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Cyber Robot Kitten Toy Room, LIVE!
I know the above blog title looks like a bunch of very exciting and pleasing words jammed together willy-nilly. But, oh, the reality is so much better/worse than you can possibly imagine. What I’m talking about is the new Oregon Humane Society interactive cat room, which combines the joys of their Kitty cam (kam?) with […]
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We Are Not That Far Away from Mass-Market Quantum Computing
From OneIndia: London, Sep 30 (ANI): In what could be called as a big leap in quantum mechanics, a research team at Yale have achieved the entanglement of three solid-state qubits, or quantum bits, for the first time. Their accomplishment is a first step towards quantum error correction, a crucial aspect of future quantum computing. […]
Posted inBooks
Amazon’s Been Very Busy
Minutes after RIM unveiled the Blackberry tablet, the Playbook, Amazon announced they were bringing a Kindle app to the business-friendly device. Almost immediately after that announcement, a rumor broke that Amazon was preparing to launch their own Android app marketplace. Speculation about what Amazon will do with this marketplace varies: Some think they’re just gopening […]
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A Helpful Hint for Scam Spam Authors
These I-wuz-robbed-in-olde-London-towne email scams that I’m getting at the rate of two or three per day… I’m sorry for this odd request because it might get to you too urgent but it’s just because of the situation of things right now, i’m stuck in London, I came down here on vacation, i was robbed, worse […]
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Is This the HP Slate?
Is this HP’s new tablet, running Windows 7? And if so, are they nuts? The hardware looks fairly nice—complete with Windows and “Intel Inside” advertising stickers!—but as always, trying to run a desktop operating system on a touchscreen device is an instant failure. It’s clear that nothing is made to be tapped, it’s all a […]
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Where’s the iWatch?
Over the weekend, Engadget ran a great article about “invisible devices.” When Apple introduced the new iPod Nano, (a 1.5 inch square touchscreen device that has several functions including a watch) the internet immediately began clamoring for the Nano as a wristwatch. Manufacturers are rushing Nano watch-bands to market. Even though the Nano wasn’t intended […]
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I Oprahfied Myself!
I think I look really good in mustard suede. Won’t you Oprahfy yourself too? (Pro Tip: The Oprahfication Machine doesn’t seem to have a filter for what kind of pics you can and cannot Oprahfy.)
Posted inPolitics
What She Said
Slate‘s Jessica Grose on Christine O’Donnell’s sex, lies, and videotape problem: Though certainly O’Donnell is an extreme example, I wonder if she is a harbinger of political coverage to come—by which I mean, I can foresee a media universe in which old, dumb Facebook posts and unearthed tweets become a consistent source of fodder for […]
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Best Buy CEO Says iPad Sales Have Cut Laptop Sales by Half
According to Engadget: The dude in charge of the yellow label empire has told the Wall Street Journal that his company’s internal estimates indicate the iPad has eaten up as much as half of laptop PC market demand. In response to this perceived trend toward more portable gadgets, Brian’s outfit is rearranging its inventory to […]
Posted inMedia
Beware the Attack Tribune!
I tried to go read this article about bikes bikes bikes on the Portland Tribune site and instead received this threatening notice: “Of the 178 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 114 pages resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this […]
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Maybe Apple Will Get Newspaper Subscriptions Right, This Time
According to the Mercury News, Apple is on the verge of announcing a new subscription model system for newspapers on the iPad: Apple is expected to announce soon a new subscription plan for newspapers, which hope tablets like the iPad will eventually provide a new source of profits as media companies struggle with declining print […]