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  • Canon PowerShot G15

    Canon PowerShot G15 features f/1.8-2.8 lens and DSLR-like controls, we go hands-on (video) Zach Honig, engadget.com Not com­plete­ly sold on Canon’s large sensor-packing Pow­er­Shot G1 X? The com­pa­ny’s lat­est jumbo com­pact offers a com­pa­ra­ble smooth focus effect, thanks to its super-wide f/1.8-2.8, 28-140mm opti­cal zoom lens, with image sta­bi­liza­tion… http://flpbd.it/wAQD4 Related articles Product snapshot: Canon…

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  • Olympus Stylus XZ-2 is a digital compact stuck in a mirrorless camera body

    Olympus Stylus XZ-2 is a digital compact stuck in a mirrorless camera’s body, we go hands-on Zach Honig, engadget.com Look­ing to boost your com­pact capa­bil­i­ties, but don’t want to deal with the has­sle of swap­ping lens­es? You might take inter­est with the Sty­lus XZ-2 — Olym­pus’ most pow­er­ful point-and-shoot model. Admit­ted­ly, we’re hav­ing a bit…

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  • What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy

    What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He’s also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University. He is…

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  • How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know

    How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know Eliza Barclay, npr.org Our impulse to share inti­mate details about our lives with­in our social net­works (and even some­times with com­plete strangers) seems to know few bounds. Now devices loaded with health apps let us mon­i­tor and share our sleep pat­terns, stre… http://flpbd.it/Yqlsu Related articles Childhood Obesity…

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  • Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign

    Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign buzzfeed.com Leaked fundrais­ing doc­u­ments show Sil­i­con Val­ley emerg­ing as a key source of Demo­c­ra­t­ic money and power. Val­ley money bests Hol­ly­wood. Pres­i­dent Obama with Google chair­man (and occa­sion­al advi­sor) Eric Schmidt SAN FRAN­CIS­… http://flpbd.it/mrFd3 Related articles Razor Burned: The Beard-less Women of Obama’s Tech Team…

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  • Meat, metal, and code

    Meat, metal, and code: Stelarc’s alternate anatomical architectures By Jesse Hicks, theverge.com In 1972 the man born Ste­lios Arca­diou took on a new name. He refash­ioned him­self as the artist Ste­larc, whose work often explores what he calls “alter­nate anatom­i­cal architectures.” He’s probed his body with cam­eras, cre­at­ing films that… http://flpbd.it/pBHf2 Related articles STELARC –…

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  • Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed

    Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D., huffingtonpost.com Good Morn­ing Amer­i­ca co-anchor Robin Roberts’ recent announce­ment that she had been diag­nosed with myelodys­plas­tic syn­drome (MDS) — a group of con­di­tions in which the cells in the bone mar­row are dam­aged — cer­tain­ly came as … Why Cancer Treatment Is Fatally Flawed Related articles New cancer treatment used for…

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  • Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore

    Researchers seek new drugs through evolution and local plant lore John Timmer, arstechnica.com Some of the most suc­cess­ful drugs we know about have come from plants, includ­ing the can­cer drug Taxol, the malar­i­al treat­ment artemisinin, and even aspirin. The lat­ter two were iden­ti­fied because of their use in herbal reme­dies that… http://flpbd.it/IKidw Related articles Drug…

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  • Kicking Off a Year of Open Source Everything

    Kicking Off a Year of Open Source Everything Sam Muirhead, lifehacker.com Berlin film­mak­er Sam Muir­head is attempt­ing to live a com­plete­ly open source life for one year. Here’s why. The phrase ‘Open Source’, to many peo­ple, means ‘soft­ware you don’t have to pay for’—but real­ly it’s so much more than th… http://flpbd.it/xl5Kt Related articles The…

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  • I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work

    I’m Caterina Fake, and This Is How I Work Tessa Miller, lifehacker.com The inter­net wouldn’t be the same with­out Cate­ri­na Fake. In 2004, she launched Flickr, one of the largest photo host­ing and shar­ing sites. Later, she co-founded Hunch, which aims to per­son­al­ize the web through rec­om­men­da­tions and a… http://flpbd.it/Ixrmx Related articles The meaning of…

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  • Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic

                              Why America Must Address Rising Healthcare Costs Infographic Related articles There are 6 types of healthcare consumers; Which ones would you like to target? (medcitynews.com) When Allergies Attack – Asthma & Allergies in America [INFOGRAPHIC] (epicahealth.com) Do You Have 20/20 Vision or…

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  • Food Waste Is Overwhelming

    Food Waste Is Overwhelming. Here Are Five Things People Are Doing About It April Fulton, npr.org The food world is buzzing today about the lat­est news on just how often we waste per­fect­ly good food. And we admit, the sta­tis­tics are pret­ty depress­ing. About 40 per­cent of food in the Unit­ed States today goes uneat­en.…

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