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Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive (Life)
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Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books. But this trend in digital technology is now influencing some to get rid of nearly all of their physical possessions - from photographs to furniture to homes altogether.
posted: 17/08/2010
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Games defeat e-mail as online time eaters (Life)
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For the first time, games have overtaken e-mail as Americans' No. 2 online time killer, according to new research from the Nielsen Co.
posted: 08/08/2010
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Hackers crack high-tech locks (Life)
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Security maverick Marc Tobias showed hackers on Saturday how simple it is to defeat some of the world's top high-tech locks.
posted: 08/08/2010
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Internet lifestyles leave digital estates for descendants (Life)
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As lives move increasingly online, Legacy Locker is building virtual safe-deposit boxes where people can leave digital estates for descendants.
posted: 08/08/2010
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Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003 (Life)
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Today at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, the first panel featured Google CEO Eric Schmidt. As moderator David Kirkpatrick was introducing him, he rattled off a massive stat.
posted: 08/08/2010
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South Korean kids to carry GPS beepers against sex crime (Life)
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South Korea, shaken by several brutal sex crimes against minors, will supply children with GPS-embedded beepers to warn police of dangers and activate surveillance cameras, officials said Wednesday.
posted: 01/08/2010
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Google 'building social network rival to Facebook' (Life)
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Google is holding talks with online game developers as part of its bid to build a social-networking service that could compete with Facebook, The Wall Street Journal reported.
posted: 01/08/2010
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App Lets You Know When Friends Are Nearby (Life)
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The location-based applications Foursquare and Gowalla--which reward users with points for "checking in" at different places--are all the rage in some social groups. But many other people balk at sharing their precise location and struggle to see the point of doing so. A new location-based application for mobile phones called face2face hopes to attract new types of users by offering more filtered, useful information and providing more privacy controls.
posted: 01/08/2010
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New world endurance record set in video gaming (Life)
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Yes, we've been to the moon, split the atom, sailed a balloon around the planet, so the next great feat of humanity had to be nothing less than playing a video game for 50 hours straight.
posted: 25/07/2010
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Introducing Cornucopia, the food printer (Life)
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US scientists have introduced a concept design of the "Cornucopia" or Digital Fabricator, a "personal food factory" able to print food from specified ingredients, with no waste at the point of cooking.
posted: 25/07/2010
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