eForCity.com offers the Swiss+Tech Screwz-All 4-in-1 Tool for $6.99. Coupon code "STTHTY" cuts it to 99 cents. With free shipping, that's tied with our mention yesterday and the lowest total price we could find by $5. This tool includes Phillips and flat-head screwdrivers in both standard and micro sizes. Coupon expires after 2,000 redemptions.
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Logitech.com offers the Logitech K350 Wireless Keyboard, model no. 920-001996, for $59.99. Coupon code "logi_k350_72910 " drops it to $31.99. With $6.52 for shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $8. Features include a cushioned palm rest, Logitech unifying receiver, adjustable keyboard height, 2.4 GHz wireless, and more. Deal ends August 4.

Note that its box may be scratched, marked, or dented, but the product inside is new and fully warrantied.

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Shoeline.com offers the Nurse Mates Pink Ribbon Silk Scarf for $2.99. Coupon code "BELLA15" cuts it to $2.54. With free shipping, that's $10 off and the lowest total price we could find. This 100% silk scarf measures 16" x 36".
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Amazon MP3 Store offers downloads of Miles Davis's 10 Greatest Hits for $2.79. That's the best price we could find for this 10-track, DRM-free compilation, released in 2009. (iTunes charges $5.99.) Amazon MP3 downloader is required.
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Advance Auto Parts offers the Reese Towpower 5,000-lb. Capacity Adjustable Tow Bar, model no. 7014200, for $109.69. Coupon code "ES123" cuts it to $79.69. With free shipping, it's the lowest total price we could find by $37. This split-rail adjustable tow bar includes a 2" coupler and a set of universal bumper brackets.
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Until July 30 at 9 pm ET, Shnoop.com offers the 12 Duracell Pre-Charged Rechargeable NiMH AAA Batteries, model no. DX2400R4, for $17.99 with free shipping. That's $2 under our mention from last month and the lowest total price we could find by $10. (At $1.50 per battery it's the best we've ever seen for Duracell Pre-Charged AAA. We've seen ones that aren't "Pre-Charged" for less.) You will receive either six 2-packs or three 4-packs.
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Logitech offers the Logitech N700 Speaker Lapdesk, model no. 939-000287, for $79.99. Coupon code "logi_n700_72910" knocks it to $47.99. With free shipping, it's $12 under our June mention and the lowest total price we could find now by $29. This USB-powered padded base features integrated stereo speakers, an angled riser, built-in cooling fan, and more.

Of note, this is a dented box item; while the packaging may be dented or scratched, the product itself is new with a full Logitech warranty.

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Until July 30 at 8 pm ET, BlingDaily.com offers the Sterling Silver 2-Total Carat Weight Diamond Heart Locket Pendant for $49.99. Coupon code "blingnews3" cuts it to $46.99. With $5.95 for shipping, it's tied with our June mention and $22 under the lowest total price we could find for a similar pendant elsewhere. It features 162 round prong-set diamonds.
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Figleaves.com offers the B'eau by Beau Bra Women's Ibiza Triangle String Bikini Briefs (bra not included) for $3 with free shipping. That's $60 off list and the lowest total price we could find for a pair of women's string bikini briefs. (Other merchants charge around $5 and up before shipping costs.) They're available in sizes S, M, or L. Deal ends August 2.
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newegg.com offers the XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 Video Card, model no. HD-487A-ZWFC, for $99.99 with free shipping via the directions below. That's $60 off original list and tied with an expired mention from last week as the lowest total price we could find. This HDCP-ready, CrossFire-supported card features a 2560x1600 maximum resolution, 750MHz core clock speed, and two dual-link DVI outputs. Rebate ends July 31. To get the deal:

1. Add the XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB PCI Express 2.0 x16 Video Card to your cart for $144.99
2. apply coupon code "HARDOCP728A" to drop it to $119.99
3. send in this $20 mail-in rebate to further cut it to $99.99

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Valve offers downloads of Just Cause 2 for Windows for $24.99 via its Steam service. That's $25 off and $21 under the best price we could find for a physical copy of this game.
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Walmart offers the Barbie Princess Tough Trike for $19 with free shipping. That's $4 under our December mention and the lowest total price we could find by $10. Sales tax is added where applicable. It features storage under the seat and a clicker key.
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ZAGG knocks 20% off sitewide, including invisibleSHIELD, via coupon code "ZAGG20". Although there have been much stronger discounts from ZAGG in recent weeks (including a 50% off sale three weeks ago, since expired), it's still among the better general-use coupons we've seen from ZAGG this year. Shipping starts at $2.99, or spend over $30 for free shipping. ZAGG offers protection for phones, cameras, MP3 players, GPS devices, laptops, and more.
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For AAdvantage members, receive a 10% off coupon for select American Airlines flights for free via the directions below. That's tied with our May mention as the best percent-off coupon we've seen from American Airlines that's valid on international flights. (If you're not a AAdvantage member, you must agree to become a member in order to use the coupon; membership is free.) The discount is valid for travel through October 26 from the 48 contiguous United States to any destination worldwide, for up to four people. To get your coupon:

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WinPearl offers these 7mm Golden Akoya Pearl Stud Earrings for $29.99. Coupon code "dealnews40" cuts them to $17.99. With $3.99 for shipping, that's $12 off and the lowest total price we could find for such earrings. They feature AAA+ golden Akoya pearls on sterling silver posts.
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6th Avenue Electronics offers the JVC 200-watt Car In-Dash CD / MP3 Receiver, model no. KD-R210, for $68. (Add it to your cart to see this price.) Coupon code "AFL4COUPON" drops it to $65.28. With free shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $3. It features a 50-watt peak output to four channels, built-in MOSFET amplifier, removable faceplate, AM/FM tuner, WMA and MP3 playback, front auxiliary input, wireless remote control, and more.
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PC Micro Store still slices 50% off select HTC cell phone accessories via coupon code "50OFFHTC". Plus, most items carry free shipping. That ties our mention from a month ago as the best deal we've seen on HTC accessories from PC Micro Store. Coupon expires after 500 uses.

