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  1. Acetrax movie service to close, lights go dim on June 21st

    → Engadget RSS Feed | 21 May 2013 | 7:59 pm MDT

    Acetrax movie service to close, lights go dim on June 21st

    It's just as likely that you'll know Acetrax from the video services it's behind, as from its own branded offerings. Regardless of how you might use the service, its owner Sky is pulling the plug on June 21st. Impact to pay-per-view customers should mean nothing more than looking elsewhere, but those who bought titles outright will need to download them before the cutoff (there are a bunch of caveats though). The same goes for account credit -- either use it, or face the hassle of claiming it back after the fact. There's an FAQ on the website outlining the best course of action depending on your situation, so we'd suggest you head there first before working your way through your rental library.

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    Via: CNET

    Source: Acetrax



  2. Guatemala: Genocide trial annullment amplifies chaos and fear

    → Boing Boing | 21 May 2013 | 7:42 pm MDT

    "I'm distressed. I don't know what's happening. That's how this country is. The powerful people do what they want and we poor and indigenous are devalued. We don't get justice. Justice means nothing for us."— Ana Caba, an Ixil Maya survivor of Guatemala's 36-year internal armed conflict who became an internally displaced refugee. Like many [...]
        




  3. Sony PC shows up at FCC, hints at 13-inch VAIO Duo

    → Engadget RSS Feed | 21 May 2013 | 7:38 pm MDT

    Sony PC shows up at FCC, hints at 13-inch VAIO Duo

    When a "personal computer" from Sony lands at the FCC, with very little else to identify it, we have to put the pieces together ourselves. With the model number SVD132A14L, we can divine that it's very likely a Sony VAIO Duo and a 13-incher at that. Radio-wise, it shows dual-band WiFi in a/b/g/n flavors, Bluetooth (regular and low energy) and NFC. Then there's the label image you see above. It doesn't give away a lot, but it does seem to match that mysterious 13-inch slider we saw, as seen from the rear with the screen hinge, and what looks like the angular front section. Is there a larger version of the 11-inch Duo Windows 8 hybrid on the way? Place your bets now.

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    Source: FCC



  4. Watch the latest hand-picked videos in Boing Boing's video archives

    → Boing Boing | 21 May 2013 | 7:34 pm MDT

    Among the most recent video posts you will find on our video archive page: • Controversial banana-touching. • NASA solar flare video with Lars Leonhard music. • HOWTO make a "Swiss Army knife" key ring. • Museum home of Oddities' Ryan Matthew Cohn. • The Life of astronaut Sally Ride. • Ray Manzarek, founding member [...]
        




  5. Flickr Pro users are grandfathered in, get to keep unlimited storage for $25 a year

    → Engadget RSS Feed | 21 May 2013 | 7:19 pm MDT

    Flickr Pro users are grandfathered for the foreseeable future

    While Flickr did seem generous by offering free users 1TB of space as long as users are willing to put up with ads, it also got rid of the much-beloved Flickr Pro option that awarded unlimited storage for only $25 a year. Now the only upgrade options are to cough up $50 annually to go ad-free or $500 a year for 2TB instead of one. Many existing Pro users, thinking they would be forced one way or another, took to social media and Flickr forums to vent their frustrations at the potential loss of that limitless space.

    However, Yahoo has confirmed to us that existing Flickr Pro users will continue to enjoy unlimited storage as long as they pay $25 a year to renew their subscription. In addition, we have word that there are no plans for Pro renewals to go away. There's also a FAQ posted on Flickr that clarifies the issue, stating "recurring Pro users currently have the ability to renew." That said, if you do let your subscription expire, your account will automatically be downgraded to the free version, so Pro users would do best to keep on the renewal ball if they want their precious memories to stay on the service.

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    Source: Flickr Help



  6. The Saturday Evening Post Finally Comes To iOS, With Help From Yudu

    → TechCrunch | 21 May 2013 | 7:14 pm MDT

    saturday evening postThe Saturday Evening Post has a prominent spot in the history of American magazines. It's where artist Norman Rockwell made a name for himself, and it has published classic American authors like Edgar Allan Poe and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But if you had no idea that it was still around, you're not alone — the magazine's technology director Steve Harman said that many people "are surprised we're still publishing." Yes, it is still putting out a magazine every two months, with a circulation of about 350,000. Subscribers are mostly in their 50s, but The Post is trying to reach younger readers and adapt to the digital world, as recounted in a couple of stories earlier this year. Now it's taking the next step in that direction with the release of its iPad and iPhone app, which was built by digital publishing company Yudu.

