Google Self-Driving Cars Could Be Driving Granny Around Soon

With the stroke of his pen Governor Jerry Brown just set off another California Gold Rush. California became the third State to approve self-driving cars on public roads. This is a monumental achievement for tech giant Google and it's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. The financial rewards using this technology is incalculable. I can envision driverless cars driving grandma and grandpa around, and aiding the handicapped. How about a Google taxi or limousine service? Imagine a vehicle that shows up on time - and with no drunk or exhausted driver. Gambling establishments would love to have a bus that would only have two destinations - pickup point and the casino. Google school buses could safely pickup and drop off our children, with a backup driver-monitor of course.

Sorry to bring you back to the real world, but this technology has tremendous military potential too. Driverless military vehicles could be used for combat and rescue of stranded troops or special forces. Imagine a soldier having the ability to summon a tank or food and medical supplies.

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New Popinator Plays Hoops With Your Mouth As The Basket

The ingenuity of the American inventiveness is astounding. Meet The Popinator, a new machine that launches popcorn into your mouth. It is fully automated and voice activated - which can really turn a party into a fun event. If they can just get it down to the right size to take with you to the movies.

Android Bites The Apple iPhone 10 Different Ways

Apple may have mollified the masses by adding significantly better specs to its smartphone offering, but when it comes to innovation, the iPhone 5 just can’t compete with the latest Android handsets. Sure a larger screen, 4G LTE support and a faster CPU are welcome additions to the world’s number one phone, but Apple is a year late and $199 short, because Android has provided all these features and more for some time now.

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Motorola Droid RAZR M Can Compete Against iPhone

For years, Android-running smartphones have been trending toward bulky frames to fit ever larger screens, but Motorola's new Droid RAZR M is an excellent exception with a big display in a compact size at just $99.

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Google Glass Will Make Reality TV Really Look Real

Google Glass the wearable computer in eye glass form will make reality tv real. The glasses give a unique pov (point of view) experience which regular cameras can not easily duplicate. even more strange it can give you the feeling of actually becoming  the person wearing the glasses. Watch the video clips of Google Glass in action during various scenarios.

Google+ Creeping Up On Facebook With 400 Million Users

Google has revealed that more than 400 million users now have Google+ accounts and more than 100 million people are joining the service each month. It’s just a matter of time before they begin to creep up on Facebook which has about a billion users.

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Google Snaps Up Snapseed Photo App Maker

Google has agreed to acquire Nik Software, the German developer of photography app Snapseed, for an undisclosed amount. Sources close to the deal tell The Verge that while Nik Software produces all sorts of apps for photographers like Color Efex Pro and Dfine for Mac and Windows, iOS app Snapseed was the golden egg in the acquisition. The $4.99 app won Apple's coveted iPad App Of The Year award in 2011. Read more here:

Ten Dollar Recycled Cardboard Bike Supports 485 Pounds

Izhar Gafni has designed award winning industrial machines for peeling pomegranates and sewing shoes. He’s also a bike enthusiast who’s designed a lot of carbon fiber rigs. But one day, he’d heard about someone who’d built a cardboard canoe. The idea drilled its way into his consciousness, and ultimately, led him to create a cardboard bike called the Alfa.

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Hewlett-Packard Feels Urgent Need For Own Smartphone

Hewlett-Packard reeling from losses in their pc and printer core businesses, are developing their own smartphone. Seems like a losing and desperate proposition to me. Perhaps they will do better going this route than selling pc hardware.

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Microsoft Patent Suggests Xbox 720 Has Star Trek Holodeck Projection Like System

Science fiction dreams really do come true. If you can think it - then it's thunk. The new Microsoft Xbox 720 game system reportedly will turn the entire walls of your room into a hostile game environment. Wow! This means that you may have to put the kids in the basement, and then move all the furniture out and paint their entire room white - walls, ceiling and floor for your new game room. See the illustrated patent and more specs here:

After months of anticipation, the new official app for YouTube is here. It is not on the iPhone or iPad, so you will have to make a side trip to the AppStore to get it. Apple is just being annoying to it's customers.




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Microsoft To Open Pop-Up Holiday Store In Braintree Massachusetts This Fall

Microsoft will soon open holiday stores at South Shore Plaza in Braintree and the Natick Mall this fall as it expands its brick-and-mortar presence in the USA.

The Redmond, Wash.-based computer giant is opening 30 stores for this holiday season, giving it 23 existing  stores in the U.S.

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Google Kansas City Broadband Experiment Is A Major Sucess Story

You have to commend Google for it's bold Kansas City 1 Gb/s fiber broadband plan. So far, it is a major success story. They have signed up a major portion of all the districts there with more coming aboard. Lack of super hi-speed broadband is a major problem still in this country, and is holding back tech growth. Even Microsoft complained that they could do so much, but the lack of super broadband is holding them back. Google will become an ISP and will even throw in a Nexus tablet for those who sign up for the $120 per month plan. This comes with digital tv too.

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Toys R US Debuts $150 Android Tablet For Kids

Toys R US said it will begin selling a tablet designed for kids that will feature extensive parental controls, 50 preloaded apps and games and a cheaper price than other tablets.
The $150 Tabeo is the company's first Wi-Fi enabled tablet.
It runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, the second-most recent version of Google's operating system, and it features a 7-inch, 800-by-480-pixel display.

