Stupid Quote of the Day
You know all those mobile games that most people aren't willing to pay $0.99 for? Nintendo not only thinks they are underpriced but they are creating wrong mentality for consumers. Fils-Aime wouldn't call $1 iPhone staple Angry Birds disposable. He called that one "under-priced." But, he said, these cheap games create a "mentality for the consumer that a piece of gaming content should only be $2." Comments
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Artist Uses Google Earth For Inspiration
Personally, I think it would have been cooler if the artist would have left the Street View lines and arrows in his paintings. Comments
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U.S. Seeks Veto Powers Over New Domain Names
This new obsession with controlling all things internet is starting to really scare me. The administration is quietly seeking the power for it and other governments to veto future top-level domain names, a move that raises questions about free expression, national sovereignty, and the role of states in shaping the future of the Internet. Comments
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Best Buy Buy to "Future Proof" Tech Purchases
Best Buy has made its Buy Back program official. Although a buy back program sounds good at first, once you realize how much you'd actually be getting back for your tech item, you are better off just selling your stuff on eBay/Craigslist when it comes time to upgrade. Best Buy officially launched Buy Back in January as a solution for customers who want to keep up with the greatest gadgets but are concerned that their gear will become obsolete. Best Buy customers may purchase the Buy Back Program when buying a new product at Best Buy and redeem it at a later time, for up to 50 percent of the original purchase price paid in the form of a Best Buy gift card, as long as the device is in good working condition and includes all original parts. Comments
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FCC Updating Broadband Subsidy Program
The FCC will vote Tuesday on restructuring the Universal Service program funding. Initially the program was set up to provide basic telephone service to insure nationwide coverage. The FCC wants to redistribute the allocation, initiating wider broadband coverage, especially in rural areas. "Broadband serves the same role in the 21st Century that telephone service served in the 20th Century," Genachowski said. "So we need to modernize this program." Comments
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Cisco Announces Three New Security Certifications
Cisco Systems announced the creation of three new specialty certifications in London this week. The central focus of the new certification is security, security and of course, security. And while the actual announcements are interesting, the bigger deal is that Cisco appears convinced that the demand for security workers will exceed the supply, both now and in the coming years Comments
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Robotic Nurses Scrubbing Up for Surgery
New technology developed by a collaboration of three research facilities and imaging technology developed for Microsoft are making inroads in robotic gesture recognition. While not quite perfected, the 3D imaging and advances in software are bringing the project closer to fruition. "It's a concept Tom Cruise demonstrated vividly in the film 'Minority Report,'" said Wachs. Comments
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I Can Haz iPad?
Just when you think you've seen it all, here comes a cat app for your petÂ….that is if your pet has an iPad handy or would that be paw-dy? Several of the big boys at the Conservators' Center in North Carolina gave the iPad with the app a test drive. Comments
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The Great Mars Space Adventure
An international crew of six cosmonauts and astronauts climbed into a simulator on June 3rd and have just reached 'orbit' around planet Mars. This is all part of an exact simulation of a complete trip to Mars and back down to the smallest detail. Although an actual flight to Mars is decades away, the information gathered in the 520 day mission will be invaluable in designing future systems that will finally get us there. Though the flight to Mars is real in every way possible on Earth, the six-man crew is actually parked in a simulator at the Institute for Medical and Biological Problems in Moscow, Russia. Comments
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Nokia Axing Top Executives
We've all heard the phrase a new broom sweeps clean, well the new CEO at Nokia took it literally. CEO Stephen Elop is eliminating a few of the decision makers at the top of the Nokia food chain and on the lookout for some forward thinking executives capable of staying ahead of the smartphone curve. A report originating from German weekly Wirtschaftswoche has found that Elop could cut a number of top-tier executives as soon as next week. The organizational changes would happen on the 11th of this month. Comments
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Dumb Criminal of the Week
The Darwin Award this week has to go to a Connecticut man who called 911 with questions regarding the legality of growing pot on his property. His answer was delivered personally by the police department. Comments
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Dating Service Mined Facebook Photos
If you go to the dating service website called Lovely-Faces, some of the photos there may look a bit familiar. They should.... the photos used for the dating service startup were lifted directly from the pages of Facebook. Déjà vu Mr. Zuckerberg, déjà vu. Ironically, the story of Facebook's genesis tells of its founder Mark Zuckerberg getting in trouble for hacking Harvard University computers while a student to get pictures of coeds for comparison with each other at a website called "Face Mash" that he created. Comments
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Unplugged: One Family's Six-Month Experiment
How easy would it be to disconnect yourself from the electronic world for a six month stint? Hard you say? For the greater majority of modern folk, it would be a nearly impossible feat. Susan Maushart and her three teenage children took the plunge and came out all the better for the experience. They lost me at the juncture of totally going off the electrical grid for a few weeks. Like so many teens, they couldn't do their homework without simultaneously listening to music, updating Facebook and trading instant messages. If they were amused, instead of laughing, they actually said "LOL" aloud. Her girls had become mere "accessories of their own social-networking profile, as if real life were simply a dress rehearsal (or more accurately, a photo op) for the next status update." Comments
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Polar Shifts Causing Global Superstorms
If you haven't noticed the weather lately, you are in the minority. Weather patterns worldwide have been affected for the worse with multiple record winter storms, increasingly severe tornados, massive flooding and mega-hurricanes. Scientists and climatologists have been quick to place the cause on global warming, but now are beginning to suspect a greater phenomenon as the root cause. Suddenly, in the past decade the rate sped up. Now the magnetic pole is shifting East at a rate of 40 miles annually, an increase of 800 percent. And it continues to accelerate. Comments
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