There’s a new supermaterial in town, and while it might be known as white graphene, it doesn’t contain a single atom of carbon. But that doesn’t make the new form of boron nitride any less useful—because it can suck chemicals and oil out of contaminated water in a jiffy . Read more…
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White Graphene: The New Supermaterial That Sucks Up Pollution
While yes, the grieving process takes time, if you’re still too busy bemoaning the imminent death of your beloved Google Reader , you’re going to find yourself in a bind when it finally gets put out of its misery later this summer. Replacements abound , and there’s no question that $19 price tag is going to be a turn-off for some. But for those willing to buy their peace of RSS mind, you may have found a winner. Read more…
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Feed Wrangler: A Great iOS Reader Replacement for a Price
For a long time now, our smartphones have been getting more and more, well, smart. They do more things. You probably haven’t beaten your phone at chess in years. And the race to cram increasingly granular, eventually useless, features into them has defined the past few years of phone making. Except the next big waypoint won’t be some technological marvel like week-long battery life . It’s something much simpler: Plain old chat. Read more…
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The Next Killer Feature in Smartphones
You have a ton of different options for cloud backup services these days. Whether you’re sick of Dropbox, or you happen to have a ton of space on Skydrive you’re not using, Mover is a web app that makes transferring files to a new service simple. Read more…
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Mover.io Transfers Your Files from One Cloud Service to Another
According to the Wall Street Journal , Nielsen’s TV ratings are about to get some company, with a system that covers internet watchers . A “Nielsen Digital Program Ratings” pilot program will debut with participation from N BC, Fox, ABC, Univision, Discovery and A&E, tracking the viewership of streaming video they post on their websites. AOL (parent company of Engadget) is also reported to be participating, as the networks compare the data to their internal statistics before the ratings system gets a wider rollout. Of course, even the system they’re testing will only jump so far into the future — while it will track viewing on computers, it’s still leaving out phones and tablets. Networks want to track anywhere content is viewed — one of the issues we’ve been told they have with tech like Aereo or TWC TV — to sell ads against it, we’ll wait for more details to see if they’ll have any success extending the current model to other types of screens. Filed under: Home Entertainment , Internet , HD Comments Source: Wall Street Journal
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Nielsen preparing ‘Digital Program Ratings’ pilot program to track streaming viewers
Though Google Glass runs Android, it’s not exactly as wide open as your typical Android phone. And given its spot as the most futuristic tech available right now, you know hackers want to tinker with Google’s specs. Legendary hacker Jay Freeman, famously known as Saurik who created the Cydia app store for iOS jailbreak phones, did just that. He’s already gained root access to Google Glass. More »
The daily deals site LivingSocial has been hacked, revealing more than 50 million people’s usernames, names, birth dates, passwords, and email addresses. Here’s what you need to know. Read more…
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LivingSocial Hacked, Time to Change Your Passwords
An anonymous reader writes “New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly thinks that now is a great time to install even more surveillance cameras hither and yon around the Big Apple. After the Boston Marathon bombing, the Tsarnaev brothers were famously captured on security camera footage and thereby identified. That just may soften up Americans to the idea of the all-seeing glass eye. ‘I think the privacy issue has really been taken off the table,’ Kelly gloats.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Reader Patrick In Chicago is one of a few readers to write with this unpleasant news: “Computer-based testing provider Pearson Vue is now in day 5 of a global outage, preventing test-takers worldwide from sitting for exams. I was personally turned away from a Cisco exam on Wednesday morning because Pearson was unable to deliver. Countless people have posted to Pearson Vue’s Facebook page detailing various states of panic. There are people who have certifications expiring. Others are unable to sit their medical board exams. Still others are unable to sit exams that they are required to pass in order to work — Pearson Vue’s incompetence has actually prevented people from going out and making a paycheck.” This reminds me of a friend of mine who had to wait half a year to re-take his bar exam, because of a software glitch on the part of ExamSoft’s software. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Pearson Vue Now On Day 5 of Massive Outage
Which drugs are actually killing Americans? Popular Science combed through overdose statistics from the CDC and turned the numbers into an infographic. Read more…
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