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Giveaway: Hallmark Keepsake Ornament, Recordable Storybook and Text Bands!
Can't make it to San Diego Comic-Con? All is not lost. Hallmark is offering a special Comic-Con Gift Pack to one lucky GeekMom reader who will get a pair of the new Hallmark Text Bands and their choice of one Keepsake Ornament and one Recordable Storybook from a select list.
07.07.12 -
Antaeus Orbiting Quarantine Facility (1978)
Mars Sample Return has been high on NASA's list of favorite Mars missions since the 1970s. Among some, however, the concept raises an important question: if Mars has life, how can we be sure that Mars samples won't harm humans on Earth? In 1978, 16 professors from across the United States met at NASA Ames Research Center to consider that question. Their answer: the Antaeus Orbiting Quarantine Facility.
07.07.12 -
GeekMom Puzzle of the Week #12 – Solution and Winner
GeekMom Puzzle of the Week: Solution and Winner!
07.07.12 -
Party Away the Demons With Workout, Brooklyn’s Irony-Free Rockers
From Kiss to Andrew WK to Tenacious D, stadium and party rock has been chewed up and spit out many times over. But Brooklyn band Workout advances the genre into the realm of the weird and packs it into thoughtful, lasting songs.
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When Album Cover Art Goes Black
What do you do when you've recorded an album that is so intense, so powerful, so ... dark that no cover art can do it justice? You go black.
07.07.12 -
Travel Week: Five Places To Visit For Your Costuming Needs
Check out these five places across the US for finding interesting (and potentially cheap) fabric, notions, and other costuming supplies.
07.07.12 -
A Look at DC Comics: Ame-Comi Girls Series
The Ame-Comi Girls Series is one of those that you need to read for pure fun. Don't go in and expect continuity with the New 52 or any other series. Right off the back, you can tell from their costumes that these are not your mother's superheroes.
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You’ve Seen the Lego Data Center. Now Witness the Data Center Legos
Last week, we brought you the data center made of Lego. Now here's a look at the critical Lego gear you need in your real-world data center (see images above).
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Review: Spelunky Is Frustrating, Random and Brilliant
Spelunky's ability to assault players' decision-making abilities using randomly generated worlds is awe-inspiring.
07.07.12 -
Can Gaming and Creating Social Good Mix?
On June 21st I had the privilege of moderating a conversation among game designers, non-profit organizations, and other interested parties in Portland Oregon on what we could do to use electronic and cardboard games to create social good.
07.07.12
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The Amazing Spider-Man: The Game (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
In my experience most movie-based games fall flat, but once in a while one comes along that makes me think there is hope. The Amazing Spider-Man is one such game.
07.07.12 -
Six Star Wars Fans and the Ultimate DIY Project
A long time ago (roughly 35 years), in a galaxy far, far away (well in Africa actually), good old George filmed some of the scenes for his humble little space opera about a (moisture) farm boy, out in the desert near a town called Nefta in Tunisia. His crew scouted for locations and built some sets, they did their thing and left.
07.07.12 -
Watch the Emerging Geeks: Imagine Cup 2012 Begins
Over in Sydney, Australia students have gathered from around the world to compete in the 2012 Imagine Cup. GeekDad has covered this event for a few years now, but this is my first time attending and before competition begins I am inspired.
07.07.12 -
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 7
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
07.07.12 -
Cisco Rethinks ‘Cloud’ Service After Customer Outcry
Cisco has adjusted its approach to a "cloud service" that helps manage its home routers, responding to an outcry from customers.
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After Android Trial, Google Demands $4 Million From Oracle
Google wants $4 million from Oracle to cover the costs it incurred during this spring's epic legal battle over the Android mobile operating system.
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Giddyup, Robot Doggies! Autonomous Soldiers Square Off at Army Robotics Rodeo
Robots are increasingly taking over dangerous tasks in the battlefield, but there's plenty left to hand over to robot underlings. At the 2012 Robeo, researchers and 'bot makers put their latest through a grueling set of tests. Wired was there to bring you this gallery of 10 of the best - and worst ideas.
