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| Lock Your Temptations Away in Kitchen Safe | | 6:08:48 AM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| Think you have the perfect place to hide your roommate's birthday gift — but then she finds it? Or do you swear off Cheetos — but give in to a craving at 11 p.m.? A new Kickstarter called The Kitchen Safe is something of an intelligent cookie jar — a time-lock container that holds the things you love, but shouldn’t have (just yet). Place anything that fits into the 6 x 6 x 6.5 container, then turn the timer on.
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| Samsung Launches Galaxy S4 Wireless Charging Kit for $90 | | Samsung Galaxy S4 owners with no affinity for wires, you're in luck: Samsung has made available its wireless charging kit for the device, priced at $90. The kit, first unearthed by Droid Life, consists of a charging cover, which will set you back $39.99, and the charging pad, which costs $49.99.
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| Through a PRISM, Darkly: Tech World's $20 Million Nightmare | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:51 PM | Chris Taylor |
| If you're still not feeling queasy after reading Thursday's revelations about the National Security Agency tapping Internet records, you're probably not paying close enough attention. In short: a leaked intelligence presentation, verified by multiple major news sources, claimed to reveal the existence of an NSA program called PRISM.
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| Facebook Starts Rolling Out Home Improvements | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 8:51 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook updated its Android app Tuesday, and enhanced Facebook Home, its all-encompassing skin for Android smartphones. Facebook Home now has a dock, making it easier to access favorite apps. The addition of the dock is the first of many improvements Facebook has planned for Home, improvements being made in part based on the reactions of early adopters to the launcher.
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| Human-Scale Invisibility Cloak Unveiled | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 5:49 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| In the last decade or so, invisibility cloaks have captured the imagination of researchers and the public alike. The excitement is based on two advances. The first is the idea of "transformation optics," or the ability to bend light around a region of space to make it look as if it weren't there.
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| Snapchat Update Adds Quicker, Flashier Features | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:32 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| Everybody's favorite photo-sharing (and photo-disappearing) app just got a slick makeover in the App Store. Snapchat rolled out version 5.0, dubbed "Banquo," on Wednesday for iPhones. It boasts a slew of speed and design enhancements, including swipe navigation, double-tap to reply, an improved friend finder and in-app profiles.
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| Study: U.S. Smartphone Penetration Now at 61% | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 3:00 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Smartphone owners are now a solid majority of U.S. mobile subscribers at 61% according to Nielsen. Smartphones became the dominant mobile device in the U.S. in March 2012. The figures, for the three-month period ending in March, also show Android was the predominant smartphone OS with 53% versus 40% for Apple's iOS. Apple's share was up 7%, mostly likely because of the late 2012 iPhone 5 release.
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| Is This Tumblr's New Photo-Rich Redesign? | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 1:23 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Tumblr revealed a new homepage look for some of its users on Thursday, with a photo-rich design very reminiscent to its new sister site Flickr.
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| These Women Are Making Waves in Tech's Emerging Markets | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 12:34 PM | Monty Munford |
| A recent Startup Village event in Moscow organized by the Skolkovo Foundation celebrated and showcased Russian innovation, positioning Moscow as an emerging tech hub. The event rolled into Moscow after visiting 16 cities across Russia, clocking more than 13,000 miles in the process. While that was unusual, even more striking at the show was the sheer number of smart and entrepreneurial women involved.
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| Brilliant iPhone Case From Kickstarter Finds a Home at Logitech | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 11:36 AM | Pete Pachal |
| The TidyTilt has to be one of the most clever iPhone cases we've ever seen. Similar to the iPad Smart Cover, the magnetic TidyTilt folds over to act as a stand for your iPhone. And since it's magnetic, you can even use it to slap your iPhone on the fridge. Lots of other people liked the TidyTilt, too, apparently, since the Kickstarter project received more than $200,000 in donations when it only asked for $10,000.
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| Google Patent Takes Facial Recognition a Frown Further | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 11:30 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Unlocking your Android phone might soon become a matter of frowning, yawning or smiling. A patent from Google, originally filed in June 2012, enhances facial recognition by capturing several images of the user's facial gestures, which should prevent some ways of cheating the "standard" facial recognition system. The problem with facial recognition is it's possible to fool it by simply presenting a photo of a person to the device's camera.
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| How Sharp Plans to Make 4K Redundant | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 10:38 AM | Pete Pachal |
| You've probably heard of 4K — the next frontier in video formats following 1080p. The 4K format (also known as Ultra HD or UHD) doubles the pixel count in both directions, which can lead to a much sharper picture on larger sets. It also leads to a host of issues such as incompatible formats, connectors that choke on the data, and how users will actually get the videos with native 4K resolution.
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| NSA Collecting Millions of Phone Records and Other News You Need to Know | | Thursday, June 06, 2013 9:43 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. We learned that Verizon has been providing the National Security Agency with millions of subscribers' telephone records following a secret court order, according to a report published in The Guardian.
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