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  • ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ is a middling return to Middle-earth By Bryan Bishop, theverge.com Peter Jackson ditches romance and charm for high frame rates and 3D A decade ago, Peter Jack­son pulled off what many thought was impos­si­ble: adapt­ing J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings into an epic big-screen tril­o­gy. The movies… RT…

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  • ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ is a middling return to Middle-earth By Bryan Bishop, theverge.com Peter Jackson ditches romance and charm for high frame rates and 3D A decade ago, Peter Jack­son pulled off what many thought was impos­si­ble: adapt­ing J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings into an epic big-screen tril­o­gy. The movies… RT…

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  • The Evernote clipping obsession

    The Verge at work: backing up your brain By Thomas Houston, theverge.com How I use Evernote as a memory tool for deep reading, writing, and research The Verge at Work is a series about process. We’re not sci­en­tists, and we’re not gurus, we’re just try­ing to get some work done. The solu­tions pre­sent­ed here ar……

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  • Netflix is a good place to see how fast your Internet service is

    Netflix launches monthly ISP speed rankings, praises Google Fiber, and calls out AT&T By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Net­flix is wide­ly acknowl­edged to make up a large chunk of down­stream inter­net traf­fic, and the com­pa­ny is now using that posi­tion to start chart­ing how fast ISPs can stream movies to cus­tomers. Every month, it’s announced, it…

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  • Ambient electricity sounds and forensic digital anthropology

    Electricity’s ‘hum’ helps forensic experts detect manipulated audio recordings By Chris Welch, theverge.com An aver­age per­son on the street may find it hard to tell the dif­fer­ence between an unal­tered record­ing and one that’s been edit­ed or tam­pered with in some way, but foren­sic experts are often tasked with just that respon­si­bil­i­ty.… RT @verge: Electricity’s…

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  • Why the iPad shall replace your ugly black television

    The future of television has arrived: it’s called the iPad By Nilay Patel, theverge.com Why owning the second screen is Apple’s game to lose The future of the tele­vi­sion is the iPad. That was the over­whelm­ing mes­sage at the TV of Tomor­row con­fer­ence in New York, which saw exec­u­tives and deci­sion mak­ers from across the……

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  • Transcendence: a new film about AI

    Johnny Depp assumes the role of artificial intelligence in new sci-fi flick ‘Transcendence’ By Kimber Streams, theverge.com John­ny Depp will play a sci­en­tist whose con­scious­ness is uploaded to a super­com­put­er in the upcom­ing sci­ence fic­tion film Tran­scen­dence, TheWrap reports. Incep­tion direc­tor Christo­pher Nolan is exec­u­tive… http://flip.it/GwUjo Related articles Johnny Depp’s ‘Transcendence’ Adds Paul Bettany, Gets…

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  • Pacific Rim: robots battle monsters as usual

    Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pacific Rim’ features robots battling giant monsters By Ben Kersey, theverge.com Complete with the familiar tones of Portal’s GLaDOS Hol­ly­wood seems keen to turn 2013 into the year of the sci-fi block­buster, with trail­ers released so far for films such as Obliv­ion and After Earth. The indus­try has yet… RT @verge: Watch…

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  • T-mobile eyes Metro PCS with iPhone 5

    (via Can you say MetroPCS iPhone? T-Mobile sure can — Apple News, Tips and Reviews)</p Related articles MetroPCS recommends amended T-Mobile deal (seattlepi.com) T-Mobile says first day Apple iPhone 5 sales were huge; device sold like “Gangbusters” (phonearena.com) MetroPCS encourages shareholders again to vote for T-Mobile deal (geekwire.com) MetroPCS delays vote after T-Mobile beefs up…

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  • iPhone 5 on cricket

    (via iPhone 5 to debut on Cricket Wireless on Sept. 28 | TechHive) Related articles Cricket’s iPhone 5 play stumbles amid half the predicted demand (slashgear.com) Apple to Release a New A1428 iPhone 5 Starting April 12th With AWS Support! (applios.wordpress.com)

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  • Mailbox app for iPhone replaces Apple mail

    Mailbox for iPhone: a next-generation email app inspired by Sparrow and Clear By Ellis Hamburger, theverge.com Cloud to-do list com­pa­ny Orches­tra today announced Mail­box, an email client for the iPhone it’s been build­ing for the last year. I’ve been test­ing Mail­box for the last few weeks and it’s noth­ing short of spec­tac­tu­lar. It’s the best…

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  • ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs At Yammer, Box, Yelp And Dropbox

    Alex Williams, techcrunch.com Y Com­bi­na­tor com­pa­ny Zen­Pay­roll launched its cloud-based pay­roll ser­vice today with $6.1 mil­lion in seed fund­ing from Google Ven­tures and invest­ments from the CEOs at Yam­mer, Box, Yelp and Drop­box. It is the largest seed round ever … RT @TechCrunch: ZenPayroll Launches Cloud-Based Payroll Service With $6.1M In Seed Funding From CEOs…

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