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TechCrunch Rippol, the video discovery site that combines both complex algorithms with user suggestions to surface interesting content, has launched to the public at today’s RealTime CrunchUp. We recently took an in-depth look at the service, but for those who haven’t seen it yet, here’s a recap: Rippol looks at your video watching a (Read More)

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Gizmodo At Milipol, I was walking around FN Herstal's booth, playing with futuristic-looking P90s, Five-Sevens and F2000s when I noticed a camera-toting tourist pretend-blasting with something very very cool: The Armatronics "Black Box" suite with Moving Red Dot Fire Control. They'd taken a SCAR assault rifle, and put a "black box" (Read More)

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Gizmodo No, it's not going to destroy the world. But the collection of photos of the LHC at the Big Picture is a great reminder that this might be the most impressive piece of machinery humanity has ever built. [Big Picture] . (Read More)

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SlashGear You can’t accuse Qualcomm of not looking ahead.  While their Snapdragon chipset was in strong attendance at their London event today, they were also rolling out some particularly impressive predictions for the future of mobile chipsets.  Qualcomm expect the mobile chipsets of 2011 to 2013 to be capable of gaming performance (Read More)

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EurekAlert! - Breaking News Like the paperless office, the smart home has been a long time coming, but a new article suggests that radio tags coupled with mobile communications devices could soon provide seamless multimedia services to the home. (Read More)

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ScienceDaily: Latest Science News Researchers have confirmed that Homo floresiensis is a genuine ancient human species and not a descendant of healthy humans dwarfed by disease. Using statistical analysis on skeletal remains of a well-preserved female specimen, researchers determined the "hobbit" to be a distinct species and not a genetically flawed version (Read More)

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ScienceDaily: Latest Science News Phthalates are important components of many consumer products, including toys, cleaning materials, plastics, and personal care items. Studies to date on phthalates have been inconsistent, with some linking exposure to these chemicals to hormone disruptions, birth defects, asthma and reproductive problems, while others have (Read More)

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Gizmodo Sure, basic stereoscopic images can be created using software to merge two slightly offset photos, but that only works for stationary subjects. For moving targets, there's Fuji's Finepix Real 3D W1, or this $20 hack using two Canon PowerShot cameras. Maximum PC's how-to uses 3D picture synchronization software called Stereo (Read More)

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ReadWriteWeb The social media data company Rapleaf has just released the final parts of their 3-part study involving the demographics and online behavior of webmail users. In the first part of the study, gender and age data was examined and revealed some interesting findings...like the fact that Gmail has more female users than male, fo (Read More)

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TechCrunch AOL CEO Tim Armstrong this morning informed staff that the company will be looking for 2,500 people to voluntarily hand in their resignations, which would represent about one third of the company’s payroll. The news comes a mere week after AOL, which is preparing to spin off Time Warner and go public, said it would be firin (Read More)

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SlashGear Having promised an app store for their Pulse pen last month, Livescribe have pushed the first beta out of the door.  There are currently over thirty applications – some free, some paid – to be downloaded, just in case you want to automatically translate text between languages, play games or even learn Hebrew chanting.The Li (Read More)

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Wired: Beyond the Beyond *I hope this insect-brain researcher is off his rocker, because I really don’t want to confront a new paradigm where a mosquito is stalking me with as much smarts as a hungry alleycat.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117124009.htm(…)Research repeatedly shows how insects are capable of some intelligent behavio (Read More)

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Submitted by Mmartoccia from Google Reader: And now a word from the future: Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post... (Read More)

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Submitted by Mmartoccia from Google Reader: This is interesting: New Technology Reduces Risk Of IVF Laboratory Mistakes By Electronically Identifying Sperm, Eggs And Other Materials For Each Patient Unique software increases safety and security of infertility treatment by accurately tracking every step of the process. Read the rest of this post.. (Read More)

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ScienceDaily: Latest Science News New research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of the wasted heat produced by everything from computer processor chips to car engines to electric power plants, and turn it into usable electricity. (Read More)

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