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The Emotionally Powerful ‘Cargo’ is a Must See Short Film
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Facebook Launcher? Someone please say this is an April Fool’s gag.
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Windows Phone 7.8 is Actually Pretty Okay
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Yahoo set to buy Tumblr for $1.1B; Mayer promises “not to screw it up”
It’s not every day that one of Web 1.0′s largest players buys up another company in an all cash deal, but with one looping .GIF, Yahoo announced that its board had given the okay to buy up Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Cash. For those of you keeping score at home, that figure is roughly a [...]
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Will we see Nokia’s “Catwalk” at their May 14th event?
There have been plenty rumors of a new Lumia handset making its way to consumers in the coming months. The general consensus seems to be a change in design language, opting for an aluminum case instead of the now signature polycarbonate unibody design. According to a report from The Verge, the rumored phone, (pictured at [...]
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The Emotionally Powerful ‘Cargo’ is a Must See Short Film
The ability to tell a story in film without words is almost a lost art, though, there are moments that carry-on the traditions of the original great directors like Charlie Chaplin, Paperman, which recently won an Oscar for Best Animated Short film in 2013, and Cargo, which is a finalist in this year’s Australian Tropfest [...]
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Facebook Launcher? Someone please say this is an April Fool’s gag.
For the last few weeks, Facebook had been rumored to be making a big April announcement. Now with just a few days before the big reveal, the good folks at AndroidPolice seem to have gotten their hands on the APK of the upcoming Facebook phone. The short version of this story goes something like this – [...]
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Windows Phone 7.8 is Actually Pretty Okay
Early in 2012 Microsoft broke many hearts when they announced that current Windows Phone 7 users would not be able to upgrade to the new hotness, Windows Phone 8. As a consolation prize, the Windows Phone faithful would get an update, version 7.8, that would bring some of Windows Phone 8′s features like the new [...]
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Redo-Review: Diamonds are Forever
Posted March 25, 2013 @ 8:00 pm CST by Matt Zupka
To the Summary! James Bond goes after some hot ice (that’s stolen diamonds). Along the way he runs into an odd pair of assassins Oh, and Blofeld makes a return. To the Cast! Sean Connery – James Bond Jill St. John – Tiffany Case Charles Grey – Blofeld Putter Smith – Mr. Kidd Bruce Glover [...]
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T-Mobile: Will becoming the “un-carrier” be enough to bring in new customers
Posted March 25, 2013 @ 2:05 pm CST by Alberto Lima
Let’s clear the air here; we hate being tied down to our cellular blood contracts. It’s nothing more than a practice to keep us locked into a carrier with the temptation of a new piece of hardware every couple of years. Sure, on the surface it seems like you get this year’s top-of-the-line phone at [...]
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Bragging rights – new dinosaur species named after 5-year-old who discovered it
Posted March 20, 2013 @ 5:44 pm CST by Alberto Lima
So what have you done in your life dear reader? Maybe you graduated high school a year or two early. Impressive. Maybe you’re sitting on a doctorate or some other personal accomplishment; sorry to break it to you, you’re never going to be as cool as nine-year-old Daisy Morris who just had a confirmed new [...]
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Posterous is dead, save your account!
Posted March 18, 2013 @ 1:14 pm CST by Kevin Jones
About a year ago, you may recall hearing that Twitter had acquired Posterous Spaces. Twitter has been on a tear buying up platforms like Posterous and Tweetdeck for quite some time now, to get rid of competition, to quell the growth of features they deem “not official”, to add features they need to stay competitive (Vine, [...]
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T-Mobile suffering data service outages
Posted March 18, 2013 @ 11:02 am CST by Alberto Lima
Have you noticed that you haven’t received an email, status update, or been able to streaming music for the last 12 hours or so? Well if you’re on the Magenta network it’s because they’re suffering a major service disruption. We called up T-Mobile and were able to determined that the epicenter of the outage is [...]
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The Death of Google Reader May Breathe New Life Into Digg
Posted March 14, 2013 @ 3:49 pm CST by Alberto Lima
This morning the internet was beside itself; as part of Google’s ongoing paring down of their “side” projects, Google announced that they will be pulling the plug on Google Reader effective July 1st. The announcement was immediately met with the ire and scorn of nerds everywhere. For the uninitiated, RSS readers are an aggregate of [...]
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LG to Samsung: “We Troll Hard”
Posted March 14, 2013 @ 10:55 am CST by Alberto Lima
As we’ve known for some time, today is Samsung’s big Galaxy S 4 announcement day and they’ve spared no expense: a big presentation at the world famous Radio City Music Hall in New York City, as well as a huge billboard in the middle of Times Square. Some companies however, just want to see their [...]
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A new chief Android
Posted March 13, 2013 @ 3:02 pm CST by Alberto Lima
Big news coming out of Mountain View today; Google has officially announced that long-time head of Android was stepping down. To mark the occasion, Google took a brief stroll down memory lane citing some of Rubin’s accomplishments since becoming a Googler. Probably most notable was Rubin’s reining in the various flavors of Android by implementing [...]
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It may be Spring Break lull time, but there is a new Star Wars! Comics for 3-13-2013
Posted March 13, 2013 @ 1:00 pm CST by Kevin Jones
Slow week this go around, seems the Spring Break scheduling blues the TV networks get effects the publishers as well. ON WITH THE SHOW! Batgirl #18 (DC) This week’s Batgirl deals with the aftermath of the “Death in the Family” storyline that has been tearing through the Bat-verse these past few months. Of note is [...]
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OsteoFab, 3-D Printed Skull Implant, successfully implanted in patient
Posted March 8, 2013 @ 11:43 am CST by Alberto Lima
Today, News.com.au reports that an un-named man has successfully received the first 3-D printed implant; a success that will no doubt change the way we treat head trauma patients in the future. By using 3-D printing technology and a polyetherketoneketone implant, surgeons were able to replace 75 per-cent of the man’s skull. The highly customized implant is [...]
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