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Bennett Balance Bike - $250
The Gadget Flow - 22 Dec 2013 10:00
The Bennett Balance Bike from Heritage Bicycles is a wooden bicycle for children. It has no gears or chains or any of the fancy stuff that turns bicycles into high-maintenance metal monsters. The easy to reach handles an...
Message In A Bottle Found In Arctic 54 Years Later, Hidden Note Alludes To 'Unthinkable' Future Glacial Melt
IBTimes - 22 Dec 2013 03:59
Two researchers in a remote area of the Canadian Arctic stumbled upon a mysterious message in a bottle. The note, stuffed inside a bottle and tucked between some rocks nearly 500 miles from the nearest human settlement, ...
Antimicrobial option offered by pecan shell extracts for preventing listeria in organic meats
Medical News Today - 22 Dec 2013 12:00
The majority of consumers that eat or buy organic products do not want synthetic antimicrobials or antioxidants added to their foods and prefer a "clean label". A study in the Journal of Food Science published by the Ins...
Evasi0n jailbreak for iOS 7 is here, with caveats
Slash Gear - 23 Dec 2013 01:39
Evasi0n today has released an untethered jailbreak for iOS 7. But before you read any further, understand that jailbreaking your iPhone or iPad is legal, but it will void your …
Target reports few incidents of fraud after data theft
Phys.org - 22 Dec 2013 14:13
US retailer Target, which revealed this week that some 40 million customers' credit and debit cards may have been compromised, said Saturday that few incidents of fraud had occurred.
[AppleTell] RaveTouch Bluetooth headphones launching at CES 2014
Technology Tell - 23 Dec 2013 01:58
[From AppleTell] CES is just around the corner, and Whitelabel is using it to launch RaveTouch--their Rave Bluetooth headphones with mutlitouch gesture controls.
CryptoLocker's crimewave: A trail of millions in laundered Bitcoin
ZDNet - 22 Dec 2013 13:26
CryptoLocker has infected an estimated 250,000 victims, demands an average $300 payout, and is trailing millions in laundered Bitcoin. Dell SecureWorks' new paper sheds light on the unstoppable ransomware.
Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts
Slashdot - 22 Dec 2013 13:08
Walking The Walk writes "Canada's spy agency deliberately withheld information from the courts in an effort to do an end-run around the law when it applied for top-secret warrants to intercept the communications of Canad...
Pebble and Basis B1--two good devices that could be one defining wearable
Ars Technica - 22 Dec 2013 19:45
Review: Best available wearables show this market's growth and shortcomings.
Useful Photography Tip #77: How to Get a Background to Go to Pure White
The Phoblographer - 22 Dec 2013 09:28
So how exactly do you make a background go to seamless white? The post Useful Photography Tip #77: How to Get a Background to Go to Pure White appeared first on The Phoblographer.
Verizon and AT&T Join the 'Transparency Report' Club
Slashdot - 22 Dec 2013 04:50
wiredmikey writes "Telecommunications giants Verizon and AT&T both announced (separately) this week that they would join a growing list of tech and telecom sector companies in publishing a 'transparency report' about dem...
Japanese robot crushes competition in robot olympics
GigaOM - 22 Dec 2013 04:29
The winning teams will move on to the final competition a year from now. In the interim, they'll work at improving their robots.
RaveTouch Bluetooth headphones launching at CES 2014
AppleTell - 23 Dec 2013 01:58
CES is just around the corner, and consumer electronics company Whitelabel is updating their Rave Bluetooth headphones with mutlitouch gesture controls. Dubbed RaveTouch, the new headphones let you swipe your way through...
Creepy boys love the Galaxy Gear, says new Samsung ad
CNET - 23 Dec 2013 01:50
A 150-second extravaganza from Samsung shows a man trying to impress a woman with, yes, his new gadget. What follows is the stuff of Hollywood. Sort of.
Parents Recreate Famous Film Scenes with Cardboard Boxes and Their Baby Boy
PetaPixel - 23 Dec 2013 01:43
I don’t have kids just yet, so I can’t say from experience, but it seems one of the benefits of having a child is the ability to feature the adorable little guy or gal in creative photography projects. Examples aboun...
How the network industry should view and understand "open"
GigaOM - 23 Dec 2013 01:30
"Open" as it is currently used is an imprecise term. Here are some select criteria that are most critical in addressing specific networking problems.
iOS 7 gets its first complete jailbreak, with a big catch
Engadget - 22 Dec 2013 23:41
You've mostly been out of luck if you've wanted to jailbreak iOS 7 so far; what options have existed have been incomplete at best. Cracking the code just got a lot easier, though, as evasi0n 7 has just arrived. The untet...
Xbox One Review
Slash Gear - 22 Dec 2013 21:58
Microsoft is certain the Xbox One is their key to taking over living room entertainment in its entirety. Experiencing the Xbox One for the first time will almost certainly remind …
People Are More Scared of Hacking than Tracking
Gizmodo - 22 Dec 2013 20:33
According to a November survey of 1,000 voters, people are more creeped out by the possibility of a person or group ascertaining their personal information, than the idea that someone might be following their online move...
Lexus LS 460 F SPORT Review
Slash Gear - 22 Dec 2013 19:40
You may not have heard of the Lexus F SPORT brand, but the Japanese luxury car company thinks models like the LS 460 F SPORT will change that. Taking every …
There's Finally an iOS 7 Jailbreak
Gizmodo - 22 Dec 2013 17:51
If you asked Santa for the chance to get favorite jailbreak features back on your iDevice this year, your Christmas miracle has arrived. The Evasi0n team just posted an iOS 7 Jailbreak.
Top 40 must-have Blu-ray discs
CNET - 23 Dec 2013 01:50
Check out CNET's roundup of must-have Blu-ray discs. We'll be updating our picks as new discs come out.