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Accused Teen Bomber Possibly Detects FBI Surveillance Van, Shrugs It Off

You know that 17-year old who was arrested and accused of plotting a massacre that would rival Columbine. He stockpiled bomb-making materials and planned to blow up the local high school on the first day of school. https://gizmodo.com/how-the-hell-did-a-17-year-old-get-the-materials-to-mak-5831942 Well, he may have had advanced warning that he was under FBI surveillance and casually shrugged it…

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Shareholder Sues Motorola, Claims Google Didn’t Pay Enough

Shareholder John W. Keating filed a complaint against Motorola Mobility and CEO Sanjay Jha claiming the mobile phone company sold itself to Google for pennies on the dollar. The Google deal will pay each shareholder $40 a share, a 63% increase over the stock’s closing price last week, According to Keating’s complaint, this sum undervalues…

Tech News Kelly

Leaked Document Suggests AT&T Is Retiring Its $10/1000 Text Messaging Plan

A leaked internal AT&T document that landed in the hands of Engadget suggests the carrier is axing its $10/1000 messages text messaging plan effective August 21st. The only available text messaging option will be the $20 unlimited plan. [Engadget]

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Man Roots Six-Foot Nexus S Display At Best Buy

Best Buy had a six-foot Nexus S on display that caught the eye of a customer waiting for his phone to be repaired. Instead of merely exploring the giant phone, he decided to go one step further and root it. He doesn’t show how he roots the device, just the aftermath. He points to the…

Tech News Kelly

Major Patent Milestones From One to Eight Million

The USPTO granted its first patent in 1836 and 175 years later, the government body now has a database that is eight million strong. On August 16, 2011, patent number 8,000,000 received the rubber stamp of approval. This patent was granted to Second Sight Medical for a prosthetic device that restores the sight of patients…

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New Bionic Leg Thinks and Moves Like a Real Limb

Traditional, un-powered prosthetics aren’t exactly pinnacles of design evolution—they’re heavy, cumbersome, and don’t move like a living limbs. This new leg—using recent advances in motor, processing, and sensor technology—walks and reacts just like a real leg. Here’s how: Developed at the Vanderbilt University the leg uses both a powered knee and powered ankle, operating in…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

Kodak Embraces Patent Craze By Selling Its Patent Portfolio

You know Kodak is in bad shape when its patent portfolio is worth five times more than the company itself. It gets even worse when analysts start picking the company apart like a hawk devouring its prey. According to the Wall Street Journal, Kodak is making one last desperate effort by selling off its digital-imaging…

Tech News Kelly

How Car Crash Modeling Technology Could Predict Offshore Drilling Disasters

It’s the billion-dollar question for offshore drilling giants: Could the Deepwater Horizon disaster have been prevented? Researchers at MIT’s Impact and Crashworthiness Laboratory may have found at least a partial answer—the same kind of computer modeling that predicts whether car components can hold their own in a crash could also forecast whether pipes will fracture…

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Super-Intelligent Ape Chauffeurs By the Year 2020

Before it became a magazine, The Futurist was launched as a newsletter in 1967. The second issue was released in April of that year and is filled with some amazing predictions of yestermorrow. The “cover story,” if you will, is by Glenn T. Seaborg (the dude who discovered plutonium in 1941) and is titled “Women…

Tech News Matt Novak

Discover New Music At Google’s Magnifier Website

Have a Google Music Beta account and an uninspired music collection? Then check out Google Magnifier, a new music discovery website. Magnifier features a new artist each week. You can check out videos, performances, interviews, music tracks and more. The first artist to debut on Magnifier is indie rock band, My Morning Jacket. You can…

Tech News Kelly

What?

It appears our peers at Silicon Alley Insider got sucked into some sort of space-time vortex, tumbling out in a world without Google TV. But they’ve made it back! And they’re here to spread the news: Google won’t do it. I’m still not exactly sure what this hurried warning means—is Google afraid in this parallel…

Tech News Sam Biddle

The Pill Doesn’t Make You Fat Even Though Drug Companies Say It Does

The pill doesn’t make you gain weight? The idea goes completely against what pretty much every woman in the world believes, myself included – until today. It turns out scientists have studied – like really studied in clinical trials – the association between the pill and weight gain and have found no evidence to support…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

Left Behind: Jets and Taxes, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. IRS Is Now Regulating PayPal Sales If you’re a PayPal power user—the type that either moves $20,000…

Tech News Brian Barrett

In 1959, People Played Card Games Against Mecha-Foes

“If you are one of the hundred best players in the world, these hands will not puzzle you.” So reads the instruction manual for AutoBridge, a mechanized version of the classic card game that let enthusiasts play alone. Currently available on Etsy for $8, the seller says the game is from 1959, which makes me…

Tech News Adrian Covert

How the Hell Did a 17-Year-Old Get the Materials to Make Bombs?

