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Daily Digest September 28, 2011

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  • Amazon Silk brings super fast, cloud-powered web browsing to Kindle Fire

    Now that Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet has been fully revealed, it’s abundantly clear that it’s a content consumption device first and foremost. There’s no camera or GPS as you’d expect to find on a full-featured tablet, but there are strong ties to Amazon’s many media offerings — including Kindle eBooks, the MP3 store, and Amazon […]

  • Microsoft and Samsung ink Android patent deal

    It’s safe to assume that Google makes plenty of money off Android (in one way or another), but Microsoft has done its share of profiting from Android smartphones and tablets as well. How? By striking patent licensing deals with device manufacturers like HTC, Acer, Velocity Micro, and Viewsonic. The HTC deal alone netted Microsoft more […]



Daily Digest September 27, 2011

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  • Google celebrates 13th birthday with Google Doodle birthday party photo

    Google is turning 13 years old today. As the company says goodbye to its childhood and enters its formative teen years, it’s hard to remember what life was like without Google. As with other major events, like deaths, birthdays, and important dates in history, Google has posted a celebratory Google Doodle showing the Google logo […]

  • It’s official, iPhone 5 to be unveiled October 4th

    Apple has finally made the news official. The next iPhone is going to be introduced on October 4th during one of its typical media events with the location being Apple headquarters at 1 Infinite Loop. The confirmation comes in the form of the official invite being sent out to selected people Apple likes and wants […]



Daily Digest September 26, 2011

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  • Google launches the Dead Sea Scrolls online project

    The Dead Sea Scrolls are some of the most valuable religious texts known to man. Discovered between 1947 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran, they form the oldest known versions of Biblical documents and take the form of 972 texts. Their age dates them at somewhere between 150 BCE and 70CE when they were hidden in […]

  • Take better pictures using the Astronaut’s Photography Manual

    Swedish camera company Hasselblad started providing NASA with cameras back in 1962. These were the cameras that NASA used on their manned space flights, which was quite an honor for the company and created an incredible legacy not just of space-proof hardware, but of documentation. Hasselblad had to explain to the astronauts and NASA’s scientist […]



Daily Digest September 25, 2011

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  • How to use Facebook’s new Timeline profile to see who has unfriended you

    There was probably a time when the number of Facebook friends you had was reasonably small, like 40 or 50. Over the social networking site’s six-year-long life span most of us have added a great deal more friends and few people know their exact number of Facebookers we’ve connected with. In the days when we […]



Daily Digest September 24, 2011

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  • This bike has beautiful tempered-steel wheels for a super smooth ride

    You’ll never get a flat tire with the Soft-Ride Bike. This wonder uses what appears to be a normal bike frame, but instead of the standard metal rims/spokes with rubber tires, the wheels on the bike are made up entirely of sprung steel. Guests staying at the W Hotel in London’s Leicester Square will have […]

  • World’s first fully functional LEGO greenhouse: Even the dirt is made of LEGO bricks

    We’ve seen a lot of cool things made out of LEGO bricks. Recently we saw a LEGO robot hand, a LEGO 3D milling machine that carves 3D shapes, and even a pancake-making robot made of the tiny toy bricks. However, this is the first greenhouse we’ve seen built out of LEGO bricks. The LEGO Greenhouse is part […]




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