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iPhone Viewfinder Eases Shooting in Bright Sunlight [VIDEO]

A hardware developer is funding an iPhone-friendly viewfinder that blocks out sunlight on Kickstarter.

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How Hollywood Glamorizes Hacking, And Why This Is Deeply Wrong

Did the movies during the 1980s glamorize hacking and encourage an entire generation of hackers? Most likely

Submitted by: mklopez - Category: Entertainment - 18 Comments

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Has adaptive design failed? Of course not

Yesterday morning I read Peter Yared's provocative article, ‘What’s next for mobile now that adaptive design has failed?’ which is based entirely on the misassumption that mobile users don’t scroll. If that were true, the reasoning might be valid, but it’s not. It’s utter nonsense.

Submitted by: salman_saif145 - Category: Technology - 5 Comments

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Traversing the Valley

The Valley dismisses corporate America when it comes to technological innovation. Likewise, corporate America knows little about tech companies' world class operations. Technology strategist Vinnie Mirchandani argues that both sides should wake up to the consumerization of enterprise tech and the enterprising of consumer tech.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook to Forgo $75 Million in Dividend Payments

The head of the technology giant earned $378 million in compensation last year, making him the highest-paid CEO in corporate America.

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Turns Out, Geeks Are Inheriting The Earth

By Nick Zieminski NEW YORK (Reuters) - Turns out, geeks are inheriting the earth. Thanks to ubiquitous consumer electronics and the prominence of technology executives like Facebook Inc's Mark Zuckerberg and the late Steve Jobs of Apple Inc, it's no longer an insult to be called a geek. The geek -- broadly speaking, the tech-obsessed, socially-awkward type who spends more time online than offline -- is more respected than ever, according to a survey by Modis, the technology staffing arm of Adecco SA, the world's biggest staffing company. Most Americans -- 51 percent -- now consider geeks profe

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Medical Treatments From 200 Miles Up

NASA discovered early on in its space missions that certain microbes become more virulent in microgravity. For example, Salmonella bacteria change their gene expression and become three to seven times more virulent in low-gravity environments. A company was able to use the data from space to create a Salmonella vaccine, which is currently being tested by the FDA. Other companies are sending microbes to the station, developing a pneumonia vaccine and a MRSA vaccine for staph infections. Japanese scientists are studying protein-crystal growth in space. If protein is crystallized in space, it gr

Submitted by: mirandolina - Category: Science - 1 Comments

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9 Unbreakable Gadgets That Only The Hulk Could Destroy

You want to know where the beach is? Here, I'll point with my tough tech smartphone GPS. Why did I throw the phone against a wall as hard as I could?

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Conceptual Clocks Explore Our Perception Of Time

Joe Doucet experiments with time-pieces in a his exhibition On Time.

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Autonomous Driving More Popular to the Young

There has always been a fear when it comes to early-adoption of new technologies that heightens based upon age. The older one is when technologies are introduced, the more skeptical they generally treat the concept and application.

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Ad-skipping DVR prompts fight for the future of TV

It turns out that consumers like the idea of watching TV shows with no other ads. And, surprise, the television networks are less than thrilled.

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Solar Impulse plane prepares to go intercontinental

Solar-powered plane Solar Impulse is well into its first intercontinental journey from Payerne in Switzerland to Rabat in Morocco. Solar Impulse took just over 17 hours to fly first to Madrid-Barajas airport, seen here landing at 1.28 am local time today. Following some days' technical adjustments and a change of pilots, the proptype plane is due to continue with its second leg to the 16-megawatt Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy plant near Rabat. The 800-kilometre journey is expected to take 20 hours. Slow going, perhaps, but pretty impressive for a plane that uses no fuel but sunlight.

Submitted by: mirandolina - Category: Technology - 7 Comments

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Cisco all but kills Cius tablet computer

Cisco discontinues Cius investment and development in the face of BYOD, cloud computing

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MIT invents painless, programmable Star Trek-like hypospray

We've got phasers. We've got tricorders. And now, thanks to MIT, we've got a hypospray that works just like the real thing, delivering programmable doses of drugs painlessly right through your skin without any needles.

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EFF: Megaupload User Asks Court for Files Back. Again.

Kyle Goodwin, and others like him, did nothing but legitimately use a cloud storage service to house legal files – in Kyle’s case, business files, but many others lost access to personal and private information as well. We believe the time has long passed for those folks to get their data back. We hope the court agrees.

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