive bay. This sure is good news for performance addicts carrying some spare cash, but with the 256GB SSD addition costing from $750, some may prefer the DIY route to save a few pennies for that gold iPad. Sadly, it won't be as straight forward as sliding in a new drive -- e-tailer OWC noticed in its teardown that you'll be needing a mounting bracket and a couple of cables that are only supplied with Apple's own SSD. That said, if you can find a way to secure the drive in the bay, all you'll need (...) -- Permalink
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If you've got a hankering for some battery-sipping Core i3 ULV processors and live south of a certain 38th parallel line, you'll probably want to take a close look at one of Samsung's new designs. We hear on good authority that Sammy's refreshed its X Series laptops with the 1.2GHz Core i3-330M processor, including the 11.6-inch X180 (with the same 3GB of DDR3 memory, 320GB hard drive and most everything else included in the X170 that came before) and the 14-inch X430, which leapfrogs its predecessor the X420 with dedicated GeForce 310M graphics. Both actually report less battery life (...) -- Permalink
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Anybots has a new telepresence robot, the QB -- and while it certainly seems to be an advance on the QA, which we saw at CES 2009, we gotta admit that it's not nearly as cute as its predecessor. Marketed towards CEO-types, this bad boy can be controlled via your PC (or eventually your Mac), and it features WiFi b/g connectivity, 5 megapixel camera, speaker, microphone, and a max speed of 3.5 MPH. To be honest, having your boss nofollow you around the office with a webcam-on-wheels sounds more like a NewsRadio plot than effective office management, but certainly there's someone rich and (...) -- Continue reading Anybots QB telepresence robot: nag employees remotely for $15,000, Permalink
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This new Bold 9780 is really looking like the real deal, isn't it? The phone, which includes some ultra-minor aesthetic tweaks over the 9700, along with 512MB of RAM to handle the new BlackBerry 6 OS, has been described on paper, caught on camera, and now has gotten the requisite video walkthrough. The video, obtained by Driphter.com, includes some nice WebKit browsing, with fast page loads but some slightly sluggish scroll speeds. Of course, this is still pre-release software, so we'll see where we end up when BlackBerry 6 starts landing on these RAM-bumped devices for reals. Video is (...) -- Continue reading BlackBerry Bold 9780 caught on video running OS 6, Permalink
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15:50Amazon sees e-book sales surpassing paper versions, has Mirasol technology in the Kindle labs - EngadgetFollowing the launch of Amazon's third-generation Kindle, company CEO Jeff Bezos sat down to discuss the e-reader business with USA Today. We'd recommend giving the whole piece a look-see if you just can't get enough Kindle in your life, but a few choice quotes caught our attention. For starters, Bezos predicted that Kindle e-book sales will "surpass paperback sales sometime in the next 9 to 12 months," and that "sometime after that, we'll surpass the combination of paperback and hardcover." Considering that the Kindle platform is but 33 months old, and that books are just a wee bit (...) -- Permalink
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15:17Apple's Magic Trackpad gets the iFixit teardown treatment, nothing terribly magical found - EngadgetWell, we knew it wouldn't take very long, and it didn't: iFixit's gotten its hands on Apple's Magic Trackpad and ripped it to shreds. This is one operation they're not shy about calling delicate, folks -- this thing is seriously thin and its components packed in quite lovingly. So what's going on in there? Well, besides the magical dust, they found a Broadcom BCM2042 chip, which is the same one the Magic Mouse uses for Bluetooth connectivity, and a Broadcom BCM5974 touchscreen controller chip, which also powers the iPhone and iPod touch. There is plenty to be seen in the photos at the (...) -- Continue reading Apple's Magic Trackpad gets the iFixit teardown treatment, nothing terribly magical found, Permalink
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Pandas, East Asia, wood. Nope, "laptop" hasn't ever been on the list of words we typically associate with "bamboo," but ASUS sure has us willing to tack it on with the introduction of its U Bamboo Series. The company's newest 13-inch U33Jc is covered in one of the most durable and recyclable materials on earth, and its internals are made of equally strong parts. Sure, the laptop looks incredibly traditional, but the $999 machine actually packs an incredible amount of new technology, including a fresh Core i3 processor, NVIDIA Optimus enabled graphics, USB 3.0 and Intel's wireless display (...) -- Continue reading ASUS U33Jc-A1 Bamboo series review, Permalink
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It's a good day here, because rather than poor 'ol Sad Moto we get to bust out Happy Moto, as Motorola has released some good news in its Q2 financial report. Earnings were $162 million, up from $26 million this time last year. That sounds like a big jump, but compared to overall sales of $5.4 billion you can see things are still rather tight -- especially since those sales were down from $5.5 billion the year before and all-important mobile device sales figures dropped six percent to $1.7 billion. Also, these numbers were boosted by a "significant legal settlement" valued at $228 (...) -- Permalink
