Complete Tyrannosaurus skeleton to be auctioned

A nearly complete skeleton of a towering Tyrannosaurus bataar will be auctioned off on Sunday, May 20. The skeleton measures some 8 feet tall and 24 feet long.




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Video games about Jesus, the devil released on same day

Software maker Blizzard Entertainment released its hotly anticipated role playing game Diablo III “from the Burning Hells” on Tuesday. At the same time, Lightside Games announced the release of “Journey of Jesus: The Calling” — the first video game based on the life of Jesus.




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Gartner: mobile phone sales fell two percent last quarter, Samsung confirmed as numero uno

Gartner: mobile phone sales fell two percent last quarter, Samsung confirmed as numero uno

Gartner’s latest dispatch reveals a wobbly global trade in mobile phones. Although our love of smartphones continued to blossom, with sales of that subcategory up nearly 45 percent, it wasn’t enough to stave off a two percent overall decline compared to the same quarter in 2011. A total of 419.1 million handsets were sold, representing the first hiccup after nearly three years of growth and leading analysts to point fingers at a slow down in the Asia / Pacific region as well as a lack of product launches at the start of the year. Meanwhile, these figures also confirm what was already gleaned from IDC’s shipments data: Samsung has knocked Nokia off its 14-year-old perch to become the padrone of the mobile phone market, with a cut of over 20 percent. It also replaced Apple as the number one smartphone vendor, claiming ownership of almost half of that segment. Damn, it feels good to be a pebble.

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iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup

Digital scuttlebutt about the next iPhone.

Like any good tech blog, Hello World likes to indulge itself in a bit of rumor mongering now and then. The past few weeks have led to a flurry of speculation about the next-gen iPhone, and who am I to ignore it?







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Big Media and Big Telcos Getting Nasty In Landmark Australian Law Case



Fluffeh writes “In Australia, we have the right to record TV and play it back at a later date; we also have the right to transcode from one format to another, so anyone with a media server can legally back up their entire DVD collection and watch it without all those annoying warnings and unskippable content — as long as we don’t break encryption (please stop laughing!). Optus, Australia’s second largest Telco, has been raising ire though with the new TV Now service they are offering and Big Media is having a hissy fit. The service does the recording on behalf of the customer. Seems like a no-brainer right? Let the customer do what they are allowed to legally do at home, but charge them for it. Everybody wins! Not according to Sports Broadcasters, who made this statement when Optus said they would appeal their recent loss in an Australian Court to the highest court in the land: ‘They are a disgusting organization who is acting reprehensibly again and now putting more uncertainty into sports and broadcast rights going forward I’m really disappointed and disgusted in the comments of their CEO overnight.’ Is this yet another case of Big Media clutching at an outdated business model, or should consumers be content with just doing their own work?”

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Voyager postpones mobile service launch, citing Web attack

Voyager Mobile, a startup promising cheap, unlimited mobile service around the U.S., has postponed the launch it planned for Tuesday, saying a malicious attack took down its website.
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QuickPoll: Is Facebook’s IPO overhyped?

Facebook has raised the price range of its stock shares just days before the company’s highly anticipated initial public offering. Is Facebook’s IPO overhyped?
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Avira antivirus upgrade wreaks ‘catastrophic’ havoc on Windows PCs

German security firm Avira yesterday issued a service pack for its antivirus software that crippled an unknown number of Windows machines, with one customer calling the gaffe “catastrophic” to his company.
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Red Hat preps Enterprise Linux 7 for late 2013

The next major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux , version 7, is targeted for release in the second half of 2013, Red Hat said on Tuesday, as it also celebrated the tenth anniversary of its enterprise OS.
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Panasonic gifts NTT DoCoMo with Eluga V, Eluga Power smartphones and Eluga Live tablet

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Among the slew of new Android 4.0 devices unveiled by Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo today were a trio from Panasonic, including the Eluga Power phone we’d seen before and a few new entries in the Eluga V phone and Eluga Live tablet. We’ve already gotten our mitts all over the Eluga Power’s 5-inch screen and 1.5Ghz dual-core S4 CPU at MWC, so this time we’ll take a close look into the other two Ice Cream Sandwiched models. The P-06D Eluga V is a 4.6-inch variant (sliding between the Power and original P-04D Eluga) while still packing a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU. The P-08D Eluga Live tablet measures at 10.1-inches, packs DLNA streaming features and slots stereo speakers into a smooth curved edge design. The Eluga V is scheduled to arrive July 6th, while the other two should hit Japanese shelves in January, hit the source link and brink your kanji skills (or translation software) for more information.

