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Try to Out-Ridiculous the Official NASA Mission Posters [PhotoshopContest]

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Have you seen these ludicrous posters that NASA makes for every mission? They are insane. But I think you guys can top them. More »


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This Is Your Faulty Brain, On a Microchip [Memory]

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Take a good look at the downward trend of this graph—it's important. It's the reason why you're only getting worse at first-person shooters and why you never feel as sharp as you were yesterday. It's the human condition. More »


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Windows Phone 7 Tablet Concept Should Be Real [Tablets]

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

LG, Samsung and ASUS have all developed hardware for Windows Phone 7, but none tickle my fancy quite as much as this WP7 tablet concept, which has a kickstand that folds into a keypad, and joystick controls on the back. More »


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Rumor: HTC Incredible Launching On Verizon In A Fortnight; Supersonic With Sprint Next Week [Android]

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Depending on who you speak to, the Incredible will be the next HTC phone to launch in the US. Or maybe it's the Supersonic. There was even talk that they may be one and the same. More »


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The Return of the Commodore 64 [PC]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Brace yourself, lovers of all things retro, because the Commodore 64 will raise from the dead in all its keyboard form factor glory. It will probably be based on the Cybernet ZPC-GX31, although I hope it looks like this: More »


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Amazon Kindle App for Mac OS X [Kindle]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Oh hey, the Kindle app for OS X is out. It's free, but you have to buy the books, of course. It doesn't have multitouch, like the Windows app, though. [Amazon via TUAW] More »


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GM’s Enhanced Windshield Uses Lasers to Make Your Road Trips Safer [Automotive]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

It makes it feel like you're in the middle of Tron, but GM's new heads-up display's not just a way to play out childhood fantasies. The system projects laser-generated images onto windshields, providing a great looking enhanced vision display. More »


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This Is the Cloud: Inside Microsoft’s Secret Stealth Data Centers [Memory Forever]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

"The cloud" isn't some nebulous thing existing just beyond your computer's consciousness. As Microsoft showed us, it's stacks of hard drives packed into shipping containers, parked in secret data centers all around the world. Physically real, but still beautiful. More »


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Ask Giz: Should You Ever Delete Your Ex From Your Internet Life? [Memory Forever]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

When memories can live forever online, there's bound to be relationship issues, so we enlisted our favorite love doctor, Debby Herbenick, to share some advice. The first question: Is it okay to delete the digital memories of your ex? More »


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Blackberry Push Service Now Available to All Blackberry Apps [BlackBerry]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Blackberry's push notifications are now available to any developer who'd like to stick 'em in any Blackberry app. Since battery-friendly push is the best part of owning a Blackberry, this update sounds fantastic. More »


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Samsung Confirms WP7 Handset Was Omnia HD But OS Upgrades Are "Not Yet Clear" [Microsoft]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Just as we thought, Samsung's Windows Phone 7 Series handset shown off at Mix 2010 the other day was the Omnia HD—but according to Samsung "it's not yet clear whether existing i8910HD users will be able to upgrade." More »


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How Google Crunches All That Data [Memory Forever]

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

If data centers are the brains of an information company, then Google is one of the brainiest there is. Though always evolving, it is, fundamentally, in the business of knowing everything. Here are some of the ways it stays sharp. More »


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Diane Birch Lives In a Projector Screen—and Now In My Head Too [Music]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Diane Birch is very very very cute. She's also a lovely singer. Her song Valentino is chirpy and sweet, and her music video—with its ghetto augmented reality—is quite ingenious. Watch it. You'll like it. Then, watch the how-to: More »


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Over-the-Air Android 2.1 Updates for Droid May Start This Thursday [Android]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

We just heard the details about the Android 2.1 update for the Droid and now we may have an arrival date. According to Android Central, over-the-air updates will start rolling out in stages this Thursday. [Android CentralThanks, Phil!] More »


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Leave No Trace: How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drives, SSDs and Thumb Drives [Memory Forever]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

With stories abounding of identity theft aided by information lifted from discarded storage devices, you want devices you no longer plan to use to have no usable information when they head out the door. Here's how to wipe them clean. More »


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Navigon MyRegion App Offering Up Localized Maps For $25 [Navigation]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Navigon is one of our favorite navigation apps. Which is why we're pretty excited at the prospect of being able to buy it piecemeal: starting today, instead of buying maps for all of North America for $80, you can buy a MyRegion map of the East, Central, or Western US for $25. More »


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First Windows Phone 7 Code Dump Might Reveal Some Secrets [Windows Phone 7]

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Windows Phone 7 OS code, pulled from the emulator image—build 7.0.0.6077 to be precise—has been dumped on xda developers, meaning it's being torn apart as we speak. It's not a full ROM, so it won't run on anything yet, but it might reveal something. [xda developers via Know Your Cell, Thanks Randall!] More »


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