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iHome iBN27 bluetooth stereo speaker review
AppleTell - 22 Jul 2014 05:10
If you're looking for a portable speaker that comes at a fair price, be sure to check out the iHome iBN27 bluetooth stereo speaker. I couldn't ask for better sound quality at this price point; the bass and treble combine...
Maia360: Rinse, Spit, Share
Geek Time - 22 Jul 2014 10:30
Tel Aviv dentist Dr. Rafi Romano created Maia360, an online community for dental professionals and is looking to raise $100K on Indiegogo to get great content
Sony's Walkman finds success in Japan, but what about the US?
Slash Gear - 22 Jul 2014 13:13
In a world where smartphones make the most convenient portable music players, the market for dedicated MP3 players has dwindled. That hasn't stopped Sony from hawking its once-popular Walkman line of PMPs, however, and t...
Companies have a tricky new way to track your movement across the web
The Verge - 22 Jul 2014 00:20
Researchers at Princeton have uncovered a new web-tracking method that's nearly impossible to block. It's called "canvas fingerprinting," and can potentially follow users between sites even if they've disabled more conve...
Microsoft Q4 2014 earnings: $4.6B net income, $23.3B revenue, and strong cloud sales
Pocket-lint - 22 Jul 2014 23:25
Microsoft has posted its Q4 2014 earnings report. Earnings missed expectations, though revenue beat Wall Street forecasts. Specifically, the company reported $4.6 billion in net income on $23.38 billion in revenue. Altho...
Cruise Ship Cabins Are Built on an Assembly Line Just Like Cars
Gizmodo - 22 Jul 2014 23:41
Ever wonder how cruise ships are built? Well, Royal Caribbean just released a new video that sheds a little bit of light onto the process, specifically how the cabins are manufactured. It's surprisingly similar to how yo...
Latest HIV purge claims prompt calls for more caution
New Scientist - 22 Jul 2014 17:32
Bone marrow grafts have helped both patients stay all but virus-free for three years. But the disease has come back before in others, and a simpler treatment is needed
NSW Open Data Dashboard revamped as public demand mounts
ZDNet - 22 Jul 2014 06:24
NSW Minister for Finance and Services, Dominic Perrottet, has revealed that public demand for government data is on the rise, with some state government organisations receiving tens of millions of requests each month for...
The Boundary-Pushing Novelist Who's Made Twitter His New Medium
Wired - 22 Jul 2014 06:20
Keira Rathbone Teju Cole was stuck in traffic in Mumbai when an idea came to him. He had recently written a short story and he thought, why not share it in tweets? Cole is the author of two books of fiction, Open City an...
MIT's Ted Postol Presents More Evidence On Iron Dome Failures
Slashdot - 22 Jul 2014 06:05
Lasrick (2629253) writes In a controversial article last week, MIT physicist Ted Postol again questioned whether Israel's vaunted Iron Dome rocket defense system actually works. This week, he comes back with evidence in ...
NASA Spacecraft Just One Year Away from Pluto
SPACE.com - 22 Jul 2014 23:56
NASA's New Horizons' mission, which blasted off in 2006, will become the first spacecraft to orbit Pluto in July 2015. The flyby will give researchers their first good look at the distant, frigid dwarf planet.
Report: Google passed on Spotify because price was too high
Slash Gear - 22 Jul 2014 23:55
Did they or didn't they? Google was rumored to have been interested in Spotify ahead of their Songza purchase, but nothing came of it. Now, sources tell The Wall Street Journal that Google was interested in Spotify after...
Zepp takes a swing at baseball with its tiny data analyzer
Engadget - 22 Jul 2014 23:55
As someone who doesn't play baseball often, if ever, I need all the help I can get. But since America's Pastime isn't my first sport of choice to practice, I'm okay admitting how extremely terrible I am at it. For others...
SpaceX Releases Footage of Falcon 9 First-stage Splashdown
Space News - 22 Jul 2014 23:14
SpaceX released a video showing the Falcon 9 rocket's first stage making a "soft landing."
That's No Moon or Space Station, Just a Fantastic Death Star Rug
Gizmodo - 22 Jul 2014 23:00
What's this? A piece of Star Wars-themed decor that doesn't look like a grade eight craft project? There's a chance that folks who've never even seen Star Wars might actually want this Death Star rug in their living room...
U.S. Commercial Weather Hopeful Secures NOAA Operating License
Space News - 22 Jul 2014 22:57
Tempus is working with the Utah State University to commercialize the STORM instrument, which is designed to take high-fidelity measurements of atmospheric conditions.
Milky Way's "Methuselah" --The Oldest Known Star of Our Galaxy
The Daily Galaxy - 22 Jul 2014 22:50
The stars of the first generation were formed out of a primordial gas which consisted only of hydrogen and helium. Their mass ranged from ten to five hundred times the mass of our Sun. Nuclear processes in the interior o...
How to Get Your Sex Tape Off the Internet
Gizmodo - 22 Jul 2014 22:04
The movie Sex Tape hinges on its lead couple finding it impossible to remove their raunchy homemade porno from the apparently unfathomable depths of iCloud. Their predicament is appealingly modern, if not all that realis...
Yo and the app hype machine
Engadget - 22 Jul 2014 22:00
Yo is a notifications app where all it does is send the word "Yo" to your friends. That's it. Just "Yo." Of course, silly single-purpose apps like these are a dime a dozen -- remember those fart apps of old? -- but the t...
eBay brings its RedLaser barcode-scanner app to Google Glass
Engadget - 22 Jul 2014 21:33
You might know eBay as the website where you can buy a rare NES game for a hundred grand, but the company also has its own barcode scanner, called RedLaser. It's been out on Android and iOS for a while, and now the compa...
If I were a developer, I'd abandon Android now
Slash Gear - 22 Jul 2014 23:58
Based on one chart I'm seeing today coming from data source from Google, Apple, and tech VC firm Andressen Horowitz, iOS is dominating Android. Not in sales of devices worldwide, not in popularity of the operating system...
Elephants Can Outsniff Rats and Dogs
Live Science - 22 Jul 2014 23:49
Elephants are known for their impressively long trunks, but perhaps less well known is the large number of genes that code for their sense smell. In a study of 13 mammals, African elephants were found to be superior snif...