Day: January 8, 2013

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Katherine Webb Thought NFL Player Darnell Dockett’s Tweets Were Inappropriate

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Leah Goldman Isaac Brekken/Getty Images Esquire did a Q&A with the now famous Katherine Webb about her overnight Twitter stardom.  Webb, whose phone was dead during the game, gained about 100,000 new Twitter followers during the game after ESPN’s cameras panned to the pretty Webb in the crowd and Brent Musburger went gaga over her. Webb didn’t find anything wrong with Musburger’s comments, she told Esquire: “If he had worded it different and said we…

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The Best Time to Buy Anything During the Year

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Whitson Gordon A bit of planning can save you a ton of money when it comes to buying throughout the year. Here’s your comprehensive, always up-to-date guide on the best times to buy everything this year. Every year year, we compile a list of the best times to buy stuff based on when stores are trying to push out old stock, when they’re dropping prices for upcoming holidays, or even when they start…

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Military

6 Strikes, 8 Days, 35 Dead: The U.S. Drone War in Pakistan Is Back

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As reported on Wired. BY SPENCER ACKERMAN A U.S. airman greets an MQ-9 Reaper as it returns to Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan from a mission, December 2010. Photo: U.S. Air Force   The sixth U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2013 has killed at least eight people, as if to announce the impending arrival at the CIA of the drone campaign’s chief advocate. About 19 miles east of Mirin Shah, the main city in the tribal…

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Entertainment TV

First footage of Giant Squid will air on the Discovery Channel on January 27th

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As reported on The Verge. By Laura June Monsters on Earth, deep in the Pacific Ocean A team of scientists from Japan’s National Science Museum have been searching for a Giant Squid for a long time. Failed attempts to catch it on film in 2006 and early 2012 have been followed up by success, announced last week. The creature, which has been the subject of myths for hundreds of years, and known in Nordic myth as…

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Verizon And Motorola Announce FiOS TV Media Server That Can Record Six Shows At Once

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ Remember that FiOS home Media Server Verizon was talking about a year ago? Well, the company is finally starting to make things official, with an announcement and product details revealed today at CES. Launch date and pricing info still remain elusive, however. Verizon and Motorola have jointly developed the new Media Server platform, which doesn’t have a snazzy name like “Apple TV” or “Google TV,” but is rather called the Motorola Medios+ VMS1100…

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Sling Launches Second Screen And Media Syncing Capabilities With New Slingbox Companion And My Media Features

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RYAN LAWLER It’s been about five years since Echostar acquired Sling Media, but the company — which revolutionized place-shifting technology that allows users to stream live TV anywhere, on PCs, mobile devices, and tablets — continues to innovate. The latest innovation includes capabilities that take advantage of secondary devices that TV viewers are using while watching TV, as well as media-sharing features that go beyond the typical TV watching experience. Sling…

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U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, Google CIO To Unveil Free WiFi In NYC’s Chelsea Neighborhood

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN Google has slowly been building up its service provider cred, with anambitious fiber project in Kansas City and free WiFi initiatives through a partnership with Boingo. Today, the search giant is taking another step in that direction: it will unveil a free, public WiFi network in the New York City neighborhood of Chelsea. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is expected to join Ben Fried, Google’s CIO, to make the announcement at 10.30 am…

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HackerRank Will Host Back To School Hackathon, Bringing College Students To Hot Startups

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ANTHONY HA HackerRank has hosted college-focused hackathons before, but on February 2, it plans to connect some of the top coding talent in universities with some of the best-known companies in Silicon Valley. Developed by the same company behind InterviewStreet, a site where companies find programmers by hosting “CodeSprints,” the HackerRank service launched last fall at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference. Co-founder Vivek Ravisankar said the goal is to create a community where hackers can complete programming…

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iSmartAlarm uses a WiFi camera and iPhone app to warn you of potential burglars Hands-on

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As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman iSmartAlarm is a home security alarm, but not the kind that uses a shrill sound to send burglars scrambling. The alarm system, currently a project on Indiegogo, is a $79 WiFi camera that sends alerts to a corresponding iPhone app. Essentially, when the camera detects someone in the home, it will send a notice to your phone in the form of a text, email or phone call. The camera…

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IOGEAR wireless access point and computer-to-TV streamer refresh HD

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As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg IOGEAR really needs to start naming its products something other than stockroom codes and long-winded yet vague descriptions of what they do. After checking out the company’s new Wireless 5×2 HD Matrix, we cast our eye over the GWAVR — a little black box which plugs into your display via HDMI and functions as a wireless access point for streaming. It’s intended to receive 1080p video and 5.1-channel audio from mobile…

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