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Qik’s $3 iPhone App Does Video Calling, Editing and Sharing

Skype owns Qik now, but that hasn’t stopped them from coming out with an iOS app to rival Skype’s own. I guess if the family takes on FaceTime together, all the better for Skype. Anyway, Qik’s Video Connect Plus app lets you video-chat over 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi, plus record video mail. Other cool features…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

HP’s CEO Seems a Tad Overconfident

During a Q&A session, HP CEO Léo Apotheker seemed confident in his company’s direction into cloud computing and the tablet market. Saying, “R&D is not just measured in dollars,” Apotheker basically defended HP’s slimmer budget since former CEO Mark Hurd famously cut it down. Still, is there really so much to be proud of? With…

Tech News Kwame Opam

Comedian Gets Fired As the Voice of the Aflac Duck Because of Insensitive Tweets About Japan

Gilbert Gottfried, a pretty foulmouthed comedian and tasteless twitterer, was the voice of the Aflac Duck. You know, the duck that obnoxiously screeches AFFFLAAAACCKKK to sell insurance. Not anymore though, Aflac has fired Gottfried for posting dumb and insensitive tweets regarding Japan. He reportedly tweeted: “Japan called me. They said ‘maybe those jokes are a…

Tech News Casey Chan

George R.R. Martin (and his dancing ghost) get the zany Taiwanese news treatment

Once again, Taiwan’s NMA News prove that they’re the future of infotainment with their flabbergasting machinima explanation of George R.R. Martin’s literary foibles. They even gave a shout out to “George R.R. Martin Is Not Your Bitch!” Hat tip to Xenon Bill!

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How do you make a white trash zombie sexy?

Dan Dos Santos just won a silver medal from this year’s Spectrum medals for his cover art for Diana Rowland’s My Life as a White Trash Zombie. Over at Muddy Colors, he discusses the evolution of this striking cover. According to Dos Santos, the crucial thing was that for the cover of this “zombie romance,”…

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London’s Olympics Clock Failed Hours After it Began the Big Count-Down

Well now, this is embarrassing for Britain. They only just unveiled their 2012 Olympics countdown clock in the center of London’s Trafalgar Square last night, but already it has stopped working. What makes it extra galling is that the 6.5m tall clock’s design was apparently inspired by the Greenwich Meridian line, which is the “home…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Etsy Privacy Blunder Reveals Users’ Full Names, Dildo Preferences, and Other Less Embarrassing Purchase Information

Oh Etsy, Etsy Etsy, what have you done? Well, to begin with, this: you introduced “People Search,” a new tool that makes your users (and their feedback histories) searchable by their real names, without giving anyone any real heads up that you were doing so. Uh oh. Basically, anyone whose real name is associated with…

Privacy & Security Kyle VanHemert

New author gets a book deal after publisher finds him on Twitter

For many new authors, the hardest part of getting published is just getting the attention of publishers. You have a brilliant book, but the publishing industry seems huge and monolithic. Except that now, publishers are paying attention to online sources. Angry Robot Books put out a press release saying that they signed up a new…

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Get Zagat Reviews from Your Navigation System

The all-new 2011 Acura TSX Sport Wagon will not only transport you and your lovely date to dinner, its navigation system (that also features voice recognition and a rearview camera) will actually tell you where nearby restaurants are and how to get to them. And the convenience doesn’t end there—it will dispense price range information…

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Facebook Tips and Tricks: The Ultimate Guide

You’re on Facebook. So is the guy sitting next to you on the bus. Your brothers, best mates, old classmates, demented neighbors, former coworkers, your grandma – they’re all on Facebook. The social networking behemoth now boasts over 500 million (active) members (that’s 1 in every 13 people on earth) and everything from your Mountain…

Social Media Amber Bouman - MaximumPC

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Sweded version of the original Star Wars

Click to view My favorite part is where R2D2 points out to C-3PO that they’ve both been to Tattooine before and “You were built by Darth bloody Vader.” But the whole thing is pretty great. [College Humor via Vulture]

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This Breathtaking Saturn Video Is Exactly What Everyone’s Soul Needs Right Now

