One of the biggest criticisms Google Glass has incurred since day one is that it’s, well, ugly and/or weird-looking. Believe it or not, Google may have actually just solved the problem. Read more…
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Whoa, Google Glass Just Got Way Better Looking (Plus Prescriptions)
iOS ( Jailbreak ): The iOS 7 jailbreak came along with a bit of drama last week , and one of the problems with it was the fact that the backbone of most jailbreak tweaks, a system called Mobile Substrate, hadn’t been updated to support iOS 7. Mobile Substrate was updated this morning and many of your favorite tweaks and apps should work a bit better now. Read more…
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Mobile Substrate Updates for iOS 7, Supports More Jailbreak Tweaks
Ever come across a tutorial online that tells you to run a long terminal command, but want to know what each part of it actually means ? ExplainShell does exactly that: paste in the command, and it’ll tell you what each portion of the code does. Read more…
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ExplainShell Breaks Down Long, Confusing Linux Commands
We’ve already talked a lot about how sitting all day is killing us , but what you might not know is just how good simply standing for a few hours a day can be. A new study found remarkable health benefits of standing versus sitting. Read more…
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Standing for 3 Hours a Day on Weekdays Is Like Running 10 Marathons
Long term data storage is tricky. Hard discs and magnetic tapes lose their charge, CDs and DVDs are easy to scratch, and forget about punch cards . Now a student at the University of Twente has developed an optical storage system he says will survive for up to a billion years — even if you barbecue it. Read more…
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This Nearly Indestructible Data Storage Disc Will Last a Billion Years
New submitter Mistakill writes “It seems the case against Kim Dotcom for the NZ Police isn’t going well, with Kim Dotcom scoring another victory in his legal battles. Police have been told they must search everything they seized from Dotcom and hand back what is not relevant to the U.S. extradition claims. Justice Helen Winkelmann told police their complaints about the cost and time of the exercise were effectively their own fault for indiscriminately seizing material in the first place. She wrote, ‘The warrants could not authorize the permanent seizure of hard drives and digital materials against the possibility that they might contain relevant material, with no obligation to check them for relevance. They could not authorize the shipping offshore of those hard drives with no check to see if they contained relevant material. Nor could they authorize keeping the plaintiffs out of their own information, including information irrelevant to the offenses.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Kim Dotcom Wins Case Against NZ Police To Get Seized Material Back
Google has just announced that it’ll be killing off Google Reader in its latest ‘spring cleaning’, which is a euphemism for getting rid of products that not enough people use (even if they still love using it). So yes, that means many people’s favorite RSS reader will be turned off for good on July 1, 2013. You have a little over three months to figure out where to get your feed fix next. More »
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Google Is Killing Google Reader
Scientists in Australia claim to have discovered the exercise technique that burns the maximum amount of fat with the least amount of work. More »
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Researchers Claim To Discover the Single Most Efficient Exercise Regimen
Our friend Casey Neistat made a wonderful documentary for the New York Times , he went and compared the actual calories of food to what’s listed on the nutrition facts. And guess what? More times than not, food had more calories than what was advertised. More »
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Are There More Calories in Food Than What’s Listed in the Nutrition Facts? (Yes)
Windows: If you need to share your computer’s internet connection with the wi-fi only devices in your house—say, if you don’t have a wi-fi router—Virtual Router Plus will turn your computer into a wi-fi hotspot. More »
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Virtual Router Plus Turns Your Windows 8 PC Into a Wi-Fi Hotspot