Services like 1Password and LastPass are life changers, you sign in with one master password and the app logs you into everything. No need to remember how many symbols and alphanumeric codes you’ve used. No need to remember 312 different passwords. Well, Windows 8 is going to have the same awesome password management built in. More »
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Windows 8 Is Going to Have Some Super Sweet Password Management Features [Windows 8]
Responding to the US Senate request lead by Senator Al Franken, AT&T, Sprint, HTC, and Samsung have sent the list of all the phones with Carrier IQ spyware installed in them. More »
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The Complete List of All the Phones With Carrier IQ Spyware Installed [Carrier Iq]
How much do you love shooting galleries? The 240 point ($3) Real Big Shootin’ DLC pack for the Kinect-enabled Gunstringer gives you a series of shooting galleries, and basically hopes you’ll be content with them. You move your hand to aim the reticle at the bad guys, jerk your hand up to fire, and you try to shoot all the targets. That is the entirety of the content.
The good news is that it’s enough. There are dozens of different missions, each one with different bad guys, different weapons, or added challenges such as the limitation of only being able to shoot one bullet at a time. Maybe you’ll get the use of a flamethrower so you can simply wave your hand around and burn everything you see. The more accurate you shoot, the better your score, and there is both offline multiplayer and scoreboards to keep your interest up.
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Real Big Shootin’ add-on for the Gunstringer lets you live gaming’s greatest fantasy
The artificial leaf is poised to be one of the next big breakthroughs in energy. If we can learn to mimic the biological mechanism by which plants convert solar energy into hydrogen, the sky is the limit. Millions of years of evolution have already proved the worth of photosynthesis, even if it’s not all that efficient in its natural state. More »
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Artificial Photosynthesis: Twice as Efficient as the Real Thing [Energy]
We reported that Universal had seemingly inappropriately tried to pull the Mega Song video from YouTube. Now, in a leaked court filing, it claims to have a deal with Google that allows it to censor any video it damn well likes. More »
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Universal Claims a Private Deal With Google Lets It Censor Videos It Doesn’t Own [Censorship]
thomst writes “Russian scientist Igor Semiletov of the International Arctic Research Centre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks revealed in an interview with The Independent that his team discovered ‘powerful and impressive seeping structures (of Methane gas) more than 1,000 metres in diameter’ during their survey of the Arctic Ocean earlier this year. ‘I was most impressed by the sheer scale and the high density of the plumes. Over a relatively small area we found more than 100, but over a wider area there should be thousands of them,’ Semiletov told The Independent’s Steve Connor. This finding is important because methane is estimated to be 20 times as potent as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, and it could indicate that global warming is about to accelerate dramatically.”
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Russian Scientist Discovers Giant Arctic Methane Plumes
Kids these days with their telephones and their artificial intelligences…they’re just plain spoiled. Why, in my day, when we wanted to communicate with our personal digital assistants, we had to use the telegraph. And it worked just fine. Now they can just use their high-tech phones to talk to Siri. No doubt it’ll lead to dancing or worse.
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Hacked Rotary Phone Accesses Siri
Windows Live Messenger may not be as popular as it used to be, but it’s still accessed by 300 million users, and Microsoft is now hoping to grow that by making it a little more open. The service now supports XMPP and OAuth 2.0, paving the way for other chat software and services to connect more easily (some already do, but by using unofficial methods). XMPP is a messaging protocol (previously known as Jabber and used by Google Talk) and OAuth 2.0 is an open standard for authorization that both Google and Microsoft have stepped out with early support for. Maybe by opening Messenger up a bit, Microsoft is trying to avoid what happened with ICQ.
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If you were to suggest that members of Elasmobranchii — the subclass of cartilaginous fishes that includes sharks, rays, and skates — look incredibly different from us humans, I doubt that many people would argue the point. In fact, one look at the alien-like skeleton of Leucoraja erinacea, the species of skate pictured up top, would drive your assertion home rather nicely, wouldn’t you say? More »
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This alien-looking fish just rewrote the book on developmental genetics [Genetics]
Facebook finally rolled out its much-anticipated Timeline feature today, which brings a snazzy new interface to your profile, not to mention the ability to see every post anyone’s ever made back to their first day on Facebook. Here are the things you need to know about using it. More »
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How to Use Facebook’s New Timeline Feature (and Hide Your Embarrassing Old Posts) [Video]