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Did the recent reappearance of the Phantom console spark a tiny bit of nostalgia in you? If so, you'll be happy to hear that NZXT has picked up the moniker for its latest full tower chassis, and it's a fittingly futuristic-looking beast of burden. The angular steel enclosure provides tool-free access to five 5.25-inch drive bays plus the room to fit in 7 HDDs, 7 fans (up to a mammoth 230mm size), and a dual radiator within its walls. A top-mounted mesh window is accessorized with a slightly more useful array of USB, E-SATA and audio ports, while the innards are specifically designed to (...) -- Continue reading NZXT Phantom proves there's still life in chunky desktop towers, Permalink
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12:44Panasonic to spend $9.4b on buying out Sanyo and PEW shares, posts robust quarterly profits - EngadgetClearly dissatisfied with what it sees in the mirror, Panasonic has today announced its decision to bulk up. A new share issue expected to raise ¥500 billion ($5.7 billion) will be enacted soon as part of raising the cash to complete the buyout of Sanyo Electric and Panasonic Electric Works. Don't ask us why a company named Panasonic has to buy another company with Panasonic in its name, but them's the facts. The total outlay is expected to come in at around $9.4 billion and is justified by Panasonic as fundamental to its future strategy of expanding into environmentally friendly tech and (...) -- Continue reading Panasonic to spend $9.4b on buying out Sanyo and PEW shares, posts robust quarterly profits, Permalink
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Find the headline confusing? Well, the explanation won't help to assuage the muddle much. A Nintendo spokesman told Bloomberg Japan that Ninty plans to announce the Nintendo 3DS price and release date on September 29th. Thus far, we've only seen speculation about pricing (between $249 and $299) and release dates (between October and March, 2011). So yeah, we still don't know when or for how much but at least we know when we'll find out when and for how much. Make sense? Nintendo issues a 3DS release date date originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:59:00 EDT. Please see our (...) -- Permalink
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["Never Pick A Fight" print here.] OK, now this is interesting… Of the forty of so entries to the Cube Grenade competition, about one third of them are for businesses and starts ups, and about two thirds of them are for nonprofits and worthy causes. I was expecting the opposite ratio, to be honest. [BTW There's still a couple of days left to submit an idea, so go for it etc.] So what does this tell us? 1. Causes are more idea-driven, rather than “rational-utility” driven. “Here’s why this matters”, more than “Here’s why you should buy our product”. I think Cube Grendes are the same. They’re (...) -- Uncategorized
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
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Filed under: Accessories, iPhone And you thought using an iPhone as a flashlight was crazy... Apparently the above image is just a concept for a flexible iPhone dock that one can easily bend into the form of a lamp. Obviously, the screen is bright enough to give enough light for a small desk area, but is it at all practical? Of course it's not. It should be using the iPhone 4 and its much brighter back-facing LED! To me, the stand looks much too narrow to be practical as an iPhone stand, never mind as a lamp. Still, I've seen crazier things being done with the iPhone when one is in a (...) -- Accessories, iPhone, Permalink
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Filed under: iPhoneClearCam has been around for a while, and I first took a look at it more than a year ago. It was a clever app that had two modes. One mode took a series of four pictures in rapid succession, and then it saved the best and sharpest one in your photo library; the other mode took six images together and stacked them in order to increase resolution and reduce noise. In practice, it meant that the old 3G 2MP camera became the rough equivalent of a 4MP camera. The app had been pulled from the App Store for a while -- the SDK did not allow access to raw iPhone images (only (...) -- iPhone, Permalink
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Filed under: HardwareIt's so thin and barely there. What could be inside Apple's Magic Trackpad? The folks at iFixit took theirs apart, photographing and describing each component in great detail. Here's what they found. Inside there is, well, not a whole heck of a lot. A large spacer prevents the user from pressing down hard enough to damage the small logic board. That board is connected to the trackpad itself via two "ridiculously thin" ribbon cables, which are glued into place. They used a hot air gun to soften the adhesive. So, tread very lightly if you plan to remove these. Speaking (...) -- Hardware, Permalink
