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21 May
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Microsoft’s New Kinect: Much More Than Mere Motion Control
Eric Limer, gizmodo.com

I hope you like motion control because it ain’t going nowhere. Microsoft just announced its new Kinect and though it’s not literally wired into the Xbox One, it’ll be coming with every One sold. But this time, Kinect is less about about gaming, an…

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20 May

Nicholas Carlson, businessinsider.com

At 9 A.M. east­ern, Yahoo host­ed a con­fer­ence call to dis­cuss its $1.1 bil­lion acqui­si­tion of Tum­blr.

Here’s what we learned:

-Tum­blr is going to run sep­a­rate­ly from Yahoo. CEO David Karp wi …

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19 May
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Pistol Cams, the Mammoth Camera, and Other Odd Vintage Cameras
Vincze Miklós, io9.com

While many of us today use our cell phones as cameras, “point and shoot” had a very different effect when your camera was shaped like a handgun. Here are some of the weirdest vintages cameras, from cameras shaped like pistols and watches to one th…

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18 May

kcollier@dailydot.com (Kevin Collier), dailydot.com

There is a strong chance that representative Mike Rogers, likely the Internet’s most-hated member of Congress, will soon head the FBI.It’s not nearly as far-fetched as you might think. The FBI’s current director, Robert Mueller, is scheduled to…

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13 May
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Live streaming comes to ABC Player app for iOS
Peter Cohen, imore.com

ABC plans to begin live-streaing content from its local stations in the New York and Philadelphia markets this week. What’s more, the company is negotiating to enable the service to work with more than 200 affiliates, according to Brian Stetler of…

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12 May
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Forget sex: how the idea behind Bang with Friends could revolutionize social interaction
By Sean Hollister, theverge.com

Apple’s Find My Friends, a mostly-unrelated con­cept.

Per­haps you’ve heard of Bang With Friends. It’s a rather con­tro­ver­sial thing. Sim­ply put, it’s a Face­book and mobile app that lets you pick which of your friends you’d like to “bang.” O…

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10 May
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Microsoft wants a Windows 8 iTunes app, of course, but Apple’s not so keen
imore.com

Not sur­pris­ing­ly, Microsoft wants Apple to cre­ate a Win­dows 8 ver­sion of iTunes. Apple already makes a ver­sion of iTunes that runs just fine on Win­dows 8, but it’s a “desk­top app” not a “Win­ …

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