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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsMacGyver and Maxwell Smart had a plethora of tricks up their sleeves (or shoes, as it were), but they never had this. One Paul Kelly and colleagues at Loughborough University have discovered that a disulfur dinitride polymer can...
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The ClockingIT webapp is a hosted, open-source solution to managing team-oriented projects. The robust features in ClockingIT might be overkill for a single worker, but when applied to a team yield a gold mine of management tools and report generation....
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Almost immediately after last Tuesday's election, pundits crawled out of the woodwork to make the case that 2008 was 1992 all over again, and that to be succesful, Barack Obama needed to avoid the mistakes made by Bill Clinton that led to the disastrous...
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Nov 10th 4:55pm by ml@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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Cyren Call says it needs a raise if it's going to stay on as consultant to the FCC's public safety broadband network. Meanwhile California and Northrop Grumman have lots to say about interoperability and access pricing.Read More...
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The New Yorker has an interesting article by John Seabrook about researchers who study the brains of psychopaths: "Suffering Souls." The scanner was housed in a tractor-trailer parked behind the prison’s I.D. center. We followed a correctional officer...
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The United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Poznań, Poland, 1-12 December 2008. The goal of the meeting is to move from "discussion to negotiation mode in 2009- prior to the later scheduled Copenhagen Denmark meeting", "at which the...
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Limited-edition Wall-e Roomba: that brings to mind a certain image of an already-fairly-cute vacuum bot taking on two puppy dog eyes, an adorable electro-babble voice synth and maybe even an inclination to maintain a little nest of sad artifacts it has...
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Filed under: Cellphones According to a report from NPD, sales of cellphones have shifted in a manner which should shock and stun even a casual observer. Apparently for the first time in years, Motorola's ubiquitous RAZR has been overtaken in consumer...
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Electronics retailer Circuit City has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, one week after announcing the closing of more than 150 of its 721 U.S. stores. It doesn't look good for the chain's future, so gift card holders should get working toward a zero...
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Nov 7th 9:35pm by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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Incumbent ISPs believe that having local governments lay down locally-owned fiber infrastructure is unfair competition, and they aren't ready to drop legal battles until every option is exhausted. Monticello, Minnesota is learning this the hard way.Read...
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Fellow named Chad Kimball calls the Chicago police, the city clerk, and the legal department to find out if he can raise chickens in the city. No one really seems to know. Does My City Allow Me to Raise Chickens? (Via Homegrown Evolution)...
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Photo: Getty Now that the election is over, some illuminating campaign trail gems are sneaking out. Apparently, Sarah Palin's clothing spending spree was much worse than first thought, John McCain's senior advisors privately knew he was finished by the...
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Often, when people carp about Mobile Firefox or Opera not being able to run on the iPhone 'cause of Apple's SDK restrictions, they'll point to Android and say "I can't wait for Mobile Firefox on Android" or some variation of that, since Android...
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Filed under: Laptops, Storage Today's corporate laptops tend to be bristling with security measures, able to uniquely identify your fingers and faces on top of whatever authentication measures your operating system offers. But, without some kind of...
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YouTube is making moves to open up to Hollywood interests. The first step is set to launch today, with full-length MGM movies and shows, including the classic Western The Magnificent Seven and the (original) American Gladiators, streaming with ads...