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Data without context is dirt
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Data, I believe is like plastic. You can use it to make wonderful things. However, like plastic, it can be a great polluter and create havoc on the environment. Or as I like to say, data without context is dirt. Brad Feld captured this dark side of data in...
Contour's new mount, watersports kits help bring its cameras with you in the water, snow or dirt
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As Contour continues to do battle with GoPro over the action-sport POV camera market, its latest offensive centers around prepackaged activity-specific mount kits that should make it easier for customers to pick one up and go. Also new is an all-in-one ContourRoam watersports kit that includes the HD camera...
Yanked Documentation Suggests That Amazon May Be Ready For A Kindle Debut In China
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Ben Chiang, is an editor at TechNode, a bilingual blog based in China. Are Amazon’s Kindle tablets and e-readers ready to break into the world’s biggest market? We’ve spotted some Chinese Help documentation for Amazon Kindle devices on the company’s China-facing site in a sign that they may be coming for real this time. Even though...
Unbelievably Cheap Amazon Cloud Prices Get Even Cheaper (AMZN)
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When was the last time your utility company told you they were reducing fees? For gazillions of startups and enterprises using Amazon's cloud for storage, that's the news they got today. As of February 1, Amazon is reducing fees by 12-13%. Usually, a company will reduce prices to attract...
Panasonic's hair-washing robot exterminates dirt, unauthorized humans (video)
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Panasonic is now testing its hair-washing robot at a salon in Nishinomiya, Japan. Designed to care for the elderly or the physically less-able, it sprays water, shampoo and conditioner over your bonce while 24 robotic fingers knead at your scalp. The company claims that it offers a more satisfying...
How to Share Your Business Photos Online - Discreetly
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You have just returned from a corporate retreat or some other business event that was well-documented with several amateur photographers. Now you want to share all of these pictures amongst your co-workers. The challenge is that you want to keep them private to the participants and not plaster them...
ION Air Pro POV camera: shoot on the piste, upload to the cloud, we go hands-on (video)
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You might think the POV / action sports camera world has been a bit of a two horse race recently. That could all change, however, now ION has muscled into the scene with its Air Pro HD sports camera. The firm's dabbled with handy cameras before, but now it's...
Sharp Cocorobo vacuum avoids obstacles, embraces small talk
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With iRobot cleaning up in the robotic vacuum game, it's only logical that some major manufacturers like LG and Samsung want a piece of the dirt sucking action. Sharp has gotten into the game as well -- though the company's 'bot goes the extra mile for cleanliness. Cocorobo TX-V100...
"Patriotic hacktivist" The Jester unmasked—or maybe it's a big troll
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The alleged DM exchange threatening The Jester with exposure. The vigilante hacker who made a name for himself harassing Anonymous, disrupting WikiLeaks, and stalking “jihadist” sites is apparently laying low after threats to expose his real identity were made via Twitter on May 11. The person claiming to have...
Roomba 790's Wireless Command Center lets you obliterate dirt from afar
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iRobot is calling the latest Roomba its "most advanced robot yet," thanks to a number of new features to the 700 series that extend beyond the 790's redesigned faceplate. Chief amongst them is the Wireless Command Center, an oblong remote control useable from anywhere in the home that lets...
iRobot Introduces The $699 Roomba 790, The First Roomba With A Wireless Remote
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The Roomba 790 is iRobot’s smartest vacuuming robot yet. Complete with a redesigned look, the 790 features a host of swanky new features including a wireless command center that allows owners to steer their little cleaning robotic slave around the house. Never owning a Roomba I often imagine their haphazard...
The Fieldfolio is a beautiful case for your new iPad that doesn’t sacrifice toughness
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Finding the right folio case for an iPad has become a bit easier of a proposition since the first model came out two years ago. There are now several companies like Pad & Quill and DODOCase, that make very nice options for those who want that ‘book like’ feel for...
The Steve Jobs 'Reality Distortion Field' Even Makes It Into His FBI File
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The late Apple leader's 1991 FBI file is now part of the public record. When Steve Jobs was up for an appointment to the President's Export Council in 1991, the Federal Bureau of Investigation did what it does for all such appointments and went looking for dirt. They want to...
Battlefield 4 set to launch in late 2013
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EA and DICE spill the dirt on Battlefield 4, and share some more details on the next Battlefield 3 expansion, Armored Kill. [Read more]...