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Dating Site Dumps Amazon After Outage… Is it Splitsville for You?
It made for a funny headline from some sites to report that online dating site, Whatsyourprice.com, “dumped” Amazon after its outage late last month/last week. But other sites dependent on Amazon’s EC2 service planned better. So, question is: Is it reasonable to expect no outages? InformationWeek reports: “Build it and they will come. Build it [...]
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How Fire Could Change the Face of the West
The vast fires of this summer and last represent a new normal for the western United States. They may signal a radical landscape transformation, one that will make the 21st century West an ecological frontier. Unlike fires that have occurred regularly for thousands of years, these fires are so big and so intense as to create discontinuities in natural cycles. In the aftermath, existing forests may not return. New ecosystems will take their place.
07.06.12 -
Markets: Manchester United IPO: Forget Soccer, It???s a Media Company
Manchester United isn't a soccer team—at least not in the business sense. It's an ad-dependent, content-producing media company that wants to go public. Sound familiar?
07.06.12
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New Documentary Are We Not Men? Digs Deep Into Devo
Now in post-production, the feature-length film takes us on a long-awaited journey into the heart of one of the most fascinating bands of all time.
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Convicted of Murder, Linux Guru Hans Reiser Returns to Court to Fight Civil Suit
Four years after being convicted of killing his wife, Linux guru Hans Reiser returns Monday to court, this time to defend himself from a wrongful-death suit brought by his two children. The developer of the ReiserFS filesystem now claims he killed his wife, Nina, out of love for the divorcing couple's two children.
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Drones, Caves, and Toilets: When Data Centers Go Rogue
From drones to toilets, Wired takes a look at the world???s most creative efforts to reinvent data-center design.
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Shanghai Company Targets Apple’s Siri for Patent Infringement
A Shanghai-based company thinks Siri is a little too similar to their own voice-recognition software and is now suing Apple for alleged patent infringement over the technology.
07.06.12 -
Game|Life Podcast: Talking Walking Dead With Telltale’s Writers
We talk with Sean Vanaman and Jake Rodkin, project leads on Telltale's The Walking Dead adventure games, on today's episode of the Game|Life podcast.
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Review: Teva Fuse-Ion Water Shoe
While it may be effective in the field, most technical footwear makes you look like a tool the second you step indoors. Nobody wants to see you rocking a pair of waders at the brew pub. Thus, one of the most welcome trends in the outdoor goods market is the emergence of technical gear that [...]
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Soccer Finally Comes to Its Senses With Goal-Line Tech
Soccer has finally come to its senses. After years of discussion and debate, the sport has at long last approved the use of goal-line technology at all levels of the game. Thursday's decision by the International Football Association Board will all but end flubbed calls that have decided games as monumental as the World Cup final and made the sport look embarrassingly Jurassic in a hyper-connected age of instant replay and instant communication.
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10 Talking Points From The Dark Knight Rises‘ Data Dump
Until now, tech-noir auteur Christopher Nolan has kept the finer points of his highly anticipated The Dark Knight Rises on the down-low. Then came the nearly 50-page data dump.
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Astronomers Use Zeppelin to Hunt for Meteorites
A team of researchers used the commercial airship Eureka to search for pieces of a meteorite that blazed to Earth on April 22 over California???s Sierra Nevada mountains. They used a camera aboard the airship to look for signs of meteor wreckage to help locate the pieces.
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Sneaky Clouds and the Developers That Love Them
What does a software developer need to provision a cloud server? In most cases nothing more than an Internet connection, an email address for authentication purposes and, depending on the cloud service provider (CSP), a credit card. You might be thinking “surely Andrew, if the developer is provisioning a cloud server for business use there [...]
