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Weather-Ready Bike Bag Keeps Your Stuff Drier Than a Mormon Wedding
After a helmet, a cyclist's best friend is a weather-ready bag. This one works as both a backpack and a pannier.
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Lots to Like About Sony's Low-Light Camcorder
The HDR-CX700V is Sony's top-of-the-line consumer camcorder, and it's fair to say this sucker is loaded.
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Canon's Low-Light Camera Is a Filmmaker's Perfect Nocturnal Companion
There are full-manual controls, a wide range of cinematic filters, and excellent low-light, feature-worthy performance. But it's spendy.
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De-Moisturize Your Gadgets With the Bheestie Bag
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Bluetooth Thermometer Turns Your iPhone Into a Sous Chef
No, you don't need a Bluetooth thermometer to keep tabs on your steak from 200 feet away. But backyard cooking is rarely about need.
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Scuba Mask POV Camera Sees Everything Under the Sea
With a 136-degree field of view, this hybrid scuba mask/videocam captures 720p video and 5-megapixel photos -- from your face!
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Backstroke With a Backbeat: UWaterG2's Waterproof MP3 Player
Need a little Kanye to get you through your morning laps? Try this tiny waterproof player on for size.
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Unlicensed: Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player illegal?
Apple paid up, but Amazon and Google did not, announcing cloud music services without the major labels' blessing. Who was right? Ars digs into the history of music lockers and explores when they might be legal under copyright law.
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BitTorrent Admin Continues Fight Against Police Abuse
At the beginning of 2011 two administrators of FileSoup – the longest standing BitTorrent community – had their case dropped by the authorities and were free men once again. But that was not the end of the story for one of the admins.
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Google Loses Access to Twitter Stream, Suspends Realtime Search
Sometime on the morning of July 3rd, Google Realtime Search mysteriously went offline and, assuming it was just another example of things breaking on a holiday weekend, most tech publications ignored it.
Well as it turns out the reason behind its disappearance was not so mysterious, on July 2nd Google's access to Twitter's special firehose expired and it pulled the feature in order to rethink its strategy. Bing, which had a similar deal with Twitter still has access to the firehose.
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The Two Faces of Hacking (CHART)
Some hackers use software and hardware to express themselves creatively—either solving entirely novel technical challenges or finding new ways to skin the same old cats. Others are motivated by money, power, politics, or pure mischief. They steal identities, deface Web sites, and break into supposedly secure and certainly sensitive databases.
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Apple becomes latest ‘Anonymous’ hacker target
Notorious hacker collective “Anonymous Operations” on Sunday published data it claims to have obtained by breaching a server belonging to Apple. The data, which consisted of 27 usernames and passwords, was allegedly taken from surveys stored on an Apple server.
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Why Google+ could find a home in the workplace
Last week, Google rolled out a largely well-received beta of its new social networking platform, Google+. Having played with Google+ over the last few days, I think that it may find a home in a perhaps unexpected market: the workplace.
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Maths powers Google bid strategy
Google drew on mathematical constants and astronomical units while bidding for a pool of mobile phone patents.
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Not Entangled by <em>Quantum Thief</em>
Writing book reviews can be difficult. One person may like a book... another person may not. As a rule, I don't like to review books that I haven't enjoyed. I know how difficult it can be to write a book, and I know that in addition to large amounts of time and planning, a writer ...
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The tablet will be the center of the connected lifestyle
Tablets are taking our entertainment experience in a new direction, and in the next two-to-five years, the tablet could serve as your secondary video screen or universal remote control. All of which means that the future of the digital home is already here.
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Five Reasons Why the iPad Was Made to Keep Parents Sane
Being a tech dad is a curse. We are always chasing the latest and greatest that tech minds are producing despite our economic status, how many kids we have or whether or not the CFO at home (the wife) will approve.
We want it. We need to have it. We don??t want to wait. We don??t ...
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10 Robust Sites To Determine How Fast Any Web Page Loads
Read about each of the ten entries and determine yourself that how all of these are different and unique with each others.
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GeekDad Game Review: <em>Seven Dragons</em> From Looney Labs
Overview: Seven Dragons, the latest card game from Looney Labs, is a quick dominoes-style card game that has you matching up colored dragons in a race to get seven cards connected before the other players. As you might expect from Looney Labs, though, goals can change mid-game and you never know what might happen before ...
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