Month: December 2012

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Museum of London publishes a family’s Christmas home recordings from 1902

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As reported on The Verge. By T.C. Sottek Last week, the Museum of London announced that it discovered “the earliest known home recording to have been made on Christmas Day.” The phonograph recordings, from a “middle-class” family in North London, date back to 1902 and were found in wax cylinders belonging to their descendants. As museum Curator of Social and Working History Julia Hoffbrand notes, “it is extremely unusual for wax phonograph cylinders, containing retrievable recordings…

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Inside Snapchat, The Little Photo-Sharing App That Launched A Sexting Scare

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JORDAN CROOK It started with an assumption, really. Snapchat, a photo-sharing application that auto-destroys images seconds after being opened, launched in September 2011 with zero media coverage. A homegrown product, built by two Stanford guys, grew to now see over 50 million snaps per day today. In fact, Facebook launched a clone of the app just Friday. It wasn’t until the company made its first milestone announcement, nine months after launch, that the media picked up…

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Google Extends Free Gmail Voice Calls In The U.S. And Canada Through 2013

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS In what is becoming somewhat of a holiday tradition for Google, the company justannounced that it is extending free domestic calls from Gmail in the U.S. and Canada for yet another year. Just like at the end of 2011 and2010, Google today said that Gmail users will once again get one more year of free voice calls from the Gmail chat widget. It’s interesting that Google continues to extend this service year after…

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Journalists’ Addresses Posted In Revenge For Newspaper’s Google Map Of Gun Permit Owners

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN A week after the Newtown massacre, The Journal News published an interactive Google Map with the names and addresses of gun permit owners in select New York cities. The bold move has escalatedinto a transparency arms race, after a Connecticut lawyer posted the phone number and addresses of the Journal‘s staff, including a Google Maps satellite Image of the Publisher’s home. “I don’t know whether the Journal’s publisher Janet Hasson is a permit holder…

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Apple

Apple Reportedly Looking To Bring Mac Mini Production To U.S. Shores

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Apple is said to be considering a move that will bring Mac mini production to the U.S., through manufacturing partner Foxconn, according to supply chain sources speaking to Digitimes. Foxconn already has an estimated 15 “operating bases” in the U.S. according to Digitimes. Indeed two of those at least include factories in California and Texas that finish assembly of partially assembled products, and while Foxconn officially denied plans earlier in the year…

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Canon Cinema EOS-1D C hits stores in Japan today, expected stateside later this week

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As reported on Engadget. By Zach Honig At $11,999, this latest Canon 1D is hardly set to become a DSLR bestseller, but there are certainly a few pro shooters willing to line up for an incredibly versatile 18-megapixel 4K cam, with EOS lens compatibility and a full-frame sensor. We were expecting Canon’s top-of-the-line beast to sell for just shy of $15,000, so this new sub-$12k sticker is a pleasant surprise. You’ll also need to invest in a battery of high-speed…

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China claims world’s longest high-speed rail line, takes travelers 1,428 miles in a workday

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As reported on Enagdget. By Jon Fingas China has a thing for pushing the limits of trains. As of today, that includes distance: the country claims to have the world’s longest high-speed rail line. Paying ¥865 ($139) will take you 1,428 miles from Beijing in the north to as far as Guangzhou in the south. The 8-hour, 186MPH trip is technically slower than flying, but it’s cheaper and potentially less stressful than the often protracted airport boarding process. It’s certainly…

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Why The US Should Force People To Buy Insurance If They Want Guns

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by The Economist The.Rohit via Flickr NOURIEL ROUBINI, a guy who knows a lot about risk, tweets in favour of mandatory liability insurance for gun owners:  If we had liability insurance on guns, as we do 4 cars, we will see which insurance company would insure at which price folks with arsenals It’s an idea that seems to be gathering a bit of steam. At Forbes.com, John Wasik lays out the logic behind treating firearm deaths as…

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Entertainment Film

The Biggest Box-Office Bombs Of 2012

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Kirsten Acuna Sony Pictures / Columbia Kate Beckinsale’s “Total Recall” remake didn’t totally take off this summer at theaters. While “The Avengers” and “The Dark Knight Rises” both saw more than $1 billion at the box office worldwide this year, there were many films which came up short at theaters.  From Kate Beckinsale and Jennifer Aniston to Judd Apatow to Disney’s Andrew Stanton, big name actors and producers were not…

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How to Use Multiple Dropbox Accounts on One Computer

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Thorin Klosowski Dropbox is one of out favorite ways to backup and store files, but unfortunately it doesn’t allow you to sign into multiple accounts at once. To solve this, blogger Daniel Mann figured out a way to run two different instances of Dropbox on a Mac using an automator script. Get Multiple Account Support on Windows On Windows, you have a couple different options for getting multiple instances of Dropbox…

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