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The Aurora Lamp: Simple Can Be Sweet
Gizmodo - 1 Mar 2013 00:00
The Aurora Lamp is simple. It can either sit on a table or hang from the wall with just one screw. More »
US wins court victory in battle to extradite Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom from New Zealand
Fox News - 1 Mar 2013 15:00
The U.S. has won a court appeal in its battle to extradite Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom from New Zealand.
FAA probing Harlem Shake on Frontier Airlines Flight 157
L.A. Times - 1 Mar 2013 02:09White House Totally Owns Obama’s ‘Jedi Mind Meld’ Mistake
Mashable - 1 Mar 2013 23:04
The White House's digital team is spending Friday afternoon trying its hardest to own President Barack Obama's sci-fi slip-up during a press conference earlier in the day. Obama said during the conference that he can't p...
Facebook, Google team up to design cancer research game
Fox News - 1 Mar 2013 15:07Hollywood embraces the GIF with chilling 'Stoker' campaign
The Verge - 1 Mar 2013 14:42
Stoker, the new movie from Oldboy director Park Chan-wook, arrives in a handful of US theaters today, on the heels of an elaborate, GIF-heavy marketing campaign. Since debuting the film at this year's Sundance Film Festi...
Facebook buys bits of written-off MSFT adware
The Register - 1 Mar 2013 06:50
User T&Cs probably re-written already as House of Zuck promises marketers good data Trivia time: What was the reason for Microsoft's first-ever loss?…
Google signs Rightscale to resell Compute Engine
The Register - 1 Mar 2013 05:43
Counters AWS' OpsWorks release Google has signed RightScale as the first reseller for Compute Engine, the ad giant's cloudy CPUs-for-hire service.…
David Cross: Arrested Development on Netflix is going to redefine what TV can be
GigaOM - 1 Mar 2013 04:46
Arrested Development's fourth season on Netflix will be "historical" and remembered for decades, says actor David Cross.
Ubuntu chief says converged platforms are the future
PC World - 1 Mar 2013 02:45
BARCELONA—The convergence of devices and software platforms is being driven by the shift towards cloud computing, which will ultimately become the engine room of all modern applications, according to Canonical CEO...
Pandora caps its free radio streams -- again
L.A. Times - 1 Mar 2013 02:18The buzz stops here: Bumblebees are in trouble
NBC News - 1 Mar 2013 01:45Reinforce Your Wardrobe With a Industrial-Strength Rebar Hanger
Gizmodo - 1 Mar 2013 01:40
Is all your bad-ass clothing just too much for those flimsy, plastic, run-of-the-mill hangers. Do your pants or shirts, weighted as they are with pounds of pure awesomeness, need something more structurally sound to keep...
Don't shoot at a Yeti — it should only be caught alive
The Verge - 1 Mar 2013 01:10
A Yeti "can be photographed or caught alive but it must not be killed or shot at," explains a 1959 US embassy dispatch on the laws that all hunters should know before searching Nepal for mythical beast. "There are, at pr...
Marketing to men: Break Media and the business of bro videos
GigaOM - 1 Mar 2013 01:01
Bro videos -- crotch shots, beer chugging, cool cars and so on -- have long been a staple of the internet. Today, bro vids are also big business thanks to "man research" and big brands pouring money into making them.
Half of $1 Billion Apple Awarded from Samsung Invalidated
Time - 1 Mar 2013 23:57
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday erased nearly half of the $1 billion in damages that a jury decided that Samsung Electronics should pay Apple in a high-profile trial over the smartphone and table...
Half of $1B Apple awarded from Samsung invalidated
Fox News - 1 Mar 2013 23:47
A federal judge in California is erasing nearly half of the $1 billion in damages that a jury decided Samsung Electronics should pay Apple in a high-profile trial over the smartphone and tablet computer patents.
Judge slashes Apple's pile o' cash Samsung judgment
The Register - 1 Mar 2013 23:47
'Hmmm... $1bn? How 'bout, say, $600m, give or take a few bucks?' Last August, a jury awarded Apple $1.05bn in a patent-infringement case against Samsung. On Friday, the US District Court judge who presided over that case...
Signs That You Might Have 'Social Media Anxiety Disorder'
The Huffington Post - 1 Mar 2013 23:46The After Math: Cinder block-chucking robots, Barcelona's mobile bonanza and brain doctors
Engadget - 1 Mar 2013 23:45
Welcome to The After Math, where we attempt to summarize this week's tech news through numbers, decimal places and percentages. Barcelona's Mobile World Congress may have formed the backbone for this week's news but ther...
Why HuffPost Staffers Unplug
The Huffington Post - 1 Mar 2013 23:43Urbee 2 Is the 3D-Printed Car of the Future
Mashable - 1 Mar 2013 23:42
We've already seen all kinds of 3D-printed items, from jewelry, to guitars, and even football cleats. Now, we might soon have an almost entirely 3D-printed car in the Urbee 2. The hybrid car, created by engineer Jim Kor,...