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Algae-powered Prius Heads Cross Country
Daily Tech
Toyota and Sapphire are working together on a new project involving a Prius powered by gasoline created from algae. To promote the Prius, dubbed Algaeus, the vehicle along with other green automobiles will go on a cross-country road trip lasting ten days.
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In 8 Years, Online Video Consumption will be Measured in Exabytes
Read/WriteWeb
One exabyte is a billion gigabytes. It's one quintillion bytes. And yes, "quintillion" is a number so large, it almost seems made-up. But that's how much online video will be consumed by 2017, according to new reports from U.K.-base...
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Flickr Finally Goes Native With An iPhone App
TechCrunch
Despite having one of the most popular online photo services in the world, Flickr has done things the hard way on the iPhone. That is to say, for browsing photos they’ve made you go through their optimized website, and for uploading you had to ...
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Technical issues could delay iPod camera upgrade
AppleInsider
Just days before Apple is expected to unveil its new line of iPods, multiple reports are suggesting that some of the widely anticipated camera-equipped media players could be delayed due to technical difficulties.
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Spotify App Is Available Now For iPhone, Europe Only
Cult of Mac
Spotify’s iPhone app has just gone live on the iTunes app store. But us poor Yankees are SOL. It’s available in Europe only — for now anyway.
The app is available here for free from Apple’s...
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The beautifully detailed art of Mac OS X app icons
The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Over at his blog Cult of Mac, writer Leander Kahney published a post this morning featuring full-size 512 x 512 pixel screenshots of Mac icons. As he notes, the highly detailed icons are part of a...
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Brit on Trial for Killing Ex After She Changed Relationship Status
Switched
The first time a Facebook status motivated a violent crime was disturbing enough, but another jealousy-fueled murder due to relationships and social networking is beyond shocking. As as it the...
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Spacemen are transmitting silent little floaty vlogs at planet Earth
Boing Boing
This is not the first web video of daily highlights from a NASA mission, but it just struck me now, watching today's silent vlog from STS-128, that this video really is amazing. It is amazing...
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Bluetooth headset use plummets in the US, humanity celebrates a small victory
engadget
Join us as we rejoice together: "Finally!" Look, we can't straight up say that Bluetooth headsets...
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New ThinkPad keyboard features crowdsourced design, lower price
engadget
Hey, remember last year when Lenovo's UltraNav keyboard made a (re)appearance on Flickr because the company was soliciting feedback on how to make it better? Well check it -- there's a new version...
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Hi, LG: This is not a borderless TV
Crunch Gear
This is pretty much the silliest thing I’ve seen ever. LG is touting borderless TVs. What does that mean? They’re making the border around he TV black and the front of the TV flat.
LG: This...
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Some random Apple event predictions for you: Bye bye iPod classic?
Crunch Gear
That blasted Apple event is on Wednesday, and in the interest of having fresh-but-not-really posts on this holiday weekend, here’s some interesting predictions I’ve stumbled upon. The highlight:...
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Stanford’s open-source camera could revolutionize photography, you’ll still use ‘Auto’ mode
engadget
Here's the moment where you pretend that a breakthrough in a given industry would just revolutionize the way you do work, yet you know -- deep down in your heart -- that you'd never take...
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Straight flowing on a boat: iPhone auto-tunes you with T-Pain
Download Squad
Hip-hop singer T-Pain has gone from buying u a drank in the club to sailing on a boat with the guys from Saturday Night Live, and now he's taking over the iPhone.
He's teamed up with Smule to...
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Programmable spring actuator legs
Hack a Day
This proof of concept shows an interesting way of making robotic legs. They are using programmable spring actuators to make these legs function as though they had a “reflex”. Â The builder pulls...
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