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Dell Confirms It’s Planning an Android Smartphone

Sunday, November 15th, 2009


Dell confirms long-standing rumors that it is working on a smartphone, but does not release any details on the phone, which it said would debut later this year in China and Brazil.


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Review: ‘2012? Displays Childlike Glee Amid Destruction

Sunday, November 15th, 2009


With his latest apocalyptic vision, director Roland Emmerich takes his obvious love of big-screen devastation to the max. The end result is an eye-grabbing movie that’s bursting with action but almost devoid of anything resembling a plot.


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Lunar Impactor Finds Clear Evidence of Water Ice on Moon

Sunday, November 15th, 2009


NASA’s LCROSS lunar impactor finds clear evidence that water ice does, in fact, exist on Earth’s satellite, leading one scientist to declare, “This isn’t your father’s moon.”


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Designer Duo Create Dress With 24,000 LEDs

Sunday, November 15th, 2009


Two London-based designers have created a dress embroidered with 24,000 full color LEDs and 4,000 Swarovski crystals for a museum exhibit in Chicago.


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Triangulate Your Position From the Ocean

Sunday, November 15th, 2009


Big-wave surfers can’t use GPS devices to figure out where they are on the ocean. Electronics don’t fare so well on 30-foot waves. How do they do it? By some simple and manual triangulation.


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Twitter Touted for Time’s ‘Person’ of the Year

Sunday, November 15th, 2009


Twitter is reportedly one of two finalists for Time’s Person of the Year award. Oh, man.


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Israelis Want a Pain Ray of Their Own

Sunday, November 15th, 2009


The U.S. military spent tens of millions of dollars and years of work developing a microwave ‘pain beam,’ but a combination of technical difficulties and political concerns kept the Pentagon from fielding the thing. Now, an Israeli team says they’re working on their own own portable version. And it’ll cost just $250,000.


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The Prisoner: An All-Star Appreciation

Sunday, November 15th, 2009


Patrick McGoohan’s stunning spy-fi series The Prisoner only lasted 17 episodes before sadly disappearing in 1969. But its revolutionary mix of geopolitics, sci-fi and psychedelia has influenced not just television, but also music, comics, film and more. It even made a deep impression on the most influential band of all time.

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Darpa: Freeze Soldiers to Save Injured Brains

Sunday, November 15th, 2009


The Pentagon’s mad science division has a new way to deal with the 70,000+ troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injury: freeze ‘em.


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In Escalating War With Verizon, AT&T Is Getting Tone Deaf and Outflanked

Sunday, November 15th, 2009


Verizon and AT&T are going to war: As it took direct aim at the 800-pound gorilla that is the iPhone with funny and cinematic TV ads for the Droid rollout last week, Verizon is also flanking AT&T about the reach of its 3G coverage with a growing repertoire of teasing commercials. AT&T is fighting back in court and, most recently, with a bland statement that aims to ’set the record straight on Verizon ads.’ Talk about asymmetric warfare.

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