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Filed under: Software You lousy kids, with your iPhones and iPads and iGadgets! Back in my day, we worked on real computers, with real keyboards, and mice with one button, and we liked it! BBEdit is a relative relic of that age -- when text ruled the Earth, BBEdit ruled text. And the old Mac app is still being updated. The latest version 9.5.1, adds in a couple of dozen fixes, and reverts some of the capitalization rules to the way it worked in a previous version. There are still some die-hards who swear by BBEdit for coding or editing text, and because of its power and versatility, it's (...) -- Software, Permalink
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Filed under: HumorSometimes app developers will send me PR releases hoping I review their apps (thus increasing their sales). If I think it's a good app, or that my readers would like it, I do. Many times I don't, however. But I couldn't resist sharing this app with the rest of the world. Why? Not because it's a good app (I haven't even tried it), but because it is the worst-named app in the history of apps: Touch Teen Patti. When I first read the name images of an app that featured photos the young and innocent teen Patti popped into my head. I imagined the Pedobears on the Chan sites (...) -- Humor, Permalink
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Filed under: iPhone Prizmo is a popular OCR (optical character recognition) app for the Mac that allows you to scan documents and things like business cards easily and quickly, avoiding the step of typing them in by hand. Now, Creaceed has announced that it's bringing the app to the iPhone, so you'll be able to make use of the really powerful OCR software, all on the go using the iPhone's HD camera as a scanner. As you can see above, it's pretty impressive. It's not just the fact that you can scan for text (I believe there are a few apps, including Evernote, that already allow you to do (...) -- iPhone, Permalink
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Filed under: iPhone, iPad Semi Secret Software (the same folks behind the amazing Canabalt game for the iPhone) has released its second game for the iOS platform, Gravity Hook HD. I actually heard about this one way back in March, and it was made even before Canabalt was. But this iPhone and iPad release has been updated for HD, and it's kind of fun. To play, you tap on various hook points in order to send your little guy skyward; you do this while fighting gravity and trying to keep from falling off the bottom of the screen. I can't say it's as fun or as simple as Canabalt, but it is (...) -- iPhone, iPad, Permalink
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15:00Study: iPad owners are selfish elitists, non-owners are independent geeks - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)Filed under: iPad digg_url = 'http://www.tuaw.com/2010/07/29/study-ipad-owners-are-selfish-elitists-non-owners-are-independ/'; Hey we didn't say it, we only repeated it. Consumer firm MyType has done a study of the opinions of 20,000 people, and have determined that iPad owners are wealthy, sophisticated, educated, and score very low in tests designed to chart altruism and kindness. In short, they're rich and smart, but also spoiled and cruel. If you happen to be anti-iPad (and probably vocal about it), don't worry, we're not leaving you out. Those who criticize the iPad, says the study, (...) -- iPad, Permalink
ReadWriteWeb France
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Une étude publiée la semaine dernière par l’American Consumer Satisfaction Index et ForeSee Results affirme de façon brutale que «malgré le fait qu’ils en ait fait le site web le plus populaire des Etats-Unis, les consommateurs n’aiment pas Facebook». Le plus grand réseau social de la planète, qui compte un demi milliard d’utilisateurs, se classe dans les profondeurs du classement des marques, aux cotés des compagnies aériennes, des fournisseur d’accès internet câblés (les plus farouches adversaires de la Net Neutrality), et du fisc américain. Selon les résultats de l’enquête, Facebook a atterri «dans les (...) -- Analyse, Facebook Inc
Wired News: Top Stories
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Rapper Kanye West, who might be more famous for his controversial pronouncements over the years than for his music, would seem the perfect candidate for starting a Twitter account, but rejected the notion. However, he changed his mind by starting an account and rapping at Twitter's headquarters on Wednesday.
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LAS VEGAS — In a city filled with slot machines spilling jackpots, it was a 'jackpotted' ATM machine that got the most attention Wednesday at the Black Hat security conference, when researcher Barnaby Jack demonstrated two suave hacks against automated teller machines that allowed him to program them to spew out dozens of crisp bills.
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The Samsung HZ35W would be a great GPS-enabled camera, if it could only give us accurate coordinates.
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A wind-powered vehicle can travel downwind faster than the wind. It's been proven at El Mirage. Not that we expect the debate to end quietly.