  7. Perils of smart cities

    → Boing Boing | 21 May 2013 | 7:12 pm MDT

    Here'a an excellent piece on the promise and peril of "smart cities," which could be part of a system to make cities fairer and more transparent, or could form the basis for an authoritarian lockdown. As Adam Greenfield says, "[the centralized model of the smart city is] disturbingly consonant with the exercise of authoritarianism." The [...]
        




  8. Teacher suspended for touching girl inappropriately with banana during class

    → Boing Boing | 21 May 2013 | 7:02 pm MDT

    A teacher in Florida has been disciplined for reportedly touching a female student inappropriately in the head and neck area with a banana. Jonathan Hampton was suspended for three days without pay from his teaching job at North Marion High School after the student's parents complained, roughly three months after the incident. According to his [...]
        




  9. Chrome 27 goes stable with small speed boost, Chromium nabs app launcher on Mac

    → Engadget RSS Feed | 21 May 2013 | 6:57 pm MDT

    Chrome 27 goes stable with small speed boost, Chromium nabs app launcher on Mac

    After sitting in a beta phase since early April, Chrome 27 is finally seeing a wide release with its arrival on the stable track. Headlining the fresh desktop version is a 5 percent speed boost to web page load times and a new API for saving and syncing data to Google Drive. Refined spell correction, "numerous fundamental improvements" to the Omnibox, improved prediction rankings and an assortment of security fixes have also been baked in. Back in developer territory, Google's François Beaufort announced that the latest Chromium build for Mac has been outfitted with the anticipated app launcher. Check your browser for the update or jab the source links below to grab the apps manually.

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    Via: AppleInsider

    Source: Chrome Releases, François Beaufort (Google+)



  10. Basho Co-Founder Raises $3M To Launch Orchestrate.io, A Twilio For Databases

    → TechCrunch | 21 May 2013 | 6:45 pm MDT

    rings_trans_horiz_new_still1Basho Co-Founder Antony Falco has raised $3 million for Orchestrate.io, a database API similar to Twilio in its capability to ease the complexity of adding features to mobile and web applications. True Ventures led this initial round joined by Frontline Ventures and Resonant Venture Partners. Falco, who left Basho a few months ago, said Orchestrate.io solves the problems that developers face when building feature-rich applications. Often it means adding multiple databases for geo-spatial, time series or any number of other features. The database problem has been ongoing. It in part stems from the limits of scale with relational databases. Over the years, companies like Amazon and Google reached their own ceilings and were forced to develop new kinds of databases for high-volume queries. The result is a lot of time spent babysitting databases so the applications run well. Orchestrate.io acts as a service on a service, abstracting the database layer. Twilio successfully simplified the way developers accessed services, such as SMS and voice. Falco sees a service that also allows developers to add features by pulling the data through an API . “The comparison with Twilio and Sendgrid is not around the problem we solve but the pattern,” Falco said in an email interview. “We are taking a complex and burdensome task — running lots of databases — and putting it behind an API that programmers can use to more quickly build apps. Twilio and Sendgrid both do a similar thing, vastly simplifying the complex, for telecom and email infrastructure, respectively. Orchestrate.io uses in-memory technology for its service. “Memory — storing indexes and hot data in memory — will be critical to performance,” Falco said. “There are three tiers – the active data and indexes in memory, disk storage for durability and data less often accessed, and as data ages and becomes inactive, a cheaper tier of fault-tolerant storage. The more we serve reads out of the memory, the better our performance will be and, without a lot of latency, users will be able to execute relatively rich queries that might require three or four queries, made sequentially, to separate databases.” Orchestrate.io is using open source databases to build the service. “We aren’t going to build databases,” Falco said. “The databases themselves can change; we are not tied to any one database. Riak (a Basho service) is of course ideal for this use case — for forming part of the

  11. Editorial: Engadget on the Xbox One

    → Engadget RSS Feed | 21 May 2013 | 6:35 pm MDT

    Editorial Engadget on the Xbox One

    At long last, Microsoft unveiled its next-generation gaming console today, the Xbox One. As expected, its hardware stacks up well with the Wii U and PlayStation 4, and the launch event showcased some slick new software, too. With tight fantasy sports integration, Windows 8 and Skype support and cooperation with live TV, the One looks to have taken the next step in transforming the Xbox from a gaming rig into a true home entertainment console. It's a rare thing to get to opine on a new game console, so head on past the break and allow us to indulge this opportunity.

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  12. The Former Flickr Employee Guide To Tumblr Yahoo Survival

    → TechCrunch | 21 May 2013 | 6:27 pm MDT

    Tumblr YahooEditor's note: Kakul Srivastava is CEO and co-founder of Tomfoolery, Inc. She was General Manager for Flickr from 2004 - 2009 and helped the product grow from 37,000 users to over 60 million. Simon Batistoni is VP of Platform and co-founder of Tomfoolery, Inc. He joined Flickr in 2006 as the engineering lead for internationalization. 

