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Tech NewsKinect-Powered Windows 8 Laptops Are Definitely in the Works
We’ve known that Kinect for Windows is coming for a while now, but The Daily got its hands on the first computers that have the technology built directly into them: The devices, which at first glance appear to be Asus netbooks running Windows 8, feature an array of small sensors stretching over the top of … Continued
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Tech NewsSocial Media“For Dummies” Book Implies Facebook and Twitter Gets Seniors Laid
You probably spend a good amount of your time explaining tech problems to old people, or young people who are simply dumb. But those few who are old and dumb? Here’s a guide book that will lead their charge onto social media, and if we’re reading that video correctly, start having lots of social network-enabled … Continued
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3 Million People Are Paying for Spotify Now
We like Spotify as more than friends, but man, it’s been doing nothing but losing money for a while now. So it’s pretty good—and really surprising—news that it’s now got three million people paying for its service. That three million figure is actually more impressive because it’s 20 percent of everyone using Spotify, which is … Continued
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Is Nokia Working on a Windows 8 Tablet?
Nokia bet the farm on its Windows Phone partnership with Microsoft, but so far it’s been mum on potential Windows 8 tablets. That changed a bit today when CEO Stephen Elop implied it might be time. During Nokia’s earnings call, Elop said that while Nokia isn’t announcing anything, there are tons of opportunities for other … Continued
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Are These Idiotic iPad Thieves Uploading Their Pics to Photo Stream?
Ken McLellan’s iPad was stolen in December. That sucks, but hey, not much to do about it. Except now he’s started getting Photo Stream uploads on his iMac from the wayward iPad, and he’s trying to use the pics to track down his tablet, and maybe the thieves. Ok, sure sure, there’s a pretty good … Continued
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How iPad Demand Led to Last Year’s Deadly Foxconn Explosion
You probably remember the Foxconn explosion from last May that killed four people and left 18 others seriously injured. Charles Duhigg and David Barboza of The New York Times have a massive profile on the human side of a totally avoidable dust explosion in a plant frantically rushing to keep up with demand for iPads, … Continued
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Google-Approved Motorola Lawsuit Trying to Block iPhone 4S and iCloud
The days of Apple and Google sitting down for a nice cup of tea are long gone. Now they’re staring across the battlements, just waiting to lawyer bomb each other into the Stone Age. Motorola’s new lawsuit against Apple—which Google had to approve—is the latest stop on the road to the inevitable clash of titans. … Continued
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Jailbreaking (or Rooting) Your Phone Could Become Illegal Again. Fight It.
Jailbreaking or rooting your phone is pretty much a nerd birthright at this point. But soon it could once again be deemed illegal, if the acts’ exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act runs out. That’s where you come in. If that exemption runs out, it would be illegal to install a clean version of … Continued
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Confirmed: Fleshlight Developing an iPad Case You Can Have Sex With
The iPad’s a darn attractive gadget, but that 30-pin connector ain’t made for love. That’s why this Fleshlight-holding iPad case concept caught our eye. Imagine all the things you could pretend to have sex with! And it turns out, it’s not just some crazy, er, pipe dream. It, or something like it, is coming soon. … Continued
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Tech NewsEx-Stanford Prof Starts a Totally Free Online School
Remember when Stanford offered those college-level Computer Science courses for free? Now the professor who ran them is leaving Stanford to start a project that will offer nothing but free CS online classes. Sebastian Thrun is leaving his post as a researcher and professor at Stanford to start Udacity, which will teach Computer Science college … Continued
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What Is This?
Is that a proton torpedo exploding through space? Nah. Maybe the world’s most incredibly unsafe powerline crackling in the night sky? Or how about a CGI bit from The Hobbit? Well, no, but close. It has to do with a dragon, see. The photo is actually of fireworks, shot during a Lunar New Year celebration … Continued
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Tech NewsHow to Make Cheap Whiskey Taste Like Fancy Whiskey
You like whiskey. You looooove good whiskey. You can’t afford to drop hundreds of dollars on a high-end bottle. You stick with rotgut, right? Nope. There’s a new process of hyper-aging booze that apparently turns run-of-the-mill whiskey into dark and delicious firewater of the gods. The process is called TerraPure, and was dreamt up by … Continued
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The Best Everything at CES
Well that about does it for CES. We managed to escape Las Vegas with our lives, most of our belongings, and almost none of our dignity intact. But for all our bellyaching, CES is fun. We saw some amazing things out in the desert this year. Here’s a quick rundown of the best: The Best … Continued
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For the First Time in Years, Your Next PC Will Be Amazing
By now you’re maybe sick of hearing about ultrabooks, the best chance Windows rigs have to catch up to Apple laptops in design, usability, build quality, and general good-and-wantable-product-ness. Don’t be. What’s coming from PC manufacturers in 2012 isn’t the inevitable, dreary sameness that’s made laptops so boring for the last decade. In fact, it’s … Continued
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Steve Ballmer: One Giant Misunderstanding of a Man
Microsoft’s in the middle of an attempted renaissance, and leading the way is ol’ sweatstains himself, Steve Ballmer. Ashlee Vance at Businessweek has a nice, sprawling feature that’s as much about the tongue-wagging chrome dome as it is about the company he leads. True or not, conventional wisdom on Balmer is that he’s big and … Continued
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Apple Patent Turns Your iPhone Into a Window to a 3D World
Apple’s been looking at Kinect-like 3D gestures for a while now, and now it’s filed for a new 3D GUI patent that would make using an iPhone or iPad a lot like a cross between a stripped-down little Kinect and a window into a parallel world. The patent lays out an interface that would use … Continued
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Kindle Just Turned Into an Instapaper for Your Files
I like using my ereader for things other than books, but aside from Instapaper, converting regular files into ereader format is more hassle than it’s worth. Now Amazon’s making it easier to send non-book files to your Kindle. Send to Kindle is a new plugin that lets you send a file right to your Kindle … Continued
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Meme This Photo (Updated!)
You might’ve heard that Babyface Sam Biddle is on SPIKE this CES. But did you know that there’s also freaking 100-foot-tall Biddle glaring at the convention center? That’s sponsored by Taco Bell? We’ve been giving him crap about it all week, and now it’s your turn. We’ve got a big-res version up there for you, … Continued
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Origin’s Insane New Gaming Laptops Are as Fast as They Are Pretty
Origin’s been one of the craziest overclocking outfits around for a while now, but its laptops haven’t been really, let’s say, aesthetically pleasing. Its latest rigs got the Ricky Lake makeover treatment, though, but not at the cost of raw asskicking power: they still clock in at a ridiculous 4.5GHz. Origin completely redesigned its cases … Continued
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You Could Make a Whole iPad Orchestra with This Stuff
Remember Apple’s first iPad 2 ads where folks are drooling all over the Garage Band app? Yeah, you’re still playing on a freaking iPad. But iCade just dropped a bunch of gear that lets you use the iPad to actually play instead of tapping a screen. Last year, iCade made an iPad mini-piano. Whatever. Now … Continued
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