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▼FCC will consider 'free or very low cost wireless broadband' service - Engadget
Did you know there was a Digital Inclusion Summit going on? We already know the FCC isn't best pleased about the fact 93 million Americans are making do without access to home broadband, and this latest event was an opportunity for it to dish some more info on its forthcoming National Broadband Plan. The major obstacles to broadband adoption identified by the FCC were noted as cost, computer il...Expand this post »
Did you know there was a Digital Inclusion Summit going on? We already know the FCC isn't best pleased about the fact 93 million Americans are making do without access to home broadband, and this latest event was an opportunity for it to dish some more info on its forthcoming National Broadband Plan. The major obstacles to broadband adoption identified by the FCC were noted as cost, computer il...Expand this post »
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Like▼Steampunk sequencer generates audio from Lego blocks - Engadget
In 2007, steampunk musician Yoshi Akai wrote his master's thesis on how to turn color into sound, and he's been dreaming up unorthodox ways of producing music ever since. Case in point: the Lego Sequencer MR II, a contraption that uses three-dimensional Lego structures to emulate a three-channel, eight-step sequencer, where each differently colored plastic brick produces a different sound and c...Expand this post »
In 2007, steampunk musician Yoshi Akai wrote his master's thesis on how to turn color into sound, and he's been dreaming up unorthodox ways of producing music ever since. Case in point: the Lego Sequencer MR II, a contraption that uses three-dimensional Lego structures to emulate a three-channel, eight-step sequencer, where each differently colored plastic brick produces a different sound and c...Expand this post »
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Like▼Intruders beat man, force school lockdown - The Turlock Journal - 95382 - Google News
Intruders beat man, force school lockdown The Turlock Journal A brazen home invasion robbery Tuesday afternoon caused a temporary lockdown at Crowell Elementary School and left one man hospitalized ... |
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Like▼I feel a lawsuit coming on - Engrish Funny: Engrish Pictures That Is Your Funny Engrish
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Michaelsoft Bindows We wonder what it really is Submitted by: Sibilance via Engrish Funny SubmissionsExpand this post »
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Like▼Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love - Ars Technica
Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why. There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads, then blocking them won't hurt a site financially. This is wrong. Most sites, at least sites the size of ours, are paid on a per view basis. If you have an ad block...Expand this post »
Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why. There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads, then blocking them won't hurt a site financially. This is wrong. Most sites, at least sites the size of ours, are paid on a per view basis. If you have an ad block...Expand this post »
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Like▼New in Labs: Refresh POP accounts - Gmail Blog
Posted by Emmanuel Pellereau, Software Engineer My little sister recently setup her Gmail account to retrieve messages from her school address, so she can check all of her email accounts in one...Expand this post »
Posted by Emmanuel Pellereau, Software Engineer My little sister recently setup her Gmail account to retrieve messages from her school address, so she can check all of her email accounts in one...Expand this post »
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Like▼Comic for March 4, 2010 - Dilbert Daily Strip
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Like▼Valve mystifies gamers with Portal update - Ars Technica
Portal's eerie symbolism was ramped up another notch this week when Valve announced a patch that has gamers playing what seems to be an alternate reality game within the platformer. The update to the game doesn't seem to include much new content at first glance, but what has been added is clearly only the beginning of a much bigger trip down Valve's latest rabbit hole. Today's announced update...Expand this post »
Portal's eerie symbolism was ramped up another notch this week when Valve announced a patch that has gamers playing what seems to be an alternate reality game within the platformer. The update to the game doesn't seem to include much new content at first glance, but what has been added is clearly only the beginning of a much bigger trip down Valve's latest rabbit hole. Today's announced update...Expand this post »
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Like▼Check out Olympic torches since 1936 to this day - Time Waster - Download Squad
Filed under: Fun, Time-Wasters, Education So, the Winter Olympic games were just concluded a few days ago. Did you have enough? No? Well, now you can reflect back to past Olympics with the New York Times' Flash retrospective of all past torches. You can see both Winter and Summer Games torches from 1936 till the present. Did you know that up until 1992, Summer and Winter games were both held...Expand this post »
Filed under: Fun, Time-Wasters, Education So, the Winter Olympic games were just concluded a few days ago. Did you have enough? No? Well, now you can reflect back to past Olympics with the New York Times' Flash retrospective of all past torches. You can see both Winter and Summer Games torches from 1936 till the present. Did you know that up until 1992, Summer and Winter games were both held...Expand this post »