  13. Pandora Premieres will let you hear new albums up to a week prior to their release

    → Engadget RSS Feed | 21 May 2013 | 6:22 pm MDT

    Pandora Premieres will let you hear new albums up to a week prior to their release

    It's hardly a new tactic -- teasing music lovers with a stream of a new album prior to its on-sale date -- but Pandora's getting into that business in an official way today. Not content with letting iTunes drink the whole of said milkshake, Pandora Premieres will allow users to preview upcoming album releases in their entirety before they go on sale. The new station will reportedly feature both mainstream and emerging artists, with albums to hit the Pandora airwaves "up to one week prior to the scheduled US launch date." Listeners can enjoy these early album releases simply by adding the Pandora Premieres station, which will be updated weekly with new releases. Better still, users will be able to replay it as much as they'd like, or listen to bits of pieces of it as they choose. If you'd like to give it a look, head to your Pandora player and search for "Pandora Premieres."

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    Source: Pandora



  14. CNN's Wolf Blitzer to tornado victim: "You gotta thank the lord". Victim: "I'm an atheist"

    → Boing Boing | 21 May 2013 | 6:20 pm MDT

    This is CNN.
        




  15. 1958 video of Disney artists painting the same tree

    → Boing Boing | 21 May 2013 | 6:14 pm MDT

    I Love this 1958 video of old school Disney animators going outside to paint a tree (Thanks, Scott!)
        




  16. Chronology of the Canadian Conservative government's war on science

    → Boing Boing | 21 May 2013 | 6:07 pm MDT

    No government in Canadian history has been as hostile to science as Stephen Harper's Conservatives. John Dupuis has assembled a brief, brutal chronology of the ways that the Tories have attacked Canadian science. It's no coincidence that this government is so hostile to science, seeing as how its funding and grassroots support come from the [...]
        




  17. Nokia brings Lumia 925 for T-Mobile to CTIA 2013, we go hands-on

    → Engadget RSS Feed | 21 May 2013 | 5:55 pm MDT

    Nokia brings Lumia 925 for TMobile to CTIA 2013, we go handson

    We've already spent some quality time with Nokia's handsome Lumia 925 and while it's no secret the company's Windows Phone flagship is coming to the US courtesy of T-Mobile, we'd never actually seen the carrier-branded model -- until now, that is. Nokia brought T-Mobile's version of the handset to CTIA 2013 where we took it for a brief spin. As you'd expect, the phone is identical to its global twin save for the operator's logo below the capacitive button and the radios which support T-Mobile's bands. Unfortunately, the Lumia 925 we played with was not final, so the software was off limits. In terms of hardware, it features the same 4.5-inch 1,280 x 768 AMOLED screen, 1.5GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro processor, 1GB RAM and 8.7-megapixel camera with OIS. This is definitely one of Nokia's most attractive designs yet, and we're looking forward to getting our hands on a review unit soon. In the meantime, why not check out the gallery below?

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  18. India bans captive dolphin shows, says dolphins should be seen as ‘non-human persons’

    → Latest Items from TreeHugger | 21 May 2013 | 5:50 pm MDT

    In a bold move to protect the well-being of dolphins, India has moved to ban dolphin shows -- a push that helps elevate their status from creatures of mere curiosity to one that borders more closely to the personhood we seem to share.

  19. LightUp electronic blocks and AR app teaches kids circuitry basics (hands-on)

    → Engadget RSS Feed | 21 May 2013 | 5:49 pm MDT

    LightUp electronics building blocks and augmentedreality app teaches kids circuitry basics handson

    There are plenty of kits out there designed to help kids learn the ins and outs of electronics, but LightUp hopes to stand out from the crowd with not just easy-to-use building blocks but an accompanying augmented reality app as well. From resistors and LED modules to light sensors, each block represents a real component that can be attached to each other via magnetic connectors, hopefully creating a circuit in the process. LightUp even offers an Arduino-compatible microcontroller block to help kids start coding -- clip the programming wand to the block, hook it up to your computer, and away you go.

    What really sets LightUp apart is the aforementioned AR app. Simply snap a picture of your circuit, and the software will let you know what's wrong with it if there's a mistake. If everything's working, it'll display an electrical flow animation atop the picture, showing kids the magic of electricity. We had a go at creating a circuit ourselves, and were delighted at how easy it was. The connectors fit in either direction, and can be attached and reattached with ease. We also saw a brief demo of the prototype application, and sure enough, it showed us when an LED block was placed backwards with an error message -- you can see it in action in the video below.