A best bet after discount is the HTC Droid Incredible Snap-On Case in White Autumn Flower (pictured) for $4.97 with free shipping. That's $13 list off and the lowest total price we could find.

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Electronics Expo offers the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX7 10.2-Megapixel Digital Camera in Red for $379. Coupon code "LSDA0726" cuts it to $304. With free shipping, that's $17 under our mention of a silver one from nine days ago and the lowest total price we could find for this camera in any color by $9. Features include a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar 4x optical zoom lens, 3.5" LCD touchscreen display, 1920x1080 (1080i) video recording, optical image stabilization, Intelligent Sweep Panorama Mode, Memory Stick PRO Duo slot, HDMI output, and more.
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Dell Small Business takes 30% off Dell Latitude E6400 / E6500 notebooks of $1,099 or more via coupon code "S2?GZK7NWJFFMB". It's the best percent-off coupon we've seen for either of these systems from Dell Small Business since February, when we saw a 27% off coupon valid for Latitude E6400 laptops of $999 or more (since expired.) Most items qualify for free shipping and sales tax is added where applicable. Coupon ends August 4.
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eCOST.com via eBay Daily Deal offers the Planex Wireless-N Mini USB 2.0 Adapter, model no. GW-USNANO, for $13.99. With free shipping, that's the lowest total price we could find by $11. Touted as "the world's smallest wireless LAN USB adapter," this nickel-sized adapter supports WEP, WPA, WPA-TKIP, WPA2, and WPA2-AES encryptions. Deal ends August 1 at 9:52 pm ET.
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Cartoon for Today, Jul 29, 2010
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BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Philadelphia Eagles and first-round pick Brandon Graham have agreed on a five-year contract.

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At least 90 people have been killed since Wednesday due to floods caused by monsoon rains in northwest Pakistan, a provincial minister told CNN.

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Ramon Castro homered twice and Paul Konerko went deep for the fourth straight game Thursday night, leading the Chicago White Sox to their 11th consecutive home victory, 9-5 over the Seattle Mariners.

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Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp., the world’s largest consumer-electronics makers, signaled Japanese technology companies are withstanding slowing European demand and the stronger yen after raising their earnings forecasts.
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The Yakima County coroner says an autopsy has found no sign of foul play in the death of a man whose body was found in the Yakima River.

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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — New Prime Minister Julia Gillard assured Australia's Christian majority on Thursday that her atheism would not affect government funding to church-run schools if she is re-elected. Gillard, who was sworn in last month and promptly called elections, was the first prime minister in the federation's 109-year history to...

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Former NBA big man Lorenzen Wright, whose body was found in the woods outside Memphis, was shot to death and the case is being investigated as a homicide, police said Thursday.

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A settlement appears unlikely at this point, and a trial could come as early as September, creating a headache for Democrats before the midterm election. A House panel on Thursday accused New York Rep. Charles B. Rangel of 13 ethics violations, placing his storied 40-year political career in jeopardy and guaranteeing Democrats an election-year headache.

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A mother grizzly and two of her three cubs have been captured after killing a Michigan man and injuring two other people during an ...

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WHAT TO DO? Debate is intensifying at the Federal Reserve over how best to cope with a weakening recovery.

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TV COLUMN | Talk-show host is leaving "American Idol" after one season as a judge; Jennifer Lopez may be show's new Paula Abdul. Simon Cowell - American Idol - Fox Broadcasting Company - Talent show - Ellen DeGeneres

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The site that launched with a 2-year-old Landlord has become a celebrity magnet.

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New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo says his office has opened a "major fraud investigation" into the life insurance industry. New York State Attorney General - Insurance - Andrew Cuomo - Attorney general - Financial Services

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One of the top three leaders of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel, Ignacio 'Nacho' Coronel, is killed in gunbattle in a major victory for President Calderon U.S. Consulate on Border Closes for Security Review

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suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from Ars Technica: "If you need a reminder of just how big China is—and just how important the Internet has become there—consider this stat: between them, two Chinese ISPs serve 20 percent of all broadband subscribers in the entire world and both companies continue to grow, even as growth slows significantly in more developed markets. Every other ISP trails dramatically. Japan's NTT comes in third with 17 million subscribers, and all US providers are smaller still. 'The gap between the top two operators and the world's remaining broadband service providers will continue to grow rapidly,' said TeleGeography Research Director Tania Harvey. 'Aside from the two Chinese companies, all of the top ten broadband ISPs operate in mature markets, with high levels of broadband penetration and rapidly slowing subscriber growth.'"

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Charles River Laboratories International Inc. withdrew a $1.6 billion bid for WuXi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc., citing investor opposition to what would have been the largest foreign takeover of a China company.
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Check out 10 of the best Safari 5 extensions, and how to enable them in Apple’s latest release of Safari.

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Once thought to be unhackable, the Android phone is anything but, according to researchers presenting at Black Hat 2010.

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DBS Group Holdings Ltd., Southeast Asia’s biggest bank, reported an unexpected second-quarter loss as it booked a one-time goodwill impairment charge at its Hong Kong unit because of pressure on interest margins.
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Buying food in bulk can save you a lot of money — unless the food goes to waste. After all, how many families are going to eat five pounds of strawberries in one week?

