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Since WikiLeaks threatened to “take down” a major American bank, Bank of America has been hunting for signs that its systems have been compromised.
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NICK BILTON
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IPhone customers were still confused and upset after the phone’s built-in alarm failed to go off for the third day in a row.
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SUSANNE CRAIG
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NYT
As part of a deal that values Facebook at $50 billion, Goldman Sachs is offering wealthy clients a chance to invest in the company without its going public.
FotoSketcher 2 is here, and a lot has changed since Erez first wrote about the photo stylizing app. For starters, there are new filters like sepia, vignette and "old photo texture," and four new frame effects have also been added. FotoSketcher 2 now even offers real-time brushstroke previews.
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There’s nothing more tacky (or stupid) than wearing the Japanese haramaki/belly-warmer like the aninme character Bakabon Papa (R). → But never fear, now you wear the Bakabon* bowel bandages with pride of owning a true “fashion” item costing only from around 1,050 to 6,300 yen or about $13-to-77 USD. More men sensitive to ...
Daryl
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Dsng.net
New Year's weekend in DC: went to Pho 75 in Arlington for pho. Why are all DC-area pho restaurants numbered? There's Pho 14, and even Nam Viet calls itself Pho 79. Also went to the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City; Eastern Market, only to find it was closed (always call ahead!); and Great Wall supermarket in Falls Church. But the best thing of the ...
I liked Flyde from the moment I laid eyes on it. It reminded me of an anciet DOS game I used to play as a kid, where you had to race around in 3D and jump platforms while the level rushes by. [I totally played that game too -- anyone remember the name?! -Ed
Daryl
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Dsng.net
Two thousand-one-one, party over, oops out of time... Happy new year one and all! And to warm up the new year, here's Cute Overload's Top 10 photos of the year . My favourite's the seal.
Ever dream to get a real ambidextrous camcorder? Well guess what, Samsung did it with its shiny new HMX-Q10, the company first full HD Camera featuring Samsung new Switch Grip that will let you held you camera perfectly whether you are left or right handed. The HMX-Q10 also comes with a 5Mpix BSI CMOS sensor [...]
Cameraman Marco Queral, who has dedicated the last 17 years of his life to ocean photography, looked awe inspiringly small, as he dived along side one of great giants of our seas.
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Guess what? Toshiba may be the first Japanese major company to believe in the tablet market, and despite its quite embracing track record in the UK with the Folio 100, the Japanese company has released to a few privileged journalist in The USA, yet another tablet running Android Honeycomb (aka 2.4) and running this time [...]
JOSHUA BRUSTEIN
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NYT
This year, having digested the iPad’s victories and stumbles, manufacturers may just put out more of those tablets.
2010 brought a lot of change on Akihabara News and 2011 will bring even more. Indeed we are planning with “Unicorn Kebab” (Akihabara News V6 code name) to bring many change and maybe, a radical different approach from what we were used to do in the past. Also to make sure we are not screwing [...]
According to Notebook Italia, MSI will unveil a pair of new concept at 2011 CES with the Butterfly, an all in one desktop with a 10” multitouch LCD that can slide down in order to offer you a unique “touch” approach to computing, while the Angelow seems to comes with a wireless auxiliary display that [...]
MICHAEL CIEPLY
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NYT
If “The Social Network” wins, the movie about the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg will end some 23 years of Columbia going without top honors on Academy Awards night.
MATT RICHTEL
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NYT
Portable devices are less necessary for gamers with smartphones, but gadget makers intend a comeback, with Nintendo using three-dimensional graphics.
Down on my Rice Ranch in the Kinky* region of Japan (Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe) it has been snowing for New Years… B.B.B.!*
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