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    Source: LightUp, Kickstarter



  20. OK Go's Damian Kulash Explains Why His Band Built Its Own Mobile Game

    → TechCrunch | 21 May 2013 | 5:42 pm MDT

    Screen Shot 2013-05-21 at 3.16.20 PMOK Go (the band behind hit music videos like "This Too Shall Pass" and "Here It Goes Again") launched its very own game for iOS and Android earlier this month. Titled Say The Same Thing, you play the game with one of your friends or with a randomly chosen player. (If you sign up now, you can also participate in a temporary promotion where people are randomly selected to play with a band member) Each player types in a word, then you see what the other player said, and you use that as prompt for another word. As the game's title implies, you win when each of you enters the same word.

  21. Woman forces stepdaughter to wear dowdy thrift store clothes as punishment for bullying

    → Boing Boing | 21 May 2013 | 5:38 pm MDT

    Matthew says: "For several weeks, a fourth-grade girl was relentlessly harassing a classmate's choice of clothing. As punishment, the girl's stepmother spent about $50 at a thrift store and forced her to wear poorly-fitting and embarrassing clothing to school."
        




  22. Motorola XT1056 gains FCC credentials for Sprint

    → Engadget RSS Feed | 21 May 2013 | 5:28 pm MDT

    Motorola XT1056 gains FCC credentials for Sprint

    The future of Motorola's smartphones are now falling into place, and we couldn't be more excited. Following the FCC certification of the XT1058 for AT&T, a similar test report for the XT1056 has just crossed our desk. This time around, the smartphone carries certification for LTE Band 25, which puts it as a dead ringer for a Sprint device. Regardless of whether this handset turns out to be the purported "X phone" is almost beside the point, because we already know that cross-carrier availability and stock Android are key to Motorola's future in the smartphone realm. There are a few worthwhile points to take away from the FCC certification of the XT1056, which suggest that this will be a very capable handset.

    First and foremost, we're looking at a device that'll offer NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 LE+EDR and 802.11ac. In addition to support for Sprint's network, the phone also carries certification for HSPA+ 21 Mbps over the 2100, 1900 and 850MHz bands, although the documentation specifically states that it'll be SIM-locked for all US carriers. All in all, these are good signs of what's to come. Now, if only Motorola could get on with the reveal.

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    Source: FCC



  23. Qualcomm demos next-gen 2,560 x 1,440 Mirasol display (hands-on video)

    → Engadget RSS Feed | 21 May 2013 | 5:12 pm MDT

    Qualcomm demos nextgen 2,560 x 1,440 Mirasol display handson video

    We haven't heard about Mirasol for a while now, but Qualcomm's reflective display tech showed up in a few proof-of-concepts on the SID Display Week floor. We got a look at a previously announced 1.5-inch panel embedded on the top of an "always-on" smartphone and on the face of a smartwatch. Though a rep took care to emphasize that these were just mockups, he said the screen will soon show up in some third-party devices.

    More interesting, though, was the company's next-gen display: a 5.1-inch panel sporting a stunning 2,560 x 1,440 (577 ppi) resolution. Viewed up close, it delivers crisp images, but the reflective display kicks back a silvery tint and colors don't pop as they do on other handsets. But while the sky-high pixel count may not tell the whole story, the screen offers one huge plus: a 6x power advantage over LCD and OLED displays. In practical terms, that means devices could go days without charging. Don't expect to see this guy in your next smartphone, though: by "next-gen," Qualcomm means this tech has a few more years in the R&D phase before it'll be ready to hit a licensee's production line. For now, make do with our hands-on video after the break.

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  24. U.S. policy and the market for zero-day exploits: blowback fears grow in Washington

    → Boing Boing | 21 May 2013 | 5:10 pm MDT

    Security researcher Charlie Miller sits in his home-office in Wildwood, Missouri, April 30, 2013. REUTERS/Sarah Conard. The booming market for hacking tools known as zero-day exploits has officials at the highest levels in Washington very worried, reports Joe Menn at Reuters, "even as U.S. agencies and defense contractors have become the biggest buyers of such [...]
        




  25. Face morphing mirror at Maker Faire 2013

    → Boing Boing | 21 May 2013 | 5:09 pm MDT

    One of my favorite exhibits at Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 (held last weekend) was Alex Andre's Metamorphosis Project. It's a six-foot-diameter spinning disc with a hand crank. The disc is made of clear glass and mirrors in alternating quadrants. You stand on one side and line up your nose with a person standing on [...]
        




  26. Producteev's Social Task Manager Now Free And Enterprise-Ready As It Preps For Full Jive Integration Later This Year

    → TechCrunch | 21 May 2013 | 4:28 pm MDT

    Screen shot 2013-05-21 at 3.59.41 PMIn November, Jive Software acquired Bay Area cloud-based, collaborative task manager, Producteev, to boost its social business platform. Going forward, as Alex wrote at the time, Salesforce.com and Jive will increasingly butt heads as they compete for mindshare in the enterprise. With Producteev's multi-platform task-management system, which allows users to create tasks from emails and collaborate around projects in teams, Jive acquired a service that was already beginning to compete with Asana and Salesforce.com's Do.com.

