Ginormous robot spider invades Liverpool, England (25)
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Filed under: Robots Nope, we aren't sensationalizing anything -- that creature you see above really has made the streets of Liverpool its home. According to an in-the-know tipster, it's reportedly going to be stalking citizens and making all sorts of ruckus, possibly the kind involving pyrotechnics. So what's with England and these totally random stunts? First a full-sized UFO crashes in Potters Fields Park, now a gigantic spider shows up as part of La Machine. ...
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fiona said:
heh. this is kind of awesome.
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Mathew said:
that's one cool looking robot spider!
The Death of DVD Sales in Korea a Trailer for U.S. Coming Attraction? (5)
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Hollywood take note: Sony Pictures is the sixth (and final) major movie studio to pull up stakes in South Korea, where blazing fast, ubiquitous broadband has sucker-punched the market for DVD sales and rentals, NewTeeVee reports today. In Korea, where average broadband penetration rate by household hit 90.1 percent last year (and in Seoul reached 107.8 percent), nearly 50 percent of Internet users say they download movies, and the typical users is downloading about a ...
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Alex said:
"the services are monetized through priority access points that guarantee higher speeds"
New Snow Patrol Album to Feature Downloadable iPhone App (1)
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Filed under: Audio/Video, iPod, iPhone Snow Patrol has already made most of us sob quietly into our pillows. Not us, as in the people responsible for this article, but we hear that some people have sobbed while singing along to their songs... Anywho...The new Snow Patrol album, due out next month, is the first to offer a downloadable application for Apple's iPhone and iPod touch. The digital booklet, which will be available online, will let ...
iPhone Document Scanner (5)
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Kyle A Koch, an industrial design student at the University of Cincinnati's school of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (DAAP), has designed a kind of copystand for the iphone constructed out of corrugated cardboard. This looks like a nice DIY project, and if the iPhone's lack of a macro setting is bumming you out, at least you'll know that all the shots you take with this device will be in focus. Here's Kyle: When I ...
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joekwon said:
i love it. this coupled with evernote is very powerful.
1 Hour Design Challenge: Back-to-school Bag Winners! (1)
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We've poured through the entries, the crew at Timbuk2 have voted, and the winners of the latest 1 Hour Design Challenge have now been chosen! First place (and prize!) goes to the Locker bag by Guntar, for his innovative acrobatics--melding a backpack with a locker-friendly form factor. Here are the judges: "This was not only a great concept, but a great presentation as well. We like how the functionality was well thought out, considering the ...
Navigon's 2200T does free traffic for life, retails for a mere $229 (6)
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Filed under: GPS While many GPS manufacturers seem to be still seeing how much they can milk out of minor feature updates and monthly subscription fees, Navigon is going for the jugular with the new 2200T. The 3.5-inch-screened nav device offers up free real-time traffic updates for life -- a service that usually will run you $10 a month -- in addition to fun stuff like Reality View Pro (3D images and actual road sign ...
Book on Smart-Crafting (1)
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When it came time to pick that college major, a large part of Industrial Design's appeal to me was that you got to build stuff with your hands. You start off with wood and tools, and a couple days later you've got a pile of sawdust and a chair sitting in the middle of it. If you like working with your hands and you have a keen interest in the latest technology, check out Syuzi ...
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joekwon said:
This one's for you Tim
About a Cow...and a Washing Machine (1)
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Filed under: Green Tech Proving once again that cattle and home appliances just don't mix, a cow in the UK got its head stuck in a "fly-tipped" (read: illegally discarded) washing machine drum earlier this month. And it was awkward. The animal was eventually freed by the Royal Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which was called to rescue it from a field in Cornwall, England.There are two theories going around at the moment, ...
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joekwon said:
poor poor poor washing ma... er... i mean cow.
Picasa Refresh Brings Facial Recognition (76)
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In the anticipated release of Google’s new and improved Picasa, the company will offer facial recognition technology to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them by-hand each time you see them. Launching at noon PDT today, Picasa’s facial recognition technology will ask you to identify people in your pictures that you haven’t tagged yet. Once you do and start uploading more pictures, Picasa starts suggesting tags for ...
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DarK FlameS said:
Picasa agora com reconhecimento facial...
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Jrod said:
boom
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Oudi Antebi said:
worked very nice for me!
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Hagdahl said:
Picasa med ansiktigenkänning måste vara det ballaste på länge! Det kan bli hur enkelt som helst att söka efter olika personer i bildarkivet.
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Icefreez said:
Wow, that will be nice. They already developed the technology somewhat for Google maps why not develop it a bit more and release it for free :D
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Jeffrey said:
interesting - this would make life a lot easier on facebook... firefox plugin anyone? =P
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Joey Doll said:
google is on a tear
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kpoirier said:
sounds cool.
CAPTCHAs flummox bots, but may be doomed by CAPTCHA farmers (15)
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CAPTCHAs were once considered proof (or at least an excellent defense) against the likes of spammers and automated registration programs, but those days appear to be almost over. CAPTCHA-cracking is now big business in India, and a means of gainful (if not quite legitimate) employment.Read More...
