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Happy or sad? You might not see that ad, if Microsoft Kinect can figure out your mood
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A while back we reported about a Microsoft patent application for a system that would scan your posts on Facebook and other social media (with your permission, presumably) to deduce your mood, interests, and possibly even your intelligence, to help deliver search results more suited to you. Now the company...
Another Likely Physical Mockup of Next iPhone Offers a Realistic Look
www.macrumors.com
Gizmodo points to a newly-discovered product page from case manufacturer Shenzhen Coolzone Technology displaying what appears to be a high-quality physical mockup matching up with rumors and leaked parts for the next-generation "iPhone 5". Case manufacturers have become increasingly sophisticated with their physical mockups created for design and testing of...
Popular video sharing app Viddy officially hits Facebook’s Timeline
thenextweb.com
Facebook is hanging out at SXSW today and showing off some of its new Open Graph partners at its office in Austin. One of them is Viddy, which we referred to as the “Instagram for video” when it launched in April last year. With over 1.6M monthly active users, the...
Behance launches redesign for showcasing & discovering talent right from tap
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Behance, a popular platform for sharing and finding creative work, has just launched a handsome redesign that makes discovering talent and inspiration so much easier. The site has long housed work from some of the most compelling designers alive, and this redesign fine tunes everything without ditching its core. The...
Drained rivers, nuclear-proof cities, and other retro-futuristic visions of New York
www.theverge.com
It's always interesting to see how people from the past envisioned the future, and Oobject has gathered up a series of images that provide a glimpse at retro-futuristic versions of New York City that never were. You can see everything from Manhattan covered with a geodesic dome, to the...
Moog Music tacks on Grateful Dead expansion pack to Animoog 2.0 for $4.99 (video)
www.engadget.com
Late last week, Moog Music rolled out version 2.0 of its Animoog synthesizer app for Apple's slate. Now, the Asheville, North Carolina outfit is adding a truckload of new sounds less than a week after the initial release. The Grateful Dead Expansion Pack is now available for the iPad...
Samsung delays Pebble Blue Galaxy S III over defects
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You’ll have to wait a few weeks if you had your heart set on a Pebble Blue Galaxy S III — Samsung announced this morning that the blue version of its new phone will be in limited supply for the next few weeks, as the company works out some...
The Worst-Dressed Competition
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Style is important, especially when it comes to your career. A killer interview ensemble could help you snag your next job. A leather briefcase or pair of new suede kicks might give you the confidence to ask for that promotion. We're all too familiar with the coworker who comes into...
Prepaid carriers Boost and Virgin launch new Android smartphones: Galaxy S II, Galaxy Reverb
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Prepaid carriers Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile are getting their own LTE Samsung Galaxy phones, set to arrive in September. Boost will be getting the Samsung Galaxy S II 4G, a WiMAX-enabled version of the near-ubiquitous smartphone alongside a few other Samsung devices. Virgin Mobile will begin offering the...
Media Center to live in a separate version of Windows 8?
www.engadget.com
To the surprise of many, but not all, the same great Windows Media Center from Windows 7 was part of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview. What this means for the final version of Windows 8 is still far from known, however, Winunleaked offers up a new clue with the...
BlackBerry 10 hands-on (video)
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Like any good show pony, BlackBerry 10's been trotting around the world, strutting the fairly limited elements of its known UI in an effort to court developers. The platform, without question the nail upon which RIM's fate and fortune hangs, had its big coming out party this past May...
Today's Glimpse Into the World of Software-Writing
www.theatlantic.com
Two years ago, Mark Bernstein was part of the stellar guest-blogger team in this space, when I was holed up in China in a fever of book-writing. In his day job, Mark Bernstein is the head of Eastgate software and the creator of a program I use every day, Tinderbox.He...
Researchers develop femtosecond laser that can diagnose, blast cancerous tumors
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Researchers at the University of Tennessee's Center for Laser Applications have developed a femtosecond laser that can non-invasively diagnose, map, irradiate and burn cancerous tumors. Utilizing a beam that pulses at one-quadrillionth of a second, the technology is able to seek out growths and obliterate them with an increased...
$20 billion of ambition: meet Masayoshi Son, Sprint suitor and SoftBank CEO
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By Jeff Blagdon and Sam Byford When Sprint CEO Dan Hesse — a tower of a man — took the stage in Tokyo on Monday to shake the hand of his comically shorter boss-to-be, it was the first time many in the West had gotten a glimpse of the enigmatic...
Hands-on with the Nyx Mobile Lyuba Max and Fun mockups
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When PR reps have something they think is truly special, things can get a little cloak and dagger. While we were hanging around the Nyx Mobile booth, a rep quietly sneaked up on us, to offer a glimpse of two new handset his company is working on. When we...