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During our test drive of Nissan’s all-electric LEAF this week (video clip) Nissan’s Director of Product Planing for North America, Mark Perry, told us that the car giant is working with AT&T to provide a connection for digital services for the car, like battery charge monitoring and being able to find the nearest charging station. There is a carrier signal that is actually transmitting the information up to a satellite and then to Nissan’s data centers said Perry, who also confirmed with us that the cars will use AT&T’s cellular network for that connection. When I asked why did (...) -- Uncategorized
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Everyone knows that Netflix’s future is in streaming, and as a result, the company is investing heavily in titles for its Watch Instantly service. But a closer look at Netflix’s financials underscore how the Internet has changed the movie distribution business, and how it is capitalizing on that trend. Netflix is spending its more money than ever on streaming video, in part because it costs less to deliver that content online than by mail. According to its 10-K filing, Netflix spent $66 million in the second quarter 2010 to license streaming titles for its Watch Instantly service, compared (...) -- Uncategorized
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Today, GetJar, a San Mateo, Calif.-based company, announced it is delivering over 3 million downloads a day to more than 2,000 different phone models. Adding support for Google Android devices last year has helped boost the daily downloads, as Android is already the second-most-used platform for GetJar customers. The company says it has seen tremendous growth over the past year, with downloads up 300 percent from the prior year. GetJar bills itself as the “second largest app store,” boasting over 73,000 software titles. With roughly 225,000 apps, Apple’s iTunes App Store is the largest. But (...) -- CNN Mobile, CNN Startups, Mobile, Mobile Internet, NYT Startups, SYN Straight News, App Stores, GetJar
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Social-game maker Zynga has signed a joint venture deal with Softbank Corp. to set up a Japanese subsidiary of the company. Softbank has also invested $150 million in Zynga, whose Farmville and Mafia Wars games are among the most popular on Facebook. The partnership was reported last month by the Nikkei news service and by Bloomberg, but was not officially confirmed until Wednesday. The deal is expected to involve distributing Zynga games to Softbank’s mobile phone customers, one of the largest groups in the Japanese mobile market. Zynga is also reportedly involved in a partnership with (...) -- Mathew's Posts, Media, Social Web, Zynga, Softbank
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Amazon is riding the wave created by high Kindle e-book sales and releasing two new Kindle readers. The Wi-Fi model is only $139, and the 3G-enabled Kindle is $189. Both new Kindles have the same 6-inch screen, improved to provide 50 percent better contrast for reading that is easier on the eyes. Even though the screen size is the same as the previous Kindle, the new models are 21 percent smaller and only weigh 8.7 ounces. The improved screen may be a bigger draw for consumers than the smaller size, as Amazon claims the new technology makes fonts crisper and much easier to read. Pages (...) -- Uncategorized
John Battelle’s Searchblog
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16:14
Interesting investment by Google Ventures in a company called Recorded Future, a wonderful play on verb tenses and words. The company is a "temporal and predictive analysis engine." That just sounds cool. Google is co-investing with the CIA's investment arm. That's interesting, no?
kottke.org
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18:25
Atul Gawande's articles on healthcare for the New Yorker are all top-shelf, but his most recent piece on modern medicine's difficulty in dealing with patients who are likely to die is a doozy and a must-read. Almost all these patients had known, for some time, that they had a terminal condition. Yet they-along with their families and doctors-were unprepared for the final stage. "We are having more conversation now about what patients want for the end of their life, by far, than they have had in all their lives to this point," my friend said. "The problem is that's way too late." In 2008, (...)
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17:31
Over on Twitter, Tim Carmody is burning it up with links and retweets, mainly about the Kindle, Amazon, Google, Apple, and the future of books and media. Lots of good stuff there. Tags: books Tim Carmody
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What if Dom Cobb and his team from Inception were management consultants instead of dream extractors? This: DiCaprio takes a helicopter to Wharton, where he meets his father. "Who's your best student in the visual representation of quantitative information?" Ellen Page walks a few steps behind DiCaprio onto a roof. He turns to her. "You have three minutes to make a PowerPoint presentation that will take me three hours to click through." Tags: Inception (...)
dpreview.com
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12:45
Sinar has announced the 'p-slr' system that allows DSLR owners use their camera bodies as digital backs with the company's view camera system via an adapter. Currently compatible with Canon and Nikon cameras, the system gives access to a range of medium format and view camera lenses and accessories such as bellows, filters etc. An included 'Quick Clamping' adapter also allows users to easily change the orientation of the camera body from landscape to portrait and vice versa. The p-slr system comes in various combinations of mounting brackets, bellows and the Quick Clamping adapter, and a (...)