07.06.12
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Why an Amazon Smartphone Launch Makes Perfect Sense
Amazon is having a banner week in the rumor department. On Wednesday, the China Times reported that Amazon is spinning up production of a next-gen Kindle Fire for a release date sometime in the next two month. And now the huge online retailer is once again the target of smartphone speculation -- not bad for a company that was best known for book, garment and small appliances deliveries just 12 months ago.
07.06.12 -
Apple Fixes ‘Appageddon’ DRM Issue, Re-Updates Affected Apps
Apple has rectified a botched DRM update that ended up crashing apps that users recently updated.
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I Can See Clearly Now: Smart Headlights Dodge Rain, Snow
When it comes to headlight technology, not much has changed in the last several decades. LEDs are on the cusp of becoming standard issue and adaptive headlamps that turn with the wheel have been around for years. But a system from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has the potential to change the way we see in adverse weather by illuminating the road around droplets of rain and snow.
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Blow Up the Web With ‘Font Bomb’
Need to vent some frustration on the web? Font Bomb is a fun little bookmarklet that lets you "blow up" text on your least favorite web pages.
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Chinese iPad Game Depicts Slaughter of Stereotypical Japanese
A new iPad game called Defend the Diaoyu Islands takes an ongoing dispute between China and Japan and makes a game out of it -- one that paints the Japanese as invaders and tasks you with brutally killing them.
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With Mars Rover’s Newest Panorama, It Feels Like You’re There
This week NASA released an ultra-high-resolution panoramic view of the Martian landscape captured by the only rover currently operating on Mars. It is made of 817 photos taken over six months.
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Startups that Catalyze Science
There is an increasing trend within science: companies or organizations that aim to accelerate science itself. Science can only progress if you can navigate its rapidly growing landscape, measure it properly, or even share data. Happily, there are a lot of startups and non-profits that are stepping into this niche and working to make science [...]
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Opera’s ‘SPDY’ Sense Tingling in Labs Release
SPDY, Google's little protocol that could, gains another convert -- the Opera web browser. Although still at the experimental stage, Opera joins Firefox and Chrome in supporting the faster, more secure alternative to good old http.
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In Elite Swimming, Paddlers Are More Efficient Than Propellers
A mechanical engineer breaks down the two most common arm movements used by elite swimmers like Kara Lynn Joyce, and figures out which one is most efficient.
07.06.12 -
Eruptions Update – Summer Storm Edition (Pt. 2)
Just thought I would offer a second update – this week’s unexpected vacation/evacuation to Massachusetts has flown by and now we’re heading back to Ohio tomorrow. It appears that much of Granville has its power back, meaning the outage was roughly 6 days, but some houses near our house are still out, so we’re not [...]
07.06.12
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Bragging Rights: Top 10 Tools to Document Your Projects
So you???ve built an amazing new robot or crafted a pop culture homage with Perler beads. Awesome work, but what good is building cool stuff if you can???t get Reddit riled up or make an Etsy sale?
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Travel Week: 5 Geeky Things to See in Seattle This Summer
Not only is Seattle home to a number of amazing museums and landmarks, many of them are currently hosting fantastic exhibits that will appeal to all members of your family.
07.06.12 -
Windows 8 for $39.99 — Are You In?
This week, Microsoft announced that most Windows users will be able to upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for only $39.99. For anyone that doesn't usually buy upgrades, that is a significant cost break compared to what it usually costs (around $50 to $100). Now, before you jump on that deal, consider the following???
07.06.12 -
Travel Week: Travel Oops
Traveling is fun, but it can also become an adventure when things don't happen as planned. Sometimes you're too tired to think straight, sometimes you just have to handle the cards you've been dealt, sometimes you weren't even thinking at all when you embarked on your journey! There are countless reasons why it might happen, but in the end we all end up with our fair share of travel "oops." I collected stories from all the GeekMoms, feel free to learn from our mistakes. Or don't and learn for yourself!
07.06.12 -
Higgs For Mere Mortals
The science video community has been hard at work providing you with the best explanation of the Higgs boson. Watch some of Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain's favorite explainer clips.
