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Wired Explains Proper Etiquette In The World Of Social Technology
3:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Wired’s new issue, featuring guest writer Brad Pitt promoting the newest Brad Pitt movie starring Brad Pitt, goes deep into social technology etiquette. Can you answer your phone while peeing? Is it okay to lie on Facebook? All is revealed. More »
Games
Bluetooth 3.0 Official Spec: Wi-Fi Speeds and Better Battery Life
11:15AM Matt Buchanan | Hopefully Bluetooth 3.0 lives up to its official specs in this plane of existence, ’cause they’re nice: Using the 802.11 radio protocol, average transfer rates are between 22-26Mbps and devices even get better battery life. More »
Gadgets
How Long Will Our World Last? (Yes, We Are Screwed)
12:00AM Jesus Diaz | Most people get worried about how much energy reserves we have left, but as this graphic shows, that’s the least of our problems. The real problem is the materials we use to make things. More »
Gadgets
Bluetooth 3.0 Is Wi-Fi Fast, Arrives On April 21st
9:11PM John Herrman | As useful as Bluetooth can be, it’s become a little like the serial port of the wireless world: too slow for anything heavy-duty, but too ubiquitous to get rid of. Spec 3.0 should change that. More »
Phones
That Homeless Guy Outside Starbucks? He Probably Has a Mobile Phone
8:00AM Matt Buchanan | A really surprising story in the Washington Post today: 30-45 percent of D.C. homeless people have mobile phones, and they’re unexpectedly essential to their way of life. More »
Entertainment
What’s in the Box? Is Mysterious Mishmash of Gadgets, Video Games, Apocalypse
8:00AM Jack Loftus | This POV viral campaign advertisement demo film(?!) is an amalgamation of mobile phones, VR headsets, Lost music, Half-Life references and hat tips to movies like 28 Days Later. But what, exactly, does it mean? More »
Business
IBM Wants Sun for $US7 Billion
2:44AM Jesus Diaz | Sun—once a bright star in the technology universe, who even wanted to buy Apple—is about to get swallowed by IBM for $US7 billion, say New York Times’ sources. [NYT] More »
Science
Sixth Sense Technology May Change How We Look at the World Forever
12:20PM Jesus Diaz | I can’t really fully describe Sixth Sense—a system that projects information over the real world, giving you information about it—or its potential in a line. Or at all. You have to, you must watch it: More »
Gadgets
Catholic Bishops Call for Abandonment of Technology During Lent
1:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Some Roman Catholic bishops in Italy have called for Catholics to give up technology, notably text messaging and Twitter, for Lent. Possible sacrifices they also considered include “all fun” and “things people like.” More »
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