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BBC will stream every single minute of the Olympics

One undeniable trend about the Olympics over the last eight years is that its presence in online and mobile platforms has absolutely exploded. In 2004, NBC launched a mobile website dedicated to people wanting to check out the latest medal counts and breaking news on their phone, but it was little more than truncated text

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A Smartphone that Can Sniff out Sickness?

We’ve seen medical uses of the iPhone, and we’ve seen electronic noses (and tongues). Now, how about combining the two?







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Sony promises big PSP, mini onslaught for PlayStation Vita

One of the things that die-hard PlayStation fans have been disappointed about when it comes to the PlayStation Vita is the lack of downloadable PSP games that have not been made available for the Vita. One of the selling points of the new system was that people who downloaded PSP games for their previous game

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Zeus variant tricks Facebook users into exposing card data

A new variant of the Zeus trojan tricks users into exposing their debit card details by displaying rogue offers when they visit Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail, according to researchers from security firm Trusteer.
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DDR4 May Replace Mobile Memory For Less



Lucas123 writes “The upcoming shift from Double Data Rate 3 (DDR3) RAM to its successor, DDR4, will herald a significant boost in both memory performance and capacity for data center hardware and consumer products alike. Because of the greater density, 2X performance and lower cost, the upcoming specification and products will for the first time mean DDR may be used in mobile devices instead of LPDDR. Today, mobile devices use low-power DDR (LPDDR) memory, the current iteration of which uses 1.2v of power. While the next generation of mobile memory, LPDDR3, will further reduce that power consumption (probably by 35% to 40%), it will also likely cost 40% more than DDR4 memory.”

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Paralyzed Man Regains Hand Function After Breakthrough Nerve Rewiring Procedure



An anonymous reader writes “A 71-year-old man who became paralyzed from the waist down and lost all use of both hands in a 2008 car accident has regained motor function in his fingers after doctors rewired his nerves to bypass the damaged ones in a pioneering surgical procedure, according to a case study published on Tuesday.”

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Virtual World Takes on Childhood Obesity

A startup blends activity tracking with online incentives in hopes of getting kids into shape.

Malica Astin, 11, never paid much attention to how much physical activity she got. But one day she played basketball while wearing a small activity tracker called a Zamzee on her waist. Later, she plugged it into a computer’s USB port and uploaded the data captured by the device’s accelerometers. Unlike a FitBit, a popular pedometer geared to adults, Malica’s Zamzee didn’t tell her how many steps she took or calories she burned. Instead, it gave her points for the movements she made.







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Windows RT devices will see limited release initially

The first wave of Windows RT products will be little more than a ripple.
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Google Docs facilitates finding facts and doing research

A new feature in Google’s word processing program let’s users access the Web giant’s search function and “with just a couple clicks you can look up maps, quotes, images, and much more.”
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Startup’s $10 raffle promises to send winner to space

A startup called I Dream of Space sells $ 10 posters that come with a chance at winning a much more expensive ride on a suborbital spaceship.




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Nintendo Mario Kart 7 shorcut glitch finally patched

Nintendo confirmed today that it is releasing a mandatory update for 3DS owners that will prevent players from using the game-crippling shortcuts that players have been exploiting in online matches of the game Mario Kart 7. Three shortcuts have been identified and Nintendo modified the software in such a way that anyone trying to use

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Isis partners with Austin and Salt Lake City merchants, throws John Stockton elbow at Google Wallet

Isis partners with Austin and Salt Lake City merchants, throws John Stockton elbow at Google Wallet

Mobile payment system Isis continues to rack up passengers on its merry bandwagon, gaining support from local merchants in two cities for its NFC wallet service. The carrier-based program announced that hundreds of merchant locations in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah are entering the Isis fold — joining national entities such as Coca-Cola and Macy’s in its initial list of partners. The selection of participating local businesses runs the gamut from cafes and restaurants to a country club and the Utah Jazz. The platform has already corralled support from handset makers, point-of-sale terminal purveyors and credit card companies such as American Express. Expect some Mortal Kombat action for your mobile purse strings between Google Wallet and Isis once the latter launches this summer. In the meantime, check out the obligatory PR after the break.

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EU to 'remain vigilant' on Microsoft's browser commitments

Regulators in Europe said Tuesday they will watch closely to make sure Microsoft complies with its commitments to ensure competition in the browser market, after Mozilla complained its Firefox browser is being excluded from Windows RT.
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Sunstorms’ costly threat to US grid stirs debate

With a peak in the cycle of solar flares approaching, US electricity regulators are weighing their options for protecting the nation’s grid from the sun’s eruptions — including new equipment standards and retrofits — while keeping a lid on the cost.




