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Google

Google expands Glass sales but still wants a one-to-one chat with every buyer

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr Gone are the days when you needed to visit a Google office in person to pick up a pair of Explorer Edition spectacles. Following the recent expansion of the wearable project, which allowed existing owners to invite up to three friends or relatives to take that $1,500 step into the future, it’s been possible for new customers to have their glasses shipped to them, just like any commercial product. What hasn’tchanged, however, is…

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Entertainment

Track the scariest movie locations of all time with The Geography of Horror

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As reported on The Verge. By Bryan Bishop When trying to figure out what movie to watch for Halloween, you can pick from your favorite franchise, director, or even type of scare — but what about using location? That’s what location analytics company Esri makes possible with The Geography of Horror. It’s an interactive map that takes the top 200 horror films, as listed by the IMDB, and maps out where they were set across the globe. Films are broken…

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Environmental

Dead meat: how to raise livestock in a post-antibiotic era

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As reported on The Verge. By Katie Drummond When will American farmers put antibiotic drugs out to pasture? We’ve been warned for years that our reckless use of antibiotics threatens to render the drugs useless — ushering in a public health crisis that could see once-benign germs become deadly. But overzealous prescriptions for human patients are only one part of the problem: experts increasingly agree that antibiotics in animal agriculture contribute to resistant infections in people.…

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Tech Travel

New FAA Guidelines Permit More Device Use, All The Way From Take-Off To Landing

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As reported on TechCrunch.  by Darrell Etherington For years now, most of us have been quietly not turning off our phones and devices at landing and take off, and merely putting the screens to sleep and stuffing them in seat pockets instead. Now, we’ll be able to do that officially and more, according to the FAA. The American government organization overseeing air travel today announced that travelers won’t face regulations that are quite as strict when it comes…

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Android Apple

Nexus 5 launcher and apps ripped from factory image, available for download

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley Can’t wait for your freshly ordered Nexus 5 to show up? This might grab your attention: the Android community has already ripped a handful of the phone’s apps from Google’s official factory image. Droid-Life has collected the essential applications (calendar, clock, email, camera hangouts, and others), but the full Nexus 5 experience requires Google Play Services, Google Home (the new launcher) and the revamped Google Search, specifically. As always, side-load with caution — these…

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Tablet

Barnes & Noble’s Nook GlowLight is lighter, brighter, whiter, with less Simple Touch for $119

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As reported on Engadget. By Brian Heater As a ketchup bottle once famously said: Good things take time (we’re paraphrasing here, of course). Roughly a year and a half ago, Barnes & Noble made its top-notchNook Simple Touch even better with the addition of GlowLight. Before the end of the year, however, the company had been outdone by both Kobo and Amazon in that department; the two e-reader competitors launched devices with more uniform and brighter front-lighting technologies. Since then, those companies…

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Apple OS Review

Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks review

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As reported on The Verge. By Dann Berg Back to the Mac again It’s been almost exactly a year since Scott Forstall left Apple and Jony Ive and Craig Federighi were put in charge of both iOS and OS X. That gave Apple a chance to create a single, unified design, to make the iPad and Mac into one. Apple’s long talked about “bringing together the OS teams” and bringing iOS features “back to the Mac,” and converging…

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Environmental Military

The Next Agent Orange.

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As reported on The Verge. by Katie Drummond To an unsuspecting eye, the Torres family home is indistinguishable from the other bungalows that line a flat, treeless stretch of road somewhere off US Route 77. Under an unforgiving Texas sun, the family’s golden retriever runs in circles around the parched lawn, pausing for breath in the shadow of an SUV parked out front. And inside, life appears perfectly normal. Framed photos of Rosie and Le…

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Business Education

Meet Lesson.ly, A Training-As-A-Service Startup That Is Clocking Quick Revenue Growth

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Alex Wilhelm If you work for a large company, you likely dealt with an onboarding process. Perhaps little quizzes or pamphlets. I recently enjoyed this precise exercise while joining TechCrunch a few months ago, given that our corporate boss AOL is a fan of all things ancient. The gist is that corporate training is a pain in the ass for the poor schmuck on the receiving end, as well as for…

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Neurocam uses brainwaves to trigger hands-free photos, straps an iPhone to your head

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As reported on Engadget. By Mat Smith Neurocam uses brainwave sensors similar we’ve already seen in moving cat ears andTV navigation, but this time hooks up with your smartphone camera. This prototype, demoed at last week at Japan’s Human Sensing 2013 conference, gauges your interest on a scale of zero to 100, and if your brainwave readout tops 60, it’ll start to record video, eventually transforming the footage into five-second GIFs. In order to get the iPhone camera to eye-view,…

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