February 2012
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BARCELONA: How Nokia’s Amazing 41-Megapixel Phone...
Charlie Sorrel (2:18 am PDT, Feb 28)
BARCELONA, MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2012 — Yesterday, Nokia announced its crazy new 41 megapixel camera phone, the PureView 808, and the world chuckled. Just how big is the damn phone, I wondered, when Cult of Mac Deputy Editor John Brownlee woke me up and told me the news. But last night I spoke to a Nokia engineer, and it turns out this camera is pretty...
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Think Mexican: The Oscar Is Mexican: Academy Award... →
thinkmexican:
The story behind the Academy Award’s Oscar statuette is itself one fit for the movies.
It starts in the 1920’s during the Mexican Revolution. Emilio Fernández was studying in Mexico’s military college when he dropped out to take up arms and support the revolutionary cause of Adolfo de la…
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Darling, if you want to talk bollocks and discover the meaning of life you’re...
– Patsy Stone (via wevegotplanstomakeplans)
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The dashboard's posting icons just changed on me,...
Freaked me out. Ha ha ha…
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Linux computer the size of a thumb drive now...
By Ryan Paul | Published about 8 hours ago
FXI is preparing to launch the Cotton Candy, a tiny computer that looks like a USB thumb drive. The device, which can run either Ubuntu or Android 4.0, has a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a Mali 400MP GPU that allows it to decode high-definition video.
It has a USB plug on one side, which is used to power the system, and an...
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Can I tell you something quick? (In) the beginning of your program, the Earth is...
– Dr. NEIL deGRASSE TYSON, to Jon Stewart, nitpicking about The Daily Show’s opening title sequence.
Heh.
(via inothernews)
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Yahoo threatens Facebook as patent war looms
by Dan Levine
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much of the tech sector. Yahoo has asserted claims on patents that include the technical mechanisms in the Facebook’s ads, privacy controls, news feed and...
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Dell Tries To Remake Itself As An IT Vendor While...
Ryan Faas
Dell attempted today to rebrand itself as an end-to-end enterprise IT vendor amid slowing consumer PC sales. The company appears to be following in the footsteps of IBM, which sold its PC business to Lenovo, and HP, which came close to selling off its personal systems division last summer.
Dell won’t be getting out of the PC business completely, at least not yet. The company will...
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