| 10 Life Lessons From Star Wars | | Happy Star Wars Day! May the fourth be with you. The epic big-screen battle between good and evil set in a galaxy far, far away influenced generations of young Jedi wannabes. Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi instilled values of discipline and loyalty, while Darth Vader served as a cautionary tale to anyone tempted by the dark side of life.
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| How to Remove Tagged Photos From Your Instagram Profile | | Friday, May 03, 2013 11:32 PM | Emily Price |
| Instagram added the ability to tag photos this week. Similar to photo tagging on Facebook, your friends can now tag you in their Instagram photos so that the image shows up on your profile as well.
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| Smart Money: Scientists Embed Radio Chips in Paper | | Friday, May 03, 2013 10:23 PM | Discovery News |
| From hotel towels to soccer jerseys, just about everything seems to be tagged with radio frequency identification (RFID) chips these days. Now scientists have developed a way to embed these chips in paper, which could pave the way for so-called smart money.
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| The Apartment Hunter's Guide to Classifieds Lingo | | Friday, May 03, 2013 9:56 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Apartment hunting can be a seriously traumatizing experience. Find an apartment you love and you can't afford it or find an apartment you can afford and your roommates have antennas (or worse, rabies). Not to mention, there's worrying about neighborhood, access to public transportation and whether or not you can bring Fluffy along.
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| YouTube Comes To Google Glass With Fullscreen BEAM | | Friday, May 03, 2013 9:14 PM | Emily Price |
| Google Glass has its first YouTube app. Fullscreen Labs released Fullscreen BEAM Friday, the first YouTube app for the high-tech glasses. “Our engineering team loves building better experiences for digital video creators every day and hacking on new initiatives and passion projects into the night,” Drew Baumann, Founding Engineer at Fullscreen said in a blog post announcing the app.
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| Add Wi-Fi to Practically Anything With This Arduino-Compatible Chip | | Friday, May 03, 2013 8:50 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| You can add it to a motion detector. You can add it to a security camera. Heck, the creators of a tiny new Wi-Fi board even joke that you can add it to a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The Spark Core board, from Spark Devices, can make any of your projects Wi-Fi-enabled and thus connected to the Internet, as explained in the video above.
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| How to Really Delete Reddit Posts | | Friday, May 03, 2013 8:28 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Even when you're using a fake name on a social media site, your comments can come back to haunt you. Just ask notorious Redditor violentacrez, who was unmasked last fall by Adrian Chen, a reporter for Gawker. Is it possible to protect your privacy online? Some say no. "Trying to take something off the Internet is like trying to remove pee from a swimming pool," wrote Redditor steste.
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| Photographer Crafts Mind-Melting Images Without Photoshop | | Friday, May 03, 2013 7:59 PM | Annie Colbert |
| The word Photoshop has evolved to function as a noun, adjective and verb. The Adobe program has become an essential tool for photographers looking to tweak and manipulate their images. Jerry Uelsmann is a photographer of the old school who modifies his work not on the computer, but in the dark room. Uelsmann crafts his surreal photographs by combining and layering images to create a single composite.
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| Become a Superhero With a Homemade Thor Hammer | | Friday, May 03, 2013 7:36 PM | Neha Prakash |
| If you're tired of sitting around waiting to get bitten by a radioactive spider or for Batman to retire and leave you his Batmobile (and hopefully Alfred), then take matters into your own hands — build your own hammer that could rival Thor's. In this video Hackaday teaches us how to trick out a hammer to superhero proportions. It may not actually summon lightning like Mjölnir does, but this one is powered by 80,000 volts.
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| Why 'Iron Man' Robert Downey Jr. Is on Sina Weibo But Not Twitter | | Friday, May 03, 2013 7:01 PM | Quartz |
| Iron Man 3 opens today in North America, but it’s been playing in Chinese theaters since the May Day holiday and has already made a killing, bringing in a record-breaking $21.2 million on its first day alone. And it’s not just records: Marvel and its Chinese partner, DMG, are setting new standards for foreign movies looking to earn government clearance in China.
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| 5 Digital Distractions for Kids and Their Parents | | Friday, May 03, 2013 6:31 PM | Robin Raskin |
| Entertaining distractions for kids have come a long way since the early days of Concentration and Connect the Dots. That’s especially true if you’re an iPad user. Take a look at these masterpieces that highlight some game-changing graphics interaction and even how you buy them.
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| The Modern Lives of Disney Princesses | | Friday, May 03, 2013 6:08 PM | Neha Prakash |
| In Disney's fairytale world, princesses chat with birds, sing with dwarves and swim with talking flounder. The biggest worries of these ladies are evil step moms or horrid octopus women. But once their prince comes along, it's sunshine and daisies for these leading ladies. Unfortunately, the real world is not always as sweet as anything Disney could drum up.
