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Don't Think Bad Thoughts
More movement on the mind-reading front! Scientists in Japan developed a way to analyze brain scans to interpret people's thoughts. And you know who's probably most excited about this?
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Left 4k Dead - Excellent online game
Left 4k Dead was made by Markus Persson, for the 2009 Java 4k Competition.The entire game is less than 4kb.
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HP Enables Photo Printing From The iPhone
Hewlett-Packard on Monday launched an application that allows users to print pictures wirelessly from an iPhone.The free application, HP iPrint Photo (App Store link), allows pictures stored on an iPhone to be printed using certain HP's inkjet printers attached to a Wi-Fi network.
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Sun-Lit Laptop Display Released By LG
LG’s panel features an adaptive backlight that switches from transmissive to transreflective mode with the click of a button. The panel’s transreflective display— made for outdoor use— reflects sunlight to illuminate itself from the inside.
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ONE MILLION Wiis sold last week in America!!
An estimated one million Wiis were sold last week in America - the most games machines sold in one week ever... PS3 and Xbox360 nowhere to be seen!
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Citrix To Bring Millions of Windows Apps To iPhone
Anonymous writes "Citrix is putting out word that it's developing an iPhone receiver that could make 'millions' of Windows applications work on Apple's handset. (Something Citrix is calling 'Project Braeburn.') Aside from Flash and a few other apps, is anyone pining for Windows-based apps on the iPhone? (Exchange on the iPhone seems to be successful, but so does Apple's App store, which has done pretty well without Windows.)"
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Pictures of the year: lions, tigers and bears (oh my!)
In 2008, we saw many gregarious animals showing off for the cameras, which is why we must tip our hats to the more bashful wild animals, like this Hungarian owl...
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NASA to have atronauts on moon by 2020, plan permanant base
NASA's long term plans are to build a permanent base on the moon that may one day be used as a launching pad for manned flights to Mars.
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Math professor discovers chaos on a 'fluid trampoline'
A water drop placed on a soap film that vibrates up and down may bounce as if on a trampoline -- but it's much more than that, according to MIT mathematicians who say the "fluid trampoline" is the simplest fluid example of chaos theory ever explored.
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Analyst expects Next Zelda game in 2009, GTA V in 2010
Lazard Capital Markets' Colin Sebastian expects Link's next adventure to help push modest industry growth next year; GTAV potentially arriving in 2010.
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Quantum computers millions of years faster than regular PC's
A quantum computer could solve problems in a few months that would take conventional computers millions of years. But how to build a super fast computer that uses the bizarre properties of quantum physics? Well, that is the aim of a five-year project supported by a grant of $3 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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6 Open Letters That Changed the World
Epistolary history is full of open letters, those that are written with the intent that they’ll be read by a wide audience. Here we’ve collected six of the best (or at least, most influential) open letters of all time.
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Cyberbullying cases picking up due to MySpace suicide law
One of the highest-profile cyberbullying cases in Internet history has sent lawmakers scurrying to create and update laws to include electronic communications. In Missouri, the updated law has resulted in seven cases being filed since August, although critics feel that the updated state law won't do much to stop future cyberbullies.
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Perfect MITM Attacks With No-Check SSL Certs
StartCom writes "In a previous article I reported about Man-In-The-Middle attacks and spotlighted an example showing that they really happen. MITM attacks just got easier. In the attack described previously, untrusted certificates from an unknown issuer were used. Want to make the attack perfect with no error and a fully trusted certificate? No problem, just head over to one of Comodo's resellers. Screenshots and disclosure provided at the link."
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100-Car Pileup On I-94 In Michigan Leaves One Dead
A 100-car pileup on I-94 in western Michigan as a result of sustained whiteout blizzard conditions left one person dead and closed down an 11-mile section of the freeway for hours.
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Insuranceless Plaxico Burress Is Sued Over Car Crash
A Florida woman, Alise Smith, 27, has sued Giants receiver Plaxico Burress for a car crash last May in Tamarac, Fla. The lawsuit, filed on Dec. 9 in Broward County, said Burress’s car collided with the rear of her vehicle.
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The Philosopher's Paradox (COMIC)
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GTA braces for another blast of winter
Environment Canada has issued a winter storm watch after the fourth of a series of snow systems is expected to pummel the GTA sometime today, narrowly missing Toronto and Peel Region.
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Google was my doctor: Says Scott Adams, Dilbert Creator
.."about six months after I'd first lost my voice, I woke up wondering if my speech problem might be related in some way to my hand problem. So I typed “voice dystonia” into Google and up popped a link to a video of a person speaking in a damaged voice..I started using Google alerts to tell me whenever someone mentioned Dilbert, me, or anything
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