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Economy

The 10 American Housing Markets That Made Tremendous Turnarounds In 2012

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Mamta Badkar Dave Gates via Flickr The U.S. housing market turned the corner in 2012. The latest home price report from Trulia says home prices were up 5.1 percent year-over-year nationally.  And the pace of increases has also picked up in the year. With home prices up 0.8 percent quarter-over-quarter in Q1, and up 2.3 percent in Q4. We drew on Trulia’s latest report to highlight the top ‘turnaround markets’ of 2012 i.e.…

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Entertainment Film

Video: How Dredd 3D Shot Its Brain-Melting Slow-Mo

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As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER Easily the best part of Dredd 3D (after Karl Urban’s Judge Dredd scowl, obvi) is the slow-mo/Slo-Mo – both the movie’s drug of choice and the camera technique used to create the retina-stimulating scenes that accompany its use. To create those acid-trippy images the filmmakers used a 3-D rig that was outfitted with Phantom Flexhigh-speed cameras capable of shooting at a whopping 3,000 frames per second (and higher). That footage was then…

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Politics Pure News

Connecticut town holds drive to collect and destroy violent video games

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As reported on Polygon. By BRIAN CRECENTE A small community about 30 miles from the site of the Newtown massacre is organizing a voluntary video game return program, aimed at collecting violent video games from families and likely burning them. The Violent Video Games Return Program offers up gift certificates in exchange for violent games, music and movies turned in during an event later this month. The collected items will then be broken and later incinerated…

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Entertainment Film

Meet the Hollywood eccentric who invented high frame rate film 30 years before ‘The Hobbit’

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As reported on The Verge. By Russell Brandom Douglas Trumbull tried — and failed — to bring HFR to theaters in the 80s. With digital cinema, he’s getting another chance The hyperreal high frame rate style that came into theaters with The Hobbit is usually described as cutting edge, but it’s older than most of the people buying tickets. HFR has actually had a nearly 40-year journey to the theaters, starting from a small Paramount lab run by Douglas Trumbull.…

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Legal News Tech

Member of file-sharing group given 5 years in prison for uploading movies

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As reported on The Verge. By Adi Robertson Jail terms for members of the BitTorrent-based movie-sharing group iMAGiNE continue to set records: Wired reports that Jeramiah Perkins, who helped lead the group, has been given a 60-month sentence for his role in helping to record and distribute movies online during their theatrical run. Perkins’ sentence exceeds the 40-month one given to fellow member Gregory Cherwonik, making it the longest American jail sentence for file sharing. In their original indictment (PDF),…

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Engineering News

‘Lego Axle Sorter’ is a mesmerizing miniature feat of mechanical engineering

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As reported on The Verge. By Aaron Souppouris Lego engineer Akiyuki has created a machine that can sort Lego pieces automatically. Akiyuki, whose “Great Ball Contraption” was a big hit on YouTube last year, managed to power the complex machine using a single motor. The “Lego Axle Sorter AS-L40A” is able to pick up a pile containing 10 different types of Lego from a bucket and sort them into separate containers. It may not be as…

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Application

Tinder: Finding Traction On Campuses, IAC’s New Dating App Makes It Easy To Break The Ice

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As reported on TechCrunch. by RIP EMPSON Regardless of what you think about digital dating sites, they encourage us to close our computers and get out there and meet new people. In short, they bring people together. The problem is, of course, that there are infinite variations on social and mobile dating, from compatibility engines and social, Facebook-based platforms to game-ified bracelets and live video dating. Then there are the quasi-dating, people-meeting sites like Grouper. Some work, most don’t. A…

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Culture

Teen Brags On Facebook About Drunk Driving, Gets Arrested

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREGORY FERENSTEIN Police made an example out of a teenager from Oregon who boasted about driving drunk on Facebook. “Drivin drunk… classic  but whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry.  ,” wrote the clueless 18-year-old. According to local news channel KGW, two people tipped the officers via Facebook about the post. After inspecting the most-likely-profusely-sweating/hungover teen’s car, the damage on his vehicle matched that of two other vehicles hit earlier that New Year’s morning. And, with their…

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Google

Google Quietly Removes Censorship Warning Feature For Search Users In China

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As reported on TechCrunch. by NATASHA LOMAS Google has quietly disabled a feature that notified users of its search service in China when a keyword had been censored by the Chinese government’s internet controls, according to censorship monitoring blog GreatFire.org. The blog reports that the change was made sometime between December 5 and December 8 2012, with no official statement from Google to announce or explain its removal. According to GreatFire.org Google has also deleted a help article…

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Environmental

Alta Devices claims world’s lightest, most efficient military solar chargers

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As reported on Engadget. By Terrence O’Brien  Alta Devices has already laid claim to one solar charging-related record, now it’s claiming to add world’s lightest to its list of selling points. The company is still touting its mats as the most efficient (though, there are some valid challenges to that claim), but it’s adding portability and versatility to its resume. It’s smallest military model weighs just four ounces, is roughly the size of a sheet of paper and…

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