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How Nokia Employees Are Reacting to the Microsoft Takeover

Sep 03, 11:28AM

How Nokia Employees Are Reacting to the Microsoft Takeover

Perhaps unsurprisingly, there are mixed feelings among Nokia employees—current and old—about the news that the phone manufacturer has been taken over by Microsoft.

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Leaked Images Reaffirm Sony's Smartphone Lens Camera Arrival

Sep 03, 10:46AM

Leaked Images Reaffirm Sony's Smartphone Lens Camera Arrival

Sony has been as leaky as a sieve when it comes to its much-rumored new Smartphone Lens Camera. Now, a full set of leaked press images offer more clarity than ever about what we can expect.

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Jeff Bezos Speaks Out About Running the Washington Post

Sep 03, 9:59AM

Jeff Bezos Speaks Out About Running the Washington Post

Last month, Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million. Now, in the first interview he's given since the purchase, he's spoken out about what we can expect to see from him.

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Will Stephen Elop Be Microsoft's Next CEO?

Sep 03, 8:41AM

Will Stephen Elop Be Microsoft's Next CEO?

Stephen Elop is no longer CEO of Nokia, and is instead heading up Microsoft's newly acquired mobile wing. But will he soon be elevated to position of Microsoft CEO?

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The BoomBass Is HTC's New Bluetooth Speaker

Sep 03, 7:48AM

The BoomBass Is HTC's New Bluetooth Speaker

This dinky little cube is HTC's answer to the slew of Bluetooth speakers saturating the market—but unlike the rest, this thing only boosts bass, leaving your phone to handle the treble.

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Breaking: Microsoft to Buy Nokia Phones Division, Make Its Own Phones

Sep 03, 4:36AM

Breaking: Microsoft to Buy Nokia Phones Division, Make Its Own Phones

Microsoft has agreed to buy Nokia's hardware division for $7.1 billion in cash. Microsoft's a company that makes its own phones now.

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Spotify Connect: Sonos-Like Powers That Bend to Your Budget

Sep 03, 4:01AM

Spotify is getting into the hardware game. The company is teaming up with a slew of great audio companies to bake Spotify right into Wi-Fi connected speakers. And it's not just speakers—the new system makes juggling your tunes between your phone, tablet, and computer a piece of cake, too. Here's the facile music experience you've been waiting for at a price you can actually afford.

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The Weirdest Thing on the Internet Tonight: Far Away

Sep 03, 4:00AM

The moral of the story: making friends is easy, so long as you are a magical wizard with a sweet mountaintop laboratory that would put Dr. Frankenstein to shame. The rest of you schmoes will just have to develop some personality.

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Miller's Crossing: A Man Chasin' His Hat

Sep 03, 12:00AM

Miller's Crossing isn't the best gangster movie, but it may well be the best movie about gangsters. What's the distinction? As always, with the Coen brothers, it's a matter of genre, and refusing to play within its confines.

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Spaceships Are Cool: We Were Here

Sep 02, 11:00PM

Forget beaming radio signals into the void and don't bother inscribing a message to space on your interplanetary probes. If you really want to impress alien explorers, easily transmogrifiable cardboard cutouts of Earth's best musical instruments are the superior choice.

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How to Sun-Cook a Steak in South Africa

Sep 02, 10:30PM

Consistent electricity is more guideline than rule in South Africa, even on the outskirts for the capital city of Johannesburg. This ambiguity leaves residents either living in the dark or at the mercy of expensive and hazardous kerosene- or coal-based fuels. One social entrepreneur however, has a plan to provide clean, safe, nearly free energy to even Johannesburg's poorest citizens.

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How the NSA Misleads the Public Without Technically Lying

Sep 02, 10:00PM

How the NSA Misleads the Public Without Technically Lying

The Wall Street Journal published an important investigation last week, reporting that the National Security Agency (NSA) has direct access to many key telecommunications switches around the country and "has the capacity to reach roughly 75% of all U.S. Internet traffic in the hunt for foreign intelligence, including a wide array of communications by foreigners and Americans." Notably, NSA officials repeatedly refused to talk about this story on theirconference call with reporters the next day. Instead the Director of National Intelligence and the NSA released a statement about the story later that evening.

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The World's Largest Lunchbox Museum Is a Nostalgic Wonderland

Sep 02, 9:30PM

So many formative experiences occurred in school cafeterias where the lunchbox was a symbol of your budding sense of identity. Those little tin boxes line the walls of one quaint little museum in the back of an antique mall in Georgia.