  27. New Xbox Fails To Excite Investors As Microsoft, AMD Stocks Stays Flat While Sony Shoots Up 9%

    → TechCrunch | 21 May 2013 | 4:15 pm MDT

    Sony Vs MicrosoftWall Street apparently wanted something more revolutionary out of the Xbox One that launched today, as Microsoft's stock is down 0.66 percent. In turn, investors on news of a potential spin off, pushed Sony shares up 9 percent, coincidentally just after Microsoft announced its answer to the Sony Playstation.

  28. PopExpert Online Video Education Marketplace Raises $2M In Seed Funding From Learn Capital And Others

    → TechCrunch | 21 May 2013 | 3:35 pm MDT

    popexpertAs edtech startups continue to challenge the current state of higher education, and various niche startups focus on educating people through digital means, yet another company is getting a boost when it comes to helping people learn. PopExpert, a learning marketplace that lets students connect with experts in one-on-one video chats, has just raised a $2 million seed round led by Learn Capital, with participation by Jeff Skoll, Ken Howery, Michael Chasen, and Expansion VC.

  29. TC Cribs: Inside Fab's NYC Headquarters, Where High Fashion And Hot Design Become Fun

    → TechCrunch | 21 May 2013 | 3:32 pm MDT

    Screen Shot 2013-05-21 at 2.18.51 PMWelcome to a brand new episode of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series that goes straight into the heart of the action at the tech industry's hottest companies to show what it's really like for the people who work there. For this edition we headed out on the road to the New York City headquarters of Fab, the super-popular e-commerce site that has quickly grown over the past couple years to be one of the web's key shopping destinations (and one of the industry's hottest companies from a valuation perspective.)

  30. Pump Up the Jams With NuForce’s Mobile Music Pump

    → Wired: Gadgets | 21 May 2013 | 3:17 pm MDT

    Pump Up the Jams With NuForce’s Mobile Music Pump
    If you're looking to maximize the volume of the tunes streaming from your mobile device, regular earbuds or over-ear headphones just won't cut it. What you need is a headphone amplifier like, say, NuForce's new Mobile Music Pump.


  31. Pump Up the Jams With NuForce’s Mobile Music Pump

    → Wired: Software | 21 May 2013 | 3:17 pm MDT

    Pump Up the Jams With NuForce’s Mobile Music Pump
    If you're looking to maximize the volume of the tunes streaming from your mobile device, regular earbuds or over-ear headphones just won't cut it. What you need is a headphone amplifier like, say, NuForce's new Mobile Music Pump.


  32. SunWater is developing a "radically affordable" solar water pump for poor farmers

    → Latest Items from TreeHugger | 21 May 2013 | 3:03 pm MDT

    One way that subsistence farmers can break out of the poverty cycle is through growing cash crops, and this low-cost solar pump could help make that happen.

  33. Ontario public television network pulls video game it funded after criticism from oil industry

    → Latest Items from TreeHugger | 21 May 2013 | 3:03 pm MDT

    If any of its critics had bothered to play the game they'd see it, apparently by accident, works almost as an endorsement of pipeline development

  34. Breakthrough clean gold mining technique replaces cyanide with... cornstarch!

    → Latest Items from TreeHugger | 21 May 2013 | 2:59 pm MDT

    Mining gold's a dirty business. To extract gold from raw ore, a lot of cyanide is required, and wherever a lot of cyanide is found, there are also big environmental risks.

  35. Ditto Turns To Indiegogo For Help Battling Patent Lawsuits (Including One From 1-800-Contacts)

    → TechCrunch | 21 May 2013 | 2:51 pm MDT

    ditto logoDitto, a startup that helps users virtually try on different pairs of eyeglasses, has launched an Indiegogo campaign to help fight a big threat — the company says it's being sued by 1-800-CONTACTS and another company called Lennon Imaging Technology. Ditto's technology allows users to create webcam recordings of their faces, which they then use to see how different designer glasses will look with their facial shape and size. Both Lennon Imaging and 1-800-CONTACTS are claiming that this technology infringes their own patents. But Ditto's campaign describes them as "patent troll" lawsuits — Lennon is a non-practicing company, meaning that it doesn't have a product or service of its own, and Ditto co-founder and CEO Kate Endress said 1-800-CONTACTS (which is owned by WellPoint) didn't purchase the patent in question until after the company's CEO visited the Ditto website.