After all the horror we are seeing these days, after the continuous bad news, I think it’s time for some mind- and spirit-cleansing beauty. Something to remind us that humans and nature can sometimes produce awe-inspiring things. Like this video. The Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn in 2004, sending the clearest images of the most striking…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

The Hubble telescope eliminates one possible alternative to dark energy

The universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, and we don’t know why. Dark energy is needed to explain this, but what is this strange phenomenon? We don’t know, but NASA has conclusively ruled out an alternative to dark energy. Based on our current theoretical understanding, the universe should eventually stop expanding and, thanks to…

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Time Warner’s New iPad App Lets You Stream 32 Channels of Live TV

Time Warner, my cable company, whom I hate, has finally entered the app foray with TWCable TV, a free iPad app that lets subscribers stream 32 channels of live TV—including ABC Family, BET, Comedy Central, MTV, and others—right to their tablets on their home Wi-Fi networks. Note: you must have Time Warner cable and internet…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Can Seth Rogen really make a computer-generated alien funny? Watch 5 new Paul clips and decide.

Can a CG alien be funny? Is it possible for Seth Rogen (the voice of alien Paul) to land a joke from a sound booth? Or will his UK counterparts have to carry this film? Watch five new clips from the film, and see for yourself. Paul hits theaters March 18th.

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Russian Bomb Squad Successfully Defuses Sex Toy

A post office in Russia was evacuated on Monday after an alert Russian postal worker called authorities over a package making a “strange ticking sound.” After securing the building, the bomb squad discovered the source of the noise: A vibrator. (The device had apparently been turned on accidentally) The AFP reports that “nerves are on…

Tech News Max Read

10 Coolest Time Machines in the Space-Time Continuum

Screw a spaceship, we want a time machine! Time machines rule, because they crack open the mysteries of the past and future. And each time machine has its own weird personality. And if you visited another planet, you’d probably suffocate. Here are the ten awesomest time machines of all time. If it turns out we…

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EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

This week on TreeHugger, solar-powered t-shirts that get you to work out, plastic bottles that can replace 50-watt bulbs, our guide to Japan’s nuclear power plant problems, Google adds future-forward features to maps, and more! DIY Solar Powered T-Shirt Motivates You to Work Out The Motivational Moody Workout T-Shirt created by Lingon at Instructables was…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Battle: Los Angeles The Game Is Shorter Than The Movie

Released last week to poor reviews (with a few exceptions), alien invasion flick Battle: Los Angeles runs 116 minutes long. The video game tie-in lasts less than half of that.… [Kotaku]

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This Beer Should be Product Placement for the Next Tron Movie

I don’t even drink beer, but what I wouldn’t give for one of these 3D-printed beer cases that were gifted to Heineken’s stakeholders. With the bottle’s label printed in UV-sensitive ink, it only figures that the case (3D-printed by Freedom of Creation) should have a UV light installed inside, activated once the case’s magnetic lock…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Qik’s $3 iPhone App Does Video Calling, Editing and Sharing

HP’s CEO Seems a Tad Overconfident

Comedian Gets Fired As the Voice of the Aflac Duck Because of Insensitive Tweets About Japan

George R.R. Martin (and his dancing ghost) get the zany Taiwanese news treatment

How do you make a white trash zombie sexy?

London’s Olympics Clock Failed Hours After it Began the Big Count-Down

Etsy Privacy Blunder Reveals Users’ Full Names, Dildo Preferences, and Other Less Embarrassing Purchase Information

New author gets a book deal after publisher finds him on Twitter

Get Zagat Reviews from Your Navigation System

Facebook Tips and Tricks: The Ultimate Guide

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Sweded version of the original Star Wars

This Breathtaking Saturn Video Is Exactly What Everyone’s Soul Needs Right Now

The Hubble telescope eliminates one possible alternative to dark energy

Time Warner’s New iPad App Lets You Stream 32 Channels of Live TV

Can Seth Rogen really make a computer-generated alien funny? Watch 5 new Paul clips and decide.

Russian Bomb Squad Successfully Defuses Sex Toy

10 Coolest Time Machines in the Space-Time Continuum

EcoModo – The Best of TreeHugger

Battle: Los Angeles The Game Is Shorter Than The Movie

This Beer Should be Product Placement for the Next Tron Movie

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