At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, scientists are building RoboEarth, a sort of Wikipedia for robots that will let them independently share instructions for tasks they’ve mastered. Needless to say, Oh shit! More
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Scientists Building Robots an Internet of Their Own [Robots]
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3D Royal Wedding a No-Go [Royalty]
Buckingham Palace expressed that the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton won’t be broadcast in 3D as rumored . It was noted that the limited space and demand for 3D in the UK were among the deciding factors. ZDNet More
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WALdok iPod nano speaker dock
Do you like strangely shaped iPod speakers?
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Woman Dies During Illegal Butt-Enhancement Surgery [BadIdeas]
A 20-year-old British woman died Tuesday after having a silicone illegally injected into her buttocks at a Hampton Inn in Philadelphia. Police are still determining the credentials of the women responsible for giving the enhancements.[ Jezebel ] More
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Adobe Flash Player 10.2 unveiled
Adobe has released the final version of Flash Player 10.2 , and as with any good update should do, it will contain a bunch of bug fixes as well as new features. Capable of supporting full screen mode now, it will also work even when you are handling multiple monitors. Imagine working on a video in full screen on a single display while working on another Word document or Excel spreadsheet on another screen
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BlackBerry PlayBook coming to Verizon too?
News that the PlayBook would be at least initially available only on Sprint surely elicited some mixed reactions — hooray for WiMAX but locking your tablet to a single carrier is never any fun. Now Skatter Tech has uncovered a curious page that previously allowed people to join a sort of early-access program for a PlayBook on VZW.
IBM’s Mira Supercomputer Will Mop the Floor With China’s Best [Supercomputers]
The sting of China’s supercomputer dominance is still fresh, with the Tianhe-1A still laying claim to world’s most greatest. That is, until IBM’s Mira is completed
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Science: Head-mounted camera implant rejected
You might remember the freaky story about a professor that embedded a camera at the back of his head via a titanium plate? Well, it turns out that he’s facing a few challenges at this point as he just underwent surgery to have part of the camera removed after his body rejected one of the three titanium parts implanted on his head.
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Google’s Vic Gundotra on Nokia: ‘Two turkeys do not make an Eagle’
Well, well. Just after Nokia CEO Stephan Elop’s “burning platform” memo leaked out and prompted intense speculation that Nokia would start building Windows Phone 7 handsets , Google’s Vic Gundotra tweeted “Two turkeys do not make an Eagle” prefaced with a #feb11 hashtag — the same day as Nokia’s Capital Markets Day event in London.
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