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| 6 Obscure NASA Sites Every Nerd Has to See | | Friday, May 03, 2013 5:40 PM | Amanda Wills |
| NASA has Twitter down to a science. The agency knows the ins and outs of YouTube. It even even makes Google+ look cool. But what you may not know is that NASA has plenty of forgotten features all over its websites, just waiting for geeks to uncover. Here are six of them. 1.
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| This Is Sports on Google Glass | | Friday, May 03, 2013 4:11 PM | Sam Laird |
| What's it like to play sports while wearing Google Glass? Now we know, thanks to two new YouTube videos.
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| DabKick Will Change How You Share Photos and Videos | | Friday, May 03, 2013 3:52 PM | Emily Price |
| There’s something about being able to chat with someone while showing him or her photos from your last vacation, or a video of your child’s first steps, that makes the experience as a whole a lot more personal. Meet DabKick, an iOS app that attempts to recreate the experience of sharing media with friends in person using your smartphone.
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| Thermometer Delivers Diagnosis, Calls Doctor | | Friday, May 03, 2013 3:32 PM | PSFK |
| The thermometer is a timeless medical device, but you often need to be familiar with common symptoms and what to do if you have them for it really come in handy. The Kinsa Smart Thermometer offers a new way of taking the effort out of diagnosing and dealing with everyday illness. Its design is straight-forward. There’s no battery, processor or display in the device itself.
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| 'Ender's Game' Teaser Trailer Will Debut May 7 in Google+ Hangout | | Friday, May 03, 2013 3:09 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Ender's Game director Gavin Hood, producer Bob Orci and actor Asa Butterfield will unveil the science fiction movie's first teaser trailer in a Google+ Hangout on May 7. The live video chat begins at 4 p.m. ET. The trio will discuss and answer viewers' questions about the flick, which is based on Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game book.
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| Google Glass: The User Experience | | Friday, May 03, 2013 2:40 PM | Ryan Lytle |
| It would be an understatement to note that there is hype surrounding Google Glass. In a recent op-ed, Mashable's Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff called Google Glass the future of technology, and many businesses are already making moves to get their services on the product.
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| Samsung Galaxy S4 Ad Dials Up Some More Apple Bashing | | Friday, May 03, 2013 2:24 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Ever wish you could answer a call on your iPhone even though your hands are covered with spare rib sauce? It happens. Yet with Samsung's would-be iPhone 5-killer, the Galaxy S4, that's not an issue. Hands-free control is one of the features highlighted in this 90-second ad, which broke Thursday night during Conan. Another is the ability to interact with TVs and S-Beam, Samsung's name for its NFC capability.
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| Become an 'Iron Man' Expert in 30 GIFs | | Friday, May 03, 2013 1:36 PM | Bob Al-Greene |
| The latest big Marvel movie, Iron Man 3, opens today. It's getting decent reviews, but it might have a tiny technical impairment holding it back: With two prior movies, plus a little tie-in called The Avengers, how can everyone stay up to speed on the hero's story? We're here to help the nerd-challenged among you catch up in the best way we know how — through the teaching power of GIFs.
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| Pentagon: North Korea Likely to Seek Foreign Help With Cyberwarfare | | Friday, May 03, 2013 1:01 PM | Nextgov |
| North Korea is expected to mooch off other nations for cyber offensive tools because it is not plugged into the global web, according to the Defense Department’s first report to Congress on the regime's military might. These are some of the spare details describing Pyongyang’ network operations found amidst a larger discussion of the regime's antagonism with South Korea and pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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| Intel's New CEO Faces a Major Challenge | | Friday, May 03, 2013 11:57 AM | MIT Technology Review |
| Intel's new chief executive must reverse the last decade of declining market share. Intel's new CEO Brian M. Krzanich, elected by the board this week to replace retiring chief executive Paul Otellini, is a longtime Intel insider whose vision must now guide the company through a time of tumult in the computing industry.
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| J.J. Abrams on Star Wars: 'You Have to Force Yourself to Start Over' | | Friday, May 03, 2013 11:47 AM | Chris Taylor |
| They were supposed to discuss their new movie Star Trek: Into Darkness, but J.J. Abrams and actor Simon Pegg can't resist geeking out about their shared passion for Star Wars in this just-released video. Pegg, who plays Scotty in Abrams' rebooted Trek franchise, makes a rather pointed compliment about Abrams and Star Wars: "I feel like it's in safe hands now ...
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| Days App Will Change How You Share Photos With Friends | | Friday, May 03, 2013 11:30 AM | Dani Fankhauser |
| One morning you might wake up, roll over, grab your phone and flip through the pictures from last night, from yesterday. "Was it really that great of a time?" you ask, and you've got a stream of photos to help you answer, the ones you want to delete from memory and the ones you'll frame on the wall, or at least post to Facebook.
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| Now You Can Buy 3D Printers From Staples | | Friday, May 03, 2013 11:06 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| The office supply chain announced Friday that it is now selling 3D printers on Staples.com and will start selling 3D printers in stores by the end of June.
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