Technology News
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...
The Best Of Bill Murray's Surprise Reddit AMA, A.K.A. The Internet's Dream Come True
The Huffington Post - 18 Jan 2014 23:08Rate films with smoking 'R' -- cut teen smoking
Science Daily - 18 Jan 2014 19:24
Research estimates the impact of an R rating for movie smoking, and emphasizes that an R rating for any film showing smoking could reduce smoking onset in U.S. adolescents by 18%.
Lab-on-a-chip realizes potential
Science Daily - 18 Jan 2014 19:24
A portable instrument that replaces a full-size laboratory provides accurate multi-element analysis in less than a
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...
Hard Floor Scrubber With Spray Applicator makes cleaning easier
Coolest Gadgets - 18 Jan 2014 19:05
A man’s home is his castle, or so the saying goes. Regardless of whether you are the monarch in your very own little ‘kingdom’, you surely do not have hundreds of servants at your beck and call to keep your place n...
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...
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...
Report: Paramount Pictures Cuts Film, Goes All-Digital in U.S.
Gizmodo - 18 Jan 2014 21:00
The Los Angeles Times reports that Paramount Pictures is the first major Hollywood studio to ditch 35mm film and go all-digital for United States theater releases, with The Wolf of Wall Street being shipped to theaters i...
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...
Ultrasound to Brain May Boost Sensory Perception
MedicineNet - 18 Jan 2014 09:00
Title: Ultrasound to Brain May Boost Sensory PerceptionCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/16/2014 2:35:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 1/17/2014 12:00:00 AM
FDA Warns of Fires From Wart Removers
MedicineNet - 18 Jan 2014 09:00
Title: FDA Warns of Fires From Wart RemoversCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/16/2014 12:35:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 1/17/2014 12:00:00 AM
Energy storage in miniaturized capacitors may boost green energy technology
e! Science News - 18 Jan 2014 04:21
The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries -- storing electrical charge that can be quickly dumped to power devices like camera flashes. So-called "supercapacitors" take the energy-storing ab...
Dropbox snags $250 million funding at $10 billion valuation: sources
Reuters - 18 Jan 2014 03:57
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Hollow 'doughnut' rock appears in Mars rover's path
New Scientist - 18 Jan 2014 03:08
Spotted by NASA's Opportunity rover, the rock may have been flipped over when it was kicked into view, perhaps offering a taste of pristine Martian material
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...
Google Play Store lets your kid spend like a drunken sailor
The Loop - 18 Jan 2014 01:35
That's quite a headline from Consumer Reports. And the FTC goes after Apple.∞ Read this on The Loop
Pelican ProGear Protector Galaxy S 4 case first look: real heavy-duty
Slash Gear - 18 Jan 2014 22:54
If there's one thing that can be said without hesitation about Pelican's delivery of cases for devices, it's that they're rugged. Each time we've had our hands on a case …
More Prisons Helping Inmates Enroll in Medicaid at Release: Survey
MedicineNet - 18 Jan 2014 09:00
Title: More Prisons Helping Inmates Enroll in Medicaid at Release: SurveyCategory: Health NewsCreated: 1/17/2014 9:35:00 AMLast Editorial Review: 1/17/2014 12:00:00 AM
Your Right to Record Movies Off TV Came 30 Years Ago Today
Gizmodo - 18 Jan 2014 01:00
Today, DRM fears inspire a lot of jokes that reference George Orwell's 1984. But it was in that titular year, three decades ago today, that the U.S. Supreme Court reached a decision that defined and protected our right t...