Coins found in Northern Territory may rewrite Australian history
news.com.au 10 hours ago
FIVE copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an "X" might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia's history.
Retailers Turn 'Showrooming' Into Innovation Opportunity
mashable.com 51 mins ago
Showrooming is when a person heads into a physical store to check out merchandise before finding the same product at a cheaper price online.
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It takes brains to be a swindler
theaustralian.com.au 1 hour ago
LAST week's budget seems the farewell card Labor had to have...
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Stop-Motion Video Takes You on a Stunning 360-Degree Tour
mashable.com 22 hours ago
Take an exhilarating journey through Peru and Bolivia in this beautiful stop-motion video by Polish artist Piotr Wancerz of Timelapse Media.
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This iOS Game Is Narrated By Shaun Micallef, Was Made By The Oz Bureau Of Statistics
gizmodo.com.au 12 hours ago
So, uh, the ABS put together this slick little city builder, called Run That Town, released it on the App Store — free — and made very lit...
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Solar Chaser Toy Uses Sun to Play With Your Cat
mashable.com 1 hour ago
Think it's too much work to wave a laser or string in the air to keep your cat entertained? Consider the Solar Chaser toy powered by the sun.
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YouTube Turns Eight As Platform Surpasses More Than 100 Hours Of Video Uploaded Per Minute
techcrunch.com 1 hour ago
YouTube turns eight years old today, reminding each of us in some odd way how young or old we really are...
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Former Google Exec Turns Whistleblower On Company’s Tax Avoidance Machinations In The UK
techcrunch.com 1 hour ago
Google is under fire in the UK for its tax practices in the country, and a new key witness (who spoke to The Sunday Times) might put them in deeper hot water when he hands over a reported 100,000...
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Finding Patterns In The Tableau IPO
techcrunch.com 50 mins ago
Editor's note: Glenn Solomon is a partner with GGV Capital...
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Illinois Library Embraces Crowdfunding To Bring Its Patrons A 3D Printer (And A Giant Hulk Statue)
techcrunch.com 1 hour ago
Retooling the traditional public library for a more technically savvy populace is no small feat, especially when library budgets across the U.S. have been gutted these past few years...
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Arduino Robot launches at Maker Faire, we go hands-on (video)
engadget.com 3 hours ago
There's a new kid on the Arduino block, and it's called the Arduino Robot. Launched yesterday at Maker Faire Bay Area, it's the company's first product
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Watch This Badass Pilot Save The Day With A Ballsy No-Wheel Landing
gizmodo.com.au 9 hours ago
Last night, the pilot of US Airways Express Flight 4560 was having some bad luck. The landing gear on his turboprop twin-engine plane just wouldn̵...
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Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being?
guardian.co.uk 8 hours ago
Will Hutton: Throughout history, economic upheaval has destroyed whole industries – and created new ones. But now, some fear automation may mean the death of mass employment
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Why sign up for a one-way Mars trip? Three applicants explain the appeal
cosmiclog.nbcnews.com 7 hours ago
A one-way trip to Mars sounds like something you'd wish on your worst enemy — so why would more than 78,000 people from around the world pay up to $75 for a chance to die on another planet?
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Teen's invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds - NBC News.com
nbcnews.com 22 hours ago
Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student's invention. She won...
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This 18-Year-Old's Invention Could Make Your Future Phone Instacharge
gizmodo.com 19 hours ago
While you are hanging out on the Internet (in your underwear, maybe?) on a Saturday, kids that are smart than either you or I are out there getting ready to change the world...
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Cosmonewts Come Home After Russians Send Animals To Space
gizmodo.com 1 hour ago
45 mice, 15 newts, eight gerbils and a handful of snails returned to Earth today after a month in space in a Russian capsule...
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The best writing of the week, May 19
theverge.com 1 hour ago
We all know the feeling. You're sleepless in the sad hours of the night or stumbling around early on a hazy weekend morning in need of something to read, and that pile of unread books just isn't...
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Mice return from a month in space
foxnews.com 59 mins ago
A Russian capsule carrying mice and lizards has returned to Earth after spending a month in space.
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Why We Aren’t Developing For OUYA
techcrunch.com 23 hours ago
Editor's note: Tolga Ozuygur is the co-founder of Overdose Caffeine, an indie game-development company from Turkey that develops cross-platform, real-time multiplayer games. Follow him on Twitter...
