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Geek Squad’s CES Ads Are Surprisingly Honest [Image Cache]
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Thanks,
Geek Squad, for basically writing the headline for our next story on your
borderline
fraudulent “optimization” scams! Spotted in in the CES Press room, of all places.
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Geek Squad’s CES Ads Are Surprisingly Honest [Image Cache]
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The Curves of This Sofa Can Be Used to Graph Out Our Lust For It [Design]
March 16, 2010 - 5:20 am
Tags: concept, curved-frame, curves, design, even-graphed, graph, home furnishing, none-solid, posts-tagged, sofa, stop-thinking, thoughts
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Sometimes something as simple as a pile of metal frames and cushions can be so inexplicably appealing that we can’t stop thinking about it. This curved frame sofa was one of those things and we even graphed out our thoughts: More
Samsung’s Not-So-Mysterious New Windows Phone 7 Handset [Windows Phone 7]
March 16, 2010 - 2:10 am
Tags: cellphones, handsets, microsoft, mix10, morning, phone, posts-tagged, the-handsets, windows phone, windows phone 7 samsung
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We’ve become acquainted with Windows Phone 7 handsets from Asus and LG , but during this morning’s demo , we saw a new one from Samsung. So, what do we know about this—or any—of the handsets we’ve seen so far? More
Windows Phone 7’s Impossible App Mission [Windows Phone 7]
March 16, 2010 - 1:00 am
Tags: app store, apps, interview, microsoft, one-lingering, possibly-catch, posts-tagged, windows, windows phone, windows phone 7, windowsphone7
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Microsoft’s already done a lot right with Windows Phone 7 , and it’s not even out until late this year. But after today’s announcements , there’s one lingering question: How can Windows Phone 7 possibly catch up, in terms of apps? More
Underground Robot to Blow Up Bunkers [Weapons]
March 16, 2010 - 12:20 am
Tags: military, none-solid, one-time-use, posts-tagged, robots, rum, underground, unmanned-ground, vehicle-having, weapons
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The US Defense Threat Reduction Agency wants a robot capable of navigating underground—drilling through soil and rock—to deliver an explosive load. A “one-time use, air-delivered, highly mobile vehicle having certain characteristics similar to an unmanned ground vehicle”.
The Strata Building Runs On Built-In Wind Power [Wind]
March 15, 2010 - 9:40 pm
Tags: building, cooler-nickname, energy, its-energy, posts-tagged, strata, strata building, therazor, wind
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Form, meet function. The 42-story Strata Building —also known by its much cooler nickname, ” The Razor “—will get 8% of its energy from three wind turbines built into its façade
FCC Submits Ambitious National Broadband Plan: 100Mbps in 100 Million Homes [Fcc]
March 15, 2010 - 9:33 pm
Tags: 100-million, clean energy, fcc, government, known-some, main-long-term, major, million-homes, mobile, national, national broadband plan, none-solid, posts-tagged
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We’ve known some of the major details about the FCC’s sweeping National Broadband Plan —namely 100Mbps broadband in 100 million homes —for a while now, but today they’ve made it official. It’s a sweeping proposal, with six main long-term goals: More
Windows Marketplace Will Be the Only Source For Windows Phone 7 Apps [Windows Phone 7]
March 15, 2010 - 9:10 pm
Tags: apps, briefly-thought, iphone, marketplace, microsoft, mix10, phone, platform, posts-tagged, windows phone, windows phone 7
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What many feared (or briefly thought about without much emotion either way) has turned out to be true: Microsoft PR has confirmed that Windows Marketplace for Mobile will be the only source for Windows Phone 7 apps, meaning that you can’t sideload apps, and that Microsoft will be the sole gatekeeper for all apps on the platform.
CAT Scan, Literally [Humor]
March 15, 2010 - 8:59 pm
Tags: blakeley, cat, cats, computed, humor, julia-segal, none-solid, posts-tagged, the-beginning
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Computed axial tomography scan— CAT Scan —is a medical imaging method employing tomography created by computer processing. And cats’ groins. That’s what inventors thought at the beginning, anyway
Surprise: Windows Phone 7 Has Native DivX Support [Windows Phone 7]
March 15, 2010 - 8:56 pm
Tags: came-out, divx, iphone, lot-more, native, none-solid, posts-tagged, support, surprise, windows, windows phone 7, windows phone 7 divx, windowsphone7
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This is an unexpected treat: Windows Phone 7 ’s SDK came out today , and apparently it includes DivX support up through DivX6. That means no DivX7, but it’s still a lot more than you can find on the iPhone. More
Windows Phone 7 SDK Available Now, Free [Windows Phone 7]
March 15, 2010 - 7:08 pm
Tags: cellphones, mix, phone, posts-tagged, right-now, sdk, video, windows phone 7 apps, windows phone 7 sdk, windows-mobile, windowsphone7, winpho, winpho 7
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You can download the Windows Phone 7 SDK right now from this link .