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Time Warner Cable and CBS Make Up Just in Time for NFL Season

Sep 02, 9:22PM

Time Warner Cable and CBS Make Up Just in Time for NFL Season

In a resolution that's as timely as it was expected, CBS and Time Warner Cable have kissed and made up. You'll get your Under the Dome as scheduled tonight, but more importantly, you won't miss any of your sweet professional football action.

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Adorn Your Walls With the Weapons of Summer Fun

Sep 02, 9:00PM

Adorn Your Walls With the Weapons of Summer Fun

The actual summer months might be drawing to a close, but thanks to LA-based DKNG Studios, you can preserve some of that warm weather fun with these awesome prints featuring comprehensive illustrations of the Nerf and Super Soaker product lines.

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Pack Every Inch of Your Balcony with Garden

Sep 02, 8:30PM

Pack Every Inch of Your Balcony with Garden

Look, you're already stuffing your entire life into a 100 sq ft box, you might as well maximize your balcony's utility as well. With some minor augmentations, you can turn even the tiniest outdoor space into a personal Babylonian Garden.

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The Hovercraft That Stormed a Russian Beach Is the World's Largest

Sep 02, 7:50PM

The Hovercraft That Stormed a Russian Beach Is the World's Largest

That hovercraft caught invading a popular Russian beach last week wasn't just any old air-cushioned aquatic landing platform, it's the single biggest such vehicle in the entire Russian arsenal—or in any other military's, for that matter.

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Forge Your Own Path With This Collapsible Trail-Clearing Multi-Tool

Sep 02, 7:00PM

Forge Your Own Path With This Collapsible Trail-Clearing Multi-Tool

If you'd rather take the path less followed when you hit the great outdoors, it might need a little TLC along the route. And that's where the lightweight collapsible Trail Boss will serve as your perfect hiking partner. It lets you carry four long-handled tools in a compact pack, so you can make short work of fallen branches, exposed roots, or whatever else hinders your progress.

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Designers Turn an Abandoned Victoria's Secret Into a Temporary Workshop

Sep 02, 6:30PM

Designers Turn an Abandoned Victoria's Secret Into a Temporary Workshop

This spring, when City Council voted to demolish the mall at South Street Seaport, they announced that current tenants would be allowed to stay until the summer's end. But many anchor stores chose to move out earlier—and two designers from Brooklyn were determined to take advantage of the abandoned store space.

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Why Do Vitamins Make Urine Bright Yellow?

Sep 02, 6:00PM

Why Do Vitamins Make Urine Bright Yellow?

If you've ever taken a daily multivitamin you too might have noticed your urine turning a bright yellow-ish color. Take your vitamins and eat some asparagus and you might just think you're dying the next time you pee!

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The Mini+ Is HTC's Solution to Carrying a Big Phone

Sep 02, 5:35PM

The Mini+ Is HTC's Solution to Carrying a Big Phone

Phones are getting bigger; some are even too big for pockets. So what's the answer to your too-big-to-use-as-a-phone issues? A mini Bluetooth phone that connects to your real phone, of course. Or at least that's what HTC thinks. Meet the HTC Mini+. Yeah, that just happened.

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Listen to Music Made from Concert-Goers' Dance Moves

Sep 02, 5:00PM

In our electronic music age, it's sometimes easy to forget how music is basically just a bunch of well-organized noise. It seems like over-produced pop albums have more in common with computer software than performance, so when musicians break the mold, things get interesting.

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Verizon just shook off the part owners of Verizon Wireless, the UK-based Vodafone, by stumping up a

Sep 02, 4:42PM

Verizon just shook off the part owners of Verizon Wireless, the UK-based Vodafone, by stumping up a cool $130 billion. That is one serious move—though it's unclear what the newfound freedom means for the network.

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This Equation Can Tell You How Successful a Reddit Post Will Be

Sep 02, 4:30PM

This Equation Can Tell You How Successful a Reddit Post Will Be

Scientists love developing equations that can accurately predict real-life events—so when researchers from Stanford looked at Reddit, they naturally wondered if they could predict how successful posts would be. This equation is the result of their work.

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London's Newest Skyscraper Is Melting Cars Parked Near It

Sep 02, 4:28PM

London's Newest Skyscraper Is Melting Cars Parked Near It

Nicknamed the Walkie-Talkie, 20 Fenchurch Street in London's busy financial district turns out to be a giant magnifying glass parabolic reflector as well as a 37-story skyscraper, melting cars and forcing pedestrians to shield their eyes on the street. The most recent casualty is this Jaguar XJ.

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