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Inside the Glenn Beck Goldline scheme

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Asian stocks fell, dragging down the MSCI Asia Pacific Index for the first time in six days, as higher-than-estimated unemployment in Japan and a poorer Macquarie Group Ltd. earnings outlook overshadowed increased profit targets at Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp.
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There are certainly some radical thoughts out there regarding the Nazis. But The Daily Show's Jason Jones uncovers some interesting theories from one radical organization that are truly unbelievable. Really. Not believable.

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What to do in Buffalo? Yes, we are going there voluntarily. Please feel free to include the Canadian side of Niagara Falls in your answer. Furthermore, how long does the drive take, crossing the border from one place to the...
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Will Call of Duty and Halo fans ever settle their differences? We tracked down the two biggest fanboys from each opposing side to duke it out.

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KABUL -- A second U.S. sailor who disappeared in eastern Afghanistan last week has been found dead. Afghanistan - Asia - Taliban - Jarod Newlove - Logar Province

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Sure, there's a FarmVille iPhone app, but iPad users haven't gotten a really good way of satisfying their virtual agriculture needs. Thankfully, there's now the free We Farm app from Ngmoco—a decent FarmVille alternative for your iPad. More »



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The network has already recast the lead (Jonathan Sadowski will replace Ryan Devlin), a move that means that “most scenes” of the pilot will need to be reshot, Tassler explained — probably a good thing, after the lukewarm impression it made on the network and critics alike.

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Zach Galifianakis sits down for a pleasant chat with Steve Carell. Things quickly change.

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The deadly crash of a military cargo plane on a training mission occurred about a minute after it took off from a runway at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, officials said Thursday.

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This impossibly tiny, 100 square foot house contains tiny chairs, a tiny fireplace, and a tiny loft with a tiny window which serves as a tiny bedroom. But of course its owner couldn't help springing for the 15" MacBook. More »



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Sixty percent of the energy used in buildings in New York State goes to heat and hot water. This power heavy fact has been the the driving force behind a newly devised solar thermal energy plan that could eventually save New York State residents $175 million a year.

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DeGeneres' exit is part of the massive Idol overhaul currently underway, as Fox and producers FremantleMedia and 19 Ent. look to reboot the popular brand..TV News, news from the entertainment source: Variety.Ellen DeGeneres leaving 'American Idol'.

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With unemployment at its highest level in decades, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a report Tuesday suggesting the crisis is primarily the result of millions of Americans just completely blowing their job interviews.

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Recent West Coast earthquakes have experts concerned about the safety of Northwest cities such as Portland and Seattle. In fact, on July 19 a 5.1 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia and a 5.2 earthquake struck Wed. morning, July 28, off the Oregon Coast.

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Tameem Antoniades, co-founder of Ninja Theory, has gone on record saying that, in his opinion, story is more important than gameplay, and "if you get it right, both story and gameplay can be elevated".

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This wind-powered cart breaks the rules of science because it's actually faster than the wind itself. When the wind was only blowing at 20mph, the cart managed to hit speeds of 50mph. Here's how it works. More »



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A car accident claimed the life of professional German Counter-Strike 1.6 player Antonio "cyx" Daniloski yesterday. According to a statement released by his team, Mousesports, 19-year-old Daniloski was on his way home from the Frankfurt airport when a flat tire caused a fatal car accident. RIP.

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As America prepares for the second season of MTV's Jersey Shore, JWOWW, The Situation, and the rest of the well-bronzed crew are doing everything they can to cash in on their unlikely fame.

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Business software maker Epicor Software Corp. said Thursday that its second-quarter loss narrowed as revenue climbed.

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It's fully blocked!

Google's China search is working just fine, despite breathless claims from countless news organizations that it's "fully blocked."…

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Without question, the number one requested feature by our creators is to upload videos longer than 10 minutes. We’ve heard you, and today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve increased the upload limit to 15 minutes.

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We know overfishing has a devastating impact on the environment, and we've seen weird things happen to fish as a result of a changing environment before, but a new finding has perplexed scientists...

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Some see these back garden bandits as a nuisance. A sort of street criminal-type bully. A rat with a bushy tail. Others think they are geniuses of light-fingered looting. The gentleman thief of nut-nickery. Which ever way you look at them, now you can eat them.

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The UN declares that access to clean water and sanitation is a fundamental human right, in a non-binding resolution.

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John R. Branca, brother of famed Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca and father of John Branca, the co-administrator of Michael Jackson's estate, has died.

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J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot banner are tackling the tale of a robot set in the Victorian Age.

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Investigators have found concrete evidence linking Pfc. Bradley Manning with the leak of classified Afghanistan war reports, a defense official said.

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Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said tablet computers are high on his priority list as Apple Inc. takes the lead in a market his company has tried to foster for more than a decade.
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HTC EVO 4G owners rejoice: Froyo will soon be here!
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Never assume you're safe. Follow these tips before you cash out.

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Good news for EVO 4G owners! Sprint will begin rolling out Android 2.2 to the lucky EVO users starting August 3: More »



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The top U.S. military officer said that the founder of WikiLeaks was risking lives to make a political point by publishing thousands of military reports from Afghanistan.

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House investigators accused veteran New York Rep. Charles Rangel of 13 violations of congressional ethics standards on Thursday, throwing a cloud over his four-decade political career and raising worries for fellow Democrats about the fall elections.

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After the Emmy success of the miniseries JOHN ADAMS, Paul Giamatti will re-team with HBO to star in a telepic centered around Nikita Khrushchev.

