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Click Through This List To See If It Mentions You, To Feed Your Ego

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEXIA TSOTSIS Okay so maybe you and two million of your closest peers made “LinkedIn’s Top 1% most viewed profiles for 2012.” But are you on “Forbes 450 under 30″? Or “TIME’s 100 best randomly assorted names of people, with a few from Silicon Valley”? Well, you’re probably also not on this list of“People who have achieved incredible things in tech” either but you might want to check, just in case. I mean, you…

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Zombies are not invading Montana, despite emergency alert.

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor If you happened to be watching the Steve Wilkos Show in Great Falls, Montana yesterday, you may have had your viewing interrupted by a strange emergency alert warning of a statewide zombie apocalypse. Fortunately for everyone, it was just a hoax. As the Associated Press reports, it appears that Great Falls affiliate KRTV was hacked by a prankster intent on spreading mistruths about walking corpses. “The bodies of the dead are rising…

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Turn your webcam video into a 3D wireframe with WebCamMesh

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor WebCamMesh is an HTML5-based browser app that does some mind- and space-bending things to your webcam. Developed by Los Angeles-based Felix Turner, the demo maps webcam video onto a WebGL 3D Mesh, creating a “fake” 3D depth field that you can undulate and modify with onscreen controls. Once you grant the app access to your webcam, you can shift the 3D field by scrolling with your mouse, or adjust…

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Curiosity rover drills into Martian rock, looks for more evidence of water.

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As reported on Engadget. By Sean Buckley NASA scientists won’t have to wait until InSight’s 2016 drilling mission to see what lies beneath the surface of Mars — Curiosity is already on the case. After developing a taste for Martian soil late last year, the intrepid rover has started exploring the red planet’s bedrock, drilling a 0.63 inch (1.6 cm) wide hole 2.5 inches (6.4 cm) deep into Mars’ surface. Curiosity will spend the next several days analyzing the…

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Samsung-branded Qi wireless charging pad stops by the FCC for a dismantling

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper Samsung may be trying to usurp Qi’s wireless-charging dominance, but for the moment it still has to play along with the de-facto industry standard. That’s why the company has pushed this Qi-compatible wireless charging plate onto the green baize of the FCC’s poker table, likely in preparation for a commercial release. Peel away the plastic and you’ll find a beefy arc reactor electromagnet nestled at the heart of the device — and since the…

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Woman fined for bedazzling her court-ordered ankle monitor

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As reported on The Verge. By Amar Toor Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but for Rebecca Gallanagh, they’ve caused nothing but trouble. Gallanagh, a 22-year-old convict, was fined by a UK court this week for decorating her electronic ankle bracelet in fake diamonds — an act that local magistrates described as a “serious offense.” Gallanagh had been forced to wear the bracelet after being convicted of a public order offense in November, for her involvement in…

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LibreOffice kicks it up to version 4.0, promises leaner performance and greater interoperability

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As reported on Engadget. By Nicole Lee It’s been a little over a week since Microsoft unveiled its big Office 2013 suite (along with that Office 365 subscription option) to the world, and right on cue the Document Foundation has released version 4.0 of open source alternative LibreOffice. The latest update promises to be cleaner and leaner according to devs, but more importantly to you and me is that it brings greater interoperability between different file formats such as DocX and…

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DropTag tells phones when packages are bruised before they’re opened (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Many of us have had the misfortune of receiving a package that has been roughhoused in transit, and we might not have even realized it until we burrowed through the cardboard and tape. Cambridge Consultants’ upcoming DropTag might just serve as the insurance we need. The badge can detect a drop or other violent motion, like earlier sensors, but carries Bluetooth 4.0 to transmit data and alerts in real-time to a mobile app,…

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HP tells Chinese factories to stop raiding schools for cheap labor

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As reported on Engadget. By Sharif Sakr We know that HP’s Chinese sub-contractors enjoy a spot of opera on the production line. What’s always been harder to determine though, is who those workers are and what employment rights they have. In an effort to preempt the sort of headlines that have afflicted other brands, HP has issued new guidelines to its Chinese partners — including Foxconn — designed to limit the use of students and temporary personnel and give those people more control over…

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Privacy invasion or webcam art? ‘Screening Reality’ walks a fine line

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As reported on TechCrunch. By Amar Toor Pierre Derks’ latest video installation sits at the nexus of voyeurism, media, and reality 1 inShare Deep in the heart of Europe sits a massive display full of live camera feeds from all over the world. Visitors drop by to peer in on unsuspecting strangers, staring blankly at scenes both intimate and banal — sleeping babies, pedestrians, empty storefronts. A computer silently churns nearby, bringing up new video streams…

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