NYT > Circuits
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16:14
SanDisk has a new flash drive that's the size of a paper clip. -- SanDisk, USB flash drives, Data Storage, SanDisk Corp, SanDisk Corp|SNDK|NASDAQ, accessories, Personal Computing, PersonalComputing, Products
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13:00
Combating glare from a laptop with a glossy screen. -- glare, laptops, Personal Computing, PersonalComputing, Q&A, Tips and How-To's
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06:10
Like DVDs, electronic books for the iPad are now being loaded with extras, including video clips that are integrated with text. -- Electronic Books and Readers, iPad, Books and Literature, Book Trade and Publishing, Baldacci, David, Follett, Ken, Perlstein, Rick
Joi Ito’s Web
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13:33
For the last three years, I've been teaching a course at The Keio Graduate School of Media Design (KMD) on Digital Journalism. Each year, I've tried to iterate on the format and see how I could manage my own interaction more effectively and make it impact more people. This year I met Philipp from P2P University (P2PU). P2PU's mission is: The Peer 2 Peer University is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher (...)
ScottGu’s Blog
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10:51
Earlier this week the Visual Studio team released updated VS 2010 Keyboard Shortcut Posters. These posters are print-ready documents (that now support standard paper sizes), and provide nice “cheat sheet” tables that can help you quickly lookup (and eventually memorize) common keystroke commands within Visual Studio. This week’s updated posters incorporate a number of improvements: Letter-sized (8.5”x11”) print ready versions are now available A4-sized (210x297mm) print ready versions are now available The goofy people pictures on them are gone (thank goodness) The posters are in PDF (...) -- Visual Studio, .NET, Community News
MobileCrunch
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17:18
App store analytics provider Distimo in its latest report once again focuses on in-app purchases across a variety of mobile application stores, Apple's App Store in particular. According to Distimo, the percentage of applications with in-app purchases is significantly higher in the App Store for iPad (10%) compared to that for the iPhone (2%). -- Analysis, app store, apple, apple app store, distimo, distimo report
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Some sassenbergers at Driphter.com posted some images and video of the upcoming 9780 running RIM OS6 on GSM networks. They’re reporting that the new OS is quite smooth with an updated browser and better UI and it’s quite exciting for all those involved. RIM is an odd duck. Millions of business folks have to carry them so they can’t really change the entire device or OS or else Fortune 500 companies will have to run “Your new Smartphone” training classes at massive cost. Therefore, the changes are pretty darn subtle and, except for speed, probably won’t effect you or your loved ones. via (...) -- Analysis, BlackBerry, RIM
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According to GetJar, its eponymous mobile app store is now seeing three million downloads per day. GetJar reiterated that its stats put it second only to Apple iTunes, with over 1 billion total downloads to date. At current (self-reported) growth rate, the company should hit 2 billion downloads in about a year, if calculated on the back of a virtual envelope. Ilja Laurs, GetJar founder and CEO, says daily downloads have grown more than 300 percent year-on-year, with significant growth coming from North America, Western Europe, Asia and South Africa. GetJar rightly notes that at this (...) -- CrunchBase Information, CrunchBase
Seth’s Blog
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11:18
100 people doing something at the same time has far more power than 300 people doing it over time. We unconsciously amplify the power of coordination when we consider the impact of actions. If there's a thousand people waiting outside of a store, we instantly believe we're seeing a phenomenon. While the internet makes it easier than ever to spread ideas, it makes it far more compelling to coordinate actions. If everyone in your weekly meeting drops a pencil at precisely 12:03, you'll (...)
Techdirt
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17:31
Just last week we were talking about Perfect 10's lawsuit against Google in Canada, where we noted that in Perfect 10's own bragging press release, it effectively admits that its takedown filings were not properly filed. They admit that they just sent images to Google saying that it owned the images, without telling Google where they were actually located to take down. This was the same charge that Rapidshare recently made against Perfect 10, noting that the company seemed to purposely not want companies to take down their images, so that it could sue. Thankfully, in the US version of (...)
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With all of the buzz lately around the fantastically successful Old Spice campaign, some numbers are finally starting to trickle in about whether or not the campaign actually translated into more sales of the body wash. Although initial reports suggested that the ads did little to boost sales, according to Nielsen, sales of the body wash rose 107 percent in the past month. That said, the increase cannot be necessarily attributed entirely to the social media campaign, since a coupon campaign for the body wash was also running at the same time. In an age, driven largely in part by the (...)
