1. Nokia's Ovi Maps Racing now available, makes the world your course  permalink

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2. Stephen Colbert: Blippy Is More Exciting Than Going Through Old Receipts  permalink

Stephen Colbert: Blippy Is More Exciting Than Going Through Old Receipts
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Normally, it takes quite a bit of time before a startup gets any sort of mainstream spotlight. That’s not the case with Blippy. Tonight, the controversial social credit card data aggregator was featured on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report. As you might imagine, host Stephen Colbert ripped into the service’s ability to show ...

3. Obama has yet to fill empty seats at civil liberties watchdog committee  permalink

Obama has yet to fill empty seats at civil liberties watchdog committee
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It's been a year and Obama has yet to fill the empty seats on the government's main civil liberties oversight committee: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was recommended initially by the bipartisan September 11 commission as an institutional voice for privacy inside the intelligence community. Its charter was to recommend ways to ...

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Obama has yet to fill empty seats at civil liberties watchdog committee Zombie/NPR fanfiction   —  Kirby sez, "Spot on parody of the NPR News Quiz Show during a Zombie Apocalypse. Peter Sagal, Carl Kassel, Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone, and Tom Bodett don't miss a beat as they broadcast their last show before retreating to the cave system. The author gets the personalities perfect. You can imagine that this is exactly how the panelists would ...

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Obama has yet to fill empty seats at civil liberties watchdog committee Liquid glass will change your life, eliminate detergent profits   —  A Turko-German consortium has announced a liquid glass product "that will revolutionize everything" (it's a "new kind of glass," as Mr Wolfram might put it). Seriously, it sounds like the applications for this stuff are endless, and yes, that's what everyone said about aerogel and the Segway, but maybe this time... They're shipping to the UK soon,

4. 宝马将量产Vision EfficientDynamics概念车  permalink

宝马将量产Vision EfficientDynamics概念车
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Filed under: 车业动态 宝马将推出其在去年法兰克福车展亮相的Vision EfficientDynamics概念车的量产版车型。据报道,宝马计划在2013年投产5000至10000辆该量产版车型。量产车型将沿用概念车的混合动力系统,但车身上的合成玻璃部分将有所减少,最终的版本将更倾向于坚�

5. Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go  permalink

Fwix Launches Mobile City Apps to Provide You Local News on the Go
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As you’ve probably realized, local news is undergoing a massive transformation. The rapid demise of “old media” has resulted in fewer local publications, and it’s likely that in a few months your local paper may no longer exist. As “new media” takes over, users will be faced with a plethora of choices to ...

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Look out, WIND: Mobilicity next fresh carrier to launch in Canada   —  I thought WIND would revolutionize the market, till it turned out to more or less be Canada's MetroPCS of sorts. Looks like this will go after the same market.

6. 大老板的高科技环保座驾 Lexus LS600hL试驾  permalink

大老板的高科技环保座驾 Lexus LS600hL试驾
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Filed under: 汽车试驾 点击照片看完整图集 Lexus (凌 志)旗下的豪华油电 混合动力 旗舰LS600hL于2008年4月正式于 台湾 发表(LS600hL于2006年问世),在短短不到二年的2009年12 月,Lexus总代理和泰汽车于新竹发表了全新小改款的2010 LS600hL。近日有幸受和泰汽车之邀试驾了

7. New Software Update for Nexus One phones  permalink

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Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:

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Did Google Just Multi-Punch Apple In The Face? Nexus One Gets Official Multitouch Support   —  When Google launched the Nexus One Android phone a few weeks ago, support for multitouch gestures like pinch-to-zoom was mysteriously missing from the phone's feature set in the United States. Starting today, however, Google will begin to ship an over-the-air software update to all Nexus One phones in the U.S. that will enable multitouch pinch-and-

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8. 日内瓦车展抢先看:Renault Wind CC  permalink

日内瓦车展抢先看:Renault Wind CC
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Filed under: 概念/前卫 , 海外车讯 , 展会报道 点击照片看完整图集 市场上最平易近人的欧系敞篷车款在此之前,恐怕都是 Peugeot (标致)的CC( Coupe - Convertible )系列车款独大,不论是旧款的 206CC 或现行的 207CC ,往往都是欧系平民进口车款的首选,而这样的情形接�

9. Olympus announces the E-PL1 Micro Four Thirds camera  permalink

Olympus announces the E-PL1 Micro Four Thirds camera
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Filed under: Photos , Gadling Gear Review Olympus just announced their latest Micro Four Thirds digital camera - the E-PL1. The E-PL1 combines the high quality 12.3 megapixel image sensor of the E-P1 and E-P2 in a more compact body, but also manages to find room to add a pop-up flash. In addition to the flash, the E-Pl1 also features the ...

10. 丰田中国4S店2月底起换油门踏板  permalink

丰田中国4S店2月底起换油门踏板
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Filed under: 维修保养 据央视新闻报道称,目前,丰田RAV4 车已经停止交车,但该车仍未停止销售。4S店表示,以后交付给车主的RAV4车将是更换好油门踏板的车。丰田中国公关部副部长刘鹏明确表示,此次召回事件原因是加速踏板的设计和材料问题。   丰田表示将�

11. Photo of the Day  permalink

Photo of the Day
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Filed under: Photos , North America , United States , Photo of the Day Today's Photo of the Day was submitted by Misha Loginov - a great snapshot that utilizes light, color, and the texture of smoke captured amidst a controlled burn in the Big Basin State Park. Established in 1902, Big Basin is California's oldest State Park, and claims more ...