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Russia presents highest resolution image of Earth

A Russian satellite has captured what is thought to be the highest resolution picture of our planet ever taken from space.




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Sony applies for wireless power patent, wants to daisy-chain your energy

Sony wireless power patent

As much as we’re familiar with wireless power, we know developing a truly contact-free form of charging has a whole raft of extra challenges, such as getting into the sweet spot for power delivery and the potential traffic jam caused by throwing another device into the mix. Sony thinks it has these problems licked through a newly-published patent application. Its method uses location-finding to steer users until they’re close enough for the wireless power source to reliably do its job. In some cases, it can use one mobile device to relay power to another, keeping everything fed even if the main power hub is tied up. Multiple power sources next to each other can go so far as to decide which of them should be the one to send power. The patent isn’t a certain sign that your VAIO or Xperia is about to cut the cord altogether — Sony first submitted this vision of the future in 2009. Even so, it gives us hope that our gadgets will one day start charging themselves instead of making us hunt down a wire or charging plate.

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ASUS PadFone gets benchmarked: a mere teaser of what’s to come

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It was only last week that we learned of the varied battery life of ASUS’ phone that would be a tablet that would be a laptop. Now, a further trickle of its performance might has passed our way, giving us insight into the real-world chops of its dual-core S4 processor and companion Adreno 225 GPU. The tests, carried out by the fine folks over at Netbooknews, highlight the device’s strengths across a swath of the usual benchmarks, putting it just below AT&T’s One X variant in Quadrant with a score of 5,057 and Sunspider at 1,917ms. The company’s hybrid did, however, manage to eke out a victory against its similarly CPU-equipped smartphone rival in Vellamo, as well as NenaMark 1 and 2, coming in at 2,554 and 60.4fps / 60.5fps, respectively. We’ll have our own comprehensive review of the PadFone ready for your eyes in the days to come, but for now, sate your appetites with these various nuggets.

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Canadian Internet Surveillance Dies a Quiet, Lonely Death



Dr Caleb writes “According to the Globe and Mail, ‘The Internet surveillance legislation sponsored by Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has disappeared down a dark legislative hole. For all intents and purposes, the bill is dead. If the Harper government still wants to pass a law that would make it easier for police to track people who use the web to commit crimes, it will have to start from scratch.’ The bill has been sent to a public safety committee for extensive revision, but it must be debated for five hours on the House floor first, and that won’t happen before summer recess. This is a followup to the story we discussed in February titled ‘Against Online Surveillance? You Must Be “For” Child Porn.’”

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Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan



Grond writes “ScienceDaily reports, ‘Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre have demonstrated that the mouse lifespan can be extended by the application in adult life of a single treatment acting directly on the animal’s genes. Mice treated at the age of one lived longer by 24% on average (PDF), and those treated at the age of two, by 13%. The therapy, furthermore, produced an appreciable improvement in the animals’ health, delaying the onset of age-related diseases — like osteoporosis and insulin resistance — and achieving improved readings on aging indicators like neuromuscular coordination.’ Notably, the therapy did not cause an increase in the incidence of cancer.”

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LightSquared's bankruptcy is a cautionary tale

After more than a year of active testing and debate over LightSquared's plan for a nationwide, wholesale 4G network, the now bankrupt company may end up as no more than a cautionary tale for mobile investors.
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Burritob0t hands-on (video)

Burritob0t hands-on

ITP, or the Interactive Telecommunications Program at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU churns out some of the most reliably interesting tech-centric artists in the world. Every so often, the school opens its doors to the public and the press and, of course, we jumped at the chance to see what the grad students were cooking up… literally. Marko Manriquez took the opportunity to showcase his thesis project, the Burritob0t, a 3D printer the spits out edible piles of beans and cheese, instead of non-toxic (but, highly inedible) plastic. The base is built largely around a standard RepRap machine, with the Frostruder attachment from MakerBot. From there it’s pretty simple to plug in any 3D model and build your creation from highly-processed Mexican food — on a heated platform from the Thingomatic, of course.

Marko says that his creation not only seemed like a logical way to combine “edible bits and digital bytes” but also a way to address the increasingly mechanized food industry and our growing reliance on manufactured “food.” Sadly, we weren’t able to get a complete demo on the show floor. The current incarnation of the device relies on air pressure to push the ingredients through syringes, and firing up the compressor was not an option. A Kickstarter is forthcoming, however, and Marko plans to upgrade the components to ditch the bulky and loud compressor. He also hopes to actually serve food from his printer, perhaps by taking up residence in a park. But, we suspect it’ll be a while before you can get a Burritob0t burrito while you wait for your Concrete from Shake Shack. Check out the video after the break.