Apple Is Selling iPad 2s For Dirt Cheap (AAPL)
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The iPad 2 has only gotten more and more affordable since the release of the new iPad and now you can score one for as little as $320 for the 16 GB model. Yes, they're refurbished models, but don't let that turn you off. They come with all the same...
Koubachi Wi-Fi plant sensor detects temperature and water needs, pre-order units now shipping
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Koubachi's Wi-Fi enabled plant sensor, which launched at CeBIT, has started shipping its first pre-order units across Europe. The roughly €125 gadget goes in the dirt around a plant and connects to a Wi-Fi network. From there, it measures temperature, light, and soil moisture, then sends the data to...
Chatterbox: Monday
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The place to talk about games and other things that matterIt's Monday again, isn't it? How was your weekend? Give us all the dirt about the Chatterbox summer meet-up on Saturday! GamesKeith Stuartguardian.co.uk © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of...
“In the Studio,” Prismatic’s Bradford Cross Wants to Reinvent Social News
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Editor’s Note: TechCrunch columnist Semil Shah is based in Palo Alto. You can follow him on Twitter @semil “In the Studio” continues this week by welcoming an engineer who founded a company that predicted flight delays, has gone through Y Combinator, began his career building trading software for an asset management firm, and most...
France’s Wi-Fi gates swing open: Free Mobile activates 4M hotspots
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France’s Free Mobile launched with enormous hoopla in January, offering dirt-cheap mobile voice and data plans that far undercut its competitors, but it sat on a key component of its innovative mobile strategy until today. On Thursday, Free’s parent Iliad announced that it has opened up its 4 million-hotspot community...
I'm In Love With The Robot That Cleans My House (IRBT)
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Last week, sitting at my desk in our office at 4:15 PM, I elbowed one of my colleagues and told him, "I've had a robot vacuuming my apartment for the last fifteen minutes." My colleague groaned because I've been testing iRobot's Roomba 790 for five days. For schlubs like me...
Kickstarter project promises dirt-cheap smartphone video stabilization
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Expected to sell for under $20, the SlingShot gives you a steadier grip when shooting movies. It doubles as a tripod mount and triples as an actual tripod. [Read more]...
Dirt-cheap alternatives to the Google Nexus Q
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Before you plunk down $300 on Google's new media-streaming orb, consider the many other products that do a lot more for a lot less. [Read more]...
Sprint to offer Gingerbread on the cheap with ZTE Fury
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Expected to arrive in but a few days time, the ZTE handset should make for a dirt-cheap Android. [Read more]...
Dirt-cheap dSLRs (roundup)
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If all you can spend is $500 for a body and lens, you don't have many options, but you do have a few. [Read more]...
DailyDirt: National Robotics Week -- Save The Bots!
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The third annual National Robotics Week is currently underway, if you didn't get the memo. The second week of April was officially designated for robotics in 2010 by House Resolution 1055. If you haven't hugged your robot today, it's about time you did, perhaps. A full calendar of events is...
Forza Horizon drifts onto Xbox 360 this fall
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Forza Horizon, a spin-off from Turn 10's hardcore racing and car customizing sim, is in development at Playground Games, Microsoft revealed during a recent Xbox 360 showcase. The game was described at the event as a "wing" of the core franchise, which a live-action "tone trailer" seems to support....
Paul Ceglia, Man Suing Facebook, Asks Judge for Time to Dig Up More on Zuck
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A hearing is scheduled for today in the case of Paul Ceglia vs. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg and Facebook Inc., in which the deck seemed stacked against the hapless schemer who claims to own half the company based on an old contract. Mr. Ceglia's profesh new legal team, which came on...
Ex-Olympus CEO Woodford expects more revelations
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Ex-Olympus CEO turned whistleblower Michael Woodford expects that official investigations into the massive $1.7 billion financial scandal will yield further damaging revelations, reports Reuters. Although Olympus tooks steps to have a third-party investigate the 13-year investment losses long cover-up, Woodford expects that Japanese, British and US law enforcement agencies will...
Fish Tales evolves into Fantastic Fishies
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Fantastic Fishies is a new iOS game from Kama Games. The new title is an updated version of Everywhere Inc’s Fish Tales, which we reviewed back in February. Fish Tales is still available on the App Store, but starting it now simply directs players to download and play Fantastic Fishies...
Laocoön
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Suppose you dropped your phone — a real fall, like from the second story — and it broke. You’re picking up the pieces, cursing and trying to think of the last time you backed up your contacts, when you notice something. Deep within the phone’s hardware, hidden from everyday use,...
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