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No More Beats Headphones For HTC Phones
Sex Offenders Banned From Xbox LIVE
SushiBot Makes 300 Rolls An Hour
Touchscreen Film Self-Repairs A Scratch In 10 Seconds
Amazon Is Experimenting With Front-Lit Display For Next Kindle
Porsche 911 Designer F.A. Porsche Dies at 76
‘Future’ Search Queries Positively Correlated with Higher GDP
Singapore Start Up Wants Bollywood Movies Online
Akira Bike Replica Tours Japan For A Good Cause
Kids: Robot Nannies Have Feelings
Hermit Crab Moves In To His New LEGO Home
Pirate Bay’s Ad Space Gains 5,000+ Applicants
Amazon Studios Announces New Rules for Script Submissions
Sonic Walk: Light Shoulder Speakers Apt for Physical Activities
Android App Offers Indoor Maps

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 07:44 AM PDT

Companies regularly have to cut costs in order to maximize profits, so sometimes extras have to go. In this case, HTC in an interview on Friday said that it won’t pack in Beats Audio’s earbuds or other headphones with at least some of its smartphones from here on out.
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Sex Offenders Banned From Xbox LIVE

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 07:33 AM PDT

There are plenty of reasons that you could get banned from Xbox LIVE. Some are questionable and some are for the protection of the community and it’s users. The state of New York has now implemented a law that will remove sexual predators from online gaming sites.
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SushiBot Makes 300 Rolls An Hour

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 07:12 AM PDT

How many sushi rolls do you think a chef can make per hour? Not as many as SushiBot. If you love eating sushi you’ll want to check out this talented robot from Suzumo. It was shown off at the World Food and Beverage Great Expo 2012 in Tokyo. If you are crazy about sushi, this will be a dream come true for you.
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Touchscreen Film Self-Repairs A Scratch In 10 Seconds

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 06:25 AM PDT

Our smartphones still suffer scratches, even with Gorilla Glass. You can use a screen protector, but they need replacing. Now we have a new weapon in the war against scratches, from Japanese company Toray. It’s a self-repairing film.
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Amazon Is Experimenting With Front-Lit Display For Next Kindle

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 06:04 AM PDT

When you think about it, the Kindle is a pretty amazing device. You can’t really improve it very much. Through the use of an E Ink display, battery life lasts for months, not hours. It’s a great reading device. Amazon probably shouldn’t tinker with it. Or should they?
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Porsche 911 Designer F.A. Porsche Dies at 76

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 04:39 AM PDT

We tip our hats off to Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of Posche 911 and son of Porsche founder, who passed away April 5, 2012, at the age of 76.

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‘Future’ Search Queries Positively Correlated with Higher GDP

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 04:15 AM PDT

A new study from Nature’s Scientific Reports journal reveals that people from wealthier countries are more interested about the future, as reflected by Google Trends.

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Singapore Start Up Wants Bollywood Movies Online

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 03:43 AM PDT

Bollywood is the largest movie making industry in the world. And its a wonder there is no dominant website to spread all this good Indian stuff to the world. Well soon there might be.

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Akira Bike Replica Tours Japan For A Good Cause

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 02:48 AM PDT

This here is the only replica of Shotaro Kaneda’s bike from the 1998 Japanese film Akira. Though very cool right now, it is even cooler that it seems.

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Kids: Robot Nannies Have Feelings

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 02:18 AM PDT

Really, how do kids find their nannies? Does the presence of a caregiver affect their emotional and intellectual growth. Researchers from the University of Washington tried to answer these questions through the help of Robovie, the robo-nanny.

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Hermit Crab Moves In To His New LEGO Home

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 02:16 AM PDT

LEGO is a fascinating toy that can be fashioned to be almost anything—even a new home for a hermit crab.

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Pirate Bay’s Ad Space Gains 5,000+ Applicants

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 02:02 AM PDT

The Pirate Bay has been depicted as the enemy of record labels and artists since instead of buying albums, listeners can now leach it off the internet. Then why did some 5000 artists line up to give their music away on the said website?

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Amazon Studios Announces New Rules for Script Submissions

Posted: 07 Apr 2012 01:53 AM PDT

We already know that Amazon is on its way to making movies since 2010 and that they are doing it by asking submissions for scripts. Well, good news to scriptwriters, because Amazon Studios recently released a few changes in its submission rules.

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