07.06.12 -
The GeekMoms Podcast #25 First Lego League Global Innovation Award Winners Interview
This week I'm joined by two members of the First Lego League team Moderately Confused which recently won the Global Innovation Award. Arjun Kumar and Jacob Hoylman talk about how they got involved in First Lego League and the process that led to their team winning the $250,000 award to bring the team's product to market.
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Easily Charge Devices at Home or On the Go With Idapt
These days, most of us have several electronic devices that have specialized charging cables. Keeping track of them, and remembering to bring them when we travel, can sometimes be a challenge. One solution to this problem is to use a specialized charger that can charge multiple devices at once.
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Mothership: Teen Moms in Space! Review and Giveaway
Mothership is sort of what Juno would be like if her dream was to spend her pregnancy orbiting in space and if her sometime boyfriend happened to be, well, kinda alien. Read a review and enter to win a copy of the book, a Visa Gift Card, and a John Hughes DVD box set.
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Kickstarter Alert: The Level 99 Minigame Library
Brad Talton Jr. of Level 99 Games has a fun project on Kickstarter: 4?? games that come in small pocket-sized boxes but still offer depth of play.
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Data: Some MLB All Stars Should Thank Twitter as Much as Talent
When you consider the San Francisco Giants' success in this year's All Star vote there is clearly something else at play than just baseball. For the Giants and other Major League teams, it's all about All Star tech savvy.
07.06.12
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Drone Hijacking? That’s Just the Start of GPS Troubles
After Texas researchers hijacked a drone in a DHS-approved test, experts warn that the problem goes beyond just unmanned vehicles -- GPS itself has some serious security holes that need attention.
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Air Force Wants Apps for Training Flyboys
Manuals are so analog. The Air Force is thinking about turning some of its training programs into apps for reservists' smartphones. Suggested functionality includes apps to teach "Air Force Core Values," and "Fitness and Nutrition Principles," as well as games to memorize??M-16 components and??military songs ("Name that Military Tune").
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Observation Deck: The Science Fiction We Need
Can sci-fi predict the future? Should it? In this week's Observation Deck video, I try to think about changes in my favorite sub-genre, post-apocalyptic stories ... because those stories have changed.
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Rare Disorder Drives Woman to Document Industrial Canaries
Photographer Thilde Jensen left everything behind in New York City, including her marriage, to seek an environment free of the chemicals and radiation that were making her sick. On her journey she met others like her and documented them in a project she calls Canaries.
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Startups: Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World
As a fresh torrent of money floods into their market, app makers are getting paranoid, constantly on the lookout for dirty tricks that can pump up traffic and user growth at strategic times, hoodwinking investors and corrupting app-store leaderboards .
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Where in the World Is Google Building Servers?
Google turned the hardware world on its head when it decided build its own servers in tandem with various manufacturers in Taiwan and China. Rather than buy gear from big-name server makers such as Dell and HP, it streamlined the process, going straight to Asia -- where all the Dell and HP gear was being built. The move was so successful, others followed, including Amazon and Facebook. In a way, Google shifted an entire market to Asia. But now Google has apparently moved elsewhere.
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Artists Turn Junk Into Amazing Silhouettes
Shadows are typically two-dimensional tagalongs, mere byproducts of three-dimensional existence. But for Sue Webster and Tim Noble, the art's not done till the shadow is cast.
07.06.12 -
The Dark Knight Rises Will be at Silverstone This Weekend
Hollywood and Formula One have an interesting relationship. There have been movies, like the classic Grand Prix, the incredible documentary Senna, and the upcoming Ron Howard film Rush. But the advertising partnerships are strong, with Tinseltown often going overboard with its promotions. Fortunately, for us, these promotions often are associated with very geeky movies.
