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  • How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite run­ning a cam­paign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial bid, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s cam­paign under-spent Rom­ney’s on IT prod­ucts and ser­vices by $14.5 mil­lion, putting the… http://flpbd.it/6mV1z

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  • Pong Cases Protect Devices And Your Brain Simultaneously

    Beth Buczynski, earthtechling.com These days, every­one has a smart phone or tablet. In an attempt to keep these gad­gets orga­nized (and work­ing) we’ve adopt­ed an entire indus­try of pro­tec­tive acces­sories that express our unique sense of style and expres­sion. While they ma… http://flpbd.it/ppQjA Pong Cases Protect Devices And Your Brain Simultaneously Related articles MaKey MaKey…

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  • Obama victory and tech industry

    What Obama’s Victory Means for Tech Brian Barrett, gizmodo.com Barack Obama’s vic­to­ry last night has far-reaching fis­cal, social, and mil­i­tary impli­ca­tions, all of which are famil­iar to any­one who kept at least one eye open dur­ing any of this year’s debates. But what do four more years mean for tech… What Obama’s Victory Means for…

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  • John McAFee goes native in Belize

    The Crazy Secret Journal of John McAfee, Volume 1: The Girl Assassin Joel Johnson, gizmodo.com John McAfee, founder of the epony­mous antivirus com­pa­ny, is being sought by police in Belize for ques­tion­ing about the mur­der of Amer­i­can expa­tri­ate Gre­go­ry Faull. (First report­ed by Giz­mo­do yes­ter­day.) In Sep­tem­ber … The Crazy Secret Journal of John McAfee,…

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  • Black Friday 2012: the best deals from Target, Best Buy, Apple, Sony, and more By Laura June, theverge.com The day after Thanks­giv­ing is on its way, and you know what that means: Black Fri­day. Black Fri­day is an over­whelm­ing shop­ping day for many peo­ple, and there are many, many sales to keep orga­nized. That’s where…

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  • Misfit wearable is superior to Fitbit

    Watch Out Fitbit, This Badass New Activity Tracker Is Out to Eat Your Lunch Peter Ha, gizmodo.com You might not have ever heard of Mis­fit Wear­ables but you’ll want to pay atten­tion start­ing now that its first gad­get has made its debut. Found­ed by Aga­ma­trix founders Sonny Vu and Srid­har Iyen­gar, the Red­wood City-based com­pa­ny…

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  • Real political map of US

    This Is the Real Political Map of America—We Are Not That Divided Jesus Diaz, gizmodo.com This is the real polit­i­cal map of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca after the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion. A fas­ci­nat­ing view, much dif­fer­ent from the maps you saw that night, which showed an arti­fi­cial, bina­ry divide. But these maps… This Is the…

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  • Best LTE providers for iPad

    4G iPad Mini: Which Carrier Has the Best Deal? Brad Chacos – Laptop Mag, gizmodo.com The iPad mini’s pint-sized frame was made with porta­bil­i­ty in mind, and the arrival of a 4G LTE-equipped model at three of the nation’s top cel­lu­lar providers this morn­ing makes it eas­i­er than ever to keep your tablet con­nect­ed while…

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  • iPad mini review

    Review: The skinny on the iPad mini—it’s not the size that counts Jacqui Cheng, arstechnica.com For­mer Apple CEO Steve Jobs famous­ly trashed 7” tablets as being “dead in the water” in 2010. Two years later, under the reign of new CEO Tim Cook, Apple has released its own minia­ture tablet—one that has a diag­o­nal screen…

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  • Built to win: Deep inside Obama

    Built to win: Deep inside Obama’s campaign tech Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com The reelec­tion of Barack Obama was won by peo­ple, not by soft­ware. But in a con­test as close as last week’s elec­tion, soft­ware may have given the Obama for Amer­i­ca orga­ni­za­tion’s peo­ple a tiny edge—mak­ing them by some mea­sures more… RT @NathanMattise: This is…

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  • Romney’s orca system caused campaign meltdown

    Which consultants built Romney’s “Project Orca?” None of them Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com In the wake of Mitt Rom­ney’s Elec­tion Day defeat, frus­tra­tion with the Rom­ney cam­paign’s get-out-the-vote effort led to reports of an IT melt­down. Project Orca, the sys­tem the Rom­ney cam­paign used to con­nect to an army of vol­un­teer… RT @arstechnica: Which consultants built…

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  • Obama tech crippled Romney campaign

    How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite run­ning a cam­paign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Gov­er­nor Mitt Rom­ney’s pres­i­den­tial bid, Pres­i­dent Barack Obama’s cam­paign under-spent Rom­ney’s on IT prod­ucts and ser­vices by $14.5 mil­lion, putting the… Related articles Obama’s Budget Would Cap Romney-Sized…

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  • Harvard bio library stores 70 billion books on DNA

    Harvard Stores 70 Billion Books in Record Breaking DNA Bio-Library the Size of a Thumbnail | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building GreatEmerald says:, inhabitat.com DNA photo from Shut­ter­stock A team from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty’s Wyss Insti­tute for Bio­log­i­cal­ly Inspired Engi­neer­ing has dis­cov­ered a way to store 70 bil­lion books in a space…

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  • Obama wins election of the nerds

    Obama wins the nerdiest election ever By Spencer Ackerman, wired.co.uk Politics Con­grat­u­la­tions, Barack Obama: you have pre­vailed in the nerdi­est elec­tion in the his­to­ry of the Amer­i­can Repub­lic. If 2008 was about hope and change, 2012 was about data and memes. The unem­ploy­ment rate. The effec­tive … http://flpbd.it/i8Wy9 Related articles Despite “Jedi” flap, Obama still…