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Like▼Rare Nintendo Game Fetches $41,300 on eBay - Gearlog
How many hours did your parents spend telling you that you were wasting your life sitting in front of Nintendo games for hours on end? All right, so you never became a professional gamer--but if you're among 200 or so lucky gamers, you may have a payday coming after all. Take, for example, the story of Dave, who discovered an NES game called Stadium Events among a collection of nearly 200 titl...Expand this post »
How many hours did your parents spend telling you that you were wasting your life sitting in front of Nintendo games for hours on end? All right, so you never became a professional gamer--but if you're among 200 or so lucky gamers, you may have a payday coming after all. Take, for example, the story of Dave, who discovered an NES game called Stadium Events among a collection of nearly 200 titl...Expand this post »
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Like▼Exercise or Not, Sitting at a Desk All Day Is Bad for You [Health] - Lifehacker
We've been proponents of standing desks and treadputers for some time, but we've also met with plenty of reader skepticism on the subject. The New York Times examines why sitting all day is so bad for you, whether or not you exercise. Based on the results of several recent studies, the Times' Olivia Judson writes: It doesn't matter if you go running every morning, or you're a regular at the g...Expand this post »
We've been proponents of standing desks and treadputers for some time, but we've also met with plenty of reader skepticism on the subject. The New York Times examines why sitting all day is so bad for you, whether or not you exercise. Based on the results of several recent studies, the Times' Olivia Judson writes: It doesn't matter if you go running every morning, or you're a regular at the g...Expand this post »
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Like▼What Do You Buy Online vs. in Stores? [Ask The Readers] - Lifehacker
Online advertising company Permuto pulled data from the U.S. Census Bureau into a nice infographic comparing people's purchasing habits in-store vs. online, and it got us wondering: What do you buy online vs. in stores? (Click the image above for a closer look.) According to the Census Bureau's data, the old brick and mortar stores are still responsible for the majority of sales in most of th...Expand this post »
Online advertising company Permuto pulled data from the U.S. Census Bureau into a nice infographic comparing people's purchasing habits in-store vs. online, and it got us wondering: What do you buy online vs. in stores? (Click the image above for a closer look.) According to the Census Bureau's data, the old brick and mortar stores are still responsible for the majority of sales in most of th...Expand this post »
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Like▼YouTube finally pulls the original Rickroll video - Download Squad
Filed under: Video, Google After years of torturing innumerable unsuspecting web surfers, YouTube has finally pulled the plug on the original Rickroll video. The reason: it's simply one of the most horrible abuses of the music video medium ever perpetrated. Ok, not really, it was pulled due to terms-of-use violations -- which probably won't come as a shock to most of our readers. User-uploade...Expand this post »
Filed under: Video, Google After years of torturing innumerable unsuspecting web surfers, YouTube has finally pulled the plug on the original Rickroll video. The reason: it's simply one of the most horrible abuses of the music video medium ever perpetrated. Ok, not really, it was pulled due to terms-of-use violations -- which probably won't come as a shock to most of our readers. User-uploade...Expand this post »
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Like▼Android users are largely male, statistics show 73% - Android Community
Statistics show that 73% of Android users are male, whereas on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and webOS platforms, there is far less skew on either side. The conclusions come from analytics firm Admob’s January report, which also includes several other studies . Even though there’s a galore of Android-based handsets that theoretically can cater to any niche, from gen-Yers like myself, to gen-Xers l...Expand this post »
Statistics show that 73% of Android users are male, whereas on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and webOS platforms, there is far less skew on either side. The conclusions come from analytics firm Admob’s January report, which also includes several other studies . Even though there’s a galore of Android-based handsets that theoretically can cater to any niche, from gen-Yers like myself, to gen-Xers l...Expand this post »
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Like▼Italian verdict on Google privacy sets dangerous precedent - Ars Technica
An Italian court has convicted three former Google executives of violations to Italy's privacy code early Wednesday morning. The decision comes after months of back and forth on the case, all of which began with a video uploaded by some delinquent teenagers of themselves beating on a classmate with Down Syndrome. Though the judge in the case absolved the executives of defamation charges (and a ...Expand this post »
An Italian court has convicted three former Google executives of violations to Italy's privacy code early Wednesday morning. The decision comes after months of back and forth on the case, all of which began with a video uploaded by some delinquent teenagers of themselves beating on a classmate with Down Syndrome. Though the judge in the case absolved the executives of defamation charges (and a ...Expand this post »