07.06.12 -
Imagine Cup Alumni Spotlight: GINA Helps First Responders Worldwide
The Imagine Cup's tagline is, "Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems." It's an ambitious goal, and one that is smartly conceived for a global competition. It focuses competitor's projects into something that has humanitarian implications instead of purely commercial. And everyone's take on what real-world challenges are important are going to be different and in many ways, local. The projects I get the most excited about are the ones that take on the humanitarian angle and succeed. One example of that success is demonstrated by the Czech team, GINA, who competed in the Imagine Cup world-wide finals in Poland in 2010.
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Oh My Glob! Adventure Time Season 1 Comes to DVD
Adventure Time is a regular component of my family's entertainment diet, and it's one of those rare cartoons that I likely enjoy even more than my kids. So, like most fans, I've really been looking forward to a proper DVD release of the series' first season. Cartoon Network was kind enough to slide me an early copy of this upcoming collection, and I'm happy to say is exactly the kind of offering that we diehards deserve.
07.06.12
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The Artist Ideaboard on Kickstarter
This Kickstarter falls into the realm of "why didn't I think of that?" It's a cross between an artist's portfolio and a whiteboard. I've been known to carry a few small whiteboards to a meeting, or robotics practice, but it's a pain to juggle them, and they invariably rub against something and get partially erased.
07.06.12 -
GeekDad Exclusive: New Covers Revealed for Across the Universe Trilogy
GeekDad gives you a first look at the new covers for Across the Universe by Beth Revis.
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Core Dump: The Pick of Primary Math Apps
A couple of years ago it was all about ABC apps and the types of educational games that were suitable for preschoolers and younger children. Well, as predicted by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center iLearnII Report, elementary school apps have seem a great surge in 2012. As more and more schools begin to look at the potential and possibilities for tablet devices (most commonly iPads), the more developers are beginning to explore how to meet the needs of students with different learning styles. This is reflected in the growing diversity of math apps out there.
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FGTV Interviews Joel Seider About New Harry Potter Kinect Game
FGTV talked to Joel Seider about Harry Potter Kinect. Unlike previous Kinect Harry Potter games, this is built from the ground up for Kinect. In some ways it seems similar to Kinect Rush and Disneyland Adventures, although with more of a story emphasis.
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Video: ‘Pregnetheus’ Parodies Prometheus’ Most Shocking Scene
This great-looking short video from James Lee Animation plucks a little humor from the belly of Prometheus' most controversial scene.
07.06.12 -
A Google-a-Day Puzzle for July 6
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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Facebook Mimics Google With Underwater Cable to Asia
On Thursday, Facebook confirmed that it's pitching in on a new 10,000-kilometer undersea fiber optic cable that will link Malaysia, Korea, Japan, and several other Asian countries by October 2014. The story was first reported on Wednesday by Commsday.
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‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius Dashes Into Olympic History
South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius is headed to the Olympics, a historic event almost certain to validate the double-amputee???s quest to be considered ???a runner,??? not a ???disabled runner.???
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Video: Scientists Create Biologically Accurate Walking Robot Legs
Researchers have created a pair of robotic legs that they claim are the first to model walking in a biologically accurate manner. They have features that imitate biological muscles, sensors and nervous-system control. The research, published today, could help us understand how human babies learn to walk.
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Dating Site Breaks Up With Amazon Over Broken Cloud
Netflix, Pinterest, and Instagram may be sticking with Amazon's cloud after last weekend's outage, but for Brandon Wade's online dating site, the Friday night crash was the last straw. He's going off of Amazon now. After two outages in June, he says Amazon is simply not reliable enough for romance. The paying users of his website, Whatsyourprice.com, are "very impatient, and relatively intolerant of such failures," he says. "Some people's lives were interrupted in a big way."
07.05.12
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Custom Raspberry Pi Case Harkens Back to ’80s-Era Computing
The low-cost Raspberry Pi micro-computer was created to give kids an application development platform that could be hacked with abandon ??? thus saving Mom and Dad the heartache of a thoroughly borked home PC. The Pi???s creators hope that their modest development machine will rekindle the DIY spirit that was prevalent among nerds in the 1980s. Super-modder Ben Heck took that nostalgia-fueled idea, and went one step further by creating a Raspberry Pi case that resembles an iconic computer from the War Games era.
