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Alex Trebek, porcupine at Google for National Geographic contest (photos)
Russia takes top prize at the National Geographic World Championship competition today at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
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Alex Trebek, porcupine at Google for National Geographic contest (photos)
Yep, Gawker Has Declared War on Whole Foods
On Monday I wondered whether Gawker would turn Whole Foods into one of its endless obsessions, the way it's been pummeling American Apparel since last summer. Bingo!
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Yep, Gawker Has Declared War on Whole Foods
Document: FBI Surveillance Geeks Fear, Love New Gadgets
According to an internal FBI document, the law enforcement agency has a keen interest in evaluating each new technology for its surveillance possibilities and challenges.
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Document: FBI Surveillance Geeks Fear, Love New Gadgets
Charge! Darpa Wants Wireless Power-Up for Troops’ Gadgets
Darpa, the Defense Department’s advanced-research shop, announced Wednesday that it’s looking to build a short-range wireless-power-transmission system for troops in the field.
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Charge! Darpa Wants Wireless Power-Up for Troops’ Gadgets
CircuitBee lets you share schematics, like Scribd for soldering aficionados
Instructables is great, don’t get us wrong, but if you’re just looking for a sweet new Arduino project or a super-charged Atari Punk Console, wading through the piles of Lego swords and wreath-making tips can be frustrating. Enter CircuitBee, a document sharing site dedicated to one thing, and one thing only — schematics. It’s kind of like Scribd but, instead of being loaded with court documents and shoddy how-to books, it features user-uploaded circuit diagrams to get you started on your next soldering and etching project
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CircuitBee lets you share schematics, like Scribd for soldering aficionados
Don’t Hold Your Breath for CNN to Suspend Piers Morgan
Rumors linking Piers Morgan to News Corp.'s phone-hacking scandal aren't registering with his talk show's advertisers.
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Don’t Hold Your Breath for CNN to Suspend Piers Morgan
Mango quietly enables music streaming from SkyDrive, hides amongst your spreadsheets
Here’s a little feature that Microsoft quietly sneaked into Mango — you can stream music straight from your SkyDrive account. With the latest WP7 update comes some nice integration with Redmond’s cloud storage service, but it’s not just for pulling up spreadsheets.
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Mango quietly enables music streaming from SkyDrive, hides amongst your spreadsheets
Bioart: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Using Living Tissue as a Medium
Biological processes and structures have inspired artists for centuries, but only in the last two decades have artists collaborated with biologists to create works that use live human and animal tissues as materials. This emerging field of “bioart” can be extremely provocative, and brings with it a range of technical, logistical and ethical issues.
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Bioart: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Using Living Tissue as a Medium
You Can’t Have Jennifer Aniston, but You Can Have Good Content
A company promoting a trying-to-be-viral flop is like the guy who drops an inappropriate joke at a dinner party — everyone walks away feeling bad.
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You Can’t Have Jennifer Aniston, but You Can Have Good Content
Amazon strikes movie streaming deal with Universal, adds ‘Fear and Loathing’ to free shipping
Amazon today is talking up its new deal with NBCUniversal Domestic TV Distribution, which will make a number of Universal movies available to Prime subscribers at no added fee. The list of movies includes the likes of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Being John Malkovich , and Fletch . The announcement follows a similar partnership with CBS, which was made public last week .
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Amazon strikes movie streaming deal with Universal, adds ‘Fear and Loathing’ to free shipping