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Like▼Fully working Quake 2 and 3 ported to Droid - Android Community
AndroidandMe, conducted Android bounty competition which they set some parameters for developers to go away and make some applications for Android. In return they would offer a developer $90 if they fulfilled the parameters and were the first to do so. The second set of parameters included porting Quake II to Android. They loaded Quake2 on a Droid and it ran really well. The frame rate hov...Expand this post »
AndroidandMe, conducted Android bounty competition which they set some parameters for developers to go away and make some applications for Android. In return they would offer a developer $90 if they fulfilled the parameters and were the first to do so. The second set of parameters included porting Quake II to Android. They loaded Quake2 on a Droid and it ran really well. The frame rate hov...Expand this post »
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Like▼Google executives found guilty of violating privacy of student bullied on video - Engadget
Hold tight kids, internet privacy laws just got flipped upside down. An Italian judge found three Google executives guilty of violating the privacy of an Italian student who was bullied in a 2006 video posted on Google Video. The video resided on the site for two months before it was brought to Google's attention and pulled. None of the executives were involved in any way in the making of the a...Expand this post »
Hold tight kids, internet privacy laws just got flipped upside down. An Italian judge found three Google executives guilty of violating the privacy of an Italian student who was bullied in a 2006 video posted on Google Video. The video resided on the site for two months before it was brought to Google's attention and pulled. None of the executives were involved in any way in the making of the a...Expand this post »
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Like▼Cell phones show human movement predictable 93% of the time - Ars Technica
We'd like to think of ourselves as dynamic, unpredictable individuals, but according to new research, that's not the case at all. In a study published in last week's Science, researchers looked at customer location data culled from cellular service providers. By looking at how customers moved around, the authors of the study found that it may be possible to predict human movement patterns and l...Expand this post »
We'd like to think of ourselves as dynamic, unpredictable individuals, but according to new research, that's not the case at all. In a study published in last week's Science, researchers looked at customer location data culled from cellular service providers. By looking at how customers moved around, the authors of the study found that it may be possible to predict human movement patterns and l...Expand this post »
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Like▼Bike Win - FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments
Bike Win Much better than his last tribute Picture by: Unknown Submitted by: encantadia_fanatic via Fail UploaderExpand this post »
Bike Win Much better than his last tribute Picture by: Unknown Submitted by: encantadia_fanatic via Fail UploaderExpand this post »
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Like▼FCC Finds Broadband Is Expensive, People Are Strange, Uneducated - Ok. Now what? - DSLreports - front page
With the release of the FCC's national broadband plan just 22 days away, the agency has been slowly dribbling out information on their goals for the plan. Unfortunately, the details have been lacking....Expand this post »
With the release of the FCC's national broadband plan just 22 days away, the agency has been slowly dribbling out information on their goals for the plan. Unfortunately, the details have been lacking....Expand this post »
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Like▼Is AT&T Shutting Down Metered Billing Trials? - AT&T tells us they're no longer taking new trial participants... - DSLreports - front page
Last April Time Warner Cable shelved their plans to impose metered billing on their customers, after a user, media and political backlash caused them to reconsider the consumer value of charging up to...Expand this post »
Last April Time Warner Cable shelved their plans to impose metered billing on their customers, after a user, media and political backlash caused them to reconsider the consumer value of charging up to...Expand this post »
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Like▼Pink slips could be coming soon for Turlock teachers - The Turlock Journal - 95382 - Google News
Pink slips could be coming soon for Turlock teachers The Turlock Journal With additional cuts in funding looking inevitable, the Turlock Unified School District Budget Advisory Committee decided during their ... |
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Like▼A StarCraft 2 noob's best friend: destructible rocks - Ars Technica
In the early days of StarCraft, players feared the clichéd Zerg rush—some gamers would simply spam as many cheap units in the early game as possible and overrun the opposition. StarCraft 2 saves us from this terrible fate, however, with one simple addition: rocks. Placed in choke points, or at the entrance to your base on maps marked "Novice," the destructible rocks have 2,000 hit points, mean...Expand this post »
In the early days of StarCraft, players feared the clichéd Zerg rush—some gamers would simply spam as many cheap units in the early game as possible and overrun the opposition. StarCraft 2 saves us from this terrible fate, however, with one simple addition: rocks. Placed in choke points, or at the entrance to your base on maps marked "Novice," the destructible rocks have 2,000 hit points, mean...Expand this post »
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