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Lightroom for iPad briefly appears on Adobe's site before being pulled
The Verge - 18 Jan 2014 12:20
Photo editors could get an important mobile app from Adobe soon. According to a listing posted earlier this week on the company's website, Lightroom could be coming to the iPad. As 9to5Mac reported, the product listing w...
What 7 Viral Internet Meme Stars Look Like In Real Life
Business Insider - 18 Jan 2014 17:42
Hundreds of millions of people have watched "What Does The Fox Say." They've also seen funny photos of the Overly-Attached Girlfriend, Scumbag Steve, and Grumpy Cat on Reddit or BuzzFeed. Each of those are Internet memes...
The Best Of Bill Murray's Surprise Reddit AMA, A.K.A. The Internet's Dream Come True
The Huffington Post - 18 Jan 2014 23:08The Best Of Bill Murray's Surprise Reddit AMA, A.K.A. The Internet's Dream Come True
The Huffington Post - 18 Jan 2014 23:08Lightning breaks finger off Christ statue
New York Post - 18 Jan 2014 01:47
Lightning has broken a finger off the right hand of Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Father Omar, rector of the shrine that holds the statue, told the...
Indian sex attacks spark foreign warnings
Al Jazeera English - 18 Jan 2014 09:50
Canada, France and UK update advice for women travelling through India after high-profile attacks on foreigners.
Take a peak at SVS' powerful new 2000 series subwoofers
Digital Trends - 18 Jan 2014 20:15
SVS has unveiled two new subs, the SB-2000 and the PB-2000. Both subs have all-new drivers developed specifically for the integrated Sledge STA-500D amplifier, and the units promise to brandish audiophile sound at a pric...
Egypt constitution 'approved by 98.1 percent'
Al Jazeera English - 18 Jan 2014 19:13
Election body says that 38.6 percent of country's more than 53 million eligible voters took part in two-day polls.
Intel chairs ask Obama to send bill on NSA changes
Phys.org - 18 Jan 2014 17:50
The chairs of the House and Senate intelligence committees are praising President Barack Obama's speech laying out changes to U.S. spying programs. But they're questioning whether Obama's proposal to end the government's...
This Woman Is Terrified About What Happened To Her Baby After Exposure To Tainted Water In West Virginia
Business Insider - 18 Jan 2014 03:31
After 7,500 gallons of unstudied chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol shut down water around Charleston, West Virginia for a week or more, locals are understandably scared. At least 317 people sought hospital treatmen...
Why Sochi Is By Far The Most Expensive Olympics Ever
Business Insider - 18 Jan 2014 01:24
The Winter Olympic Games that begin next month in Sochi, Russia, are very expensive. At a projected cost of around $50 billion, it's not just, by any measure, insanely expensive, it's also the most expensive Olympic Game...
Driver Privacy Act Introduced In US Senate
Slashdot - 18 Jan 2014 01:07
greatgreygreengreasy writes "In 2005, then-governor of North Dakota John Hoeven signed into law a bill 'ensuring drivers' ownership of their EDR (Electronic Data Recorder) data.' Now a U.S. senator, Hoeven (R-ND) has tea...
Mass. bank robbery suspect shot in police pursuit
Boston - 18 Jan 2014 00:27
ARLINGTON, Mass. (AP) -- Police in the Boston suburb of Arlington say a bank robbery suspect has been shot and wounded by officers pursuing him and a second suspect.
Norway Cold Snap Freezes Fish in Their Tracks
Technabob - 18 Jan 2014 17:22
It’s gotten ridiculously frigid here in Chicago, what with the recent Polar Vortex and colder than normal winter. But I’ve never seen anything like this scene, recently captured in Norway: Apparently, when harsh wind...
China, Japan slug it out in the world's press
Boston - 18 Jan 2014 11:08
WASHINGTON (AP) -- China and Japan are engaged in a war of words that is lighting up editorial pages around the world as Beijing takes aim at a recent visit by Japan's leader to a controversial war shrine and Tokyo answe...
Heater Blamed for Fire in Ancient Chinese Town
ABC News - 18 Jan 2014 09:09
Unattended heater blamed for fire that burned 10 hours and razed ancient town in south China
Ultrasound abortion law struck down
CNN - 18 Jan 2014 09:01
A North Carolina law that made women who wanted an abortion get an ultrasound and then have the image described to them is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Microsoft Quietly Fixes Windows XP Resource Hog Problem
Slashdot - 18 Jan 2014 04:01
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft indicated this week that it has fixed a Windows XP resource-hog problem associated with the system's SVCHOST.EXE processes. Windows XP users affected by this problem typically found ...
Dropbox snags $250 million funding at $10 billion valuation: sources
Reuters - 18 Jan 2014 03:57
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Scientists accidentally record ball lightning in nature for first time
CNET - 18 Jan 2014 02:37
Chinese researchers have done the seemingly impossible: observed and recorded an instance of ball lightning completely by accident. And it bodes well for a decade-old theory about the nature of the conundrum.
Alleged Operator of Revenge Porn Site Pleads Not Guilty in California
Mashable - 18 Jan 2014 02:35
A 27-year-old accused of operating a revenge porn website and extorting money from victims pleaded not guilty in a California courtroom Friday. Kevin Christopher Bollaert, of San Diego, was arraigned in San Diego Superio...
Start your own digital camera manufacturing business with this Raspberry Pi tutorial
Digital Trends - 18 Jan 2014 01:38
Sure, you can buy a digital camera for around $100 off the shelf, but wouldn't it be more fun to build one for the same money? You can with Raspberry Pi and a touchscreen fro Adafruit, and even add Wi-Fi capability to it...