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Erin Rose
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What it’s like to play online games as a grownup. Why yes, NASA, I would like to look at an iridescent cloud. Forget the cane: A sonar glove for the blind. Google’s fiber-optic networks are blazingly fast.
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Facebook is changing its privacy settings … again. Thinking about making an iPhone app? Here’s an infographic on how to make yr tiny icon look just like everybody else’s. Art gallery displays new piece: a hard drive containing $5 million…
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Some good websites! Best twitter feed: Errol Morris Favorite source of tech stories: Geekosystem Best muckraking: ProPublica Best site for alcoholics: Should I Drink Tonight? Best source of supercilious humor: 27b/6
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Anonymous hits up the Bay: The personal info of 102 BART officers were just released by the group. Are we living in a post-idea world, where ideas that can’t be instantly monetized are discarded? New technology stores data in nano-glass…
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Google’s merging with Motorola to help it defend its Android OS. These electronic sensors stick to your skin just like a temporary tattoo … but are way cooler. Tired of your roommate’s addiction to annoying TV pundits? This handy device…
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Sweden spaces out. A space port with tourism as a central focus. Soldering made comical. An easy to follow, informative soldering guide. How to blow up anything, anywhere, in an hour. The U.S. prepares to launch fastest plane ever. Thirteen…
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Scientists have developed a straw that detects the date rape drug in yr drink. All’s fair in tech and war: Apple has gotten the Samsung Galaxy Tab blocked in Europe. Yep, the building blocks of DNA probably came from space.…
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Some shady rats have been hacking into the UN, governments, major companies, and other organizations & stealing sensitive info for the past 5 years and no one noticed til now. Crucial: How to remove yourself from background check sites. I…
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Everyone knows China’s the place to go for fake iPhones…but now they have an entire fake Apple Store. Employers are now requiring social media background checks. Hugo Chavez is governing Venezuela via Twitter while he undergoes medical treatment in Cuba.…
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The TSA’s days of checkin’ out your naked body are over (or so they say). Police departments nationwide are starting to use the iPhone’s biometric scanner app to ID suspects. Ooooh, a much less expensive (and quicker) DNA sequencer. A…
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The FTC chairman thinks consumers should own & control their data on social networks. Yep, lookin’ at you, facebook. A lion is scheduled for release tomorrow . . . OSX Lion, that is. The FBI’s arresting a bunch of Anonymous-affiliated…
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Forget Google, Apple, etc…let’s get to the good stuff. These glasses can read your mind…kind of. So, did you see this automaton from the 16th century? An insanely creepy singing robotic mouth. Are you a media artist, hacker, Wikileaks contributor, or…