  36. Laptop Week Review: The 13-Inch MacBook Pro With Retina Display

    → TechCrunch | 21 May 2013 | 2:31 pm MDT

    IMG_8879If I could only have one MacBook (which is usually the case for your average laptop-buyer), this is the one I'd pick, without hesitation. Fewer issues than its 15-inch cousin, which pioneered the Retina line, combined with a much lighter design with a smaller desktop footprint for a display that can still give you crazy amounts of screen real estate all adds up to a sure-fire winner.

  37. That’s Exactly Right Sen. Rand

    → Common Sense Junction | 21 May 2013 | 1:45 pm MDT



  38. How does the Trapeze Lamp actually work?

    → Latest Items from TreeHugger | 21 May 2013 | 1:43 pm MDT

    It's all in the really slick conductive ball joint, which lets it rotate completely around and around.

  39. Researchers nuke up new solar cell material in microwave that used to make lunch

    → Latest Items from TreeHugger | 21 May 2013 | 1:25 pm MDT

    Scientists up-cycle the microwave that used to make lunch to develop a cheap method using more abundant and less toxic materials to make nanocrystal semiconductors.

  40. School of Visual Arts Students Hack Wanted Design Show

    → Latest Items from TreeHugger | 21 May 2013 | 12:41 pm MDT

    Students present a exhibit that allows visitors to experience the event in new ways.

  41. Designing for Disaster: Which is better, modular or shipping container?

    → Latest Items from TreeHugger | 21 May 2013 | 12:06 pm MDT

    Another look at the question of what is the best way to build good housing in a hurry.

  42. Close Up With Xbox One: Every Photo You Could Ever Want

    → Wired: Software | 21 May 2013 | 11:30 am MDT

    Close Up With Xbox One: Every Photo You Could Ever Want
    As part of WIRED's exclusive look at the development and capabilities of the Xbox One, we present a detailed look at the hardware. (Well, the exterior of it, at least. We've got another gallery for the insides.) Can you spot ...


  43. Close Up With Xbox One: Every Photo You Could Ever Want

    → Wired: Gadgets | 21 May 2013 | 11:30 am MDT

    Close Up With Xbox One: Every Photo You Could Ever Want
    As part of WIRED's exclusive look at the development and capabilities of the Xbox One, we present a detailed look at the hardware. (Well, the exterior of it, at least. We've got another gallery for the insides.) Can you spot ...


  44. Exclusive First Look at Xbox One

    → Wired: Software | 21 May 2013 | 11:30 am MDT

    Exclusive First Look at Xbox One
    Wired's exclusive look at Microsoft's next-gen console, Xbox One.


  45. Exclusive First Look at Xbox One

    → Wired: Gadgets | 21 May 2013 | 11:30 am MDT

    Exclusive First Look at Xbox One
    Wired's exclusive look at Microsoft's next-gen console, Xbox One.


  46. From Green Light to Boot-Up: Behind the Scenes of Xbox One’s Development

    → Wired: Software | 21 May 2013 | 11:30 am MDT

    From Green Light to Boot-Up: Behind the Scenes of Xbox One’s Development
    All photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired


  47. From Green Light to Boot-Up: Behind the Scenes of Xbox One’s Development

    → Wired: Gadgets | 21 May 2013 | 11:30 am MDT

    From Green Light to Boot-Up: Behind the Scenes of Xbox One’s Development
    All photos: Ariel Zambelich/Wired


  48. tit for tat | Microsoft: ‘Google Refused to Work With Us on Our YouTube App’

    → Wired: Software | 21 May 2013 | 10:48 am MDT

    tit for tat | Microsoft: ‘Google Refused to Work With Us on Our YouTube App’
    A week after Google sent Microsoft a cease and desist letter to remove its YouTube Windows Phone app, Microsoft makes a public response.


  49. tit for tat | Microsoft: ‘Google Refused to Work With Us on Our YouTube App’

    → Wired: Gadgets | 21 May 2013 | 10:48 am MDT

    tit for tat | Microsoft: ‘Google Refused to Work With Us on Our YouTube App’
    A week after Google sent Microsoft a cease and desist letter to remove its YouTube Windows Phone app, Microsoft makes a public response.


  50. Cat-App Fever: 3 Ways to Turn Your iPad Into a Cat Toy

    → Wired: Software | 21 May 2013 | 10:44 am MDT

    Cat-App Fever: 3 Ways to Turn Your iPad Into a Cat Toy
    Your cat gets to do whatever it wants everywhere else in the house, so why not give it control of the iPad, too?


  51. Cat-App Fever: 3 Ways to Turn Your iPad Into a Cat Toy

    → Wired: Gadgets | 21 May 2013 | 10:44 am MDT

    Cat-App Fever: 3 Ways to Turn Your iPad Into a Cat Toy
    Your cat gets to do whatever it wants everywhere else in the house, so why not give it control of the iPad, too?


