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Sh*t Android Users Say
Gizmodo - 25 Oct 2012 01:40
Those *** Girls Says viral videos are no longer oozing with virility but this one's plenty hilarious: *** Android Fanatics Say. Made by MobilePhoneFinder, the video pokes fun at all the Android geekisms and nerdquotes yo...
Lenovo IdeaPad U410 14in Ultrabook review
The Register - 25 Oct 2012 09:00
Cheaper by design As a MacBook Pro owner, and yet a fan of the ThinkPad range since the early IBM days, it would be easy for me to assume Lenovo's new IdeaPad U410 Ultrabook is fills the gap as the ultimate middle ground...
I Want to Meet These Amazing Pumpkin Carvers
Gizmodo - 25 Oct 2012 03:00
Marc Evan and Chris Soria are amazing artists who can do more with a pumpkin than you can with a pen and paper and/or photoshop. In The Pumpkin Maestro, a short documentary about the duo by Tumblr Storyboard, you get to ...
This All-Wood Clock Could Hang Anywhere
Gizmodo - 25 Oct 2012 01:00
This wooden clock is great. It's in the style of the ones you remember hanging over the chalkboard in your middle school classrooms, but the two-toned wooden design makes it fresh and modern. More »
Samsung's latest Galaxy S III ad touts sex tape-sharing with a quick bump
The Verge - 25 Oct 2012 07:53
Samsung's latest Galaxy S III commercial promotes one of the phone's perhaps lesser-known abilities — discreetly sharing sex tapes with your husband. "Work Trip" shows a father waving goodbye to his family as he l...
DARPA's latest humanoid robot jumps and climbs with athletic precision
The Verge - 25 Oct 2012 12:23
The firm behind some of the most impressive robots we’ve seen this year is back at it again with an anthropomorphic, bipedal robot that can climb and jump its way out of tough situations. PET-PROTO is a relative o...
TSMC's 28-nanometer process pays off as it rakes in $1.68 billion profit in Q3
Engadget - 25 Oct 2012 11:11
Everything is relative, so when a chip foundry like TSMC (which produces gear for the likes of NVIDIA) has a bad quarter, that means it only made a $1 billion in profit. Today's numbers reveal that the company has manage...
Verizon, AT&T put Samsung's Galaxy Note II on pre-sale for $300 with a two-year contract
Engadget - 25 Oct 2012 07:52
Samsung's Galaxy Note II played coy at first by only hanging out with the European crowd, but now that it's here, it's the life of the US carrier party. The two biggest, AT&T and Verizon, have now glommed the phablet and...
Hands On With The Canon 6D, An Affordable Full-Frame With Wi-Fi On Board
TechCrunch - 25 Oct 2012 15:43
Besides spending some time with the Canon EOS M, I also got to test out the Canon 6D, a new full-frame offering from the camera-maker that's set to arrive later this year. The $2,099 DSLR lowers the barrier to Canon full...
Govt challenges university hackers to break virtual businesses
ZDNet - 25 Oct 2012 08:04
The Australian government has opened up next year's hacking competition to university students, issuing the challenge to break into and fix a virtual business.
Twitter's API guidelines claim another victim: News.me
CNET - 25 Oct 2012 07:38
The social news aggregator that bought Digg announces it is dropping its iPhone and iPad apps and points the blame at Twitter. [Read more]
Here's a Website That'll Make You Instantly Feel Better
Gizmodo - 25 Oct 2012 07:00
If you're having a crappy day, go grab yourself an emergency compliment at this thoughtful website which serves up, you guessed it, emergency compliments. I already found out that I have the best blog, that my prom date ...
Wi-Fi chips in phones, tablets, vulnerable to DoS attack
ZDNet - 25 Oct 2012 06:03
A vulnerability discovered in two Wi-Fi chipsets has placed a number of wireless devices at risk of a denial-of-service attack.
I Can't Believe This Plane Was Able to Take Off In the Middle of This Sea of Mud
Gizmodo - 25 Oct 2012 05:27
The place: a runway completely flooded with the thickest mud in Bodaybo, Irkutsk region, Russia (where else). The plane: an Antonov An-24. The situation: the An-24 starts take off but it seems it can't gain much speed be...
Facebook's 'billion dollar' Instagram acquisition to actually cost $715 million
The Verge - 25 Oct 2012 05:11
After all the dust has settled, Facebook’s much-hyped "billion dollar" acquisition of photo sharing service Instagram is actually costing the company considerably less — $715 million, to be more precise. As...
Polygon is here!
The Verge - 25 Oct 2012 05:04
People of this world — and people of worlds beyond — something special is happening today. Something far more wonderful than a new phone with a bigger screen or a new tablet with a smaller screen. Today mar...
Mobile Marketing Startup PageWoo Launches To Make Mobile Ads Location-Aware
TechCrunch - 25 Oct 2012 02:30
PageWoo seeks to solve a number of problems for mobile marketers: It is at once a content-generation engine, as well as a multi-image testing platform. It can target ads based on location and even on the weather. Oh, and...
Google Trekker goes to the Grand Canyon, takes Street View souvenirs back home
Engadget - 25 Oct 2012 02:21
You might remember Google's unveiling this spring of the Street View Trekker, a seeming cross between a backpack and Van de Graaff generator that lets the mapping team produce 360-degree imagery where even trikes dare no...
'Space Buddha' statue may be a fake
NBC News - 25 Oct 2012 02:18This Could Be James Bond’s Next iPhone 5 Case [REVIEW]
Mashable - 25 Oct 2012 02:13
Behold the Sector 5 First Edition by Element, a lightweight and intricately engineered aluminum iPhone 5 case that's sophisticated enough for 007 to carry. More About: Element Case, iphone 5 cases, reviews, trending
Students Build and Fly 3D-Printed Plane
Mashable - 25 Oct 2012 01:53
The sky's the limit for 3D printing. Two students at the University of Virginia 3D-printed and assembled a plane. When it successfully took off, their unmanned plane became just the third 3D-printed drone to ever fly. 3D...