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Cisco Hit With Backlash Over Home Router ‘Cloud’ Service
Cisco is facing a backlash over its decision to update the embedded software on some its home Wi-Fi routers so that they're managed via a new "cloud" service it offers over the net. Some customers are concerned that Cisco is invading their privacy by requesting personal data via the service, while others felt that the fine print barred them from surfing the net for "obscene, pornographic, or offensive purposes."
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Olympus Takes a Third Stab at Wearable Computer Glasses
Glasses-based computing is hot right now. With Google pulling out all the stops for its Google Glass demo at I/O last week, it's no wonder that Olympus is getting back into the wearable computing game.
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Cheat Your Way Through Final Fantasy VII on PC
Square Enix will re-release its classic 1997 role-playing game Final Fantasy VII through its downloadable games store, it said on Thursday.
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First Instance of iOS App Store Malware Detected, Removed
It has not been a good day for the App Store. Shortly after it came to light that a widespread bug has been causing newly updated apps distributed by the store to instantly crash upon opening, security researchers unearthed the first known instance of malware in another application in the iOS App Store. Kaspersky antivirus [...]
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Secretly Monitor Cop Stops With New ACLU App
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey is unveiling an Android app allowing users to secretly record audio and video of the police, and have the footage sent to the group's servers for review.
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Curation: How the Global Brain Evolves
"Those who can, do. Those who can't, review. Those who can't review, tweet. Those who can't tweet, retweet." The sentiment expressed in this buzzy quote is funny and makes a real point. Unfortunately, it's a bogus one.
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A Poison for Assassins
Radioactive elements make for some effective poisons. With a new investigation into the possible-poisoning of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, our chemistry blogger Deborah Blum looks into the history of radiation assassinations.
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British Journal of Photography iPhone App Gets it Right
Photo mags on the iPhone struggle with the fact that photos and creative page layouts look great when they're big and the phone's screen is relatively small. Viewing a large amount of content through a limited window can be frustrating and disorienting. That's why we like the British Journal of Photography iPhone app that was released today.
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Get ???Em, Lannisters! Game of Thrones Sportswear
We???re sure this designer, who uses the handle "Vanadium," isn???t the first to notice how much the Houses in George R.R. Martin???s Game of Thrones series -- the books and the show -- resemble teams. There are age-old rivalries, free agents, even trades. And of course, each house has their color and mascot, from the Lannisters??? red lions to the grey wolves of Winterfell???s Stark house.
07.05.12
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Giveaway: Dark Knight Book Details Nolan’s Reinvention of Batman’s Universe
As Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale prepare to bring down the curtain on their Batman franchise with The Dark Knight Rises, a new book offers an extensive behind-the-scenes look at the state-of-the-art superhero saga. Get an exclusive look inside The Art and Making of the Dark Knight Trilogy and enter the giveaway for your shot at winning a copy of the 304-page hardcover.
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What the Discovery of the Higgs Means for Scientists
Stephen Wolfram provides an insider's perspective on the discovery of the Higgs boson and how the moment is a culmination of 40 years of hard and often surprising work.
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‘The Analyzer’ Gets Time Served for Million-Dollar Bank Heist
Ehud Tenenbaum, aka "The Analyzer," was quietly sentenced in New York this week to time served for a single count of bank-card fraud for his role in a sophisticated computer-hacking scheme that federal officials say scored $10 million from U.S. banks.
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Nintendo: Online Community Key to Wii U Software Sales
Allowing players to "encounter new games in communication with others" will drive software sales and keep Wii U players active, according to company president Satoru Iwata.
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Kindle Fire 2 Will Arrive Within Two Months, Report Says
With Google's Nexus 7 tablet set for a July release, Amazon is fast-tracking the production of its next-generation Kindle Fire. This is the message from China Times, which reports Amazon has already ordered two million Kindle Fire 2s from Quanta, and the tablets could arrive sometime in July or August.