Google Play Services code peek fuels rumors of a game framework
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Android may be improving its reputation as a gaming platform, but there isn't a consistent, official service that can tie everything together -- Google has no parallel to Xbox Live or Game Center. That might be changing, if Android Police's snooping around the Google Play Services component of the...
Shedding some realistic light on Imagination's real-time ray tracing card
arstechnica.com
Imagination Technology's Caustic R2500 real-time ray tracing card wants to bring better lighting to your 3D renders, and it's just the beginning. Chris Foresman Imagination Technologies is one of those companies simultaneously ubiquitous and invisible. Its PowerVR graphics processors drive high-profile electronics like Sony's PlayStation Vita, Apple's iPhones and...
Glimpse makes Like buttons useful, ties them to price alerts
gigaom.com
Retailers have plastered their sites with Facebook “Like” buttons but the payoff hasn’t always been that rewarding for consumers or retailers. But Glimpse, a new Pinterest-style Facebook application powered by Likes, is now making the ubiquitous button a lot more useful by tying universal price alerts to it. Glimpse users...
There's A New BlackBerry Ad That Takes Over Your iPhone Or Android's Screen (BBRY, GOOG, AAPL)
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BlackBerry released an online demonstration of its new BlackBerry 10 operating system today that takes over the screen of your iPhone or Android. You can check out the demo by going to blackberry.com/glimpse on your phone's browser. It'll walk you through some of BlackBerry 10's best features like multitasking, the...
Steve Jobs details drug use, phone hacking, and more in Department of Defense docs
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Earlier this year the FBI released details from a background investigation on Steve Jobs, and now Wired has acquired a new document from the Department of Defense that provides a further glimpse into his early years. The document was filled out at some point during the late 1980s, and...
World's smallest 4K display is 9.6 inches in size, boasts a 458ppi pixel density
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The tablet equivalent of LG's 440ppi 5-inch 1080p screen — deployed so far for HTC's J Butterfly handset — may soon be upon us thanks to Japanese display company Ortus Technology. Nikkei Tech-On reports that the firm has successfully developed a 9.6-inch LCD with a resolution of 3,840 x...
See President Obama's inaugural weekend from space
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Astronaut Chris Hadfield this week published new aerial photos of Washington, DC, just ahead of President Barack Obama's inauguration on Monday. Captured from aboard NASA's International Space Station, the photos were taken on Saturday during the day and evening, providing an overhead glimpse of the city's inaugural weekend preparations....
Leaked HTC Sense 5 screenshots suggest a leaner, cleaner skin
www.engadget.com
Did yesterday's uncertain glimpse at a new HTC phone leave you wanting? Then grab a tray and find a seat, because the right-hand image above comes from XDA developer mdeejay, who claims to have a working port of the forthcoming Sense 5 skin. On the left, we've stuck up...
This week in Crave: The fixer-upper edition
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This week, we caught a glimpse of Sony's new Walkmans, got in line early for the cat-video film festival, and begged Marissa Mayer to fix Flickr. [Read more]...
Oracle Previews MySQL 5.6
www.pcworld.com
Offering a glimpse of the new features some database administrators will be working with before too long, Oracle has posted a preview version of the next MySQL......
Google Toying With A New Hangout UI With Bigger Icons, Pointing To A Touchscreen-Friendly Interface
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Google has been sprucing up its Hangouts video calling service with an updated API for features like private messages, and the ability to block people and change a Hangout from private to public. A video celebrating Hangouts gives us a glimpse of even more changes that could be coming up ahead. Specifically, a...
How much is a tweet worth? About 1/10,000 as much as a Yelp review
venturebeat.com
Tweets, status updates, pins, check-ins: They may seem trivial to you, but they’re valuable content to social networking companies. For example: Next time you make an update in Path, consider that you just helped that company make 50 cents in revenue. Just how much value do you represent to...
Visualized: A look inside Moog's analog synthesizer factory
www.engadget.com
While we're waiting for Moogfest to officially kick off this weekend, we stopped by the headquarters of Moog Music in Asheville, North Carolina to catch a glimpse of the analog action. The entire company is housed in one building that includes design, assembly, testing, engineering, service and a warehouse...
Apple refutes claim they cribbed notes from Sony, reveal prototype "Purple"
www.theverge.com
When we last checked in on the Apple vs Samsung trial, filings revealed Samsung's aggressive plans to beat Apple, but also suggested a glimpse at Apple's Sony-inspired design process. Apple claims otherwise: the latest documents have revealed prototype "Purple," a concept device that bears all of the hallmarks of...
Oracle previews MySQL 5.6
www.computerworld.com
Offering a glimpse of the new features some database administrators will be working with before too long, Oracle has posted a preview version of the next MySQL relational database management system....
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