NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lawsuit against the executives who sold MySpace parent Intermix to News Corp in 2005 will go to trial after a U.S. federal judge ruled against a motion to dismiss it.
Original post by Adam Pash
Michelle Shildkret, 360i on behalf of TIME.com writes “JV Games was all set to release ‘Beer Pong’ for the Nintendo Wii when parents and lawmakers got a whiff, forcibly renaming the game to Pong Toss and filling its pixelated cups with water instead. But the game is still rated ‘T’ for teen, and anybody who […]
phorm writes “Reuters is carrying an article about a recent MIT development which may pave the way for solar-energy to be collected for use in low-input periods. According to Reuters, the discovery of the a new catalyst for separating hydrogen+oxygen from water requires only 10% of the electricity of current methods. This would allow storage-cells […]
Adobe has updated its free online image editing and sharing service
Photoshop Express (PE) with new features such as drag-and-drop image
uploading, tagging, one-click resizing presets, improved printing
options, music tracks, refreshed web galleries and an integration with
an online photo printing service.
Original post by TechEMaster
iPhone 2.0 only: Want to save that string of flirty text messages for posterity (or evidence)? While there’s no super-easy way to get your SMS history off your iPhone, with some elbow grease it’s possible. While this method is a bit complicated and more proof of concept than anything else, let’s take a look […]
CNET blogger Gordon Haff found that purchasing electronics cables online is consistently and significantly cheaper than at brick retail stores, and speculates all the possible reasons why—like the fact that consumers are less likely to comparison shop when they’re dying to hook up the shiny new Thingamabob 5000 they just bought.
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(0d0 writes “Some researchers at Columbia University’s Computer Vision Labratory have developed software to automatically replace faces in batches of photos. Practical applications include protecting the identities of people in Google’s Street View, coupling it with a digital camera’s burst mode to create a perfect group photo, or protecting the identities of witnesses or law […]
(0d0 writes “Some researchers at Columbia University’s Computer Vision Labratory have developed software to automatically replace faces in batches of photos. Practical applications include protecting the identities of people in Google’s Street View, coupling it with a digital camera’s burst mode to create a perfect group photo, or protecting the identities of witnesses or law […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers can soon take a bite out of city crime by uploading video or photo evidence directly to the New York Police Department, in a move welcomed on Thursday by civil rights groups.
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Handy do-it-yourselfer computerguru365 turned a network-capable laser printer into a wireless printer by mounting a small Wi-Fi router inside its case. This is a really cool mod: After installing a network card, he found space inside the printer to mount a small router (running the DD-WRT router firmware, no less), wired up and mounted […]
