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Apple files patent for Touch ID sensor found in iPhone 5s
The United States Patent & Trademark Office on Thursday published an Apple patent application covering the electronic packaging and sapphire lens of the company's new Touch ID fingerprint sensors.
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Could blue lights replace a daily cup of coffee?
Mid Sweden University found that people exposed to blue light performed better at tests when they were distracted than those who had caffeine.
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Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto
Two Israeli scientists have written a paper that suggests a link between Ross William Ulbricht, who was recently arrested as the operator of the Internet black market Silk Road, and the anonymous inventor of bitcoin.
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See The First “Selfie” In History Taken by Robert Cornelius, a Philadelphia Chemist, in 1839
On November 19, the Oxford Dictionaries announced that “selfie” had been deemed their Word of The Year. The term, whose first recorded use as an Instagram hashtag occurred on January 27, 2011, was actually invented in 2002, when an Australian chap posted a picture of himself on an internet forum and called it a “selfie”.
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The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath
While studying brain scans to search for patterns that correlated with psychopathic behavior, James Fallon found that his own brain fit the profile.
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Scientists Are Closer Than Ever To Solving A 100-Year-Old Mystery About Cosmic Rays
Sensors buried below the ice may help scientists figure out where the high-energy rays that speed through space are born.
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India could replace the US as Facebook’s #1 market in a matter of months
Facebook has had wild success with its push into emerging markets. Now Jana CEO Nathan Eagle is predicting that it will only be months before India supplants the US and becomes Facebook’s largest market in terms of users.
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Does Facebook need a cemetery?
The creators of the Sanctri app believe there needs to be a separate place on Facebook to mourn the dead and honor them.
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Flatiron Building during construction in NY in early 1900s
Construction of the Flatiron Building, located at 175 Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan, New York City. It was originally named the Fuller Building because it was built by the George A. Fuller Construction Company for its headquarters.
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Google shows potential of Web browser games with 'The Hobbit' trilogy
In its most ambitious effort yet to prove that the Web can serve as a substitute to game consoles, Google on Wednesday released "Journey Through Middle-earth," an HTML 5 game that can be played on computers, smartphones and tablets with an Internet connection.
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Software patent reform just died in the House, thanks to IBM and Microsoft
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to consider legislation aimed at reining in abusive patent litigation. But one of the bill's most important provisions, designed to make it easier to nix low-quality software patents, will be left on the cutting room floor. That provision was the victim of an aggressive lobbying campaign by patent-rich software companies such as IBM and Microsoft.
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Wikipedia names Texas PR firm over false manipulation of site entries
Wikipedia has named and shamed a Texas-based public relations company following an investigation into spin doctors and "sock puppets" falsely manipulating entries on the site.
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42 million dating-site passwords exposed in security breach
To be unlucky in love is bad enough, but to find out that someone is only interested in you for your password? That’s got to sting. Sadly, that’s the position some 42 million online daters past and present currently find themselves in, due to a security breach that occurred earlier this year. Though not all of them know they’ve been exposed.
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Xbox One Review
Microsoft didn't mean to take over your living room. When it launched in 2005, the Xbox 360 was just a device for games — "the Holy Grail of gaming," in the immortal words of MTV's Sway. It would show your pictures if you plugged in a thumb drive, but it was designed to be the best way ever for gamers to play.
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What Grain Is Doing To Your Brain
It’s tempting to call David Perlmutter’s dietary advice radical. The neurologist and president of the Perlmutter Health Center in Naples, Fla., believes all carbs, including highly touted whole grains, are devastating to our brains. He claims we must make major changes in our eating habits as a society to ward off terrifying increases in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia rates.
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Robert Wadlow: Tallest person who ever lived
In this photo, he's standing beside an average height man. Loads more pics and information in the source link provided.
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How Many of Your Memories Are Fake?
When people with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory—those who can remember what they ate for breakfast on a specific day 10 years ago—are tested for accuracy, researchers find what goes into false memories.
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Samsung planning Galaxy phone with wrap-around display for 2014 launch
Samsung is said to be developing a new device for launch in 2014 with a flexible display that envelops the device's edges, allowing users to read messages when the device's main display is at a non-viewable angle.
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Dukakis and the Tank: The inside story of the worst campaign photo op ever
Matt Bennett can still hear the reporters laughing, all 90 of them. He can still picture Sam Donaldson doubled over, guffawing, on a riser that looked out over a dusty field in suburban Detroit. Bennett was a 23-year-old political rookie in 1988 when he was sent to a General Dynamics facility in Sterling Heights, Mich., to organize a campaign stop...
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30 hilarious street posters you certainly haven’t seen around
Apparently the hottest trend today is to give people a smile randomly hanging funny street posters around town. From the ring lost by Frodo to a cat to return dead and alive, here is a list of the funniest of them. What about you? Have you ever seen a funny street poster in your city?…
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DDR4 Memory Will Be Released By Next Month
It seems that DDR4 isn't as far away as we thought . According to Crucial Memory's promo page it's going to come out late 2013. There is just one month left till the years end. So that being said,...
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Dying life of the Mursi tribe
The Mursi are a nomadic tribe of herdsmen living in the lower Omo Valley, situated in Africa’s Great Rift Valley in south-west Ethiopia, not far from the Kenyan border.
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Polygon's PlayStation 4 Review
In the seven years since the introduction of the PlayStation 3, we've seen our gaming consoles transform into living room hubs through constant evolution and software updates. Those updates weren't always smooth – though on PS3, they were always happening – but it's easy to see just how far the platform has come.
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Internet architects propose encrypting all the world’s Web traffic
Next-gen HTTP calls for default crypto to stop spying by spooks and criminals.
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Steve Jobs Was Wrong: Why the 7-Inch Tablet Is King
Back in 2010, Steve Jobs scoffed at the “current crop of seven-inch tablets,” calling them “dead on arrival". “There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touchscreen before users can reliably tap, flick, or pinch them,” he said on an October earnings call. “This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps.”
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Alcohol without the hangover? It's closer than you think
Science now allows us to develop a safer way to get drunk. But before we can sober up in minutes, the drinks industry needs to embrace this healthier approach
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ERMIS 2 - One of the world's fastest superyachts (55+ knots)
The Ermis2 motor yacht is a high speed yacht, made of carbon fibres and high quality wood for the purpose of a lighter vessel construction. It is capable of enduring extreme loads during a trip with a 57 knot speed.
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Depression makes us biologically age 'by several years' say scientists
Depression can cause us to biologically age by increasing the ageing process in cells, according to the results of a new study conducted by scientists.
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E-cigarettes 'could save millions'
Scientists say that if all smokers in the world switched from cigarettes to electronic cigarettes, it could save millions of lives.
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Chrome will now save its users from unexpectedly noisy browser tabs
A new setting will alert you to which tab is offending your ears.
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