Chalk this up under Near Disasters. Earlier today police arrested a 17-year-old who was allegedly putting together bomb-making materials in order to wage war on his former high school and “cause more casualties than were suffered at Columbine.” What in the hell? Yes, it’s horrible that someone that young could be that disturbed, but more…

Tech News Brent Rose

Ugandan Police Sprayed People with Pink Water Cannons to Break Up a Ceremony

Seemingly lifted straight from some B-movie horror flick, a group of mourners in Uganda were sprayed by the police with water cannons filled with pink dye. The police said they were only “preventing the worst from happening.” Along with the pink water, tear gas was thrown to break apart the vigil. The people, who are…

Tech News Casey Chan

Dogs Can Smell Cancer on Your Breath

Lung cancer is really hard to detect early. So some scientists in Germany put their best sniffer dogs on the task. And you won’t believe this but it totally worked. Researchers at Schillerhoehe Hospital gathered up 220 volunteers who had lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, along with ones who were healthy. They gathered samples…

Tech News Kristen Philipkoski

AT&T Is Suing the People Who Want to Stop the T-Mo Purchase

For months, Bursor & Fisher has represented the masses—such as they are—so opposed to the proposed AT&T-mo power coupling that they’ve resorted to legal means to stop it. Last week, AT&T finally slung some lawsuits back their way. According to Reuters, AT&T has moved to close off any chance that the claims brought against them…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Stealing ATM PIN Numbers Using a Thermal Camera Is Too Freaking Easy

I can’t believe criminals haven’t jumped onto thermal cameras because they’re apparently BOSS at stealing your ATM PIN number. Not only can they figure out the set of numbers in a pin but sometimes they can even tell the order too. Scary. Researchers from UCSD pointed thermal cameras towards plastic ATM PIN pads and metal…

Tech News Casey Chan

Razer Tiamat: The First Legit 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset Carpet Bombs Your Eardrums With 10 Discrete Drivers

There are a metric shitton of 7.1 surround sound gaming headsets in existence. They fake it, mostly, with virtual surround sound. Razer’s Tiamat 7.1 headset, though, pushes surround sound into your skull with 10 discrete drivers. Which Razer says makes it the “first true 7.1 surround sound gaming headset.” Each ear cup has 5 drivers,…

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Accused Teen Bomber Possibly Detects FBI Surveillance Van, Shrugs It Off

Shareholder Sues Motorola, Claims Google Didn’t Pay Enough

Leaked Document Suggests AT&T Is Retiring Its $10/1000 Text Messaging Plan

Man Roots Six-Foot Nexus S Display At Best Buy

Major Patent Milestones From One to Eight Million

New Bionic Leg Thinks and Moves Like a Real Limb

Kodak Embraces Patent Craze By Selling Its Patent Portfolio

How Car Crash Modeling Technology Could Predict Offshore Drilling Disasters

Super-Intelligent Ape Chauffeurs By the Year 2020

Discover New Music At Google’s Magnifier Website

What?

The Pill Doesn’t Make You Fat Even Though Drug Companies Say It Does

Left Behind: Jets and Taxes, and Other Stories We Didn’t Post

In 1959, People Played Card Games Against Mecha-Foes

How the Hell Did a 17-Year-Old Get the Materials to Make Bombs?

Ugandan Police Sprayed People with Pink Water Cannons to Break Up a Ceremony

Dogs Can Smell Cancer on Your Breath

AT&T Is Suing the People Who Want to Stop the T-Mo Purchase

Stealing ATM PIN Numbers Using a Thermal Camera Is Too Freaking Easy

Razer Tiamat: The First Legit 7.1 Surround Sound Gaming Headset Carpet Bombs Your Eardrums With 10 Discrete Drivers

Apple Offers Rare Olive Branch to Liquid Glass Haters

Mamdani Lifts NYC TikTok Ban for City Employees, but with Some Unusual Restrictions

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