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thecarchik writes "The Porsche 918 Spyder hybrid supercar, first shown as a concept at this spring's Geneva Motor Show, got official approval as a production model today from the company's board of directors. Just consider the specs: a 500-horsepower, 3.6-liter V-8 engine with a 9200-rpm redline, 0-to-62-mph acceleration of 3.2 seconds, and top speed of 198 miles per hour. Oh, and did we mention it gets 78 miles per gallon on the European cycle? The astounding fuel efficiency comes courtesy of an E-Drive mode that lets the 918 Spyder drive up to 16 miles on pure electric power, though [ahem] not at 198 mph."

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Up to 4 million downloads

An Android wallpaper application that collected data from users' phones and uploaded it to a site in China was downloaded "millions of times", according to mobile security firm Lookout.…

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TechCrunch reader checks in to tell us he logged on to Facebook this morning and noticed that the list of his friends who are having their birthday today was preceded by a crude message.

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Bored with your sex life? Try these tips.

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Maybe it is because I'm a sucker for old school 90s graphic adventures, but I love these just for what they are: Beautiful 8-bit cycling animations made using HTML5. They're so good that someone should write a game around them. More »



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A study of 400-year-old oyster shells offers a rare glimpse into life amongst North America's first colonists' settlement in Jamestown.

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Google, the brave search engine company who refused to censor search results in China, seems to be finding itself entirely unwelcome in the country: Apparently Google is now fully blocked in China. Update: False alarm due to a Google issue. More »



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When Lindsay Lohan is released from jail, she'll have to catch up on her reading. The "Mean Girls" star is receiving about 250 letters a day at the women's lockup in Lynwood, Calif. - but she can't get through it all.

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Non-Partner content developers uploading videos to YouTube can now provide multimedia up to 15 minutes in length. The company announced today that they have extended their 10-minute time limit effective immediately. YouTube has announced that the extension is being given since they now have more copyright controls available for content providers, which means it is less [...]
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Forever is a mighty long time

Underscoring the permanence of data published on the internet, a security researcher has compiled the names and URLs of more than 100 million Facebook users and made them available as a BitTorrent download.…

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DoJ doubles down on whistleblower suit

The US Department of Justice has filed a fresh lawsuit against Oracle, three months after intervening in a whistleblower suit that accuses the software giant of overcharging the government by "tens of millions of dollars."…

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spidweb writes "One Indie developer has written a nuanced article on a how software piracy affects him, approaching the issue from the opposite direction. He lists the ways in which the widespread piracy of PC games helps him. From the article: 'You don't get everything you want in this world. You can get piles of cool stuff for free. Or you can be an honorable, ethical being. You don't get both. Most of the time. Because, when I'm being honest with myself, which happens sometimes, I have to admit that piracy is not an absolute evil. That I do get things out of it, even when I'm the one being ripped off.' The article also tries to find a middle ground between the Piracy-Is-Always-Bad and Piracy-Is-Just-Fine sides of the argument that might enable single-player PC games to continue to exist."

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You can already manage your Comcast DVR from your iPhone, but soon you'll be able to do the same with BlackBerry and Android as well. No date announced, but it's coming. [Comcast] More »



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The end times are near.

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A bill has just reached the floor of the Senate that would double penalties for any edible products combined with medical marijuana in California and the 13 other states that provide compassionate relief for patients. The worst part is that the bill was written and sponsored by Dianne Feinstein, a Democratic senator from California!

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What to make of the diminutive iPod Shuffle? It's handy for working out, but immediately less handy if you don't have a sporty top to clip it to. That leaves you with two options: your earlobe or the Pod-à-porter neckband. More »



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Some people achieve world records buying running marathons and swimming across oceans. These are not those people.

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Washington (CNN) - Call it the "Dreams of My Native American Father." Much has been said about the multi-ethnic heritage of the president but he tried to add even more to that diverse background today. At an otherwise somber signing ceremony of the Tribal Law and Order Act, a law aimed at giving Indian tribes [...]

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The gang over at TechSpot loaded up the newly-released StarCraft II on what seems like a hundred different PC setups to determine what the best hardware setup for the insanely popular real-time strategy game is. Here are the results: More »



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If you were reading a rather provocative ESPN story about LeBron James partying at a Las Vegas night club, and now you're not, there's a reason for that. ESPN yanked the story off the Internets after only a few minutes of life. The piece tells of a banquet-style blowout following James' announcement of his move to Miami.

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The next film in Gary Hustwit's design trilogy (after Helvetica and Objectified) is Urbanized, an investigation of urban design.

Who is allowed to shape our cities, and how do they do it? Unlike many other fields of design, cities aren't created by any one specialist or expert. There are many contributors to urban change, including ordinary citizens who can have a great impact improving the cities in which they live. By exploring a diverse range of urban design projects around the world, Urbanized will frame a global discussion on the future of cities.

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As if some of us aren't already too attached to our iOS devices, Apple seems to be working on ways to add to our addictions: Recent patent applications show that Apple may be creating virtual closet and travel apps. More »



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Arnold Schwarzenegger and President George H.W. Bush go sledding outside Camp David in 1991.

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myshadows writes "Tech Review has an interesting article on how Tokyo Metropolitan University researchers have been able to give a sensory addition to gaming peripherals — namely, temperature. 'As the range of interactions with digital environments expands, it's logical to ask what's next: Smell-o-vision has been on the horizon for something like 50 years, but there's a dark horse stalking this race: thermoelectrics. Based on the Peltier effect, these solid-state devices are easy to incorporate into objects of reasonable size, i.e. video game controllers. In this configuration, just announced at the 2010 SIGGRAPH conference, a pair of thermoelectric surfaces on either side of a controller rapidly heat up or cool down in order to simulate appropriate conditions in a virtual environment.'"

