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Mar 6th 4:00pm by Kyle VanHemert
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This is upsetting. A South Korean couple was arrested for starving their baby to death, reportedly only feeding him once a day after marathon sessions at an internet cafe. What was keeping them so busy? Their virtual baby. Yeah. The couple, who met on the...
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Mar 6th 7:40am by Rosa Golijan
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This man is tightening a mold in a Samsung factory in Kaluga, Russia. Inside that mold is a portion of what will soon be a television. Let's take a tour of the rest of the factory. gawkerGallery(5486964,12,''); Samsung opened this particular factory in...
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Mar 6th 7:00am by Brian Barrett
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Mar 6th 6:20am by Kyle VanHemert
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First, man made the analog clock. Then he made the digital clock. Then, just because he could, he made the funky cross between the two that looks like a digital clock but has moving mechanical parts like an analog one. Art Lebedev, the patron saint of...
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Mar 6th 5:55am by Rosa Golijan
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While he was talking about cloud computing yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a casual remark about the future of the Xbox. Apparently there might be new form factors, options, and price points coming: In the case of the TV we've got both...
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Mar 6th 5:40am by Rosa Golijan
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The Maldives, a small nation consisting of 1,200 islands is gradually disappearing as sea levels rise. In an attempt to save the place, their government has signed off on the development of several "floating facilities" like this one. Dutch...
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Mar 6th 4:00am by John Herrman
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Every year, Hanover, Germany hosts hordes of tech journalists, analysts, and PR people for CeBIT. It's like CES, sort of, except further away, and more boring. We decided not to go this year; it ends tomorrow. Here's what we missed! To be clear, these...
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Mar 6th 2:00am by Brian Barrett and Kyle VanHemert
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Apple's lawsuit against HTC made one thing clear: Steve. Jobs. Will. Cut You. And with all the patents they've got? Nobody's safe. Here's who's next on the subpoena warpath: Patent #8,567,301: A Process to Cryogenically Microbead Pasteurized Dairy...
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Mar 6th 12:00am by David Chaid
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Check out three new Windows laptops to suit every style. The ultraportable ThinkPad X201, the Asus N71, and the new Dell Latitude. ThinkPad X201 This ultraportable features new Core i5 and i7 processors along with a host of other options making it worth...
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Mar 5th 10:00pm by Kevin Lee
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Great day for bargain hunters with a grab bag of 50 random DC comics, there's the discounted Battlefield 2 on PC for anyone itching to get their vehicular combat on, and even better is a Samsung bluetooth headset for free! Top Deals: • 50 Random DC...
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Mar 5th 8:00pm by Jesus Diaz
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In March 3, 1916, the US Congress founded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, only a 12 years after the Wright Brothers' first ever flight. In 1920, they built their first wind tunnel. And in 1958, it became NASA. Initially, NACA was created...
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Mar 5th 6:00pm by Adam Frucci
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This week's Photoshop Contest was inspired by this magical website: turn today's modern gadgets into utilitarian, Soviet-era devices. No fanciness, just cold usefulness. Send your best entries to me at contests@gizmodo.com with Soviet Gadgets in the...
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Mar 5th 4:00pm by Mark Wilson
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At the moment, our choice of lighting is fairly committal. We drill holes in our ceilings for permanent placements of bulbs. But LEDs open all sorts of other possibilities.It's not hard to imagine a ceiling covered in RGB LEDs, like Seo Dong-Hun's Draw...
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Mar 5th 2:02pm by Kat Hannaford
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This isn't a Nexus One celebrating Gay Pride month—it's CNET Crave UK's broken Google phone. According to HTC's technical support, "they don't go in pockets," lest the screen gets cracked. Only thing is, Crave UK swears up and down the Nexus One...
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Mar 5th 11:43am by Kat Hannaford
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Waking up to fresh photos of an unofficial phone is always welcome, but I do wish all these spyshots of the HTC Incredible would be accompanied with a bit of meat. Some bacon for my breakfast, you could say. It's already shown up in Verizon Wireless'...