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Emergency Alerts Over Your XBox System? Posted: 8 hours ago by suebe
Online gamers, get ready for possible alerts on your consoles! New York State authorities are testing a plan that would see the Emergency Management Office issue alerts over online gaming networks in addition to regular channels.
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Tweets on Ice: Dispatches from Jail in 140 Characters or Less Posted: 1 day ago by Bornbad
We live in a world where people are arrested and honestly think: "I should tweet about this." From celebrities, to hipsters, to rappers and journalists, here is a compilation of the best tweets from the Inside.
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Norway opens world's first osmotic power plant Posted: 1 day ago by DAVEthefish
Osmotic power is one of a number of experimental renewable energy projects betting on a expected climate pact in Copenhagen next month unlocking funding and subsidy schemes that will help develop the technology and slash production costs.
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Koreans make plastics without fossil fuel chemicals Posted: 2 days ago by Jerry520
A team of South Korean scientists have produced the polymers used for everyday plastics through bioengineering, rather than through the use of fossil fuel-based chemicals.
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Don't Smoke If You Have A Mac Posted: 2 days ago by suebe
Apple is voiding warranties of Mac laptops that need repair with traces of cigarette smoke.
*Another reason to quit*
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Costa Rica Creates a Trash Collecting Space Rocket, Will Offer Rides to Mars Posted: 6 days ago by analumass
Former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz has developed a plasma rocket which could cut the cost of space travel by more than half, transforming the aerospace business and clearing the way to exploration for more countries, such as his native Costa Rica. For now, Franklin plans to use the rocket, called the VASIMR, as a a mail-carrier for outer space, a garbage truck for orbital debris and, the ultimate goal, a shuttle to Mars.
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Attention loss feared as high-tech rewires brain Posted: 1 week ago by Bornbad
Some mental health experts fear that a growing technology addiction, perhaps Accelerated by the popularity of smart phones and social networks, will lead to a breakdown of interpersonal relationships and an increase in attention deficit disorder.
*I haven't been outside for weeks*
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Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue Posted: 2 weeks ago by Bornbad
I'm touching a wet slab of protein, what feels like a paper-thin slice of bologna. It's supple, slimy, but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the center today, tomorrow the wound would heal. It's factory-grown living tissue.
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How the Internet is Destroying Western Civilization Posted: 2 weeks ago by Moogle
According to this article by Newsweek, the Internet is destroying the culture of newspapers, television, music and film.
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Cell Phone Use Linked to Brain Changes Posted: 2 weeks ago by Bornbad
Call me.
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Dear Prudence, I'm a mac, and he's a pc Posted: 2 weeks ago by gammerus
"I recently married my dream husband. We have incredible chemistry and a shared commitment to each other. When we disagree, we settle our differences by balancing logic and gut feelings. That is, until we came to our disagreement on which laptop I should buy to replace my Mac PowerBook..."
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There's a Lawsuit for that... Posted: 2 weeks ago by icepigs
AT&T files suit against Verizon to stop there new "There's a Map for that" ad campaign as it's "misleading".
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Facebook is an Alibi Posted: 2 weeks ago by suebe
Imagine if the most important sentence you ever wrote was a Facebook status update that goes something like this: "ON THE PHONE WITH THIS FAT CHICK......WHERER MY IHOP." Now you know how it feels to be 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, who used that all-caps message to keep himself out of prison.
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Google to Provide Free Airport Wi-Fi Posted: 2 weeks ago by choco
...in conjunction with a bunch of service providers beginning now through the middle of January.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concert Posted: 2 weeks ago by Bornbad
On HBO Nov 29th, 2009
Set list.
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On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog Posted: 2 weeks ago by suebe
Posting online comments under multiple aliases is apparently against the law, at least in the case of Raphael Haim Golb, 49, who is suspected of using 50 different e-mail addresses and monikers — some of the names belonging to academic rivals — to bolster his arguments about the origins of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Airplanes Should Always Land With ALL the Parts They Took Off With Posted: 3 weeks ago by suebe
On Thursday, a 20-pound engine tail cone fell from a Boeing 777 plane headed from JFK Airport to Tokyo and onto the front yard of Michelle Russell in Roosevelt, Long Island. The Delta crew only realized the four-foot piece of metal was missing after it landed in Tokyo—14 hours later.
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6 Unique Ways To Charge Your Batteries Posted: 3 weeks ago by iamamaniac
As technology develops at an alarming rate and gadgets become more and more energy-sapping by the week, the need for more powerful batteries with which to feed modern, portable electronics is greater than ever.
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Iphone Users are Egomaniacs Posted: 3 weeks ago by gammerus
"iPhone users find cool gadgets more attractive than college degrees, frequently watch "adult material" on their phones, and have no qualms texting or emailing a break up, reports a new study from Retrevo."
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6 Beautiful Wooden iPhone Accessories Posted: 3 weeks ago by iamamaniac
A few examples of the best and most creative wooden iPhone accessories.
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Veterans return to Iraq – virtually... Posted: 3 weeks ago by bingo
...Computer simulations could help soldiers with post traumatic stress disorder.
"They experience the sights, sounds, smells and vibrations of their original experience. It is a way of overcoming a natural difficulty in using their own imagination during the therapeutic process."
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Thankfully, that thong theft was thwarted Posted: 4 weeks ago by Bornbad
A woman whose shoplifting bid was thwarted by employees at a Kentucky lingerie shop fled the store Monday night wearing only a hoodie and two pairs of stolen thongs.
(I hope meggy has an alibi)
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Tired of having to track weather patterns for a long road trip? Posted: 4 weeks ago by sidran32
Trippish does it for you! Just enter in your start and end location along with your departure time, and it calculates a travel route, as well as weather forcasts at regular intervals between your starting point and destination. It even can automatically determine the best time to leave based on current forcasts. Quite handy for those cross-country Plimeets.
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The Death of the Teapot Effect Posted: 1 month ago by bingo
Fluid dynamicists have worked out how to stop teapots from dribbling, once and for all.
Teapot technology is largely ignored by mainstream media (some say unfairly). But today, scientists in France unveil a technique that should breath hi-tech life into a new generation of bespouted objects.
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Steampunk Designs, Modifications and Inventions Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
Steampunk is a kind of speculative fiction that usually takes place in urban settings where the future meets the past: Victorian era inventions clash with often dark alternate realities.
*I love me some Steampunk!*
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