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Apple Denying Support to Smokers? [Apple]
The Consumerist is reporting that two Mac users were denied AppleCare coverage because the owners were smokers. Not because the computers were damaged by second hand smoke, but because of OSHA regulations. According to separate reports, Apple denied coverage for two users in 2008 based on the fact t …
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Magic Mouse Drivers for Windows Now Available [Apple]
Magic Mouse owners lusting for multi-finger gestures on a PC can stop wishing. Some good ol' fashioned hackery pulled Windows drivers from the latest Bootcamp update. You can grab them here, report back with results. [Uneasy Silence, thanks Dan!]
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The World’s Largest Earthquake-Safe Building [Architecture]
The new terminal at Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen Airport is the world's largest earthquake-safe building. You're looking at the over two million square feet of scaffolding that support it, all resting on top of giant geological roller skates. Instead of being built on top of the soil, the whole structur …
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Gifts for Retro-holics Who Yearn for the Old Days [Giftguide]
Are you trying to find a gift for one of those crazies who's always going on about the superiority of vinyl, or who dresses like a character on Mad Men? Here are some ideas for the retrophile in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. Leica …
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3D Scanning, a Webcam's Latest Trick [Cameras]
We've seen cameras do all kinds of crazy things. DIY 3D photography, augmented reality, and now this demo by Qi Pan shows how an ordinary webcam can model objects in 3D. I'm in no position to discuss the amount of technical wizardry in play here, but I do think the interface is really great. Look at …
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Robot Polar Bears: Less Dangerous Than Real Bears, For Now [Robots]
Instead of replacing the St. Louis Zoo's deceased polar bears with live ones, zoo officials put robots up in their place. This slightly-better-than-average yard display will surely be remembered as the humble beginning of the robot bear uprising. The robot polar bears are part of the zoo's holiday e …
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Robot Polar Bears: Less Dangerous than Real Bears, For Now [Robots]
Instead of replacing the St. Louis Zoo's deceased polar bears with live ones, zoo officials put robots up in their place. This a slightly-better-than-average yard display will surely be remembered as the humble beginning of the robot bear uprising. The robot polar bears are part of the zoo's holiday …
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Wired for the Apple Tablet [Apple Tablet]
We still don't know what the fabled Apple Tablet actually looks like, or if it even exists, really, but this concept magazine reader from Condé Nast gives us a glimpse at what to expect from tablet apps. Turn down your volume before hitting play, loud techno music awaits. Down? OK, good. Now let's l …
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How Do You Hide From the Internet? [Internet]
Wired writer Evan Ratliff spent 27 days in constant fear of getting caught as a small army of amateur and professional investigators hunted him. He had a bounty on his head and the Internet nipping at his heels. Vanish, a combination of a manhunt and an experiment, began at 5:38 pm on August 14, 200 …
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Windows 7 Sales Are Great (Just Like Vista Sales in 2007) [Flashback]
March, 2007: Windows Vista's initial sales are great, "more than doubling" those of its predecessor, Windows XP. Flash forward to November, 2009: Windows 7 initial sales are 234% higher than Vista's. Those numbers sound awfully similar... What does this all mean? To be honest, not all that much&mdas …
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My Dream Coffee Cup is Now Reality [USB]
Unlike T.S. Eliot, I can't measure life out in coffee spoons. I tend to lose the darn things. That's exactly why this self-stirring, self-heating, USB-chargeable coffee cup is the stuff my caffeine-deprived daydreams are made of. Brando calls it the USB Whirl Wind Warmer Cup and it's all too lovely. …
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Earth's Weather Like You Have Never Seen It Before [Science]
newVideoPlayer("/gizmodo-clouds.flv", 500, 375,""); This video shows Earth's weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA's GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model. The G …
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OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider [Blockquote]
I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it's going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators's latest statement, I'm not so sure: The LHC is a far better understood machine than it was a year ago. We've …
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NewEgg Black Friday Deals Leak [Black Friday]
Some of NewEgg's Black Friday offers have surfaced and while we don't know everything yet, a few of the deals we're seeing, such as a 2TB HDD for $150, are looking pretty good. According to Logic Buy, these deals are subject to change and there are more offers to come. We'll be keeping an eye out fo …
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Cop Tasers and Arrests a 10-Year Old Girl For Throwing a Fit [Crime]
Are idiot cops with tasers in some sort of competition with one another? I think the new record for stupidity belongs to Dustin Bradshaw, the Arkansas police officer who zapped and arrested a 10-year old girl for throwing a fit. Get this: the mother called police because her child was throwing a fit …
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Perhaps It is Time To Make "The Switch" to an Electric Razor [Mods]
Because the original switch on this model was busted. Of course, the modification looks like it would get in the way of a close, comfortable shave. [TIFI via Boing Boing]
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Worry Not, Fight Club Has Not Turned Into a Horrible Romantic Comedy [Blu-Ray]
If you picked up the new Fight Club Blu-ray edition, don't panic when you see the menu screen. Edward Norton HAS NOT been replaced with a Drew Barrymore character that makes out with her alter ego to vent sexual frustration. Let me explain: the menu screen for Never Been Kissed appears momentarily w …
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Spectacular Meteor Lights Up the Utah Skies [Space]
If you were hanging out outside in Utah on Wednesday night, chances are good that you witnessed a pretty rare astronomic event: a friggin' huge meteor that lit up the entire sky. Clark Planetarium Director Seth Jarvis said the stony meteorite was probably traveling 80,000 miles an hour when it hit …
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Gifts for Science Nerds Who Love To Tinker [Gift Guide]
Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. BTW, if you hate the gallery format as much as the Grinch hated Christmas, click here. Lego: It's not really a secre …
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Windows 8 Expected in 2012 According to Roadmap [Windows 8]
Apparently we won't have to deal with upgrading our Microsoft-driven computers for another three years. According to a tentative roadmap, the next version of the OS, Windows 8, won't be arriving until 2012. This release date would be consistent with the schedule Microsoft has been maintaining, but I …
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