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Project Glass And Pebble-Style Smart Mobile Wearables To Fuel $1.5BN Market By 2014, Says Analyst

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As reported on TechCrunch. by NATASHA LOMAS Wearable connected devices are having a moment — largely anticipatory — as excitement builds about the potential for sensor-packed mobile kit that you strap to your person and use to augment/record activity from your daily life. Yesterday Google announced the first hackathons for its Project Glass smart specs to get developers thinking about building apps for a new type of mobile device, while a smorgasbord of wearable fitness tracking gizmos such…

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Google Announces First Project Glass Hackathons In NYC And SF, Will Detail ‘Mirror API’

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Over the last year, Google has slowly been unveiling its plans around Project Glass, the company’s R&D program responsible for attempting to bring wearable computing to the mainstream. Complete with augmented reality and an integrated display, Google’s smart glasses have had many geeks on pins and needles, especially as “Explorer” editions of the glasses have been expected to begin showing up early this year. Today, Google sent out its…

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Games

PlayStation Mobile’s ‘New Year giveaway’ offering six free titles over six weeks Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg For those who haven’t yet found a reason to check out the three-month oldPlayStation Mobile store, Sony’s got a rather compelling one for ya: freebies. Starting today, one game will be available gratis every seven days as part of a “New Year giveaway,” which will last six weeks in total. To obtain the complimentary titles, you’ll need either a Vita, or a device that’s been PS-Certified — an honor currently bestowed…

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Fusion-io brings Fusion ioScale SSD to small, speedy server clusters

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Fusion-io has made a name for its Fusion ioDrive solid-state drives by selling them to the largest of enterprises — the sort that crave thousands of servers. Not everyone wants that level of computing muscle, though, which is why the pro-grade storage firm is now selling the Fusion ioScale to a much wider audience. Cloud service hosts and other, smaller companies just have to buy a (relatively) paltry 100 or…

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Blockbuster’s UK video rental chain goes into administration after 24 years HD

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As reported Engadget. By Daniel Cooper BBC News is reporting that there’s another casualty on the British high street today as video rental chain Blockbuster enters administration. The company began life in the motherland back in March 1989 and, like several of its brethren, couldn’t compete against online offerings from Amazon (amongst others). It’s the second business in 48 hours to go under after HMV did the same yesterday. BBC News is also reporting that administrators Deloitte will continue to honor gift cards and will keep the stores trading…

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11 Apps That Will Make You Wish You Had An Android Phone

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Kevin Smith Kevin Smith/Business Insider  Apple’s iPhone app selection.   While Apple’s store is usually the first choice for developers to launch their apps, others know that Android is the platform to push hardware and software to the limit. Browsing through Android’s massive app library can be difficult as there are many apps that simply aren’t very useful. But if you look a little harder you can find apps like BetterBatteryStats, which…

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Politics

Conspiracy Theorists Are Harassing A Man Who Sheltered Students After Newtown Shooting

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Abby Rogers AP Images Gene Rosen became emotional when describing the massacre. Conspiracy theories have flooded the Internet since Adam Lanza gunned down 20 first graders in Newtown, Conn. last month.  The Sandy Hook elementary “truthers” have even begun harassing a man who was lauded as a hero after the shooting, Salon reported Tuesday. Gene Rosen found six children at the end of his driveway on Dec. 14 and sheltered them inside his home…

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Automotive

The Stingray Is the First Corvette You’ll Actually Want

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As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC View as gallery   The seventh generation of the Corvette has arrived, and Chevrolet is so damned proud of it they’ve brought an iconic name back from the past: Stingray. The Corvette has never been a refined machine. But that’s part of its blue-collar charm. It’s the working man’s supercar. A big, brutish middle finger to the Italians and Germans. This latest version doesn’t stray too far from that…

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Video: Sam Raimi on the Wizard’s Origin Story in Oz: The Great and Powerful

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As reported on Wired. BY ANNALIZA SAVAGE Best known for his work on horror films like Evil Dead and action blockbusters like the Spider-Man films, Sam Raimi may not be the first director who comes to mind for Disney’s new Wizard of Oz film. But Raimi says Oz: The Great and Powerful is like nothing he’s done before. Raimi calls the original Wizard of Oz ”one of my favorite movies of all time,” but instead of following Dorothy down the Yellow Brick Road, Oz: The Great…

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Google

How Google and Facebook Will Make the Leap to Lightspeed

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As reported on Wired. BY CADE METZ Image: Flickr/HarshWCAM3.   One early morning in 2011, somewhere behind the curtain at the world’s most popular social network, a Facebook engineer pressed a single button and brought down the entire operation. This unnamed engineer didn’t necessarily make a mistake. He just decided to run the kind of software task the social networking giant runs all the time. He ran a “Hadoop job,” a way of analyzing data. The…

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