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Russian special forces detained a man on Thursday who had taken control of an aircraft on a domestic flight to Moscow's Domodedovo airport, ITAR-TASS news agency cited a police spokesman as saying.

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Cambridge startup Recorded Future trawls the internet for raw data that it uses in an attempt to predict world events—understandably interesting stuff. But what do both Google and the CIA both see in the company? Wired digs deeper. More »



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As an (greener) alternative to Amazon Prime's free two-day shipping, there's Amazon Tote, which gives you all your orders from the last week delivered once a week in a snazzy reusable tote bag. More »



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Google Inc. said some of its services, including Web search and advertising, are being fully blocked in China.
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This Lego stop-motion video by Alex Kobbs captures so many classic moments from StarCraft that I don't know which is my favorite...

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'Job-one urgency'

FAM Microsoft's chief executive has come very close to telling investors he screwed up after years of writing off, belittling and underestimated Apple's potential success in touch-based computing.…

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Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten come to mind. Ren and Stimpy, too. Otherwise, I can't think of a more nonsensical and dangerous convergence of megalomania than the pairing of Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco.

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An anonymous reader writes "KDE SC 4.5 is about to be released and KDE SC 4.6 is being discussed. However, Martin Graesslin has revealed some details about what they are planning for KDE 4.7. According to Martin's blog post, they are looking at OpenGL 3.0 to provide the compositing effects in KDE SC 4.7. OpenGL 3.0 provides support for frame buffer objects, hardware instancing, vertex array objects, and sRGB framebuffers."

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A House investigatory panel is alleging 13 violations of congressional ethics and federal law statutes by veteran New York Representative Charles Rangel.

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The leaked film trailer for Thor in its entirety.

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Perl 6 may have been "finally coming within reach" in 2004, but now it's even closer. Reader rnddim writes "The Perl 6 implementation Rakudo Star has been released today for 'early adopters.' This release of Rakudo is different from the normal monthly compiler releases in that is it bundled with a draft of a Perl 6 book, and several modules. It's not complete, and it's not as fast as it should be, but Rakudo in its current state is proving to be usable and useful. Rakudo Star releases will come monthly or as major features or bugfixes are made. It is available for download at github.com."

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Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod says she will sue a conservative blogger who posted an edited video of her making racially tinged remarks last week. Sherrod made the announcement Thursday in San Diego at the National Association of Black Journalists annual convention.

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Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested. More »



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Asked by analysts about the 3 million magical iPads sold in 80 days, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wasn't very happy. I'm not surprised: They only sold 1.32 million Tablet PCs in 2008, with 1.25 million estimated for 2010. [Techflash] More »



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Selling 8.3 million mobile phones, 2.7 of which were smart phones, provided Motorola with earnings of $162 million this quarter, compared to $26 million this time last year. Motorola's success is largely due to the Droid, which was dropped late last year and leads the market in Android phone sales. [TG Daily] More »



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A great anecdote from Daniel Ellsberg about what he told first-time government employee Henry Kissinger about the power and limitations of the security clearances he was about to receive.

First, you'll be exhilarated by some of this new information, and by having it all -- so much! incredible! -- suddenly available to you. But second, almost as fast, you will feel like a fool for having studied, written, talked about these subjects, criticized and analyzed decisions made by presidents for years without having known of the existence of all this information, which presidents and others had and you didn't, and which must have influenced their decisions in ways you couldn't even guess. In particular, you'll feel foolish for having literally rubbed shoulders for over a decade with some officials and consultants who did have access to all this information you didn't know about and didn't know they had, and you'll be stunned that they kept that secret from you so well.

(thx, micah)

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Drinkers Have Better Vocabularies (Thanks to The Perts)
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Man tries to cash forged check for one million dollars at a bank's drive-through window (Thanks to Chuck Cody)
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As we worked on this years 15th Dream Machine, we couldn't help but think about how far we've come. From the original 200MHz, 8MB-of-RAM 1996 Dream Machine up to this years 12-core, 24-thread, 24-gigs-of-RAM version, the ultimate computer has grown exponentially more powerful. But that's not much of a shocker (we've all heard about Moore's Law).

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Tom talks with Jim Grant, editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, on the slow economic recovery
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Americans are broke and depressed—and also swilling $3 lattes and waiting in line for iPhones. Welcome to the schizophrenic economy
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What started as a blessing for big lenders is becoming a burden as profit margins shrink
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Confused on what you need to jailbreak your iOS device? Whether you've got a brand new iPad or a first-generation iPod Touch, Jailbreak Matrix dishes the dirt on what you need to jailbreak your device. More »



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The iPad app maker has big traffic its first week—and big headaches
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The iPad app maker has big traffic its first week—and big headaches
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There are some obvious ways to make the U.S. more competitive with China in clean energy. Why won't the Senate debate them?
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There are some obvious ways to make the U.S. more competitive with China in clean energy. Why won't the Senate debate them?
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Nissan to pump breathable vitamin C into car to help moisturise driver's skin (Thanks to Joe in Japan)
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Bill Gross is realizing outsized gains by benefitting from the near record difference in yields between short- and longer-maturity bonds
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ATMs use computers. Computers have weaknesses. Hackers exploit weaknesses. See where this is going? A hacker developed software that can force an ATM's computer to give free cash. Luckily for banks, he showed off his technique at the Black Hat conference. More »



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The Federal Reserve raised by 3 percent its combined estimated value of investment portfolios acquired in the rescues of American International Group Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos.
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Earlier this week we called on industrial designers to bring consumer electronics back to an age of handsome, dignified character. Designer Sylvain Gerber seems to disagree, unveiling an enormous wacky iPhone dock shaped like a snowflake and covered in lights. More »



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Citrix Systems Inc., which makes software used to control computers remotely, rallied to the highest level since 2000 after more demand for its XenDesktop virtualization program prompted at least five analysts to raise their ratings.
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CodePwned writes "I recently took over a position at a rather large company where I discovered my group was paying $30 per gigabyte per month! That's $360 per year per gigabyte to our own IT department. While I understand costs are different depending on the scale, redundancy, backup and support methods, there doesn't seem to be any good papers on what range you should expect your costs to be. So far, my research shows an average of $1 per gigabyte or less for internally hosted space. What do you pay?"