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Will Data-as-a-Platform Deliver New Opportunity?
Collecting and analyzing broad categories of customer and product data is becoming equally -- if not more -- valuable than the product itself, writes Ken Oestreich of The Fountainhead Blog. With "Data-as-a-Platform," could the Big Data-ready cloud spawn whole new business opportunities for small- and medium-size businesses (SMBs)?
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The Mona Leia? Jabba the Godfather?! Must-See Star Wars Art Clones
So let's say you're big into Star Wars -- like, really big into Star Wars -- and you've amassed a vast collection of toys and figures. You could leave all that stuff in a box in the hope of maintaining its resale value. Or, you could make art with it. Teacher David Eger chose art.
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This Week With the GeekMoms
Find out what the GeekMoms have been up to this week.
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‘DNSChanger’ Malware Could Strand Thousands When Domains Go Dark on Monday
Tens of thousands of U.S. internet users could be left in the digital dark on Monday when the FBI pulls the plug on domains related to the DNSChanger malware.
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‘Made in USA’ Nexus Q Teardown Reveals Many Overseas Parts
Stating that a device is "designed and manufactured in the USA" doesn't necessarily mean it's going to be a purely stateside product. Kyle Wiens and his team at iFixit took apart Google's Nexus Q, and found that the company sourced several of the Q's components from China, Japan, and other Asian or European countries.
07.05.12
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NASA’s New (Astronaut-Carrying) Spacecraft Is Retro-Modern
This week at Cape Canaveral -- not far from where NASA launched the first American into space 41 years ago, and the last Americans one year ago -- the space agency welcomed its next generation of manned spacecraft. The first space-bound Orion capsule arrived in Florida, where final construction will take place before its first test flight planned for 2014.
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Give Us 15 Minutes, and We’ll Give You Git
If you've got 15 minutes to spare, you too can learn Git. GitHub's new Try Git website puts the popular version control system inside your web browser for some hands-on learning.
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Appageddon! Apple Botches DRM Update, Crashes Dozens of Apps
The July 4th holiday has not been kind to Apple users and app developers. Starting late in the day on July 3rd, Apple began pushing out corrupt App Store updates that cause immediate app crashes. In effect, you launch your app, then -- boom! -- it dies.
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Will Google’s New Engine Compute?
Google signaled its intent [to go big on the public cloud/come after Amazon] when it removed the ???beta test??? tag last fall from Google App Engine and launched Google Cloud Storage, a separate service dedicated to housing large amounts of data, writes Wired Enterprise’s Cade Metz. But all the pieces fell into place at I/O [...]
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What if Steve Jobs Had Discovered the Higgs Boson?
Ever wonder what Steve Jobs would have done if he'd gotten into experimental physics? When CERN scientists announced that they'd probably found the Higgs boson, they got more than their fair share of smack talk from the design community for presenting their discovery in Comic Sans. Even the font's creator, Vincent Connare, wasn't impressed.
07.05.12 -
The Monitor Looks Backward … Kind Of
The midweek July 4 holiday is behind us, and now there's but a scant week separating us from the madness that is Comic-Con International in San Diego. You'd think that would mean we're just gonna coast this week, but how could we do that to you?
07.05.12 -
How Do You Measure the Stratos Space Jump?
This summer daredevil Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon into the history books. Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain considers how the legitimacy of the stunt might be recorded.
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Medical Marijuana Without the High
Israeli researchers have developed a strain of medicinal marijuana that can ease symptoms of diseases such as arthritis without making patients "high".
07.05.12 -
Google to Shut Down iGoogle
Google is doing some spring cleaning in the middle of summer, announcing it will shut down five more services, including iGoogle. Fans of Google's widget-based homepage have a little over year to find a replacement.
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Don’t Dump EHR Data: Sift It With the Cloud
Those of us who worry about the government creeping into all our lives can now stop fussing and fighting, cry it all out, and move on to implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), writes athenhealth's Jonathan Bush.
07.05.12
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