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Cardboard Smartphone Projector
The Gadget Flow - 2 Aug 2014 07:00
No more crowding over one phone to check the latest YouTube blockbuster with the Cardboard Smartphone Projector there. Having upto 8x magnification, this projector can stream your favorite videos with better acoustics fo...
Spock Impersonator Logically Decides Not to Prosper in Porn
Mashable - 2 Aug 2014 04:38
Spock-themed porn would have been highly illogical. Instead of boldly going where surely many men have gone before, Spock impersonator Roy Ives has turned down a feature role in a Star Trek inspired Swedish porn film ent...
Obama signs cellphone unlocking bill
PC World - 2 Aug 2014 02:35
The right to unlock your cellphone became law on Friday as President Barack Obama signed a bill that rapidly passed both houses of the U.S. Congress. The Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act passed in t...
Star Wars In Your Pocket lets you realize those voices in your head
Coolest Gadgets - 2 Aug 2014 20:00
Do you sometimes hear voices in your head? If you do, then you might actually attribute it to the Force – where good advice comes from the Light Side, while advice that leads you down a shady path would be from the Dar...
Crimeans are now using the Russian internet
The Verge - 2 Aug 2014 17:13
Russia may have claimed Crimea as its own, but it takes much more than annexation to truly integrate the peninsula into the mainland. One of those steps has just been completed, as a large portion of Crimean internet tra...
Facebook goes down; Facebookers call cops
CNET - 2 Aug 2014 00:59Microsoft sues Samsung alleging contract breach
Phys.org - 2 Aug 2014 00:23
Microsoft on Friday sued Samsung in federal court claiming the South Korean giant had breached a contract over cross-license technology used in the fiercely competitive smartphone market.
The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi
Slashdot - 2 Aug 2014 23:58
An anonymous reader writes: Citing the problems caused by the lack of legal control over the current name and its long outdated origins as the reasons for the change, The Xbox Media Center team announced that they will s...
LG G Watch software fix will solve residue buildup
Slash Gear - 2 Aug 2014 23:42
LG is pushing out a software patch for their LG G Watch, and the reason is a bit stranger than usual. It seems some users are reporting a buildup of residue on the charging pins -- something that has no effect on the dev...
This is the view from the gym at the International Space Station
Gizmodo - 2 Aug 2014 14:33
From astronaut Reid Wiseman: "It is tough to concentrate at the gym when this is the view." Yes, Reid, your life sucks. The astronauts should actually install the toilet in the cupola. I'm sure the best ideas in the hist...
Recipe For Building a Cheap Raspberry Pi Honeypot Network
Slashdot - 2 Aug 2014 09:02
mask.of.sanity (1228908) writes "Honeypots are the perfect bait for corporate IT shops to detect hackers targeting and already within their networks and now a guide has been published to build a dirt cheap battalion of t...
There's No Ebola Cure, But Early Intensive Treatment Boosts Survival
MedicineNet - 2 Aug 2014 09:00
Title: There's No Ebola Cure, But Early Intensive Treatment Boosts SurvivalCategory: Health NewsCreated: 7/31/2014 2:36:00 PMLast Editorial Review: 8/1/2014 12:00:00 AM
Perseid Meteor Shower 2014 Best Viewed Before August Peak
IBTimes - 2 Aug 2014 07:34
Perseid meteor shower activity may peak Aug. 12-13 this year, but it might be best viewed around now because of the full moon in August, as indicated by NASA. The August supermoon most likely will have Earth's nearest ne...
Apple Finalizes Beats Deal After Paying Vivendi $404 Million
Forbes - 2 Aug 2014 01:02
Apple has cleared all of the major hurdles necessary to officially announce the $3 billion acquisition of Beats. Apple disclosed its intention to buy Beats in May, but it still required approval from U.S. regulators an...
Apple $450 Million E-Book Settlement Wins Court Approval
Re/code - 2 Aug 2014 00:40
The size of the settlement hinges on the outcome of Apple's appeal in the antitrust case.
Best evidence yet for coronal heating theory detected by NASA sounding rocket
Phys.org - 2 Aug 2014 00:22
Scientists have recently gathered some of the strongest evidence to date to explain what makes the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface. The new observations of the small-scale extremely hot temperature...
How Facebook Sold You Krill Oil
The New York Times - 2 Aug 2014 23:30[AppleTell] GOG Weekend Promo angers me, but may please you
Technology Tell - 2 Aug 2014 22:18
[From AppleTell] The GOG Weekend Promo this time features one of my favorite Mac classic games and a game with Mojo Nixon music, but no Mac version of Giants: Citizen Kabuto.
Rolto iPhone Screen Printer lets you take the old school route
Coolest Gadgets - 2 Aug 2014 19:00
As much as we would like to end up as a wireless and paperless society, it seems that the former is a whole lot easier to achieve compared to the latter. I would like to think that it is nigh impossible to become totally...
Internet-Connected Appliances Are a Hacker's Dream Come True
Gizmodo - 2 Aug 2014 17:00
The web-connected appliances on the "internet of things" promise to make life way more convenient for you and me. But according to a security study by Hewlett-Packard, the most popular smart devices are about as secure a...
I run a multiplex theater.
Gizmodo - 2 Aug 2014 16:27
I run a multiplex theater. I saw this coming when "mapping" this title (the process of telling the computer that plays the movies which file to play when it is told by the ticketing computer to play "Guardians of the Gal...
BP Oil Spill: Deepwater Horizon Toxins Consumed By Ocean Bacteria
IBTimes - 2 Aug 2014 07:34
Since the BP (NYSE:BP) Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig spilled 201 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico four years ago, BP has spent more than $14 billion cleaning up the mess.