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Why You Should Care About 3D Printing

As reported on Businessinsider.com by Dylan Love   The same way that personal computing became a hotbed of innovation in the early 1970s, 3D printing seems to be experiencing a similar renaissance.  Previously being huge, pricey devices reserved for the industrial elite for the past 30 years or so, 3D printers have lately been adapted to fit on your desktop at home. All over the world, hobbyist manufacturers are extruding plastic objects for prototyping or simply…

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Apple Is Blasting A Multi-Billion Dollar Hole In Samsung’s Business

As reported on Businessinsider.com by Nicholas Carlson   But actually, Samsung also has a pretty big business making the guts of gadgets for other companies. During the quarter that ended October 25, Samsung generated $8.2 billion in revenue through its semiconductor business. Samsung profited more than a billion dollars during the quarter on those revenues. One of the companies Samsung makes semiconductors for is Apple. In fact, Apple is a huge Samsung semiconductor customer. Digitimes…

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Create a Lasting Morning Routine by Making Two Key Changes

As reported on LifeHacker. by Joel Gascoigne Buffer cofounder Joel Gascoigne takes his morning routine seriously. In fact, he calls it his “most rewarding habit.” Here, Joel shares the two most important changes you should make to kickstart your own consistent routine. Those who know me know that I love my morning routine. I’m always making adjustments to it, and at its core it revolves around waking up early (before sunrise), working on something important for 90…

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How to Need Less Sleep by Getting Better Sleep Every Night

As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry Many of us struggle to get enough sleep every night, but is the sleep we get any good? While it’s important to get enough sleep,better sleep is a greater ally than more hours of sleep. We sat down with a sleep expert and a stack of studies to help you get a better night’s sleep and need less in the process. Here’s how. Most of Us Have a Hard Time…

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The Sword and Sorcery Precursor to Empire Strikes Back

As reported on Wired. BY NATHAN MATTISE Black Angel was screened before Empire back in 1980. Then it disappeared. Photo: Courtesy of Rogers Christian   It’s been a legend on geeky message boards for decades: a beautiful sword-and-sorcery flick made by a key person behind Star Wars. Many distinctly remembered seeing it as children, but no one could track it down. Well, it turns out the mythical movie really does exist and will be back in circulation soon. The 25-minute…

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Why You Shouldn’t Buy a TV This Year. Again

As reported on Wired. BY MAT HONAN Illustration: Simone Shin At January’s Consumer Electronics Show, the annual industry orgy in Las Vegas, manufacturers are going to introduce about a zillion new television sets. They’ll come armed with a bevy of specs: Full HD 3-D. 4K. OLED. Wi-Fi. Moth Eye. (Yes, Moth Eye.) The sets will be Internet-ready. They’ll harbor more ports than the eastern seaboard and come bristling with apps to let you watch Hulu and…

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Space 2013: A New Year of Missions and Events

As reported on Wired. BY ADAM MANN   Mankind has always expected the heavens to be busy, and 2013 will be no different. We no longer imagine gods and goddesses above us — instead, we shoot our own rockets, people, and probes to populate space. The coming year looks like it will be an exciting one, with emerging countries’ space agencies as well as private entrepreneurs jumping in. NASA will continue to wrestle with its purpose,…

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Physicist Richard Feynman’s ‘Ode to the Flower’ accompanied with brilliant animated video

As reported on The Verge. By Dante D’Orazio American scientist Richard Feynman, who The New York Times called “arguably the most brilliant, iconoclastic and influential of the postwar generation of theoretical physicists” upon his death in 1988, is known for the invention of diagrams to depict particle behavior as well as his involvement with the creation of the atom bomb. However, back in 1981 he offered a bit more digestible nugget of knowledge in an interview with the BBC,…

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Google Glass lead says project is still a work in progress

As reported on The Verge. By Dan Seifert Google’s Project Glass product, the company’s venture into wearable computing, was officially unveiled over half a year ago at the Google I/O conference. Since then, we haven’t heard much from Google about the device, but today IEEE Spectrum published an interview with Babak Parviz, head of the project at Google. Parviz didn’t reveal too much that we didn’t already know, but he did lend a few details about Google’s intentions for Glass…

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Is Apple testing a new iPhone right now?

As reported on The Verge. By Sean Hollister There’s very little doubt that Apple is developing a new iPhone, and a new version of iOS, but today The Next Web claims to have seen the very first sketchy evidence of Apple’s next handset and mobile operating system. According to the publication, one iOS developer discovered that a device named “iPhone 6,1” running iOS 7 was making requests from an IP address within Apple’s Cupertino campus itself. NOW WOULD BE…

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