Best Buy Is Recalling Thousands of MacBook Pro Batteries Over Fire Risk

Best Buy is recalling 5,100 replacement batteries for the MacBook Pro after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission noted 13 separate cases in which the batteries caught fire, at least one causing serious injury. [AP]

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Microsoft Just Completely Gave Up On Its Xbox One DRM (Updating)

Microsoft has caught a lot of heat for restricting the sale and trading of used games on Xbox One, and requiring the consoles to phone home every 24 hours for verification. Basically, for having hefty DRM. Well good news for whiners everywhere: Microsoft is giving up.

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How Prescriptive Analytics Could Harness Big Data to See the Future

Big Data—information sets too large to be effectively computed on desktop systems—isn't just the buzzword du jour. It provides an unprecedented ability for business and industry to precisely model the effects of past managerial decisions on the bottom line. But an emerging analytical process called prescriptive…

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Mars Had an Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere 4 Billion Years Ago

Though chances are Curiosity is going to come up empty-handed as far as living, potentially breathing Martians are concerned, four billion years ago might have told a very different tale. After recently examining meteorites and rocks from Mars, scientists have discovered that not only did Mars once have an oxygen-rich …

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Unlock NYC's Architectural Gems With This Foursquare Scavenger Hunt

New Yorkers rarely have time to stop and look up at the city around them, but the Museum of Modern Art is pushing us to do just that with a city-wide scavenger hunt that challenges players to explore the city's architectural landmarks.

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The Wildly Functional Studio of Video Wizard Casey Neistat: Part II

Being creative doesn't mean having access to the latest and greatest gear. It's often a matter of thinking outside the box to find the best solution. Casey Neistat's studio—including his self-built shooting table—is a perfect example of that.

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A Watch Inspired By--And Made From--The Apollo 11 Moon Landing

Romain Jerome has become known as the watchmaker that incorporates exotic materials into its timepieces, from moon dust, to metal from the Statue of Liberty, to volcanic ash. And while it's still embracing that role with the new Moon Orbiter, the watch actually puts more focus on the highly engineered flying tourbillon exposed at the 9 o'clock position than it does its little slice of history.

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Lytro Enables Wi-Fi and Launches a GIF Making App For iOS

Since launching in 2011 Lytro, a miniaturized light field camera, has steadily rolled out a number of updates and new colors. After all, not everything needs to be updated with a new model every year! And today the company is unlocking a new feature that's been hidden since day one: Wi-Fi. Oh, and they're releasing an …

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