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ZIIIRO Mercury Stainless Steel Watch

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ZIIIRO Mercury Watches are an impressive encore to the Ziiiro Gravity Watches with their beautiful minimalist design. ZIIIRO Mercury watches sport the same great watch watch face with a simple, yet unique, way of telling time.

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Sparkle GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru Graphics Card

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Sparkle Computer has just announced another graphics card to its line-up with the introduction of the GeForce GTX 580 Thermal Guru.

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World’s First Robot Marathon in Osaka, Japan

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The world’s first robot marathon is being held in Osaka, Japan. The contest is expected to take up to four days to complete with toy-sized robots traversing over 26 miles (42km) to complete 423 laps of an indoor track. Video of the competitive race after the jump.

World’s First Flexible Organic Microprocessor

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At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference this week, European researches unveiled the world’s first flexible microprocessor made with organic semiconductors.

New rumor backs possibility of carbon fiber in iPad 2

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The second-generation iPad may indeed use a carbon fiber body, according to Daring Fireball’s John Gruber. The information is considered “half-sure,” as it was obtained from “second-hand” sources who are themselves said to be uncertain.

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News Corp Courting MySpace Buyers

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Want to buy a slightly-used social network? Rupert Murdoch wants to know what he can do to get you to drive home in MySpace.

Almost Four Months Later, Alan Turing Papers Are Finally Saved

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Almost four months ago Mr. Gareth Halfacree fought a losing battle to raise enough money for bidding on Alan Turing’s papers in a Christie’s auction. Lo and behold, the tide has turned and Mr. Halfacree has a lot of people to thank.Mr.

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HTC Merge gets official: QWERTY Android World Phone due spring

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HTC has officially announced the HTC Merge, a phone we first heard rumors of so long ago we were beginning to think it had been cancelled.

Gingerbread for Galaxy S in March confirms Samsung

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Samsung Germany has apparently confirmed that the Galaxy S will get an Android 2.3 Gingerbread update in March 2011. The news was revealed at a Samsung blogger event in Frankfurt today, and tweeted out by Frank Feil according to SmartDroid.

Air Pollution Causes More Heart Attacks Than Cocaine

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A new study claims that air pollution is a major cause of heart attacks, even more so than cocaine. Conducted at Hasselt University in Belgium, the study looked at a variety of different triggers for heart attacks and placed air pollution as the fifth most prominent, behind things like smoking and...

MacBook Pro early 2011 benchmarks confirm huge performance leap

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We’ve already been impressed by the quad-core speed boost shown by our early 2011 MacBook Pro review unit, but it seems the performance jolt is across the board with Apple’s refreshed machines.

Apple’s cheez-tastic 1984 disco promo video

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For the viewing pleasure of those folks who were tuned into TUAW TV Live on Wednesday, February 16, we had a little disco inferno going. Tipped by a reader about a godawful Apple marketing film titled "We Are Apple: Leading The Way," it was so bad it just had to be good.

So what works with FaceTime?

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Apple comes to the rescue with a KnowledgeBase posting that will give you all the details on what systems are capable of using FaceTime.

Sony to bring translucent mirrors to all Alpha DSLRs

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Sony announced at a yearly expo in Spain that it will put translucent mirrors in its Alpha-branded DSLR cameras, Quesabesde reported on Thursday. All models will get the fixed mirror, including entry-level shooters. This should simplify the mechanism, as the mirrors will no longer move....

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Samsung may make Google TV devices without Atom chips

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Samsung may decide to shy away from Intel for its Google TV devices, a claim by an insider asserted late Thursday. The Korean company has been hinting at Google TV plans for months but may now make TVs and media hubs using its own ARM chips (likely Exynos) instead of an Atom.

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Google Improves Search: Less Low-Quality Sites, More Recipes

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On Thursday, Google announced two changes for search results: a "recipes" filter and improved search algorithms. Sounds pretty tasty, all around. It's first announcement helps your inner chef find the perfect recipe in now time.

Stephen Colbert: The New Guy Fawkes?

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Blink and you missed it. For a split second, during an interview with lawyer-turned-journalist Glenn Greenwald about hacking group anonymous, the famous Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta flashed across Stephen Colbert's face. Weird, right?

Dala Vinyl Player Expands the Vintage Landscape

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Behold a concept for Vinyl Record playing that should have been brought to the real world years ago. This is the kind of tool that destroys digital music with a single blow. It’s a giant of a device with a teeny tiny knob that pulls out to be a wireless remote.

Robonaut 2 Finally Reaches Space

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Only 3 1/2 months late, the first humanoid robot has finally made it into space, on the last flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission, STS-133, was supposed to launch, along with Robonaut 2, on Nov. 1 of last year.

MSI Afterburner V2.1.0 Overclocking Utility Now Available for Download

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Are the type that would overclock your toaster if it came with a utility that made it easy to do? If so, MSI's looking at you, along with everyone else who has an interest in no-fuss overclocking.

PS3 Hacker: The Only Way I’ll Stop Is If Sony Kills Me

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Oh dear. Sony has now sued graf_chokolo for one million euros. (Here’s the full complaint. Mind the PDF.) What’s the point? What is this going to accomplish, outside of paying for a bunch of lawyers’ holidays?

HTC Desire HD, Desire Z, Desire and Incredible S Gingerbread update in Q2

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HTC has confirmed its next batch of Android updates, with Android Honeycomb coming through the pipe for some of the most popular devices of the past few months.

Reflections on LIFT Conference 2011

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All images by Ivo Näpflin, courtesy of LIFT Conference A few weeks ago I was, together with about 1000 other people, in Geneva, Switzerland, to attend the 2011 LIFT conference.

Battlefield 3 DLC Maps Confirmed: Wake Island Returns

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Battlefield 3 doesn’t even have a release date yet, but EA has already started talking about DLC. Sigh. It’s a bit disappointing: so many of us here (well, me, Matt, and Devin) are genuinely looking forward to the game, and we’re already being teased with offers of almighty DLC.

Lion will drop support for earliest Intel Macs

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In the past two releases of Mac OS X, we've seen the baseline support for legacy machines hiked a notch higher each time; for Leopard, eliminating slower G4s from the working list, and for Snow Leopard dropping PowerPC support entirely in favor of the newer Intel models.

Building a PC, HotHardware and This Old Nerd Style

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In lieu of our regularly scheduled episode of Two and a Half Geeks this week, we decided to feature a rather lengthy video we put together with our podcast host, Iyaz, for his show This Old Nerd, detailing the steps necessary to assemble a system from start to finish.

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