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The X Prize Foundation, which spurs scientific and technological innovation with the greatest of incentives, a big pile of money, hopes we'll have a significantly improved method for cleaning oil by this time next year. The carrot: a cool million. More »



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Symantec Corp., the world’s largest maker of computer security software, fell the most in a year after issuing sales and profit forecasts that missed analysts’ estimates, evidence that customers delayed closing deals.
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A Vegas tourist attraction that doesn't involve hookers, blackjack, or magic? It's possible! Famed retailer of shoes and joy Zappos opens its office doors to hundreds of people every month, welcoming everyone, not just business executives and crazed fans. He said the tours started with vendors, who told their friends, who told their friends. Eventually, Richman said, they had hundreds of people touring Zappos each month. "It's anybody from fans to entrepreneurs to college students," Richman said. "Anybody who's heard about the Zappos ethos and wanted to see it for themselves." Want to go on your own tour? Book it...
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How many times have you handed over your credit card at a fast-food joint and never thought twice about the security of your identity? Here's some news that might give you pause -- an employee at a Wendy's in Washington state has been charged with using a card skimmer to steal the identities of 135 customers and racking up around $75,000 in fraudulent charges on those accounts. The investigation into the ID thefts began last October when a credit union reported to authorities that they had linked card violations to a Wendy's in Tukwila, WA. The case ultimately led to...
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Andrew rented a car from Enterprise, which told him online it would charge $37.71 for a one-day rental. When he showed up at the branch, Enterprise said he'd have to pay more than three times that amount because he wouldn't be allowed to drop his car off until two days later. He writes: I recently rented a car from enterprise online via their online reservation service. I was told that the rental would cost $37.71 for the day. When I got to the branch, the whole story changed and my price was changed to $129.11. They claimed that I could...
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Everyone experiences some form of anxiety at home, at work, or wherever. Sometimes anxiety can become so overwhelming that it can deeply affect your life. But, there are some ways to keep your anxiety at bay. The editors from ShopSmart suggest five easy ways to do this, including meditation and writing down your feelings. [Consumer Reports Health]...
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Miami is about to get a taste of Times Square, now that the city's commissioners have given their okay to a plan that would erect a pair of towering electronic signs. Even though the project faced vehement opposition from some residents, the commissioners still voted 4-1 to approve the billboards, which would reach nearly 500 feet into the Miami sky. The reason? Money. The billboards will provide the city with at least $2 million a year in fees. In addition to the advertising towers, developers are planning a parking garage and a retail center in the area. Miami Commission approves...
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Paco Underhill on women and retail. Nancy Lublin on learning from causes. Noah Boyd with an FBI thriller beach read. Better than the last Reacher novel, imho. And stunningly elegant (and lovely to hold) pottery inspired by some of my...
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Along my financial journey in life, I made a great number of mistakes. In this ten part series which runs from July 19 to July 30, I’m going to focus on ten of my worst mistakes and the difficulties and successes I’ve had in overcoming those mistakes. I surrounded myself with friends who constantly encouraged [...]
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One of my favorite and most-used iPhone apps is Apple's Remote app. It lets me remotely control iTunes, which is streaming to my living room stereo via an Airport Express. But why hasn't it been updated in over 8 months? More »



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Cuda be an enterprise contender

Nvidia announced some new CUDA stuff last week, a new developer kit (3.1) and the Parallel Nsight Visual Studio plug-in, both designed to make it easier for ISVs and other coding types to support Nvidia GPUs in their apps. Our pal TPM has a typically detailed story here.…

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The Poland of international conflict

Black Hat Fighting wars that target computer networks is fraught with risks that don't exist in traditional warfare, raising the stakes for future conflicts, a retired US general told security professionals Thursday.…

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Hugh Pickens writes "The Guardian reports that the late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, author of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, has become the first author to sell more than one million e-books on Amazon. The Swedish noir thrillers features Lisbeth Salander, an asocial and extremely intelligent hacker and researcher, specialized in investigations of persons, and investigative journalist Mikael Blomqvist. Quercus has sold 3.3M copies of Larsson's books in the UK, and estimates that worldwide sales of the three novels are somewhere between 35-40M copies."

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The PTO has just issued new guidance for their examiners on Bilski, Interim Guidance for Determining Subject Matter Eligibility for Process Claims in View of Bilski v. Kappos [PDF] -- on how to follow what they think Bilski held as to what is and isn't patentable subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101.

"A claim to an abstract idea is not a patent-eligible process," Bilski holds, they point out, but exactly where is the line? How do you know an abstract idea when you see it? So the USPTO is asking for public comment on what they came up with for their understanding. They want to hear from the public by September 27, and they provide some specific questions and a list of factors examiners are to consider when evaluating an application.

