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| Eerily Lifelike Kenshiro Robot Mimics Human 'Muscles and Bones' | | Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a robot that imitates the body of a human boy. At 5-foot-2 and 110 pounds, "Kenshiro" is designed to look like a 12-year-old male, and its body mirrors nearly all the major muscles in a human, according to IEEE Spectrum.
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| Google Maps for iOS Returns, Available for Download Now | | 12:01:52 AM | Christina Warren |
| Google Maps for iOS is back! The app appeared in the App Store late Wednesday evening, providing joy and comfort to disgruntled Apple Maps users everywhere. Rumors of the app's impending release appeared earlier this evening by way of AllThingsD. Google Maps for iOS [iTunes link] looks and functions more similarly to its Android counterpart than it does to the version that used to be bundled with iOS.
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| Google Maps App for iOS May Launch Tonight | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 8:53 PM | Zoe Fox |
| The days of Apple Maps are about to be over. If a report saying a Google Maps app for iOS will become available Wednesday night is correct, all iPhone users who have complained about the buggy Apple Maps can go back to their preferred mobile maps app. A source familiar with the matter told AllThingsD the Google Maps app will again become available for iPhone users.
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| 5 Things an Apple TV Must Do | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 7:58 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Here we go again. A new rumor says Apple has begun testing its long-rumored television. Of course, there's a Cupertino-sized gap separating "testing" and "selling" any product, but few people would bet against Apple launching a television set sometime in the next couple of years. About a year ago, I rounded up many factors that weigh against Apple releasing a TV.
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| Explicit Images on Google: Now Harder to Find | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:14 PM | Christina Warren |
| Using Google to search for pornography? Your job just got a lot more difficult. As an intrepid Reddit user discovered, searching for terms that should lead to adult content on Google's image search show content that is less X-rated than some might anticipate -- even with SafeSearch turned off. When user Fake_Cakeday did an image search for a common sex act, he got back photos of lollipops, microphones and funny (but not explicit) images.
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| Jet-Engine Tech Makes Super-Thin and Quiet Ultrabooks a Reality | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 6:00 PM | Charlie White |
| Laptops are getting even more powerful. Even though their processors are steadily becoming more efficient and running cooler, most of them still need at least one noisy fan to keep a machine's innards from melting into a useless heap of parts. Now there's a tiny bellows-like innovation that solves that cooling problem, using miniaturized technology that was first employed in jet engines.
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| YotaPhone Has LCD Front, E-Ink Back, Coolness All Over | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:44 PM | Charlie White |
| How would you like to have a smartphone with two screens, one on the front and one on the back? That's the innovation behind the YotaPhone, an Android smartphone with a 4.3-inch LCD display on the front and an E-Ink screen on the back. Having two screens on a smartphone could be a handy innovation.
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| Google Currents Is Now More 'Current' With Breaking News | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:39 PM | Christina Warren |
| Google has updated its Google Currents social news reading app to make it easier to find breaking news and browse content from multiple sources. Similar to Flipboard, Pulse and Zite, Google Currents is an aggregator of various publications presented in a way more akin to reading a magazine rather than an RSS feed. On its Android blog, Google outlined some of the biggest changes to Currents.
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| Tumblr Is Down | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 5:20 PM | Emily Price |
| Tumblr has had a rough afternoon. The site went down for a few minutes Wednesday afternoon, and while a few pages have appeared to return, most of the site is still down for the count. Tumblr acknowledged the issue when it began with a tweet from its official Twitter account. We’re experiencing slow loading or intermittent errors on certain pages and are working quickly to restore performance.
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| Meet the Guy Who Took a Census of Middle-Earth | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:58 PM | Fran Berkman |
| Gathering census data is essential to understanding how a population connects to a particular geographical space. The U.S. requires thousands of agents to complete one census every 10 years. In 2012, however, one young Swedish man took it upon himself to complete a thorough census of the entire earth — well, Middle-earth. Thanks to Emil Johansson, creator of LotrProject, we now know that the life expectancy of a hobbit is 96.24 years.
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| Filter Frenzy! Why We're All Instagrammers Now | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 3:55 PM | Chris Taylor |
| I ran into a professional photographer friend at the weekend. She'd recently gotten into Instagram, and I complimented her on her feed -- always interesting subjects, artfully framed. She took the compliment, but cursed Instagram in the same breath. Why? "Those filters," she said. Too cheesy? No -- too effective. "We used to have to spend hours getting that kind of effect," she said, shaking her head.
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| The Photo App That Kills Over-Sharing | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 3:16 PM | Sam Laird |
| Newly launched app PicIT24 could be the cure for friends who clog your Instagram feed with a million crappy shots from the same event.
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| This Plug-In Knows Your Next Favorite Website | | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:49 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Lumi is the latest venture from two of the three founders of Last.fm, a popular Internet radio service that keeps track of what you listen to and then recommends new tunes based on your tastes. Similarly, Lumi is a browser plug-in that tracks the websites you visit and suggests other sites it believes you’ll enjoy. This service is now in a private alpha test with around 1,000 users.
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