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Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism



TheGift73 tips an article discussing a new study (PDF) which found Americans are now more worried about cybersecurity threats than they are about terrorism. Here’s Techdirt’s acerbic take:
“Well, it looks like all the fearmongering about hackers shutting down electrical grids and making planes fall from the sky is working. No matter that there’s no evidence of any actual risk, or that the only real issue is if anyone is stupid enough to actually connect such critical infrastructure to the internet (the proper response to which is: take it off the internet), fear is spreading. Of course, this is mostly due to the work of a neat combination of ex-politicians/now lobbyists working for defense contractors who stand to make a ton of money from the panic — enabled by politicians who seem to have no shame in telling scary bedtime stories that have no basis in reality.”

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3,997 Models: Android Fragmentation As Seen By The Developers Of OpenSignalMaps

devicesOver the past six months, the folks at Staircase 3 have been keeping tabs on the devices that have been downloading their OpenSignalMaps network monitoring app, and so far they’ve recorded downloads onto 681,900 separate Android devices in 195 countries.

Now they’ve taken all that data and splayed it out for all to see, and it highlights rather nicely how big a headache fragmentation can be for developers.

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Create Your Series B Deck Immediately After Closing Your Series A

always be closingOne of the things I wish I had done in both of my companies (Excite.com and JotSpot) was to take a piece of advice that I now give most entrepreneurs I meet. That advice is: “Right after you sign your term sheet for your Series A, write the fantasy deck for your Series B (complete with whatever metrics, graphs and customer lists you would love to have).”

I say this because of the way I’ve both done fundraising and seen it done. Whether we like to admit it or not, the way it’s usually done tends to be very haphazard and bottom’s up. It starts with…
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Oracle could end up with nothing in its Java suit, judge warns

Oracle makes a last-stand effort on trying for infringer’s profits, but possibly reopens the door for accepting statutory damages.
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New Firefox For Android Beta Released



Mozilla has announced the availability of a new beta version of Firefox for Android. The release notes list many of the new features and fixes, which include Flash support, improvements to panning and zooming, plugins loading only on touch, and a new “Awesome Screen.” They point out that many Android phones are supported, and that a beta version for tablets will be coming soon. Mozilla is asking for help “testing everything from the faster startup and response times to compatibility for specific websites and graphics performance.” Here’s the download page.

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Netgear demos Broadcom-based 802.11ac Wi-Fi devices

Netgear unveils a new line of products that provide access to 802.11ac wireless for better and faster home wireless networking.
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How To Win Disrupt, Tips From Getaround

tcdisrupt_web-004-1614Winning TechCrunch Disrupt in 2011 was an unforgettable experience that will undoubtedly remain a highlight of my entrepreneurial career. After winning the prestigious Disrupt Cup and Audience Choice Award, we signed up thousands of cars, had over 150 news stories published, and closed a $ 3.4M seed round.

As we approach the one-year anniversary of our win, we’re now operating in 4 major markets with many more on the way. In case you’re wondering what it takes to WIN Disrupt, we’ll let you in on our secrets:
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It’s not rude to Burpple during meals

Free new iOS app is meant to be an Instagram of sorts, only for food. Users document their meals by uploading photos with information such as place, type, and time.
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Iranian Physics Student From UT Gets 10 Years In Jail For Spying



scibri writes “Omid Kokabee, a laser physics graduate student from the University of Texas who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Sunday for allegedly conspiring with foreign countries against Iran. Kokabee was arrested in February 2011 while on a trip home, and charged with ‘communicating with a hostile government’ (i.e. Israel) and ‘illegal earnings.’ He has consistently denied the charges, and refused to speak at his trial, where no evidence against him was presented. Several international science groups, including the American Physical Society, have spoken up in his defense, and an online petition has been set up in support.”

