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Review: Phottix Indra 500 TTL
The Phoblographer - 20 Feb 2015 13:02
The Phottix Indra 500 TTL is the most bang for your buck monolight that we've tested. And it'll make you sell your current lights. Check out our review.
LEGO, Sarlacc, Boba Fett: Star Wars Trifecta
The Mac Observer - 20 Feb 2015 23:40
Even though George Lucas himself has said Boba Fett died in the Sarlacc, that hasn't stopped Star Wars fans from creating their own realities where the infamous bounty hunter (No disintegrations!) lives. Once fan even we...
Missing British schoolgirls may be on their way to Syria
Mashable - 20 Feb 2015 16:24
LONDON — Police issued an alert Friday for three schoolgirls who they suspect are traveling to Syria to join Islamic State. See also: I was a prisoner of the Islamic State The three close friends, 15-year-old Shamima B...
Black Hole Emits Ferocious Winds With the Energy of a Trillion Suns
Gizmodo - 20 Feb 2015 03:00
A black hole and its galaxy are locked in a cosmic struggle, evolving in tandem and balancing each other's growth. In this artist's recreation, you can see cosmic winds howling out of supermassive black hole PDS 456. The...
Magician stuns Ellen DeGeneres with iPad sorcery
Mashable - 20 Feb 2015 02:52
Simon Pierro has a few tricks up his, err — iPad Appropriately dubbed the "iPad Magician," Pierro incorporates the tablet into his act, using sleight of hand illusions and trick containers to fool the audience into bel...
Memory Card from Stolen Camera Returned After Photographer Makes Public Appeal
PetaPixel - 20 Feb 2015 02:09Sony branches off audio and video business but remains committed to sensor development
DP Review - 20 Feb 2015 00:31
Sony has announced that it will be branching off its audio and video departments into a separate subsidiary. Sony previously spun off its VAIO PC business one year ago, and the creation of new departments aims to mak...
26-Year-Old's Heart Attack Linked to Energy Drink
Live Science - 20 Feb 2015 23:21
Energy drinks may be to blame in the case of an otherwise healthy 26-year-old man who had a heart attack, according to a new case report.
Intelsat Warns Investors of Rough Ride ahead of Epic Growth
Space News - 20 Feb 2015 20:59
Intelsat warned investors to expect a rough ride over the next year or two as the company awaits the arrival of its Epic high-throughput satellites and the revenue growth they are designed to provide. The post Intelsat W...
How the photocopier changed the way we worked and played
The Loop - 20 Feb 2015 19:39
The Smithsonian: In 1959, Xerox released the "914"--the first easy-to-use photocopier. The culmination of more than 20 years of experimentation, it was a much cleaner, "dry" process. The copier created an electrostatic i...
100 Days After Release, Continued Mourning For 'Halo: The Master Chief Collection'
Forbes - 20 Feb 2015 19:25
I’m assuming that my own experience with Halo: The Master Chief Collection mirrored that of many other fans. Hardly able to believe the value of four remastered Halo games packaged together, complete with re-released m...
[GamerTell] Capcom says Deep Down is still in development, and in need of changes
Technology Tell - 20 Feb 2015 19:00
[From GamerTell] Deep Down is still coming to PS4, but it won't be the same game that was revealed in early 2013.
∞ The Nest Protect in frightening action
The Loop - 20 Feb 2015 16:51
I can't comment on the Nest Protect smoke alarm. I don't own one, have never had to set one up or disable one. But this video feels like the opening of a science fiction movie on the order of Alien or Terminator.Fear the...
U.S. To Scale Back Its Role In Internet Governance
TechCrunch - 20 Feb 2015 05:00
Even though the Internet has long been an international community, the United States has always been at its center. However, that all may be about to change as the U.S. Department of Commerce scales back its role in In...
Snowden docs reveal spy agencies' SIM encryption key theft
ZDNet - 20 Feb 2015 04:09
The world's largest manufacturer of SIM cards had its internal computer network hacked and encryption keys stolen by spy agencies in the Unites States and the United Kingdom, according to documents leaked by whistleblowe...
Android malware fakes phone shutdown to steal data
PC World - 20 Feb 2015 02:30
Next time you turn off your Android phone, you might want take the battery out just to be certain. Security vendor AVG has spotted a malicious program that fakes the sequence a user sees when they shut off their phone, g...
Yahoo woos app makers at its first mobile conference
CNET - 20 Feb 2015 01:33Apple Patent Shows Periscope-style Camera Module with Mirror Stabilization
PetaPixel - 20 Feb 2015 01:29Stanford pair helping predict solar storms
Phys.org - 20 Feb 2015 01:20
Life as a forecaster is not easy. Just ask National Weather Service forecasters who misjudged how a recent winter storm would impact the Big Apple. Now imagine trying to predict weather activity on a burning sphere 1.3 m...
Higgs Boson Could Explain Matter's Dominance over Antimatter
Scientific American - 20 Feb 2015 16:15
A new theory suggests the Higgs field varied in the early universe, offering matter a chance to split off from antimatter --
Rise of the Fembots: Why Artificial Intelligence Is Often Female
Live Science - 20 Feb 2015 14:17
From Apple's iPhone assistant Siri to the mechanized attendants at Japan's first robot-staffed hotel, a seemingly disproportionate percentage of artificial intelligence systems have female personas. Why?
Hold the Sugar, US Nutrition Panel Recommends
Live Science - 20 Feb 2015 01:59
For the first time, new recommendations set a specific limit on the amount of added sugar that Americans are advised to consume.