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garyebickford writes 'Space Finance Group (in which I'm a partner) has launched a Kickstarter to fund updating the "famous Integrated Space Plan", created by Ron Jones at Rockwell International in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and can ...
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No one can predict with perfect accuracy what technology trend will birth the next set of billion-dollar, venture-backed companies or “unicorns.” Even more difficult is determining where the next $100B+ “super uni...
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Everyone’s had at least one Netflix binge; where you end up watching hours of TV despite intending to watch only one episode, thanks to Netflix’s automatically playing the next episode. That particular binge-enabling feature is called ‘P...
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This week, we watched Apple announce iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, reviewed the LG G3, gave Cortana a psych eval and investigated the reality of life with autonomous cars. Read on for Engadget's news highlights from the last seven days. Oh, a...
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Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed : Dropbox needs to uncover a winning mobile strategy if it's to score big with consumers — The Dropbox Conundrum — It was supposed to be next high-profile tech IPO, but now i...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Telecommunications company Vodafone's report on government surveillance of its customers in 29 countries reveals more than first meets the eye — and is raising questions from Dublin to Delhi about how much spying on ...
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KentuckyFC writes: 'In 1978, the American researcher Michael Hart published The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, a book that became an international best seller. Since then, various others have published similar...
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It started with WWDC, Apple's annual conference where it announces all the year's new software stuff. It ended with Detroit decay and Steve Wozniak telling us about his tenure as the World's #1 Tetris Player. What a week it's been! Here'...
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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica : Patent troll VirnetX close to winning 0.98% royalty on Apple's iPhone and iPad sales in the US — Patent troll on the verge of winning 1 percent of iPhone revenue — In 2012,...
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Three Kindle Singles that are totally worth your time.
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schwit1 sends word of research showing that cycles of prolonged fasting can both protect the immune system from harm and also induce regeneration by causing stem cells to start renewing themselves. 'In both mice and a Phase 1 human clini...
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Court of Justice that requires Google to consider information removal requests from individuals whose data its search engine has indexed. In comments emailed to TechCrunch, Wales described the ruling as censorship of knowledge R...
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I enjoyed using the Nexus 4 during my time with it last summer, but its short battery life, glass back and quirky camera behavior made it tough to truly love. The Nexus 5 is theoretically a different beast: it addresses all those flaws w...
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I enjoyed using the Nexus 4 during my time with it last summer, but its short battery life, glass back and quirky camera behavior made it tough to truly love. The Nexus 5 is theoretically a different beast: it addresses all those flaws w...
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Asteroid 2014 HQ 124, a.k.a. The Beast, is a football stadium-sized behemoth, estimated at nearly a quarter of a mile wide. And on Sunday, it's gonna come perilously close to our beloved home planet . How close? Just a mere 777,000 miles...
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On Tuesday, most of the country woke up to the news that two 12-year-old girls allegedly stabbed their friend to conjure up a mythological creature named Slender Man — a plan inspired by a story they read on a site called Creepypasta. Ye...
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mask.of.sanity sends this news from El Reg: "Microsoft has left Windows 7 exposed by only applying security upgrades to its newest operating systems. Researchers found the gaps after they scanned 900 Windows libraries using a custom diff...
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At Macworld 2001, Steve Jobs famously introduced the “digital hub” strategy for the Mac, making it the device where all of the single-purpose gadgets for things like recording movies or playing music would be managed. A...
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Robert Weber is the co-founder and senior vice president of business development at NativeX, the leading native advertising platform for mobile games. If you only know about native advertising as it’s described in most major media covera...
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In the Soviet Union, western antibiotics couldn't make it past the Iron Curtain. So Eastern Bloc doctors figured out how to use viruses to kill infectious bacteria. Now, with antibiotic-resistant bugs vexing doctors, that eerie yet effec...
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Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch : Apple's Home Automation Success Rests With Hardware Evangelism — At its WWDC conference this week, Apple unveiled a scaffolding of sorts that allows developers to control smart home dev...
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Marvel sure hopes it's found the director for its upcoming Ant-Man film. The studio announced today that Peyton Reed (Yes Man) will take the position from Edgar Wright, who left the project last month. Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas ...
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Peering may feel esoteric and difficult to understand, but here's an example why consumers should care about how these interconnection fights play out between Netflix and ISPs.