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Pantech P8010 meets FCC, brings AT&T LTE along to say hello

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Though it hasn’t been officially announced, AT&T’s likely has a new Pantech LTE phone in its reasonable future. The P8010 just got approved by the FCC, and its next-gen radio offers support for no less than four LTE bands: the 700 / 1700 frequencies used by AT&T, as well as 850 / 1900. What’s curious about the latter pair of bands is that they’re the same ones used by the largest GSM carrier for its HSPA+ / WCDMA needs, suggesting that AT&T’s planning ahead for possible refarming of its spectrum. Aside from this hefty nugget of info, the federal docs don’t give much else away, aside from a well-detailed diagram showing the back of the phone — complete with its microSD and micro-SIM slots — and the usual smattering of compatible GSM / EDGE and 3G radios. According to preliminary benchmark results, however, the P8010 will likely be a step up from the Burst, sporting a 1.5GHz dual-core Krait processor, qHD display and Ice Cream Sandwich. To sneak a peek at the docs yourself, head to the source.

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Ogmento Lets You Shoot Like Jordan Or Fire Like A Tank Commander Thanks To Augmented Reality

Screen Shot 2012-05-15 at 1.03.42 PMOgmento is a gaming company dedicated to the creation of high-quality augmented reality games. Although AR games aren’t that rare – the 3DS does a few quite well and there are a number available on mobile phones – Ogmento is focusing on higher-end experiences. The demo above shows how they’re able to track targets in real time and, with a few button presses, have a tank fire into a crowd of luminaries including Will Wright and Bruce Sterling.

The company currently sells an AR game called NBA: King of the Court. The tank game, above, is a prototype.
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Cox and Verizon Wireless join forces, launch service bundles in Oklahoma

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It’s a moderately good day to be an Oklahoman. Wireless subscribers living near Oklahoma City or Tulsa will be among the first to reap the benefits of a new partnership between Cox Communications and Verizon Wireless that bundles services from both companies, letting customers sign up for packages that include video, internet and voice services from Cox, and wireless service from VZW at a discounted rate. They’ll also be eligible to receive debit cards valued at $ 100-400 if they make the switch to a co-sponsored bundle. You can head over to select retail outlets from either company to sign up, or hit up the source links past the break for more info.

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GM to yank $10M in Facebook ads, saying they don’t work

The automaker began re-evaluating its Facebook strategy earlier this year. According to the WSJ, it determined that while free marketing works on the site, paid ads don’t.
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Google’s Project Glass prototypes can transfer still images, do little else

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This was probably a given, but there won’t be any freakishly detailed social profile overlay as you pass strangers on the street in the initial iteration of “Google Glasses.” Instead, current prototype functionality includes features like photo sharing (directly from the eyewear to Google+), and… well, that could be it. The in-your-face functionality that we saw in the original Google teaser could come “one day,” as the video title itself reveals, but we certainly won’t be creepin’ on random friends-to-be on sidewalks, trains and parties for some time to come. And just in case you’re curious to see what you won’t be doing with Project Glass this year, Google’s original teaser is after the break, with a popular parody vid tossed in below for good measure.

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Meet The First 5 Companies To Join Toronto Incubator Extreme Startups

extreme startupsThe Canadian startup incubator scene has taken off lately, and the one of the latest to appear was Toronto-based Extreme Startups. The accelerator, which was officially announced in January, has gone through the application selection process and has had five startups taking part in the program since mid-March.

So who are they? And what was the incubator looking for when choosing startups to participate? Extreme Startups Managing Director Andy Yang told me that the accelerator had companies from 18 different countries over five continents apply to choose from, but in the end it went with an all-Canadian group. That includes three startups that were already based in Toronto, one from Edmonton and one from Ottawa.
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Tech underdog AMD fights back

Advanced Micro Devices has high hopes for its latest computer processor update, code-named Trinity, as the company looks to spark a comeback against industry stalwart Intel.




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A123 Systems Reports More Bad News

The company is losing money fast. It hoped to raise money to stay afloat.

Based on this morning’s quarterly earnings call, the financial numbers are pointing in the wrong direction for lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems, a company founded 10 years ago based on technology developed at an MIT lab. A123 posted a net loss of $ 125 million, $ 40 million more than it lost in the previous quarter. It only brought in $ 11 million in revenue, down from $ 40 million in the previous quarter and $ 18 million a year ago. Meanwhile, its cash is dwindling, down from $ 187 million at the end of last year to $ 113 million at the end of the first quarter of this year.







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Apple rumored to use Retina display in next iMac

Apple may be gearing up to refresh its entire Mac lineup with Retina displays. The imminent MacBook Pro refresh has long been rumored to feature the new pixel-dense screen and now the next-gen iMac looks to be getting the same treatment. The new iMacs are also rumored to feature the latest Intel Ivy Bridge processors

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Google+ is a ghost town, study says

Google’s emerging social network Google+ may boast big user numbers, but a new study suggests that social activity and user engagement are anything but impressive.




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