NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it'll start with pizza
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NASA is funding research into 3D-printed food. Mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor received a $125,000 grant from the agency to build a prototype 3D printer with the aim of automating food creation. It's hoped the system could provide astronauts food during long-distance space travel, but its creator has the loftier...
Apple Avoids Overseas Taxes, Panel Finds
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Apple paid little to no corporate income tax to any nation on tens of billions of dollars in income over the past four years, Senate investigators disclosed ahead of a hearing on Tuesday....
Tornadoes in America: The Oklahoma Disaster in Context
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Action News 5 - Memphis, Tennessee A massive and powerful tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma this afternoon, causing widespread destruction, including at least 51 deaths. It's the deadliest tornado since 2011, and one of the worst in the last 20 years. Moore has a deep and tragic tornado legacy. The town could probably...
Galaxy S 4 Active caught on camera again, reported specs are lower than regular GS4 (video)
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First came the model number mentions, then the pictures, and now Samsung's rumored and rugged Galaxy S 4 Active has been caught on film. In a situation that screams "controlled leak," MobileTechReview appears to have handled exactly the same tethered unit we've seen snaps of, and says the device...
Opera for Android drops the beta, available on the Play store now
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If your ears perked up when you heard about Opera for Android going WebKit, but were holding out for the final, non-beta version, then that wait is over. More recent features of the browser include the option to toggle the nav-bar location, text-wrapping when zooming and a full screen...
Now you can tour the whole of Taiwan without losing your Internet connection, for free
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Internet connection while travelling overseas is a huge boon – you can find your way with Google Maps, suss out must-eats nearby you, and check the weather so you don’t get drenched in rain while hiking up a mountain. Taiwan’s government has just made it easier for tourists by extending...
There's An Audacious Plan To End Hunger With 3-D Printed Food
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Anjan Contractor's 3D food printer might evoke visions of the "replicator" popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. And indeed Contractor's company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, just got a six month, $125,000 grant from NASA to create a prototype of his universal food synthesizer. But...
Guantanamo Wi-Fi shuttered after Anonymous hacking threat
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In unity with the prison's inmates, the hacking group pledges to disrupt online activities at Guantanamo -- prompting the U.S. military to shut down the bases' Wi-Fi. [Read more]...
Silicon Valley's Perverse Disincentives To Make Money
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$1.1 billion. That's how much your company is worth if it's long on users and short on paying customers. Just ask Tumblr. Or Instagram. Each yanked down billion-dollar acquisitions despite making virtually no revenue. Is this a big deal? Acquihires And Billion-Dollar Payouts Some seem to think so. At...
Here comes the thinner, lighter iPad?
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After two generations of relatively hefty 9.7-inch iPads, Apple may finally be ready to ship a lighter "iPad 5." [Read more]...
Newspaper Companies Invest Another $9M In Local Deal Startup Wanderful Media
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Wanderful Media has raised another $9 million from the long list of newspaper and media companies that were already backing the startup and its local deal service Find&Save. The announcement comes after the relaunch of Find&Save last month. The service allows readers to browse deals aggregated from newspaper circulars, retailers,...
CellMaps by Mosaik brings accurate, detailed coverage maps to Android
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Sometimes in the mobile world, selecting a carrier isn't determined so much by devices or plans, but rather which provider best suits your coverage needs. Sadly, the map tools on carrier websites are needlessly painful, and most coverage apps that you'll find rely on crowd-sourced data -- great if...
Customers not as happy with iPhone as they were last year
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The American Customer Satisfaction Index shows Apple remains on top, but it's declining while Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung are rising. [Read more]...
Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model
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Recent activity on the Web site. Buying Tumblr isn't the only big thing that Yahoo has done today. Flickr, the photo storage and sharing site bought by Yahoo way back in 2005, has been brought into the 21st century with a new look, new pricing, and a new Android...
Pirate movie sites blocked in UK
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Big UK net firms have begun blocking access to two movie streaming sites accused of flouting copyright laws....