  52. Review: WakaWaka Power is your personal pocket-sized solar power station

    → Latest Items from TreeHugger | 21 May 2013 | 10:13 am MDT

    This rugged solar charger is powerful enough to charge up a smartphone in two hours, yet small enough to fit in your pocket.

  53. What you need to know about the tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma

    → Latest Items from TreeHugger | 21 May 2013 | 10:04 am MDT

    Links, pictures and videos of the tornado that destroyed parts of Moore, Oklahoma

  54. Yahoo, Porn And Tumblr

    → Common Sense Junction | 21 May 2013 | 7:43 am MDT

    Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Tumblr CEO David Karp after announcing Yahoo’s $1.1b purchase Daily Mail: Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer said that the company does not ‘intend’ to take down any of the porn-heavy sites that are run on Tumblr after the tech giant acquired the blogging platform for $1.1billion. The sale created a great [...]

  55. Tornado Kills At Least 91 (Updated)

    → Common Sense Junction | 21 May 2013 | 7:24 am MDT

    Update: At about 11:00am news sources report the good news that the number of deaths was revised down to about 50 total and the number of children from 20 to 9. The mile wide tornado stayed on the ground for 20 miles. It was one of several twisters spawned by a storm system that swept [...]

  56. Coffee Essentials for the Perfect Cup

    → Wired: Software | 21 May 2013 | 4:30 am MDT

    Coffee Essentials for the Perfect Cup
    Equip your countertop with the very best gear, and learn the proper technique for java nirvana.


  57. Coffee Essentials for the Perfect Cup

    → Wired: Gadgets | 21 May 2013 | 4:30 am MDT

    Coffee Essentials for the Perfect Cup
    Equip your countertop with the very best gear, and learn the proper technique for java nirvana.


  58. Prominent In Today’s News….

    → Common Sense Junction | 21 May 2013 | 2:00 am MDT

    Current news summaries and breaking stories about politics, business and technology. -- All the headlines fit to read.

  59. Flickr Shows Signs of Life With Slick Web Redesign, Killer Android App

    → Wired: Gadgets | 20 May 2013 | 3:26 pm MDT

    Flickr Shows Signs of Life With Slick Web Redesign, Killer Android App
    Flickr wants to remind you that it’s a photo site. “Everything that we’ve done in this new redesign has been about putting the photo front and center,” says Flickr VP Brett Wayn. For a photo site, Flickr looks like it ...


  60. Flickr Shows Signs of Life With Slick Web Redesign, Killer Android App

    → Wired: Software | 20 May 2013 | 3:26 pm MDT

    Flickr Shows Signs of Life With Slick Web Redesign, Killer Android App
    Flickr wants to remind you that it’s a photo site. “Everything that we’ve done in this new redesign has been about putting the photo front and center,” says Flickr VP Brett Wayn. For a photo site, Flickr looks like it ...


  61. Judge Jeanine Explains It To POS Muslims

    → Common Sense Junction | 20 May 2013 | 1:24 pm MDT

    The Right Scoop: You definitely want to watch this one all the way to the end. Judge Jeanine doesn’t leave anyone guessing as to how she feels about statements that have been made by the mother of the Boston jihadid bombers: Judge Jeanine on Obama: ‘I’m Convinced My Mom Could Do a Better Job…’ My [...]

  62. The App That Puts Google’s Music Subscription Service on Your iPhone

    → Wired: Gadgets | 20 May 2013 | 12:39 pm MDT

    The App That Puts Google’s Music Subscription Service on Your iPhone
    Google's subscription music service debuted last week as an Android-only affair. But one third-party developer has quickly compiled an iOS app enabling Apple devices to listen in.


  63. The App That Puts Google’s Music Subscription Service on Your iPhone

    → Wired: Software | 20 May 2013 | 12:39 pm MDT

    The App That Puts Google’s Music Subscription Service on Your iPhone
    Google's subscription music service debuted last week as an Android-only affair. But one third-party developer has quickly compiled an iOS app enabling Apple devices to listen in.


  64. This Is What It Looks Like to Get Eaten by a Grizzly Bear

    → Wired: Gadgets | 20 May 2013 | 11:35 am MDT

    This Is What It Looks Like to Get Eaten by a Grizzly Bear
    This video shows the last thing you'll see if you tangle with a grizzly. Warning: It's gross.


  65. This Is What It Looks Like to Get Eaten by a Grizzly Bear

    → Wired: Software | 20 May 2013 | 11:35 am MDT

    This Is What It Looks Like to Get Eaten by a Grizzly Bear
    This video shows the last thing you'll see if you tangle with a grizzly. Warning: It's gross.


