| Send Your Own Experiment to Space for Just $325 | |  | For a few hundred dollars, anyone can now buy time to run their own experiments aboard a small satellite set to launch next year. A physicist and two engineers are building a 4-inch cubic satellite designed to carry hobbyist processors into space...
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| Video Games: An Industry in Flux [INFOGRAPHIC] | |  | Video games aren't going anywhere. But where and how we play them has shifted dramatically in recent years, thanks in large part to the smartphone explosion. Sales of physical media are down after a peak in 2008 -- no surprise there. But despite...
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| Google Fights to Save 3,054 Languages | |  | Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in Aragonese? How about Navajo or Ojibwa? Or Koro, a language only just discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India? No, you probably wouldn't, not in that moment. But humanity would...
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| 15 'Jaws'-Dropping Shark Memes Circling the Web | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:54 PM | |
|  | Wednesday marks the 37th anniversary of the film Jaws, a cult classic that continues to instill fear in beach dwellers today, thanks to that terrifying giant shark. The 1975 film was monumental in the history of thrillers and summer blockbusters....
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| Ask Your DIY, Renovation and Gardening Questions on HomeTalk | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:28 PM | |
|  | The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: HomeTalk Quick Pitch: A community...
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| Sassy Twitter Account Parodies Tumblr CEO | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:15 PM | |
|  | Tumblr CEO David Karp isn't behind the wildly comical Twitter account @DavidKrap, and that's probably a good thing. The parody account tweets about Tumblr, but with an edge that's sometimes provocative, sometimes borderline cheesy. (For the...
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| 20 Close-Up Photos of Texture You Can Almost Feel | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:27 PM | |
|  | Texture represents an object's feel or consistency. You can feel the glossy texture of your computer keys or the slick condensation of a glass of water. But take a look at these 20 photos. You can see texture, too. From the stickiness of an old...
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| Larry Ellison Buys Sixth Largest Hawaiian Island | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:06 PM | |
|  | Pop quiz: what are you going to buy when you become a billionaire? For many of us, the hypothetical answer is "an island." For Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, however, that's no hypothetical. He just bought an island (well, 98% of one)....
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| Brief History of the World's Emotions (as Told by Wikipedia) | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:49 PM | |
|  | History, as a field, is pretty good at tracking concrete events. We know a lot -- though not, and never, enough -- about wars and plagues and celebrations and explorations and revolutions. We know considerably less, however, about the emotional...
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| Ringbow Brings Finer Game Control to Touch Devices | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:22 PM | |
|  | Gamers today have immersed themselves in the world of mobile gaming from Angry Birds to Cut The Rope to Doodle Jump, leaving behind the console and button-smashing classics of yesteryear. To navigate these worlds, we've become increasingly...
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| First Look: Windows Phone 7.8 On a Lumia 900 | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 7:50 PM | |
|  | Microsoft may not be bringing Windows Phone 8 to existing devices; however, the company will be bringing the new redesigned home screen from Windows Phone 8 over to some existing phones -- in the form of Windows Phone 7.8. The decision to not...
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| See This: Doctor to Live Stream Eye Surgery Thursday | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 7:22 PM | |
|  | Like many patients weighing surgery, Josh Leavitt of Salt Lake City is performing his due diligence -- reading up on corrective eye procedures, consulting medical pros and talking to others who have had similar operations. But on Thursday,...
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| 6 Ways to Gamify Your Facebook Marketing | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:59 PM | |
|  | Despite recent issues with its stock, Facebook remains the juggernaut of social media. With the platform on track to reach a billion users, and a new emphasis on revenue, the company is increasingly focused on how to make social work for business...
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| Holder Contempt Vote: How Congress Reacted on Twitter | | Wednesday, June 20, 2012 6:22 PM | |
|  | The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted 23-17 along party lines Wednesday afternoon to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. The charge says Holder withheld documents related to a botched plan to track gun...
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