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Stunning New LG Google TV Delivers Futuristic Vision

The future of television has just arrive people! The new LG Google TV makes it easier than ever to watch what you want, when you want. Plus, with a growing list of Google TV apps, you can shop online, read the news, visit your favorite social networking sites, play games, look up recipes and check the scores ? right on your Google TV, and in full HD 1080p.

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35 Year CIA Veteran Confirms That Roswell UFO Incident Was Real

A 35 year veteran of the CIA claims that The Roswell Incident was real - it really happened. This will surely stoke the flames of this controversial historical event. Speaking of event - my favorite show " The Event " was cancelled. The 35-year agency veteran was a covert agent involved in international terrorism, counterinsurgency, global narcotics trafficking and weapons smuggling. He also spent 10 years as the agency’s first entertainment and publication industries liaison.

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10 Most Unknown iPhone and iPad Tip Surprises

Your iPhone and iPad can perform amazing things if you know how to do them. Watch this video and be surprised.

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AntiSec claims to have stolen 12M Apple device IDs from FBI

Hacking group posts 1 million of the identifiers to the Web after allegedly lifting the data from an agent's laptop. UDIDs are the unique string of numbers that individually identifies each iOS device and formerly used by developers to track their app installations across Apple's user base. 

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Firefox Releases Aurora 16 Beta Version

Mozilla revealed latest version of Firefox, the Firefox 15, on Tuesday. While the news about Firefox 15 is still hot, Mozilla has gone ahead and released a beta version of Firefox 16 to public.
Firefox 16 has enhancements that will appeal web developers. The beta version is also known as Firefox Aurora 16. This version will follow up on JavaScript debugger found on version 15. Apart from that, the 16th version is also equipped with an all new Developer Toolbar.

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Cambodia Arrests Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg

Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who disappeared while facing a jail sentence and hefty fine in Sweden for aiding in copyright infringement, has been arrested in Cambodia, according to a report. Pirate Bay is a popular file-sharing website.

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Apple Will Pay You $345 For Your Old iPhone

If you're looking to sell your iPhone in anticipation of the iPhone 5, Apple's Reuse and Recycling Program could give you up to $345 for your device.
The program will take your old iPhone and mail you back a gift card that can be used at an Apple retail or online store. How much credit you get is determined by the model and quality of your device.

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New Motorola Android Phone Has Display Covering Entire Front Cover

A few more details trickled out today regarding the new  Android smartphone that Motorola is expected to unveil next week. Citing a person familiar with the handset,  Bloomberg reports that it will feature an edge-to-edge display and support 4G LTE networks. The source didn't spill any other details, except that the device will go on sale with Verizon Wireless later this year.


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First 4K TV With Glasses Free 3-D Resolution

A Philadelphia company is expected to announce on Monday a 3-D TV set that features resolution four times as high as that of a standard 1080P HD TV and can be viewed without special glasses.
Other glasses-free 3-D TVs already exist, but the company, Stream TV Networks, said its TV is the first to feature 4K resolution, which many regard as the next step in TV technology.

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New Windows Phone 8 The Great Microsoft Idea

Samsung's recently-announced Windows Phone 8 smartphone, is oozing with power and modernity, and that is what the Windows Phone software needs to finally become a dominant platform. This is a great Microsoft idea...

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California Bill Would Aprove Driverless Cars On Highways

SACRAMENTO -- California on Wednesday stepped on the accelerator toward a futuristic highway filled with robot cars as the Legislature sent to Gov. Jerry Brown a bill that would allow driverless vehicles to hit the road later this decade.

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10 Reasons Windows Phone 8 May Be The Microsoft Answer

Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 was announced back in June 2012 and immediately made an impression. The operating system, which will launch later this year, comes with a bunch of improvements, including a much better Start screen, near-field communication support and new mapping features that are designed to help users not only find out where they’re going, but to also locate points of interest near them.

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Sony Rolls Out 84 Inch Dream 4K LCD TV

Sony Corp. has announced that it will begin the phased launch of its latest Bravia LCD television in all global regions from the end of this year. The new Bravia boasts a 84" LCD panel with 4K (3840*2160) resolution.

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Bing Has Facebook Friends Photo Search Feature

Bing today released a "Friends' Photos" feature, allowing users logged into their Facebook account to search and browse friends' Facebook photos directly from Bing.

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Google, Apple Discuss Patent Disputes

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook and Google Inc. CEO Larry Page are holding discussions regarding patent disputes involving the two leading technology companies, said a person with knowledge of the talks. 

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Amazon Working With Nokia On Mapping

Amazon.com Inc's new Kindle Fire will have mapping services via a tie-up with Nokia Oyj, according to two people familiar with the situation, filling a gap in the tablet's capabilities while snubbing Google Inc's popular service.

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Amazon Kindle Fire: Total Number Sold Remains Mystery

Amazon on Thursday said that its Kindle Fire tablet, available for the past nine months, has sold out, accounting for 22% of U.S. tablet sales in the process. But it won’t talk number of units.

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Apple Wants To Ban Nine Samsung Devices

A jury decided that more than 25 Samsung phones and tablets contained contained technology that violated Apple patents. Now Apple wants to make sure than 9 of them won't get sold in the US.

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