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  • Lornalab, sanctuary for electronic artists

    LornaLab offers a home for electronic artists in Reykjavik By Duncan Geere, wired.co.uk Technology An open-door medi­al­ab in Reyk­javik called Lor­nal­ab is widen­ing the oppor­tu­ni­ties for local indus­tri­al design­ers, art the­o­rists, com­put­er sci­en­tists, AI researchers, music the­o­rists and new media artists. Rather t… http://flpbd.it/pHllo Related articles Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary and National Park (georgetgeorge.wordpress.com)

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  • Morphie outride action cam for iPhone

    Gift Guide: Mophie Outride Action Camera Case For iPhone 4/4S Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com Short Version Mophie is best known for dou­bling your iPhone’s bat­tery life with the Mophie juice pack, but the com­pa­ny actu­al­ly offers a wide range of iPhone acces­sories includ­ing the Out­ride Wide-Angle Lens iPhone case and mount… http://flpbd.it/sK5Wz Related articles Mophie Outride…

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  • We can now predict your behavior using online data

    The Rising Science Of Social Influence — How Predictable Is Your Online Behaviour? Ferenc Huszár, techcrunch.com Techcrunch recent­ly ran a piece by Michael Wu of Lithi­um. The fol­low­ing is a response writ­ten by Fer­enc Huszar, who, prior to join­ing Peer Index PeerIndex as lead data sci­en­tist, was was a PhD stu­dent at the Machine Learn­ing…

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  • Giftly Looks to Disrupt Traditional Gift Cards

    Giftly Looks to Disrupt Traditional Gift Card Market Elise Craig, xconomy.com Elise Craig When CEO Tim Bent­ley found­ed Gift­ly, a site that allows users to give gift cer­tifi­cates through recip­i­ents’ cred­it cards, he real­ized busi­ness would be heav­i­ly sea­son­al. The three big hol­i­days for gift cards ar… http://flpbd.it/Ec3yc Related articles Hackers Team Up To Steal…

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  • Dropcam Updates Their iPad App So You Can Watch Your World In Split-Screen John Biggs, techcrunch.com I’ve used a few wire­less, always-on web­cams in my day and I’ve found Drop­cam to be the best. Sud­den­ly, how­ev­er, Drop­cam just got bet­ter. Drop­cam cam­eras con­nect wire­less­ly to the Inter­net, allow­ing you to con­nect to them remote­… http://flpbd.it/7X6l4

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  • Dropcam Updates Their iPad App So You Can Watch Your World In Split-Screen John Biggs, techcrunch.com I’ve used a few wire­less, always-on web­cams in my day and I’ve found Drop­cam to be the best. Sud­den­ly, how­ev­er, Drop­cam just got bet­ter. Drop­cam cam­eras con­nect wire­less­ly to the Inter­net, allow­ing you to con­nect to them remote­… http://flpbd.it/KUIEU

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  • 2U One-Ups MOOCs, Coursera, Now Offers Online Undergrad Courses From Top Schools For Credit Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Four years after it launch­ing its first grad­u­ate pro­gram with USC, 2U today has announced its foray into under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion through a new pro­gram called Semes­ter Online. The com­pa­ny will be pow­er­ing a vir­tu­al class­room… http://flpbd.it/NIJCB

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  • 2U One-Ups MOOCs, Coursera, Now Offers Online Undergrad Courses From Top Schools For Credit Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Four years after it launch­ing its first grad­u­ate pro­gram with USC, 2U today has announced its foray into under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion through a new pro­gram called Semes­ter Online. The com­pa­ny will be pow­er­ing a vir­tu­al class­room… http://flpbd.it/EjoZd

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  • 2U One-Ups MOOCs, Coursera, Now Offers Online Undergrad Courses From Top Schools For Credit Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Four years after it launch­ing its first grad­u­ate pro­gram with USC, 2U today has announced its foray into under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion through a new pro­gram called Semes­ter Online. The com­pa­ny will be pow­er­ing a vir­tu­al class­room… http://flpbd.it/EjoZd

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  • Yapp events app builder

    Let The App Creation Era Begin: Yapp Events App Builder Launches Out Of Beta Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com Remem­ber the time when web sites were reserved for busi­ness­es, or niche design­ers? Before the days of Tum­blr and Word­Press and even MySpace (where I learned my first bit of basic code). Now any­one can eas­i­ly build a…

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  • Wallet tracker tracks your most precious stuff

    Hands-On With The WalletTrackR, The Gadget That Keeps Tabs On Your Most Valuable Stuff For You Colleen Taylor, techcrunch.com When you’ve got a lot of things going on, it’s easy to lose track of where you left your mobile phone, key­chain, wal­let, or hand­bag — and the time you spend try­ing to find them just…

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  • Dropcam adds split screen

    Dropcam Updates Their iPad App So You Can Watch Your World In Split-Screen John Biggs, techcrunch.com I’ve used a few wire­less, always-on web­cams in my day and I’ve found Drop­cam to be the best. Sud­den­ly, how­ev­er, Drop­cam just got bet­ter. Drop­cam cam­eras con­nect wire­less­ly to the Inter­net, allow­ing you to con­nect to them remote­… http://flpbd.it/hgblr…

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  • 2U now offers online MOOC courses from top schools for credit

    2U One-Ups MOOCs, Coursera, Now Offers Online Undergrad Courses From Top Schools For Credit Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Four years after it launch­ing its first grad­u­ate pro­gram with USC, 2U today has announced its foray into under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion through a new pro­gram called Semes­ter Online. The com­pa­ny will be pow­er­ing a vir­tu­al class­room… Related articles Exploring…

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