You know pro-patent companies' lawyers in droves will be telling them that their clients should be able to patent God's method and process for creating the heavens and the earth, so you may wish to comment yourself and let them know politely where you think the line should be drawn on the abstract idea exception to subject matter eligibility as set forth in Bilski, if this is a topic you care about. Otherwise, I can see it now, their report: We got 3,201 comments saying X and only 3 saying Y, so X carries the day.
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It's so simple; all you need is a mirror, some blue paint, and a love for Valve's masterpiece in virtual teleportation. More »



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You wouldn't think a Korean man teaching his class how to swear in English would be so funny.

I love his mannerisms when he says the swears in English; he channels Goodfellas-era Joe Pesci a little bit during his discussion of "fucking". (via mike industries)

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A Bronx judge has ruled that saggy pants are not, in fact, illegal and do not constitute "Disorderly Conduct." The ruling comes in a case where a gentleman was issued a summons because he was wearing "his pants down below his buttocks exposing underwear [and] potentially showing private parts," says Gothamist. The judge didn't think that saggy pants qualified, and interprets the constitution as protecting foolishness: While most of us may consider it distasteful, and indeed foolish, to wear ones pants so low as to expose the underwear, as the Court stated in O'Gorman, "people can dress as they please,...
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While Apple still maintains a death grip on its no-porn policy for its iPhone and iPad apps, the adult entertainment industry is swarming to make money from the iPhone 4's FaceTime video-conferencing feature. According to the fair and balanced people at Fox News, companies have begun placing ads on Craigslist in at least five cities, looking for models who can offer some sexy-time chat to paying customers over FaceTime, which allows iPhone 4 users to have video chats over a WiFi connection. While it's nothing new to make money by performing erotic acts on webcams, the iPhone porn pioneers are...
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Jess took her ailing mom to see an American Idol concert in Massachusetts but was mistreated by employees who were less than willing to accommodate her mom's special needs. The next day she took to Twitter, fired off a couple complaints and spurred Live Nation to make things right. Here's her story of how Jess bent the mighty near-monopoly to her whims in fewer than 280 characters: Early last week, a friend, and I attended the American Idol's live tour. My mother is on oxygen and is awaiting a lung transplant, so we wanted to arrive there early to ensure...
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Back-to-school shopping starts now. Sales are in full swing, and big-box stores have replaced beach chairs with 3-ring-binders. And you live in or near one of the 16 states that have school-related sales-tax holidays in the next month, make sure to keep track of those dates. Mississippi kicks off its tax-free holiday tomorrow. [Consumer Reports Money]...
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Joe's antiperspirant sprung more holes than WikiLeaks sources, so he called up the Dial Corporation to ask about a replacement. The customer service rep promised a coupon for a free replacement but sent him a lowball manufacturer's coupon instead. He called back to complain and Dial passed the buck to the retailer. He writes: When the promised replacement coupon arrived it turned out to be merely manufacturer's cents-off coupons for a handful of other items I Called Dial again only to be told their policy is not to replace products that had expired. When asked why there was no expiration...
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In their ever vigilant quest to protect Americans from terrorism, the US government is now requesting Congress to relieve them of the need to seek a judges permission before obtaining information from a web master. The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an [...]
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With the amount of gratis food coming through hobomodo, I'm considering trying to eat for free for five days straight. Maybe not though. Gizmodo isn't quite that stingy with its intern. I still can't afford a cheap hard drive though. More »



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An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired about another entry in the ongoing quest for low-tech-high-tech educational tools to take advantage of distributed knowledge: "The Humane Reader, a device designed by computer consultant Braddock Gaskill, takes two 8-bit microcontrollers and packages them in a 'classic style console' that connects to a TV. The device includes an optional keyboard, a micro-SD Card reader and a composite video output. It uses a standard micro-USB cellphone charger for power. In all, it can hold the equivalent of 5,000 books, including an offline version of Wikipedia, and requires no internet connection. The Reader will cost $20 when 10,000 or more of it are manufactured. Without that kind of volume, each Reader will cost about $35."

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Like most of the blogosphere, I’ve been trying to use Flipboard since its extraordinarily well executed (or well hyped – I can’t tell yet) announcement.  But, like almost everyone I know, I can’t get it to authenticate Twitter or Facebook.  Two days ago I entered in my email address to reserve my place in line. [...]
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Turner promises 'great' story

FAM The beta version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 will hit in September.…

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When you put the iPad on the Just Mobile UpStand, it just looks so cute. Like a child-sized version of the iMac. More »



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Marketplace's Caitlan Caroll and a few members of the staff tried to take the edge off with "downer drinks," non-alcoholic beverages that help you relax and unwind.
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Kai Ryssdal talks to Jess Sheidlower, editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary, about profanity in the workplace. It's unpleasant, but why do many workers still swear?
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The Rwandan genocide left behind devastation and a dominantly female population. But the country is making strides economically and politically. All due, in part, to one particular part of the population: Women.
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Kai Ryssdal speaks with SportsBusiness Journal's Tripp Mickle about Gatorade's unconventional marketing strategy at the X Games to capture an unconventional crowd.
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The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston released a paper that concluded people who spend cash at the register actually are giving money to people who use credit cards -- especially those with cashback rewards.
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There was no boom in the rental market, once the housing market went bust -- but more people are moving out and renting places of their own.
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Top economics and financial officials met with Timothy Geithner today to discuss the future Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The new agency will have to overcome old loyalties and resentment from existing regulatory agencies forced to give up their staff and budget.
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An anonymous reader writes "In many ways HDMI has revolutionized the way we connect devices. By unifying video and audio into a single cable manufacturers have been able to make their products easier to set up than ever before. Until recently there hasn't actually been much difference in HDMI cables. But things are about to get confusing with the introduction of HDMI 1.4. By the 1st of January 2012 manufacturers of products with HDMI ports won't actually be able to call HDMI 1.4 by its real name. In fact, come November 18 this year those selling cables won't be able to use HDMI 1.4 or HDMI 1.3 to delineate between different products. Instead cables that support version 1.4 of the HDMI standard will have to use one of five different labels. The new labels? Well, as this story explains, they're going to cause a new level of confusion for anyone hooking up a home cinema. Add to this the fact that the HDMI organisation keeps the details of its specifications secret, and translation between version numbering and marketing-speak will be well nigh impossible."