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Suspected PayPal Hackers Seek Deal To Stay Out Of Prison
huffingtonpost.com 15 hours ago
Before he was charged in July 2011 with aiding the hacker group Anonymous, Josh Covelli lived what he considered the life of an ordinary 26-year-old. He spent countless hours on the Internet.
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The mysterious creator of bitcoin could be Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki, says the...
qz.com 4 hours ago
Ted Nelson, the American academic who in 1963 coined the term hypertext, and is therefore viewed as one of the founding fathers of the World Wide Web, just released a 12-minute video with a big reveal...
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One of the Basic Math Rules You Learned In School Is Wrong
gizmodo.com 17 hours ago
There are probably a lot of things you learned in school that you don't even remember, but the "order of operations"—also known as PEMDAS—is likely to be one that stuck with you; you'll mess up even...
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Disruptions: Helper Robots Are Steered, Tentatively, to Elder Care
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 46 mins ago
With a growing population of Americans over the age of 65, but a lack of trained home health care workers, more and more people could opt to hire robots to do the job.
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Last week on Pro: a guide for the cloud curious and social at work (literally)
gigaom.com 3 hours ago
For a deeper dive into the topics and technologies covered on GigaOM, check out the latest in-depth analyses on GigaOM Pro, our subscription-based research service...
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Ditch your PC for a Chromebook: can you live entirely in the cloud?
techradar.com 3 hours ago
Google isn't giving up on its Chrome OS-powered vision of a life spent just in the browser, but how easy is it to live your life completely online?
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Cannes Film Review: 'Seduced and Abandoned'
variety.com 47 mins ago
A spirited, highly amusing and endearingly shambolic documentary about film, money, Cannes and death, roughly in that order.
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Teen Who Died During Her First Solo Drive May Have Been Texting
huffingtonpost.com 18 May
Like most 16-year-old girls, Savannah Nash couldn't wait to get behind the wheel once she got her driver's license. Her first solo drive turned out to be her last.
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David Karp’s Dilemma
techcrunch.com 10 hours ago
As the Tumblr/Yahoo deal continues to be negotiated by press, and the world gears up for whatever is being announced Monday morning, Tumblr founder David Karp is probably having a very interesting...
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The Future Of Mobile-Social Could Spell The End For Social Networks
techcrunch.com 14 hours ago
Editor's note: Keith Teare is the founder of just.me and a partner at Archimedes Labs. He is also the co-founder of TechCrunch...
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Facebook stock stagnant as social network seeks to become advertising giant
ctvnews.ca 1 hour ago
Even amid the hype and excitement surrounding Facebook's May 18 stock market debut a year ago, there were looming doubts...
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Minister In Trouble After 'Liking' Exposed Teen Pic
huffingtonpost.com 46 mins ago
SYDNEY — An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself...
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How Facebook Has Changed Since Going Public 1 Year Ago
mashable.com 18 hours ago
The era of Facebook operating or being perceived as anything other than a corporation seems more distant with each passing day. Here's how it's changed.
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Drinks-On With The World’s Biggest, Baddest Bartending Robot
gizmodo.com.au 15 hours ago
At the Google I/O after party the other night, there was one bartender in particular that stood out. It wasn’t the drink he made, or the friendl...
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John Malkovich's 'Siberian Education' Finds U.S. Home with Wrekin
variety.com 55 mins ago
Wrekin Hill Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to Gabriele Salvatores’ crime drama "Siberian Education," starring John Malkovich. WestEnd is handling international sales at Cannes. Wrekin Hill ...
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Cannes Film Review: 'Borgman'
variety.com 1 hour ago
A sly, insidious and intermittently hilarious domestic thriller that is likely to remain one of the most daring selections of this year's Cannes competish.
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Gigabyte Z77-HD4 Review
anandtech.com 2 hours ago
While most of the focus for motherboards is on the big models, what happens when we get down to the lower price points? If you want a basic ATX Z77 motherboard with all the IGP video outputs,...
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Surf report: A breathalyzer for the iPhone and more
usatoday.com 11 hours ago
It was only a matter of time before someone designed a breathalyzer for the iPhone.
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Anna Paquin's 'Free Ride' Picked Up By Phase 4
variety.com 1 hour ago
Anna Paquin's "Free Ride" gets a boost from Phase 4 Films, which has picked up all U.S. and Canadian rights to the Shana Betz-helmed crime thriller. The deal was ann0unced at Cannes, where Cargo En...
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One tax law for us and another for Amazon
guardian.co.uk 17 hours ago
Nick Cohen: Britain's reluctance to pursue multinationals risks turning us into another Italy
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