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| Sunday, May 27th, 2012 | |
| 8:00 am | The GeekDads Episode #115: The Big Purple Elephant in the Room (GeekDad Weekly Rewind) Ken, Matt, Doug, and Jonathan do a Maker Faire recap, and talk a bit about the "controversy" surrounding the GeekDad issue of Wired magazine. Enjoy!
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| 4:01 am | A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 27 Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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| Saturday, May 26th, 2012 | |
| 3:10 pm | Kalki's ancestor designed Eiffel Tower *I don't know why that so funny; of course her ancestor designed the Eiffel Tower, somebody had to do it. http://www.tehelka.com/story_main52.asp *I really like Tehelka's culture coverage. Even Tehelka's fluffiest, most crowd-pleasing puff-pieces have something nerve-wracking about them. Tehelka's always got this atmosphere of, "Here's cute and clever novelist Arundhati Roy in her denim cutoffs, ...
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| 6:43 am | Augmented Reality: T(ether) from MIT *Well, the ergonomics of pads and gloves are gonna need a lot of work... At the very least somebody in the AR biz needs to come up with a rubber clip-on pad-holder you can securely slip your hand through, instead of sweatily holding an expensive fragile windowpane at arm's length. *But look at that! ...
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| 4:01 am | A Google-a-Day Puzzle for May 26 Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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| Friday, May 25th, 2012 | |
| 10:48 pm | HP: Our WebOS Team Is NOT Leaving For Google HP has confirmed that it has lost some "key members" of the team overseeing Enyo, a framework for developing HTML5 applications that grew up alongside the company's ill-fated webOS mobile operating system. But it also says that a majority of the Enyo engineering and leadership team remains in place, contradicting a story that was splashed across the net on Friday.
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| 9:59 pm | Windows 8 Dev Kit Only Does Metro Apps (Unless You Pay) Microsoft has said that the upcoming free version of its new Visual Studio 11 programming kit will only be used to build Windows applications with the new Metro touch interface that debuts with Windows 8. And some developers aren't too happy about it. Those wishing to build traditional desktop apps for Microsoft's Windows operating system will ...
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| 8:30 pm | Exclusive: Hands-On With BMW's Most Advanced Infotainment System ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? runMobileCompatibilityScript('myExperien
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| 8:19 pm | Van Jacobson Denies Averting Internet Meltdown in 1980s All Van Jacobson wanted to do was upload a few documents to the internet. Unfortunately, it was 1985.
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| 7:50 pm | Game|Life Podcast: Reporting From Inside The Skinner Box Wired editors talk seriously addictive games, like Diablo III, on this episode of the Game|Life podcast.
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| 7:48 pm | Future-Proof Dock Is Ready for a Larger iPhone, Smaller Connector The ODOC is the future-proof iPhone dock that won't fall of the desk when you grab your iPhone.
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| 7:37 pm | Is HP's Autonomy the Worst Place to Work on the Planet? It was the $10 billion acquisition that helped sink Leo Apotheker. Larry Ellison called it overpriced. And today, it?s HP CEO Meg Whitman?s biggest headache: Autonomy.
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| 7:16 pm | Broadcasters Warn of Apocalypse in Dish's Ad-Skipping Service Broadcasters are claiming in federal lawsuits Thursday that Dish Network's DVR service, which allows the automatic skipping of commercials, breaches copyright law and retransmission agreements. The suits by Fox, CBS and NBC are the broadcasters' latest legal salvos against technological innovations, as those advances bring into question whether broadcasters' longstanding business model can survive the digital age.
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| 8:00 pm | Google's Project Glass Takes to a Trampoline for Its First Video The first Project Glass-shot video features a trampoline and backflip raising the bar for all product videos to the production quality of your dad's Super-8 videos.
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| 7:15 pm | Army Wants Flame-Retardant Texting Gloves The Army's mad for smartphones. It's testing Android devices it bought from the local electronics store to see how they operate on its experimental, homebrewed data network. And one thing it seems to have forgotten to buy for the dismounted soldiers who'll have to furiously tap the screens to send data during firefights: texting gloves.
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| 7:09 pm | Steve Jobs Would Have 'Lost His Mind' Over Siri, Former Employee Says Siri's had a rough ride since its launch with the iPhone 4S in October. And now it looks like Apple employees may also be upset that Siri hasn't yet matured into the digital assistant of our dreams.
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| 6:55 pm | Keep Out: NASA Asks Future Moon Visitors to Respect Its Stuff NASA has released a set of guidelines that encourage future lunar landers to remain a respectful distance from its historic artifacts, such as the Apollo landing sites.
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| 6:54 pm | Review: Men in Black 3 Will Erase All Meaning in Your Life Will Smith has starred in lots of formulaic movies. And he knows better than anyone that there's something comforting as well as exhilarating about a movie that plays out according to a set of steps. Which is what makes Men in Black 3 so weird: It's a movie where the blockbuster formula is the opposite of comforting.
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| 6:53 pm | Living Large in a 130-Square-Foot Apartment With dense urban centers and housing that was built hundreds of years ago, Europeans have long known how to make their tiny spaces feel triumphant. But this apartment in the Montparnasse neighborhood of Paris is an above-and-beyond exemplar of hyper-efficient, micro-urban living.
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| 6:42 pm | OpenStack Launch Partner NASA Grounds Development NASA is reported to be "withdrawing its participation" with OpenStack, which the space agency co-founded with Rackspace. Will NASA's withdrawal hurt the open source cloud platform?
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