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Three interns at Intellectual Ventures have made a rap video.

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The Crossfade LP is V-Moda's first over-the-ear headphones, branching out from their traditional in-ear headsets they've been known for. V-Moda says, at $250, they're competing with headphones like Dre's Monster noise-cancellation set—so that's what we compared it to. More »



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According to the IMF it is Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia responded to the crisis with the largest fiscal stimulus relative to GDP in the G-20, which the IMF deemed appropriate. The IMF website forecasts real GDP growth to be 4...
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September previews planned

Linux users on Gnome must wait a full year before their favorite desktop is updated – the first such delay in the project's short history.…

Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff

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The American Museum of Natural History is dedicated to preserving our planet's past. But its new app, which offers turn by turn directions to exhibits, customizable museum tours, and exhibit information, is nothing less than state of the art. More »



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Bruce Perens writes "Japan's IKAROS satellite, which earlier performed the first successful demonstration of a solar sail, has broken more new ground. Liquid-crystal displays — yes, like in your video monitor — were fabricated into strips on the edges of the solar sail. By energizing some of the LCDs and changing the reflective characteristics of parts of the sail from specular to diffuse, JAXA scientists successfully generated attitude control torque in the sail, changing the spacecraft's orientation."

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Personal information may be exploited for nefarious purposes
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Available only on pre-order up until now, the Nikon thermos joins its biggest rival, the Canon thermos, in the hallowed hall of camera-lens thermoses that are actually up for purchase. Just $23. [100milligrams via NPR via TWBE] More »



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Want to build the home of your dreams and can't find enough land for it? Try moving to Tampa. The area has 27,923 building lots, enough to keep homebuilders busy for nine years. That's assuming anyone actually wants to build something, of course. According to the Tampa Tribune, under normal circumstances, the area should have just a two-year inventory of housing lots, and builders are struggling. The only builders having success now, said Jack McCabe, a Florida real estate analyst, are ones that bought lots for fire-sale prices during the downturn. Those builders have a competitive advantage, he said. Even...
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Have you ever heard of latex decay? Apparently, it's a problem that plagues area rugs from Pottery Barn manufactured during a certain period. It happened to Victoria, and a simple call to the company got her a replacement rug costing $100 more than the one she already had. Not only was there no charge to her, but since Victoria doesn't have a car, Pottery Barn paid for UPS pickup of the old rug and delivery of the new one. Lovely. I bought an area rug from Pottery Barn in the winter of 2005. My living room subsequently had something of...
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Why rent the cow when you can borrow the milk for free? That seems to be the mindset of many Americans, as a new study claims that more DVDs are borrowed from libraries each day than are rented via Netflix, Redbox or Blockbuster. According to the survey released by the Online Computer Library Center, public libraries in the U.S. lend an average 2.1 million videos/day, which edges out the 2 million discs shipped by Netflix and almost as much as the combined total of DVD rentals at Redbox (1.4 million) and Blockbuster (1.2 million). Netflix shrugs off the idea of...
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Atul Gawande's articles on healthcare for the New Yorker are all top-shelf, but his most recent piece on modern medicine's difficulty in dealing with patients who are likely to die is a doozy and a must-read.

Almost all these patients had known, for some time, that they had a terminal condition. Yet they-along with their families and doctors-were unprepared for the final stage. "We are having more conversation now about what patients want for the end of their life, by far, than they have had in all their lives to this point," my friend said. "The problem is that's way too late." In 2008, the national Coping with Cancer project published a study showing that terminally ill cancer patients who were put on a mechanical ventilator, given electrical defibrillation or chest compressions, or admitted, near death, to intensive care had a substantially worse quality of life in their last week than those who received no such interventions. And, six months after their death, their caregivers were three times as likely to suffer major depression. Spending one's final days in an I.C.U. because of terminal illness is for most people a kind of failure. You lie on a ventilator, your every organ shutting down, your mind teetering on delirium and permanently beyond realizing that you will never leave this borrowed, fluorescent place. The end comes with no chance for you to have said goodbye or "It's O.K." or "I'm sorry" or "I love you."

Warning: it's good, but you'll probably be crying by the end of this article.

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Wham, cloud with Lustre

High performance computing – by which is meant traditional parallel supercomputing as well as data analytics and hyperscale cloudy infrastructure – is facing a looming file system and storage bottleneck, and Whamcloud, a startup backed by $10m in private funding and some of the top people behind the Lustre file system, want to help.…

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BergZ writes "Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming. 'A comprehensive review of key climate indicators confirms the world is warming and the past decade was the warmest on record,' the annual State of the Climate report declares. Compiled by more than 300 scientists from 48 countries, including Canada, the report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said its analysis of 10 indicators that are 'clearly and directly related to surface temperatures, all tell the same story: Global warming is undeniable.'"

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Hmmmm, I'm not sure what message they're trying to send with the source code of the official webpage of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. [Daily WTF via The Daily What] More »



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A Peel for your Apple

US wireless carrier Sprint is slated to offer a kind of handset sleeve that could provide 3G wireless access to an iPod Touch, the Apple iPhone that's not a phone.…

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