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The internet today has further crossed the debatable line into too much information: Domino's is rolling out a new tracking system to 3,400 outlets, allowing customers to track their pizza delivery's - accurate to within 40 seconds. The person who takes your order's first name will also be available online, ...
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Google has been shaking things up these past few weeks, tweaking the interfaces and functionality of almost all their current services. The most recent has been the five experimental features they've been trying out, aimed at improving your "search experience". The features are: Alternate view for search results, Keyword suggestions, ...
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Mozilla announced that they were freezing the Firefox 3 Beta 3 code last night, in anticipation of rolling out RC1 soon. There will be only one more beta before they move on to the Release Candidate stage.
The new Beta will finally include the much anticipated default Windows XP theme, although ...
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As unreal and futuristic as it sounds, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are in the early stages of being able to create a mass of microscopic, reconfigurable electromagnetic robots. If the project succeeds, the team will be able to put together hundreds or thousands of such tiny robots and program ...
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Gadget Lab's Rob Beschizza has created a short parody of the Macbook Air, showcasing a product that features the biggest attraction of the Air without its largest problem. [Youtube via Gizmodo]
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According to a study that was recently published in the journal Psychological Science, the human brain has a hardwired limit to the number of things it can concentrate on at once. According to the findings of the team of researchers, led by psychology professors Edward Awh and Edward Vogel ...
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Have you ever wanted to carry your full desktop settings over across multiple computers? Maybe you've had one too many family members ask you to fix their crashed computers and you need a swiss-army knife of tools for the future, or maybe you just want to run the applications you ...
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nVidia has decided to allow notebook owners to experience graphics-heavy applications in all their glory, announcing that there will soon be notebooks that have two 8800m GTX cards running in tandem. 8800 GTXs are DirectX10 enabled and currently nVidia's most powerful card - running two of them at once ...
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Personal media players and cellphones look like they may have their batteries lives extended in the not-so-distant future due to the efforts of Angstrom Power, if the Vancouver-based company's CES showing is to be believed. They've managed to put together fuel cell architecture, micro-fluidics, and a refillable hydrogen storage ...
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The desktop environment of choice for most Linux users, today launched it's newest major release - KDE4.0 brings with it a nice list of changes (included after the break). According to the KDE website, pre-compiled packages available for Kubuntu, Fedora, Debian, openSUSE and Gentoo. Of course, as with ...
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