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Thursday, December 12th, 2013
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| 2:30p | How to Complete Your Disney Infinity</cite> Collection Without Going Broke So here's a guide to what's been released since the launch of Disney Infinity, where you can get it, and how you might be able to save at least some money doing it. 
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| 2:30p | Protecting Protected Species With High-Tech Barriers The animals are back. The elephant count in Namibia has risen from under 10,000 around the turn of the millennium to 20,000 today. Lion and leopard populations have doubled since 2004. And cheetahs, once in decline, now speed across the plains here in numbers larger than anywhere else in the world. Which is a big problem. The creatures in Namibia and elsewhere prowl around ever-expanding human settlements, causing trouble, killing livestock, and potentially getting shot. Luckily, there are some high tech (and a few low-tech) ways to keep the animals alive—and out of the way. 
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| 4:00p | 200-Kilometer-High Jets of Water Discovered Shooting From Europa Jupiter's icy moon Europa may be showing us its insides. Data from the Hubble space telescope suggests that enormous plumes of water more than 200 kilometers tall (roughly twice as high as Earth's atmosphere) may be spurting intermittently from the moon's surface. 
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| 4:46p | Instagram Now Lets You Share Photos Privately Today, Instagram announced a new service that allows users to send square, filtered smartphone photos to a private group of friends or a single person. 
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| 5:00p | IFTTT's Ingenious New Feature: Controlling Apps With Your Location The bridges If This Then That is building into the physical world could yield a slew of compelling, context-sensitive interactions. 
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| 5:00p | Highlight's New Vision for Social Networking: Creepy, Magical, and Probably Inevitable In the coming decade, the internet will be about bringing people together in the real world. Highlight wants to be the social network that rings in this new era. 
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| 5:45p | Lit Motors' Kubo Scooter Is the Ultimate Urban Delivery Vehicle Lit Motors is out with a new way to revolutionize schlepping your junk around town, and we got an exclusive crack at putting the Kubo through its paces. 
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| 5:54p | Former Google Exec Takes Over U.S. Patent Office Former Google corporate attorney Michelle Lee is the new deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Reuters reports. 
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| 6:30p | An Ingeniously Green School, by Master Architect Steven Holl The building directs sunlight down three cylindrical structures and then guides it to illuminate studios and social spaces. 
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| 6:37p | Tap Your Way Through Holiday Shopping With These Slick Apps You know what your pet charities want: money. But your friends and family aren't as easy to shop for. Now a few start?ups are trying to make those holiday gift swaps easier?and for them Christmas came early, because investors think this area is a money?maker. 
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| 6:52p | Huge Credit Card Counterfeiting Ring Bought Lots of Cosmetics The feds have swooped in on a large and well-organized gang of New York credit card counterfeiters who allegedly shuttled mules around the country to buy $2 million worth of gift cards and other goods for resale, including $30,000 in cosmetics. 
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| 7:10p | The NSA Is Coming to Town, So Encrypt for Goodness' Sake NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's getting coal for Christmas. That's according to this video just released by the ACLU portraying Santa as an NSA snoop. 
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| 7:26p | Your Favorite Cult Flicks Get New Life With Gorgeous Poster Redesigns Hyper-minimalist movie poster redesigns are everywhere. They're cool, but they could use a makeover too. Erica Henderson is here to help. The illustrator has been designing her own posters based on the defining moments of her favorite flicks with amazing results. 
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| 8:09p | This Transparent LCD Bus Will Inspire Rubbernecking Everywhere It Goes Buses aren't particularly attractive. Slab sides and hacked together advertising make them rolling blights in the urban landscape. So what if you could change the design on a whim, provide useful information to travelers, and make some extra scratch for the city? Tad Orlowski's Willie Bus does just that. 
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| 8:48p | AOL Tightens CrunchBase's Licensing to Block Competitors AOL's CrunchBase is changing its Creative Commons licensing scheme and will begin demanding licenses to use the massive high-tech dataset for commercial purposes. 
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| 9:35p | Titan's Rivers, Lakes, and Seas Mapped in Incredible Detail Using NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists have created this beautiful mosaic mapping the northern hemisphere of Saturn's moon Titan, which is full of rivers, lakes, and seas. 
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| 10:11p | With the New Gmail, People Will Know When You Open That Message Google touts a new Gmail feature as enhancing security. What it really does is open a new privacy hole -- one that exposes your email reading habits. 
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| 10:27p | The Case That Lets You Swipe Your Phone Just Like a Credit Card The makers of Loop say they've come up with a way to use your phone itself at any point-of-sale terminal where you would otherwise swipe a credit card -- and the merchant behind the counter doesn't have to install any new hardware or software to let you do it. 
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| 10:32p | With $25 Million Bet, Silicon Valley Officially Claims Bitcoin as Its Own What is the center of the Bitcoin universe? With a completely decentralized digital currency like Bitcoin, it's hard to say, but today, Silicon Valley took a serious step toward claiming those bragging rights. That's because one of the Valley's most important venture capitalist firms, Andressen Horowitz, made the biggest bet yet on a Bitcoin company, dropping ... 
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