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This Week's Top Comedy Video: Sex Toy
Gizmodo - 5 Jan 2013 05:00
Remember: It's not the length of the comedy video that matters, it's how hard it makes you laugh. Besides, you didn't want to spend more than five seconds watching a sex toy fly around the room anyway, did you? More
How to Cheat and Look Like You Can Solve the Rubik's Cube
Gizmodo - 5 Jan 2013 06:00
I can't solve the Rubik's Cube. All the spinning I do, all the rejiggering I try, all I end up with is a mess of colors with no idea how I got there. It's okay though! I can now fake it like I know how. Matt Parker has f...
How to Prepare for CES 2013
Mashable - 5 Jan 2013 01:59
CEA president Gary Shapiro gives his personal suggestions on how to "survive" this year's CES forum. More About: CES 2013, technology, travel
Wikipedia hoax about a war that never happened deleted after 5 years
The Verge - 5 Jan 2013 22:57
An article about an obscure 17th Century war in India has been deleted from Wikipedia -- after an enterprising editor discovered that despite being on the site for 5 years, it had never actually occurred. Started in 2007...
Some Predictions for the Next 150 Years
Gizmodo - 5 Jan 2013 08:00
There's nothing like staring at the onset of a new year and making predictions on what the next 150 years will look like. Silly predictions are the best! BBC cooked up some ideas and gave odds on what they think will hap...
Disney's 'Wreck-It Ralph' to debut as a digital download ahead of Blu-ray and DVD release
The Verge - 5 Jan 2013 07:34
Disney will be giving download services an advantage with the upcoming release of Wreck-It Ralph by making the film available for purchase digitally ahead of the Blu-ray and DVD release. As reported by Deadline Hollywood...
AWS Needs To Figure Out Its Enterprise Plan
TechCrunch - 5 Jan 2013 07:30
Editor's note: Rodney Rogers is chairman and CEO of Virtustream. I'm a large enterprise and my ears are ringing. I hear that you, AWS, know exactly what I need. Before I get into that, AWS, I want to let you know that I ...
Atom smasher heading for two-year hiatus
NBC News - 5 Jan 2013 05:02Did Satellites Capture China's Mysterious Giant War Plane?
Gizmodo - 5 Jan 2013 04:20
The GeoEye 1 and IKONOS spacecraft have captured satellite images of the mysterious Xian Aircraft Corporation Y-20, China's first long range jet transport. It shows the clearest image of the giant transport plane yet and...
Bits Blog: U.S. Banks Again Hit by Wave of Cyberattacks
The New York Times - 5 Jan 2013 03:33
The attacks appear to be the second wave of a hacking campaign that began in September in retaliation for an anti-Islam video that was posted online in the United States.
RCA Android tablet packs dual digital TV tuners
PC World - 5 Jan 2013 02:20
An Android tablet that can receive both conventional and mobile digital TV transmissions will be among the gadgets unveiled at next week's International CES in Las Vegas. The 8-inch RCA Mobile TV Tablet packs tuners for ...
SeatGeek, ParkSpot, and More
Gizmodo - 5 Jan 2013 01:00
Perhaps you made some New Year's resolutions this week. Of course this is the year you're going to keep them, just like every other year. Regardless, we're here to help, with two exercise apps, one to help you discover n...
'Hashtag' named word of the year by the American Dialect Society
The Verge - 5 Jan 2013 23:51
Every year, the American Dialect Society nominates and then votes on a word of the year, and for 2012 it's "hashtag." It beat out other nominated words like "YOLO," "Fiscal cliff," and "Gangnam style." The ADS' chair of ...
Saturday 1/5 Afternoon----Apps of the Week: Super Monsters Ate My Condo!, Netflix New Releases, AntennaPod and more!
Android Central - 5 Jan 2013 23:24
We said we'd be back in 2013 with our weekly app picks, and here we are. Trying to start off the year right before some of us make the trip to Las Vegas for CES 2013, we've got a whole grouping of great picks for you thi...
Amazon cuts price of Kindle Fire HD 8.9 $50 for students with Prime membership
ZDNet - 5 Jan 2013 23:19
The first Kindle sale of the year drops the price of Amazon's largest tablet to $249 if you're a student and a Prime member.
10 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With Your Smartphone
Mashable - 5 Jan 2013 23:16
1. Match Paint Colors Want to paint your walls the same color of green as your throw pillows? What about making your wainscoting the same color blue as yesterday afternoon's sky? With BEHR's ColorSmart mobile app, you ca...
This Electrified Brain Is Made of Thousands and Thousands of Drops of Solder
Gizmodo - 5 Jan 2013 23:05
The brain is all about connections. Little jolts of electricity jumping from between thousands of interconnected neurons to send a message. It's a crazy house up there. This brain is sort of the same way, made with hardl...
36 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
Mashable - 5 Jan 2013 22:52
Turning the calendar to a new year generally brings both an opportunity to reflect on the past year and an earnest sense of hopefulness that this year will be an even better one. If your new year's resolution was to beco...
Steve Rosenbaum: Looking at the Web From a World Away
The Huffington Post - 5 Jan 2013 22:51Tech spending expected to escape the recent doldrums
PC World - 5 Jan 2013 22:39
As the economy improves and at least some of the concerns about the so-called U.S. "fiscal cliff" are resolved, desire for new mobile, analytics, and storage technology will drive information technology spending this yea...
The 9 Most Popular Viral Videos Of The Week
The Huffington Post - 5 Jan 2013 22:31Sources: Sony could launch world's first 4K OLED TV at CES
The Verge - 5 Jan 2013 22:27
Sony backed away from OLED TVs by showing off its Crystal LED TV prototype at CES last year, but it looks like the company could be competing with LG and Samsung this time around. Sources tell us that Sony will show off ...