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Photo of the Day Omni to launch new luxury brand of hotels   —  Filed under: North America , United States , Hotels and Accommodations Move over Marriott and Hyatt, Omni wants to share some space. Seems the big-hotel-chain-turned-small-boutique-brand concept is taking off and Omni Hotels is jumping on the bandwagon - Omni's new luxury hotel brand, Mokara, will open this April in San Antonio. The Watermark ...

12. 少了点刺激?来搭乘M-Benz SLS AMG过山车  permalink

少了点刺激?来搭乘M-Benz SLS AMG过山车
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Filed under: 精彩杂录 过山车 就是云霄飞车啦~两分多钟的影片铺陈了很久,搞得人都快没耐性,为得就是要看 SLS AMG 超夸张的「过山秀」。什么过山秀?,爆雷就不有趣了,看看影片再来说。 Continue reading 少了点刺激?来搭乘M-Benz SLS AMG过山车 少了点刺激?来搭乘 ...

13. Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack  permalink

Hidden Backdoors On Torrent Sites Led To The Latest Twitter Attack
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Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn’t clear exactly what was going on. Now they’ve felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it’s fairly interesting.

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14. 3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market  permalink

3Crowd Comes Out Of Stealth, Reveals Its Plan To Disrupt The CDN Market
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3Crowd, the new startup from BitGravity co-founder Barrett Lyon, is ready for its close-up. Until now little was known about the company, other than that its backers include Jay Adelson, Kevin Rose, Storm Ventures, and Greenwich Technology Associates. Now the company is talking: 3Crowd is looking to change the way people use content delivery ...

15. The Geek-Off Tournament: Round #5!  permalink

The Geek-Off Tournament: Round #5!
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So it's the penultimate round of this On-Screen Geek-Off Tournament of ours, and we're down to two inevitable nail-biters after a series of increasingly close calls last week. We've got Ghostbusters , The Goonies , Back to the Future and Ferris Bueller's Day Off represented, but at the cost of beloved characters from Real Genius , Wayne's World ,

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The Geek-Off Tournament: Round #5! The Geek Beat: Celebrate the Geek: 2010 Edition   —  February dawns with a lot of intriguing little news bites about The Green Lantern , First Avenger: Captain America , and how your favorite characters may be mangled by odd story choices. Last year , I described this very same week as one where "everything is taking a breather before Watchmen , Wolverine , and all the madness that will follow the ...

16. Microsoft's Bing will make money: executive  permalink

Microsoft's Bing will make money: executive
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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's 10-month-old search engine Bing, which has struggled to make headway against Google, can be a viable runner-up and make money online eventually, according to one of its top executives.

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17. Amelia Earhart Returns to the Big Screen for an Air Race  permalink

Amelia Earhart Returns to the Big Screen for an Air Race
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Amelia Earhart is one of the kickass women of history. Unfortunately, her recent Hilary Swank biopic (which hit DVD shelves today) was anything but, reducing her to a pile of romance and a film that came up quite short. But could a new indie in the works show how it should've been done, even if she isn't the lead? Variety reports that producers ...

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Amelia Earhart Returns to the Big Screen for an Air Race Avid for aviatrix tale   —  The 1929 race involved 20 female pilots, including Thaden, Amelia Earhart and Pancho Barnes, flying for nine days from Santa Monica to Cleveland. The race was won by Thaden, who penned the 1938 book "High, Wide and Frightened."

18. Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs  permalink

Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs
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Filed under: News , Blogging , Google , Freeware Love it or hate it, Blogger was the tool that really brought blogging into the mainstream. Once upon a time, the only way to have your blog hosted on your own domain was to use Blogger as the content management system, but then have it use FTP to push HTML pages to your web host. Fast forward to ...

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Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs Starring stories in Google News   —  A couple of months back, we launched the Custom Sections Directory feature in Google News to allow users to set up sections on topics of their interest, and to share them with other users.

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Announcing Google's Focused Research Awards   —  (Cross-posted with the Google Research Blog ) It is said that Google is like a university — and not just because everyone eats their lunch off trays in the cafeteria. Like a university, we devote significant energy to research across a wide array of subjects — from semantics to help improve search, to ways we can improve the efficiency of ...

19. TouchMouse Controls Your Computer's Mouse and Keyboard via iPhone or iPod touch  permalink

TouchMouse Controls Your Computer's Mouse and Keyboard via iPhone or iPod touch
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iPhone/iPod touch: TouchMouse is a free application for the iPhone/iPod touch that, when paired with its accompanying control software on your Mac or Windows computer, turns your touchscreen into a mouse and keyboard. Once you download the software to your iPhone or iPod touch and pair it with the server software—Logitech has versions of ...

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TouchMouse Controls Your Computer's Mouse and Keyboard via iPhone or iPod touch BackOff Shortens Long iPhone and iPod touch Sync Sessions   —  iPhone/iPod touch: If you carry a ton of stuff around on your iPhone or iPod touch, you know syncing it can take forever. BackOff turns off iTunes' automatic backup process so you can sync faster. Okay, before you go galloping off to download this slick free utility, let's go over the most important point one more time. BackOff prevents iTunes ...

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The EPA reports that 82% of electronics disposal in 2007 ended up in the garbage (mostly landfills) rather than a recycling center. (source: EPA, July 2008)

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