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Microsoft Has Sold 350 Million Copies Of Windows 7 Happy Day Of Special Significance To Many Religions! We Have Brightly Colored iPhone Cables For You! The LIFEBOOK E741/C Is The World?s First Notebook With Built-In Contactless Palm Vein Sensor iGeigie: A Geiger Counter For Your iPhone Beer Gardens NYC App Goes 2.0 For Beer Garden [...]

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/04/23/daily-crunch-analyze-edition/

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Archerfish Solo Outdoor/Indoor Video Surveillance and Recording System

Most video surveillance systems don’t have the smarts to distinguish between a burglar jimmying the lock and the azalea bush blowing in the wind, and this results in a lot of false alarms and wasted recording space.� Archerfish say they have “Intelligent Surveillance Technology that?s more advanced than motion detection” that understands what it sees.� [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/04/29/archerfish-solo-outdoorindoor-video-surveillance-and-recording-system/

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Verizon says it will put location warning labels on all phones sold

See that rather ominous warning label above? That's a new sticker that will soon be placed directly on the screen of every new device Verizon Wireless sells. Contrary to what you might suspect, however, that's not being done in response to the most recent iPhone 4 tracking fiasco. The label was revealed in a letter to Representatives Ed Markey and Joe Barton, who themselves sent a letter to Verizon (and the three other major carriers) on March 29th inquiring about a New York Times story that raised concerns about how carriers collect and store personal location data. As for the other carriers' responses, they apparently aren't going as far as Verizon has with its warning label, but they do mostly echo Verizon's response in other respects. They all say, for instance, that personal data is secured by a variety of means and stored only as long as needed (which can apparently vary by carrier, though), that they don't rent or sell personal information, and that they request customer consent before accessing location data. Despite those assurances, however, Rep. Markey says he's still left with a "feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty," and he's pointing a finger at third-party developers in particular, who he says must be held "accountable."

Verizon says it will put location warning labels on all phones sold originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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$150 Million Will Ensure Your Seat on a Trip Around the Moon [Space]

Wanna get away (in 3-5 years)? Why not book a reservation aboard the not-so-spacious Soyuz spacecraft, where you, a Russian cosmonaut and some eccentric, anonymous billionaire can spend an intimate week in the stars, floating past the moon. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/nQTHp-gWREM/150-million-will-ensure-your-seat-on-a-trip-around-the-moon

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Yahoo! Messenger now censors the links you share

We've all thought it, but never dared think it could be true: what if Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL actively monitor our instant messenger chats? What if mentions of 'bomb' and 'underage' are tracked and sent to law enforcement agencies? What if chat providers don't agree with the things we say, or the links we share, and filter or censor the content of our transmitted messages?

Well, it looks like our fears may actually have some basis in reality: Yahoo Messenger strips FilesTube links from instant messages. It doesn't tell either party that a URL has been removed from chat -- it just deletes it. Poof. FilesTube, in case you were wondering, is one of the largest file hosting meta search engines on the Web -- it indexes RapidShare, Megaupload, Mediafire, and many other 'cyberlocker' services.

It's fairly obvious why FilesTube links are being removed -- the Censor General at Yahoo is probably one of those perplexed primates who think all uses of BitTorrent are illegal -- but this situation poses a far more important question: is Yahoo censoring messages on the client side, or the server side. Does the messenger client itself maintain a list of 'blacklisted' words -- and if so, why are we not told that FilesTube links are banned? What other words and terms does Yahoo protect us from?

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Yahoo! Messenger now censors the links you share originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/03/30/yahoo-messenger-now-censors-links-raises-serious-privacy-issue/

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9 Handy Places to Hide During an Air Raid [Architecture]

When explosives begin raining from the sky, it's generally recommended that one find a sturdy, preferably covered, area to wait. Our friends at Oobject.com have some great examples. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/L_ieypPF3mM/oobject-bunker-post

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Things You Can Do With Your Instagram Photos [Instagram]

Instagram, the photo-centric social network, is pretty fun on its own. But did you know you can turn the photos you share on Instagram into tangible, real world objects? More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/HifG36nAE_k/things-you-can-do-with-your-instagram-photos

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Google Cloud Print comes to HP ePrint printers

HP has become the first major OEM to deliver support for Google Cloud Print in retail-boxed printers. In an official release, HP announced that its ePrint-enabled printers are now fully Cloud Print compatible. Just sign in to your Google account, pick your HP ePrint device, and you're ready to fire off a print job from anywhere you've got Internet access. Well, as long as your app supports Cloud Print as well -- like Gmail and Google Docs, for example.

We're curious, though -- how many of you are still printing? Like our pals at Engadget, our printers have been mostly gathering dust for the last few years.

Google Cloud Print comes to HP ePrint printers originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Source: http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2011/04/01/google-cloud-print-comes-to-hp-eprint-printers/

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The first sign that humans are on the verge of evolving into another species [Evolution]

A scientist who studies the small, silver elephantfish may have stumbled on the key to speciation, the process that allows one species to evolve into two or more. And it's all about developing new sensory perceptions. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/6Pep7LFOsHw/the-first-sign-that-humans-might-be-about-to-evolve-into-another-species

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