  66. What Did BHO Know And When Did He Know It?

    → Common Sense Junction | 20 May 2013 | 11:30 am MDT

    Obama met with the NTEU’s leader in the WH the day before the NTEU’s employees started targeting the Tea Party. Jeffrey Lord at American Spectator: According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the president of the anti-Tea Party National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley [...]

  67. Drat! What Rotten Luck!

    → Common Sense Junction | 20 May 2013 | 9:56 am MDT

    Woman is too pretty to hold a job:Laura Fernee says she is too pretty to keep a job: Graduate student claims to be “hounded by sex pests and jealous females.” – Says her good looks are so powerful they are ruining her life. – The 33-year-old says she attracted so much uninvited attention from male [...]

  68. Amnesty 2013

    → Common Sense Junction | 19 May 2013 | 7:24 am MDT

    The commission created by the 844 page bill would have no power other than to create another plan. The “immigration reform bill” currently working its way through Congress is similar to the amnesty that was granted in 1986 with one HUGE difference: Amnesty 2013 is far more generous to illegals, whether they’re already here or [...]

  69. The IRS And The NTEU

    → Common Sense Junction | 18 May 2013 | 10:24 am MDT

    NTEU 2012 campaign donations: $547,812 to Dems; $24,000 to Rep. That’s 95.8% of total to Dems. – Still wonder who gave orders to target Tea Party? Jeffrey Lord at American Spectator: It’s about a union: the National Treasury Employees Union. The NTEU. A left-wing union representing 150,000 employees in 31 separate government agencies, including the [...]

  70. Saturday Morning Roundup…

    → Common Sense Junction | 18 May 2013 | 9:07 am MDT

    The Obama scandals: nothing to do with managers (executives) instructing workers to harass conservatives. They didn’t have to. Obama gave them orders from the Rose Garden as the world watched live on TV. Leon Eisenberg, scientific father of ADHD: ‘ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease’ Obama isn’t running for office again. Liberalism [...]

  71. Wikipedia losing contributors, to streamline editing

    → Webware.com | 4 Aug 2011 | 2:15 pm MDT

    Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the user-generated encyclopedia is losing volunteer contributors, and must simplify its editing procedures.

    Originally posted at News - Digital Media



  72. See what's new in Thunderbird

    → Webware.com | 4 Aug 2011 | 1:07 pm MDT

    As Thunderbird joins Mozilla's rapid-release program, the e-mail client reorients itself for a new road map. But where's it going? See what the Outlook alternative offers in this new First Look video.

    Originally posted at The Download Blog



  73. Twitter revamping mobile site for iPad users

    → Webware.com | 4 Aug 2011 | 7:48 am MDT

    The company is tweaking its mobile twitter.com site using HTML5 to make it more user-friendly for iPad users.

    Originally posted at News - Digital Media



  74. How to tweet like a man

    → Webware.com | 3 Aug 2011 | 1:33 pm MDT

    Sociolinguistics gives us the keys to more masculine or feminine tweeting. Hint, guys: Google my jeep my ni$$@, http it up, bro. 4 sale. need $.

    Originally posted at Crave



  75. Gmail voice calling offering lower international rates

    → Webware.com | 3 Aug 2011 | 8:13 am MDT

    Accessible through Gmail, Google's phone call feature is being rolled out in 38 new languages with cheaper rates across more than 150 countries.

    Originally posted at News - Digital Media



  76. Yahoo Mail suffers outage; users react

    → Webware.com | 3 Aug 2011 | 7:51 am MDT

    Mail service was down for many, and affected users took to Twitter to complain. Yahoo now says all's well again, after acknowledging problems for "some users in certain locations."

    Originally posted at The Digital Home



  77. Google+ speeds to 25 million users in first month

    → Webware.com | 3 Aug 2011 | 6:41 am MDT

    Growing at around 1 million members per day, Google+ captured 25 million visitors as of July 24, becoming the fastest site to reach that level, according to ComScore.

    Originally posted at News - Digital Media



  78. Twitter ready to close the door on old site

    → Webware.com | 2 Aug 2011 | 6:30 pm MDT

    Popular microblogging site says it will migrate users still on old home page interface to the redesigned home page this week.

    Originally posted at News - Digital Media



  79. Start-up ZocDoc announces $50 million funding round

    → Webware.com | 2 Aug 2011 | 6:02 pm MDT

    The medical appointment booking service plans to use the DST Global investment to expand its presence to more cities nationwide.


  80. The major players in mobile payments

    → Webware.com | 2 Aug 2011 | 3:21 pm MDT

    A who's who of the most recent partnerships for the hot, and rapidly growing, mobile payments sector.




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