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joekwon said:
CAPTCHA Farming? They'll do anything overseas!
Google Browser Is Real. Another Win For Webkit (41)
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Updated Analysis: Google in a blog post on their website has acknowledged the existence of Google Chrome, a browser that the company will be releasing tomorrow. Kara Swisher has confirmed the existence of Google Chrome, a browser developed by the Mountain View, Calif.-based search company. The rumors of the browser were reported earlier on Google Blogoscoped, which received a comic book that outlined the key features of the browser. * It is based on Webkit ...
No Joke: Google Introduces Its Own Browser (123)
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Google Blogoscoped has published a lengthly cartoon sent to them by Google and drawn by Scott McCloud that provides the first public details about Google Chrome, an open source browser based on WebKit and powered by Google Gears that has been rumored but never before confirmed. According to the cartoon (which can be seen in its entirely here - thanks Marshall), the Google Chrome project has already undergone a substantial period of development with engineers ...
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Chris J Guerra said:
hehe of course posted after they resigned their deal to power mozilla search...
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matt said:
I like that each tab has it's own process... I hate it when one page kills my entire browser.
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Chantal said:
This is so strange. It's making use of WebKit, but it's going to be Windows only at first.
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Ed said:
I'm in...
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Ogu said:
Esto se ve bastante interesante. Aunque no pienso que necesitemos OTRO navegador, es bueno ver que al menos este esta pensando las cosas muy diferente. Que opinan?
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Earl E Morningwood said:
I must say, it looks awesome,
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Angel said:
Ah Caray! Esto si es nuevo. Un navegador HECHO por Google??? Dejenme y lo instalo y reporto sobre los resultados.
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Hervé said:
Le meilleur détaillé.
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Silvo said:
bilo je samo vprašanje časa...
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Mark said:
Interesting. Will look forward to trying this.
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joekwon said:
this paragraph summed it up for me: "Google is leveraging its massive server infrastructure to run automatic performance tests for Chrome. The company is claiming that its Chrome Bot can test the browser on tens of thousands of different webpages within 20-30 minutes of each build. These webpages are chosen on the basis of their popularity, which has already been determined by Google with the data it collects from its search users. When Google started testing Chrome, it only rendered 23% of those pages correctly (no word on how many it gets right as of today now it apparently renders 99% correctly)."Google is able to test it's browser without people because of what it knows. I don't think any other company has been able to do that to this scale before.Kind of scary, yet highly efficient. Kind of like the power plants from The Matrix.
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Garrett said:
Damn, This is pretty impressive.
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Jochen Mai said:
Hört sich interessant an
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Darnell Clayton said:
If this is as good as the comic says, I'll be ready to ditch Firefox in a heart beat (as it keeps crashing on me whenever I visit GoDaddy's webpage).
Commodore hops on the netbook bandwagon with UMMD 8010/F (11)
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Filed under: Laptops As we've seen countless times by now, the folks behind the Commodore brand will stop at nothing to keep the venerable name alive, and they've now finally hopped on the biggest bandwagon going, with the UMMD 8010/F marking the company's first foray into the netbook game. Unfortunately, apart from that familiar logo, there's not too much that stands out here, with the netbook packing a 10-inch screen, a 1.6GHz VIA C7-M processor, ...
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RJO said:
I must ask my friend Ray Akey, one of the hanger on employees at Commodore: Are you guys capable of making a product that looks good?
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Adrian said:
<3
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Kevin said:
I loved my C64 and Amiga. It would be nice if they could get a good product out. This does not even have an atom processor.
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joekwon said:
if they offered this running the original commodore64 OS, I'd be all over it.
Take a Knife to Magazines for Efficient Reading [Magazines] (19)
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Magazine love Michael Sliwinski slices and dices his favorite magazines before he goes to reduce bulk. He claims this not only gets him through a lot of magazines in record time, but it also decreases the sheer mass of them. (2-Minute Productivity) Speed-Reading Magazines - Episode No.6 [Nozbe Blog]
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Jim said:
What a fuckin' moron!
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Clay said:
This is a really good idea.
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Jarvitron said:
Let's talk a bit about efficiency - Efficiency is NOT fucking spending time cutting things out of a magazine. End of lesson.
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Travis said:
What a pointless video
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joekwon said:
sorry, but it's just really painful to watch this guy try and talk smoothly. It's not so much his accent, it's just he isn't prepared on what to say.
Look!: MythBusters Show Us a CPU versus a GPU (3)
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At Nvidia's NVISION show this week, the MythBusters wanted to represent the difference between single and multicore processors, referring to CPUs and GPUs, respectively. They used a single-barrel paintball gun to paint a pretty simple smiley face, then unveiled a 1100-barrel paintball gun and painted a mini-Mona Lisa. Be amazed... video after the jump. Of course, the subject of CPU vs. GPU is much more complex than the MythBusters are making it seem here, but ...
