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| 15 Horrifying Moments of Tech Terror | | True moments of tech terror are like ghost stories for grown ups. So your mom liked that picture of you at the lingerie party, and then what happened? Just thinking about the time your hard drive crashed before you could save that final paper can be enough to set your heart racing. SEE ALSO: 'Damn You Auto Correct' Unveils 11 Funniest Texts of 2012 Like a horror movie, they unfold — and you're powerless to stop them.
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| Google Pays Tribute to Franz Kafka With a Buggy Doodle | | Today's Google Doodle celebrates Franz Kafka's 130th birthday, referencing one of his most famous novellas, "The Metamorphosis." Born on July 3, 1883 in Prague to a German-speaking, Jewish family, Kafka is recognized as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. In the Metamorphosis, the protagonist Gregor Samsa one day realizes he has turned into a giant insect.
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| Ubisoft's Database Hacked, Warns Users to Reset Passwords | | Ubisoft, best known for creating the popular Assassin's Creed video-game series, has announced that its user-account database was hacked, and is urging all users to change their passwords immediately. "We recently discovered that one of our Web sites was exploited to gain unauthorized access to some of our online systems ...
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| Aquatic Drone Takes Photos and Videos Underwater | | While their natural environment may be the sky, drones are now entering wetter territory. Ziphius is an app-controlled aquatic drone that responds to smartphone or tablet commands in real-time, according to its Kickstarter page. The drone's first incarnation will come with a remote-control app that enables users to steer it, and to take photos or videos of their underwater activities.
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| This Raspberry Pi Robot Will Make You Coffee | | 1:59:31 AM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| Rapiro is a humanoid robot that can be programmed to do various tasks — Including make you coffee. The kit was created by a Japanese company as a “catalyst between robotics and Raspberry Pi.” The credit-card sized, Linux-based PC known as Raspberry Pi is designed to work with the basic hardware of Rapiro, allowing you to program it to do many things, such as manage your calendar or tell you the weather, in addition to making the coffee.
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| Handheld Device Links Paramedics With Live Translators | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:59 PM | PSFK |
| Inspired by inventor Charles Howerton's difficulties in communicating with his Spanish-speaking staff, RTT Mobile's ELSA unit is now helping law enforcement, EMTs and other first responders communicate clearly, effectively and efficiently with non-native English speakers.
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| Opera Web Browser is All-New for Windows and Mac | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 11:37 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Opera, an alternative web browser, unveiled a brand-new version on Tuesday that features an updated design for both Windows and Mac computers. The Norway-based software company released desktop version 15 of its browser. Among other updates, it sports a cleaner, modern look that seems to take inspiration from its competition.
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| This Bluetooth Keyboard Puts the Office in Your Pocket | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 10:44 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| The more wireless our world gets, the more connected we seem to become. One Kickstarter product, which has made a lot of noise not even one week into its campaign, is exploiting this paradox, putting you "one fold away from work." The portable keyboard called myType is spearheaded by keyboard evangelist and MIT graduate Brunn W. Roysden.
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| Jumbo 3D Holograms of Human Anatomy Enliven Med-School Lectures | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:48 PM | Sean Fitz-Gerald |
| PowerPoints? Forget it. Instructional film? Nah. White board? Boring. Instead, two UK teachers are experimenting with a more interesting way to spice up in-class lectures. Kapil Sugand and Pedro Campos, junior doctors from St. George's University of London, presented holograms of life-like images to students in their latest seminar.
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| iPhone Dock Smoke Alarm Alerts You During Sleep | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 8:49 PM | Vignesh Ramachandran |
| Every year in the United States, about 3,500 Americans die in fires, according to the U.S. Fire Administration. Household smoke alarms can help save lives, and a new iPhone dock design could work as a secondary detector in your bedroom. Seattle-based Tonic Product Design created an iPhone dock and accompanying app that can warn you while you're sleeping when smoke or carbon monoxide is detected.
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| Telescopic Contact Lens Gives You Terminator Vision | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 7:56 PM | Discovery News |
| A new contact lens is being developed that would allow wearers to zoom in and zoom out on focal points, just like the Terminator. SEE ALSO: New Platinum Age of Maps The telescopic lens is just over a millimeter thick and is composed of a central unmagnified optical path, surrounded by a ring of movable components that magnify the view 2.8 times.
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| Does Microsoft Help the NSA Hack Your Computer? | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 7:34 PM | TechNewsDaily |
| Earlier this month, a Bloomberg News investigative piece revealed that Microsoft, anti-virus software maker McAfee and numerous other American technology firms shared advance information about vulnerabilities in their software with the U.S. government. Such knowledge, Bloomberg reported, could be weaponized, giving the United States a tool to break into the computer systems of adversaries — or of its own citizens.
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| Windows 8 Surpasses Vista in Popularity | | Tuesday, July 02, 2013 6:49 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| In what's good news for Microsoft, Windows 8 has become a more popular operating system than its much criticized Vista platform.
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