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  • Why the walking dead is so addictive yet mindless

    loafersansocks: I don’t watch The Walking Dead anymore. When I did, however, this is exactly how I felt. The large portion that is pink was ultimately enough to make me steer clear for the rest of the series. Related articles Walking Dead continues to Bore us all (reviewsofthetube.wordpress.com)

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  • IBM’s Cognitive Computing Plans: Giving Smartphones 5 Senses

    Antone Gonsalves, readwrite.com IBM believes technology’s future lies in cognitive computing, which essentially means making computers think more like humans do. To IBM, that includes giving computers sensors that enable it to touch, see, hear, taste and smell – sensory input as… RT @RWW: IBM believes technology’s future lies in cognitive computing; making computers think…

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  • Why the iPad can replace your cable subscription

    Who Needs Cable? 3 iPad Apps That Glue Me To My TV John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com The Internet may be changing TV, but it is nowhere close to completely disrupting it.Why’s that? In a word, content.Web videos can rack up millions of views (and millions of dollars), but the Web isn’t yet giving us content…

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  • Merrell Barefoot Road Glove Lightning Review: Minimalist Foot Heaven

    gizmodo.com So, you’ve heard about all of this min­i­mal­ist, “barefoot-style” run­ning, and you want in. Thing is, those toe-shoes look real­ly weird. You don’t want any padding, but you don’t want your foot pierced by rocks either. Is there a bal­ance point… Merrell Barefoot Road Glove Lightning Review: Minimalist Foot Heaven http://flip.it/L7HP5 http://flip.it/dY2t0 Merrell Barefoot…

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  • AT&T liberate mifi displays status

    AT&T MiFi Liberate: The Best MiFi I’ve Ever Used Sam Biddle, gizmodo.com If you can afford one, hotshot, an LTE MiFi will change your life a little bit: you have Internet virtually everywhere you go, a wireless high-speed network in your bag.Most MiFi gadgets are lousy. This one is stellar.What Is It?A tiny… AT&T MiFi…

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  • Human cognition or why 48 fps fails in the Hobbit

    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Masterclass in Why 48 FPS Fails Vincent Laforet, gizmodo.com Peter Jackson, a terrifically talented film maker and pioneer of new cinema technology, has given the world of cinema a very important, and perhaps unintended, gift with his latest film “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” as we wrap the year… The Hobbit:…

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  • Funf: computational social science in your pocket

    Open-source Funf platform taps into Android’s huge knowledge about you By Daniel Cossins, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Novem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… http://flip.it/FiWXt Related articles Why…

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  • YouTube app lets you edit and record video easily on iOS

    YouTube launches Capture, a video recording and enhancing app for iOS By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com YouTube has just launched Cap­ture, a new app for iOS. It lets users take quick video, make minor adjust­ments, and upload that video to YouTube, Google+, Face­book, or Twit­ter. The app is built specif­i­cal­ly for iPhone and iPod touch and…

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  • Case study of ditching the DSLR for a mirror less

    Sony NEX-5R review: can the best mirrorless camera get even better? By Dan Seifert, theverge.com Ear­li­er this year, I made a pret­ty dras­tic change in my cam­era set up. I left behind my trusty Canon DSLR, and the lens­es and acces­sories that had served me well for six years, and I picked up a Sony…

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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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  • 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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