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| 10 Google Earth Tips for Power Users | | Google Earth is a free program that lets you explore the globe (and a few other parts of the galaxy) via satellite imagery. Street maps, terrain, 3D neighborhoods — you name it, Google Earth can show it to you. But with the planet at your fingertips, it's easy to miss some of the lesser-known features the program has to offer.
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| 'Chime' Instrument Turns City Sounds Into Musical Compositions | | Horns honking, engines running and construction clanging — the urban jungle's daily noises can be hard on the ears, and easy to ignore. But Marc De Pape, a self-described "creative technologist" based in Toronto, is encouraging urbanites to tune back in by turning these city sounds into music.
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| Apple Scores $30M iPad Deal With L.A. Schools | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:57 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Apple announced Wednesday that it has landed a major deal to sell iPad tablets to the second-largest public school district in the United States. The Los Angeles School Board of Education has approved a $30 million deal to roll out iPads to students in its district beginning this fall. Each iPad tablet will include the "Pearson Common Core System of Courses delivered via a new app," Apple said in a statement.
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| Dragonflies Wear Backpacks for Brain Study | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 3:12 PM | Discovery News |
| A dragonfly snatching a meal in midair is nothing short of an aerial dogfight. First, it must predict the trajectory of its prey, maneuver a course of intersection and make split-second adaptations to outwit evasive mosquitoes or fruit flies. All this rapid-fire multitasking takes some serious neurological circuitry — the kind scientists are so interested in, they've designed a tiny dragonfly backpack to measure its brain activity.
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| The Lytro Camera Finally Gets Wi-Fi | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 2:59 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Thanks to its refocusing ability, the Lytro camera does things no other camera can do, but it also lacks a way to quickly share its "living" photos. That is, until today. With a free firmware upgrade, Lytro owners can activate the Wi-Fi chip that's been dormant in their cameras, which works with a new app arriving Wednesday in the iOS App Store.
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| Metaio Wants to Bring Augmented Reality Everywhere | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 2:53 PM | Christina Warren |
| From Google Glass to car dashboards to shopping, Augmented Reality (AR) is one of the most talked-about trends in technology. SEE ALSO: 7 Ways Augmented Reality Will Improve Your Life At its core, the idea behind AR is to bring additional context to the "real" world.
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| Facebook Now Lets You Comment With a Photo | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 2:46 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook has started to roll out photo comments, a new feature that allows you to comment on posts with images rather than words. Originally built during a Facebook employee hackathon, photo comments are starting to roll out globally on the web as well as the Facebook mobile site. Users can't yet leave photo comments within Facebook's mobile apps, but they are viewable.
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| No, You Can't Borrow My Google Glass | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:19 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| I got a chance to play around with Google Glass recently while I wasn't wearing my contact lenses. Things didn't end well.
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| 15 Hilarious Technology Ads From the 1980s | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:46 AM | Brie Hiramine |
| If you flip back to photos of your childhood, sometimes you'll wish that you hadn't. Perhaps your awkward haircuts and awkward poses weren't funny then, but they certainly are now. These tech ads make you feel the same way. The gadgets are clunky, the text is cheesy, and the graphics are so 80s. SEE ALSO: 10 Terrible Vintage PSAs That Should Stay in the Past In 25 years, we may be talking about how archaic Apple's ads were.
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| iOS 7 May Get Deep LinkedIn Integration | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 10:11 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Apple may integrate LinkedIn into iOS 7 the same way Facebook and Twitter are currently integrated into iOS 6, a new report says. The code in the developer beta of iOS 7 contains references to a single sign-on system for LinkedIn similar to the one used for Twitter and Facebook, 9to5 Mac reports.
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| 8 Places to Score Free Fonts Online | | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 8:23 AM | Eric Larson |
| Looking to improve your digital typography? Check out our list of the eight most helpful websites to download new fonts -- for free.
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