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It was 70 years ago that over 150,000 Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy as part of Operation Overlord. It may seem that June 6th, 1944 — D-Day — is ages removed from us, but it's not as alien as it seems. The Guardian ...
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Apple sent waves through the developer community on Monday when it announced Swift, a new programming language for iOS and Mac OS X apps that’s designed to be fast, modern, and easy to learn by limiting the amount of boilerplate …
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A new project that aims to map trouble spots by noticing passenger anger on social media is among several innovations at a government-funded research centre for transport Continue reading...
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What the many AAA video game delays in 2014 say about the industry.
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theodp writes: "Where have you gone, Mavis Beacon? A nation of smartphone and tablet typists could use your help. You've seen people type fast-and-furiously on smartphones and tablets, so you know it can be done, but how exactly do these...
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The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Kevin Marks, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. The setup: a delicious Apple muscle-flexing that to some somehow escaped the gravity of the Post Jobs era into orbit. We barely got to all the deli...
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If you could have a vending machine spit out a small object in any shape you could dream up, what would it be? The DreamVendor, an interactive 3D printing ...
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The format war. Over the last few decades it has played out across various forms of tech -- AC vs DC, VHS vs. Beta -- usually with fierce battle lines drawn and millions or even billions of dollars at stake. Recently, none have burned so...
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Now that incandescents have gone the way of the dinosaur and everybody's generally agreed that CFLs are terrible, it's finally the dawning of the age of LED. And there has been no shortage of bulb makers stepping up with offerings to han...
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The format war. Over the last few decades it has played out across various forms of tech -- AC vs DC, VHS vs. Beta -- usually with fierce battle lines drawn and millions or even billions of dollars at stake.
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In which a coworker advocates for "one big refactoring" rather than smaller tests.
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This week Apple brought new hope to the space with the announcement of its HomeKit framework, which aims to solve the problem. With all the smart hardware we have available now there are so many possibilities.
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When it comes to CRM (customer relationship management) software, Salesforce.com seems to be the only option. Yet there are a variety of competitors making a dent in the company’s armor. Just look at SugarCRM. Founded about a decade ago,...
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New rules put in place after Edward Snowden's revelations have unleashed tension among many employees in the NSA.
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An anonymous reader writes "The original games developed by John Carmack, John Romero, and Adrian Carmack at Softdisk, where the legendary programmers originally met and went on to start id Software, have been open-sourced under the GPLv...
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Part 1 of this article dealt with the healthcare industry’s transition from cottage industry to big business over the past several decades. Because leadership did not keep pace with this evolution, they now find themselves lacking the re...
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Smart devices like the iPhone have become a part of our every day life that we can no longer live without. We take them with us everywhere we go, even to places where electronic device were not designed to be.
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Virtual marriages are becoming an important part of our favorite MMORPGs.
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Though the glory days of Apple Easter eggs has passed us by, Apple every now and again manages to throw a little something fun into the mix. Most recently, developer Alexander Blunck discovered (via 9to5Mac) that if you zoom in close on ...
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AndroidPolice got an exclusive look at an alleged new feature that's said be coming soon to Android devices: Google Nearby, a next-level contextual awareness suite that would give Google-powered devices an even deeper understanding of wh...
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JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) - Craighead County election officials will ask voters in Tuesday's primary runoff to use paper ballots when casting their votes. Election Commission Chairman Scott McDaniel told The Jonesboro Sun (http://bit.ly/1kTHV...
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Kashmir Hill / Forbes : Mathematicians Urge Colleagues To Refuse To Work For The NSA — In January, the math community had its big event of the year — the Joint Mathematics Meeting — where 3,000 mathematicia...
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Don't post anything bad about your spouse online. It could cost you $50,000. That's what's happening in a new trend where engaged couples sign social media pre-nups. The rules stipulate that neither person can post embarrassing photos, n...
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How can we deal with the growing problem of waste and pollution? That’s the question that research firm Latitude asked 270 children aged 8 to 13. The results may not give environmentalists much to work on but they certainly tell us a lot...
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Supreme Court may consider when threatening language in electronic media is protected speech
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Messages posted on Facebook and Twitter or sent in emails can be tasteless, vulgar and even disturbing.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Messages posted on Facebook and Twitter or sent in emails can be tasteless, vulgar and even disturbing. But just when do they cross the line from free speech to threats that can be punished as a crime? As the Internet a...
