The Pentagon’s mad-science arm wants robotic death-from-above, on demand. And the key to getting it done just might be holograms. More

ENOUGH ALREADY | JAPAN: An earthquake with a magnitude of 7 according to some reports rocked northeastern Japan earlier today. (Photo by TBS News)

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Need Photoshop or another Adobe product, but only for a quick project? You can now get a monthly subscription. Adobe products offer trial periods, but if you need official goods without mortgage-sized costs, it’s an option. [Adobe via Download Squad] More

We’ve seen the Sun from plenty of angles, but NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured a doozy of a shot. Here’s what you’re looking at: More

China has ordained a new Catholic bishop approved by the Vatican for the first time since ties between the sides soured last year, according to church figures with knowledge of the events.

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Where Samsung leads, LG inevitably follows (and vice versa, of course). The Korean electronic arms race has now heated up by an extra few degrees with LG’s demo of a crazy new 47-inch display that packs in everything a geek could want: IPS technology, 1080p resolution, multitouch, and some good old transparency… just because. This so-called Window Display is sadly intended for advertisers and other digital signage proprietors, meaning that even if it wasn’t still at the concept stage, it likely wouldn’t be populating living rooms anyway. Ah well, so long as LG makes sure John Anderton and the precrime unit get one, we’ll be happy. Video for the rest of us after the break.

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Gold farming is the practice of harvesting crap in online worlds with the aim of selling it for real-world money. Most developers frown on the practice, but that’s not stopping an estimated 100,000 people from doing it. More

Here’s an exercise in patience: a World of Warcraft player has managed to reach the maximum level 85 without killing a single thing. For a game built around the idea of, well, killing things, that’s quite the achievement! More

If you need to be live and on the scene but can’t be followed around with a remote truck and its retractable 100-foot antenna, you need a TelePorter. The camel-case ‘P’ should tell you that this is not the final realization of Gene Roddenberry’s dream, rather a device created by Mushroom Networks, long known for products with goofy names like the PortaBella, which aggregates the bandwidth from multiple wireless modems to make one super mobile hotspot. The TelePorter basically takes that tech and adds some video wizardry to it, plus packaging that enables it to be mounted to the back of a camera. The result is live, full-HD streaming of footage straight from the camera and into the ether. Mushroom wouldn’t tell us a price, saying that it varies based on configuration, but unless your camera’s as big as the one pictured after the break we’re thinking this might just put a real hurting on your budget.

Continue reading Mushroom TelePorter does HD streaming over cellular, won’t beam your on-air talent anywhere

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Rejoice, Photoshop junkies of the world, because Adobe is jumping into the tablet world for real. And while this is not Photoshop for iPad (yet), my most precious body appendage is tingling with pleasant turgidity anyway. More