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Last call for KEO space time capsule message: Let people 50,000 years in the future how much you rocked

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Hurry up, sports fans, for today’s the last day you can submit a message to the KEO space capsule. The idea is to have a bunch of people write an epic message, then in 50,000 years it’ll return and give future people the messages.

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AT&T drops Tiger Woods sponsorship

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Gotta hand it to Bloomberg for this riveting one-sentence article written by two people. “AT&T Inc. is ending its sponsorship agreement with golfer Tiger Woods, company spokesman Michael Coe said in an e-mailed statement.”

HTC Android Tablet appearing privately at CES 2010; Chrome OS version in prototype form?

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HTC’s potential tablet plans have always been played down by the company – CEO Peter Chou edged around speculation a few months back, before speculating that his engineers were “carefully looking” at netbook possibilities later on – but that hasn’t stopped the...

Orange to launch “HD” calls in 2010

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Orange UK today said it would be one of the first carriers to upgrade its call quality with plans to launch "high definition" calls.

Is Asus killing off the Eee Stick?

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The Asus Eee Stick might be dead, folks. According to a Digitimes report, the company has slashed the development department down to only 20 team members from the original 100 and more cuts might be coming. Long story short, the department isn’t delivering the goods.

CrunchDeals: Logitech G13 game controller for $50

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Best Buy has a pretty good deal on Logitech’s G13 game controller at $50. It’s backordered for a couple weeks, but patience is a wondrous virtue.

Motorola Shadow 9.9mm thick 1080p smartphone leaks

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Motorola look to be on a roll with their smartphones lately; after the success of the Verizon DROID the company quietly unveiled a further three interesting looking devices – including the long-rumored Motorola Sholes – in China.

Apple, censorship, and cogs in the wheel: the Dalai Lama is expunged from Chinese App Store

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Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, App Store It's being reported by PC World that Apple has begun censoring iPhone applications that contain any reference to the Dalai Lama in the Chinese App Store.

Power Mac G5 turned time-teller

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Filed under: Hardware, Cult of Mac, Odds and ends, Mods This is great, and highly appropriate for the tick-tocking away of the year -- Japanese modder Nobon had an old Power Mac G5 (case, it looks like, though this would be cool on a working Mac as well) sitting around, and he wanted to know what...

Palm App Catalog nears 1,000 apps

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Owners of the Palm Pre and Pixi discovered on Thursday that the Palm App Catalog is nearing the 1,000 app mark. As of the morning, the portal had 946 titles and is likely to cross 1,000 by or shortly after the smartphone creator's CES keynote.

Team outs the USB 2.0/eSATA X092 flash drive

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Here we go again with another dual interface flash drive, but this time USB 3.0 is no where to be found. The Team X092 comes sporting both a USB 2.0 and eSATA interface.

Motorola Android phone leaks with 1080p video, HDMI

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Motorola may be developing an even higher end Android phone if a Chinese leak today translates to reality. Nicknamed either the Mirage or the Shadow, it would graduate from the Droid's 3.7-inch screen to a larger still 4.3 inches, albeit at the same 854x480 resolution.

Sony revives VAIO TT as high-end CULV notebook

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Despite shutting down its traditional ultraportable line worldwide in favor of netbooks like the VAIO P, W and X, Sony today quietly resurrected the VAIO TT in its home country.

Blogger who posted the new flight regulations threatened by DHS

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Two travel bloggers, Steven Frischling and Chris Elliott received friendly visits from the Department of Homeland Security this week. Why? Because both published SD-1544-09-06, the document that showed us what to expect when we flew in scardeyplanes from now on.

Hey, look: It’s the Jaybird Sportsband. It’s a Bluetooth headset dontcha know?

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This snazzy Bluetooth headset comes to us by way of Jaybird, which specializes in all things Bluetooth. It’s called the Sportsband. Presumably it’s for sports enthusiasts.

Happy New year 2010!

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Happy New year 2010! [ pic ]

PSA: Watch for the blue moon this New Year’s Eve

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This isn’t part of our usual beat, but I thought I’d share it with you anyway. This New Year’s Eve has a very special event associated with it, a blue moon.

Get Swype For the Droid

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Section: Communications, Cellphones, Mobile Windows Mobile owners have been the envy of other smartphone owners for one reason. Swype. The new technology for faster “typing” has been exclusively available on the Samsung Omnia 2 and has had me itching to get my hands on it.

OWEN E1 adds a little fun to E-Readers

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If you take a look at the current E-Book reader offerings I’m sure you will notice that almost all of them are some shade of unexciting and generally uninteresting white.

Google Nexus One already rooted with Superboot

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Googles revolutionary new phone the Nexus One has yet to be released and yet has already been hacked by a user over at the Android @ MoDaCo forums.

Get Every Issue of National Geographic on a 160GB Hard Drive

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If you're like me, you either own or know someone who owns a couple dozen old issues of the National Geographic magazine stashed away in a box somewhere in the attic or the back corner of a closet somewhere.

Stanley LED Torch Watch is the ugliest watch ever

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I have seen some ugly watches in my day and I have owned a few. In my defense, most of the really ugly watches I have owned where when I was young. I once got a massive calculator watch out of a gumball machine when I was eight. I wore it for months before I broke it.

Liquid Image announces model 312 wide angle videomask

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I’m not a scuba diver but I have been snorkeling and can appreciate the appeal of diving in clear water of the Caribbean and other places around the world. Those of you who are divers probably have wished you could share some of what you see with those of us who don’t dive.

Mac 101: Stop the iPhone from opening iPhoto

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Filed under: iLife, iPhone, Mac 101, Snow LeopardMore Mac 101, tips and tricks for novice Mac users. I love iPhoto. I use it for most of my photo editing. The thing I don't like about iPhoto is how it opens each and every time I connect my iPhone to my Mac.

ASUS to shutter Eee Stick, LCD divisions?

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ASUS is considering closing the groups that produce its Eee Stick Wii-like controller as well as its desktop and TV LCDs, a rumor insists today.

Tube amplifier-shaped USB speaker

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Tube or valve amplifiers are electronic amplifiers that make use of vacuum tubes to boost the power of a signal. They’ve been around for decades, and some audio freaks still love the sound they help to produce. And they look kind of pretty, too.

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