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There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
Ink and toner blog iamb (such a thing exists!) tasked Faith Pearson ... Read more »
We recently got a chance to sit down with designers Chris Campbell and Brian Thompson to take a look at 'Drawn: Dark Flight', their forthcoming sequel to Big Fish Games' adventure-puzzle game 'Drawn: The Painted Tower'.
For those unfamiliar with the series, the game's lineage can be traced back ... Read more »
Despite the good intentions of pilot programs that use text messages to remind people to take their meds, it seems that ladies on birth control can't even be persuaded by technology to swallow The Pill. According to a study published this month in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 82 women enrolled in a ... Read more »
A previously classified incident from 2008, in which a foreign agent placed an infected thumb drive on a U.S. military laptop in the Middle East and penetrated both classified and unclassified networks, has just been confirmed by Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III as "the most ... Read more »
Want to watch a robot fold a pair of socks? Don't worry. The UC Berkeley researchers behind the PR2 bot's laundry experiment have sped up the video 15 times, so it only takes a minute. The droid looks like it's teaching a combination home economics and sex-ed class, and it won the 'Sockification' ... Read more »
After months of testing, the dramatically redesigned Digg has finally been opened to the public. Upon visiting the site, things immediately look different, but, hopefully, are sufficiently familiar to keep the social news site's user base from abandoning it. The once-king of viral news has ... Read more »
In September of last year, Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco voiced his displeasure with the NFL's decision to prohibit the use of social media like Twitter immediately before, during and after games. Apparently, Ochocinco has decided that he isn't going to let pesky little rules get ... Read more »
Vincent Hunter clearly has a bit of a paranoid streak. The Dallas man was preparing to visit relatives in Hartford, Connecticut, but, first, he needed to set up his home security system and streaming iPhone app so that he could monitor his residence from over a thousand miles away. While we think ... Read more »
Let's imagine that you're sitting in a place where you have a Wi-Fi connection or some other kind of Internet access, but no phone or cell service. (We immediately think of the New York Public Library.) But wait! In this imaginary place, it's perfectly acceptable to talk on the phone, so libraries ... Read more »
Following the shooting of two teenagers in Puerto Asís, Colombia, an anonymous "hit list" was posted to Facebook detailing the names of 69 young Colombian men, including those murdered just two days prior. Sixteen-year-old Diego Ferney Jaramillo and 17-year-old Eibart Alejandro Ruiz ... Read more »
For a long time now, the Internet has been the best place for gamers to get their 2-D platforming fix. The latest suck on our time is a game called 'Liferaft: Zero,' a game that gives you control of an infinite army of small, blond female clones, which you must guide through a lab filled with ... Read more »
Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines....
Apple and Fox's News Corp. are reportedly engaged in "advanced talks" about implementing a $0.99 iTunes TV show rental program, with CBS and Disney purportedly interested, as well. [From: Engadget]
After a year of development, ... Read more »
If you haven't yet familiarized yourself with Pandora, do so now. Just yesterday, Pandora expanded its recommendation system for the first time in years by allowing users to listen to ready-made, genre-specific stations. While these rather broadly defined stations should pretty well serve the more ... Read more »
Like many of those who live and die by the Internet, Switched staffers are often entertained by the feline antics flooding the Web. This story, it should be said, is particularly heinous, and not at all in line with 'cats in boxes' or whatever else might be our YouTube search du jour. As Coventry, ... Read more »
While hybrids like the Prius may be good for the environment, they have a serious design flaw. In electric-only mode, they're almost completely silent, which, if the world were loaded with battery-powered vehicles, would make being a pedestrian a little on the dangerous side. Some safety advocates ... Read more »
If you're a mega-dork like this Switched editor, whether a research junkie or just a pompous pedant, from time to time you absolutely love to load up on academic journals (including the Journal of Food Science, October and, obviously, The Lancet). Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that ... Read more »
For the last-ever Space Shuttle mission, NASA has decided to let civilians vote on the astronauts' "wake up songs." Voters can choose from a list of past tunes (which includes ironic hits like "Free Fallin'" and "Rocket Man"), or upload a composition of their own. To our NASA friends: we have your ... Read more »
Search engines typically dispatch "robots," or "spiders," to systematically crawl the Web for timely, pertinent and specific information. Programmers control the actions of those crawlers with robots.txt files, which command the spider to patrol certain websites and to index specific material. ... Read more »
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Watching Twitter tonight has taught me one thing, Phillies fans are a bunch of whiny dicks. But it's ok, every tank needs a bottom feeder.
And I thought I wanted to hug Johan last week. I think I'm officially in love.
Listening to Ra, glance at the notes and there's @AliveRecords. Nice cover, Mr. Boissel! @TheGloryFires #magiccityjams http://t.co/uT0M77VJ
