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After failing to phone home one last time, we knew that the Mars Phoenix was through. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter gives us one last look at the little guy. More

AT&T’s latest idea is actually kind of brilliant on multiple levels: totally free Wi-Fi in Times Square . And it could be how they save their network. More

I’m convinced: nanotechnology can and will do anything. In this case, it’s creating perfectly non-reflecting views on everything from cellphone displays to eyeglasses, without requiring extra steps in the manufacturing process. And it’s the best moth-inspired idea since The Tick

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Nanotech And the Death of Reflecting Screens [Nanotech]

MEDL Technology’s ” The Panel ” is a pretty unique device—it’s a rechargeable 13-inch monitor that can work with pretty much any major device over USB…and the specs are decent, too. More

This is the gear that gets our troops excited. Microflown Technologies’ tiny sensor listens for the sounds of war by measuring particles in the air. Then it reports what weapon made the sound and where that sound originated. The sensor uses a technology, developed by Microflown, called acoustic vector sensing

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Tiny Sensor Listens For Gunshots, Identifying The Gun and Location [Military]

At its surface, a recently uncovered Apple patent application describes a Motion Based Input Selection. But a closer look reveals that Apple wants the iPhone to become your life’s omnitool.

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Apple ‘iKey’ Places a Combination Lock on Your Wallet [Patents]

In his hundred-word inquiry to Steve Jobs as to whether or not the iPad will tether to the iPhone, Jezper Söderlund started by saying, “I’ll keep it short.” Steve’s response kept it really short: “No.” Updated: Is Jobs wrong? OK, Steve’s answer hardly comes as a surprise, but I’m always tickled when there’s a report of Steve Jobs responding personally to someone’s e-mail. I imagine him sitting on the can, flicking idly on his iPhone, and finally deciding to open that massive folder of his inbox where all the e-mail from the plebs gets redirected. Oh, what’s this

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Steve Jobs Says "No," iPad Won’t Tether To iPhone [Ipad]

OK Go ‘s new music video for ” This Too Shall Pass ” is four minutes of pure Rube Goldberg insanity . And as these behind-the-scenes videos show, it was every bit as monumental an undertaking as you’d expect: What started with a two-paragraph synopsis of the band’s vision quickly ballooned into a massive-scale project requiring 20 engineers. The work was headed up by Syyn Labs (formerly Mindshare), a collective of “creative engineers” who explore the intersection of art and technology. The planning started last November, according to Wired , with actual construction not beginning until January

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How OK Go Built the Craziest Rube Goldberg Machine Yet [Music]

People have been thinking long and hard for well over a month now whether they’ll buy the Wi-Fi version which is available this month, or wait for next month’s 3G model. Which is why AT&T says they’re not making you get a 3G contract . Chief executive Randall Stephenson said at an investor conference yesterday that the iPad will mostly be a “Wi-Fi driven product

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AT&T’s CEO Explains Why There’s No Contract for the 3G iPad [Apple Ipad]

Oh, hello! A trip to the YouTube wayback machine shows that 1996′s Steve “Great Artists Steal” Jobs might have taken issue with Steve Jobs 2010, and his patent lawsuit firebombing of HTC. Irony! The comment was made during a 1996 PBS documentary called ” Triumph of the Nerds ,” and looks a smidge hypocritical in light of today’s events. As does this one: “We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.” Goodness. If that’s true, then lawyering up against innovative competitors must be the one of the best ideas you ever heard

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Steve Jobs, 1996: "Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal" [Apple]