New York City issues $2,400 fine for renting on Airbnb, but the law is still unclear
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Nigel Warren, the New York tenant who ended up in trouble with the city after renting his room out on Airbnb, just got some bad news. A judge on the city’s Environmental Control Board (ECB), which arbitrates these matters, has found Warren’s landlord guilty of the violation and fined...
Powermat acquires PowerKiss, plans European wireless charging rollout
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Well, we can't say we didn't see this one coming. News that PowerKiss, the Helsinki-based wireless charging company, joined the Power Matters Alliance (PMA) hit in March. Even then, there was a chance that the manufacturer would continue supporting Qi, in addition to PMA. As of today, though, any...
Spotify launching Top 50 streaming charts on Tuesday
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A year ago, Billboard announced that it would start including Spotify data in its Hot 100 charts, and now the Swedish streaming service is breaking out on its own. The Wall Street Journal reports that Spotify is launching its own charts called the Spotify 50 and Social 50 on...
This Strange Dutchman With A Giant Orange Van 'Nearly Broke The Internet'
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The day Sven Olaf Kamphuis parked his huge orange Mercedes van with its German numberplates outside Bar Javis, in the Catalan town of Granollers, the owner's son snapped a picture with his mobile phone. "Not a lot happens in this street," Maria Cruz, the bar's owner, explained. "And it was...
Opera for Android exits beta, ready to take on Chrome
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Less than three months after launching in beta, Opera for Android is ready for the masses. Based on the popular WebKit engine, Opera for Android isn't drastically different from other Android browsers, but it does carry over a few popular features from the desktop version. Headline features include the...
Yahoo unveils the new Flickr with one terabyte of free space
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Yahoo has just announced a complete redesign of Flickr at its New York City event — the new site is live now and it comes with one terabyte of free photo space. Yahoo SVP Adam Cahan just made the announcement and said that "Flickr had become about words, little...
Mobile | Google Glass: Coming Soon to a Cubicle Near You?
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Apple didn't originally market the iPhone or the iPad as business tools, but that's exactly what they've become. So what about Google Glass? Is it the next enterprise Trojan Horse?...
Exclusive: LogMeIn launches AppGuru to help IT wrangle consumer apps
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LogMeIn, the company behind user-friendly web conferencing, screen sharing service and a Dropbox alternative, is about to add identity and application management capabilities to its menu. On Tuesday, the Boston-based company is launching a preview of AppGuru which aims to help IT deal with the burgeoning bring-your-own-application (BYOA) craze which...
SAP to bring in autistic workers as software testers and programmers
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Following successful pilots, SAP will step up its hiring of people on the autistic spectrum, the German business software firm has announced. Working with an outfit called Specialisterne, the company will bring in hundreds of autistic staff around the world to work in fields such as software testing, programming and...
Children of US immigrants are dying younger than their parents, studies show
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Conventional wisdom holds that children of US immigrants should lead more prosperous lives than their foreign-born parents, but recent research shows that when it comes to health, first-generation Americans are actually faring worse. As the New York Times reports, several studies have exposed an alarming discrepancy in the life...
Mario Testino to "The Scream" via Mark Rothko
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Every day on the Art Project Google+ page we post a snippet of information about a painting, an artist or a talk—and every day, at least one of our 4 million followers has something to say in response. We’re constantly delighted by how the appetite for art online is growing...
Science-Backed Ecommerce Recommendation Startup Uncovet Raises $1.3M
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Uncovet, a startup that wants to be the recommendation engine for indie designer clothing and accessories, has raised $1.3 million from Javelin Venture Partners, Siemer Ventures, and L.A. angel investor Paige Craig. A graduate of Science, Uncovet is an accessories and home décor site that is building a style graph...
Apple's Tax-Dodging Techniques Do Indeed Sound Quite Spectacular
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is going to get raked over the coals by Congress for the company's spectacular tax-dodging techniques. No one is suggesting that any of these techniques are illegal. No one is suggesting that Apple is doing anything that any number of other massive multi-national companies aren't doing....
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