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ReallyEvilCanine alerts us to the news that the game Plants vs. Zombies has decided to change its dancing zombie, because Michael Jackson's estate complained that the zombie looked too much like Jackson. It's true. The zombie is obviously designed to look like Michael Jackson, and my guess (details are lacking) is that the estate threatened a publicity rights claim over the use: This seems pretty silly. Publicity rights rules were put in place to try to stop people from thinking a famous person had endorsed a product. I can't see how anyone could have possibly thought that Michael Jackson (...)
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12:12Lawyer For Mother Accused Of Killing Baby, Threatens Separate Lawsuit Over People Copying His Facebook Photos - TechdirtAh, the perils of lawyers confused about the internet. Reader kb alerts us to the news of lawyer Jose Baez, who apparently has received plenty of attention for defending Casey Anthony, a mother who stands accused of killing her 2-year-old child. Apparently, some of the blogs that are reporting on the case pulled some photos from Baez's Facebook profile and Photoshopped them to include in blog posts. Baez's response is to threaten a lawsuit against those bloggers saying it's copyright infringement, while pulling down all of his photos. As kb notes, it appears that this lawyer doesn't seem (...)
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Back in 2006, some politicians included a bill that effectively banned online gambling as a part of a law designed to protect our ports (don't ask what one has to do with the other). Pretty much since then, Rep. Barney Frank has been seeking to legalize online gambling (in order to tax it), and he just got a step closer to that as the House Finance Committee has passed a version of his bill. There were, not surprisingly, complaints against how this bill would "bring gambling into everyone's homes," but that ignores (of course) that it's already available in homes, and the feds have long (...)
Download Squad
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17:30
Filed under: Security When you're the big dog, evildoers are more likely to target you with their nefarious schemes. That's certainly the case with desktop malware and Windows -- it's the most popular computing platform by a wide margin, so it gets the most attention from malware developers. The same is apparently true for Google when it comes to distributing malware. In a recent report, Barracuda Labs found that Google (unwittingly, of course) passes out more malware than Bing, Yahoo, and Twitter combined -- about twice as much as all three put together. Since Google dominates search, (...) -- Security, Permalink
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Filed under: Internet Curious about how your current Internet provider compares to other local options? Take a look at Ookla's Net Index, which has compiled user test results from around the world into easy-to-understand rankings. Data is gathered from both speedtest.net and pingtest.net, and covers the entire globe. In total, Net Index has sifted through more than 1.5 billion tests, and there have probably been several hundred thousand (if not millions) performed in your area. Those results lead to a pretty good understanding of how a particular ISP has been performing over the test (...) -- Internet, Permalink
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15:00Images of IE9's interface leak, including Chrome-like 'start' tab and download manager - Download SquadFiled under: Microsoft, Browsers There's only four weeks to go until the next IE9 developer preview, and it looks like Chinese leak site Cnbeta might have got its hands on the new build already. I'm not quite sure what to make of the screenshots, nor the Google translation. The Developer Previews (Internet Explorer Test Drive) are not meant to have a user interface -- they're just there to show off the Trident rendering engine. That means we're probably looking at the beta version of IE9 in these screenshots. Does that mean the private beta has begun -- or are these simply fakes? As you (...) -- Microsoft, Browsers, Permalink
Scripting News
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15:50
Earlier this month I reported on bloggers leaving scienceblogs.org because the publisher sold a presence on the site to bloggers from PepsiCo. One of the rationales for bundling all the science bloggers together in one place was the synergy that comes from aggregation. Of course, with RSS you can achieve the same effect, without putting them all on the same server. So I put it on my to-do list to set up an science blogs aggregator, and yesterday I had some time to do it, so here it is. http://science.newsriver.org/ As always, the OPML for the site is public so if you want to feed it (...)
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Some people don't care for them, but I love Ole and Lena jokes. Here's a good one. Ole was going on a business trip to St Cloud but it was cancelled at the last minute cause the Minnesota Twins made it to the playoffs. He's lying in bed before going to sleep when the phone rings. He listens, gets up to look out the window then returns to the phone. He says in an irritated way: "How should I know, it's a thousand miles away!" and hangs up. Lena asks: Who was that Ole? Ole: Oh Sven yust vants to know if the coast is (...)