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  Future Mars expedition gear tested in icy Austrian cave

  By Andrew Webster on May 8, 2012 04:09 pm + 2 comments

  A group of scientists recently took to an icy cave in Austria in order to test equipment that could Continue reading…

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  '______.jpg': a series of 125 ceramic JPEG icons

  By Adi Robertson on May 8, 2012 03:07 pm + 22 comments

  The ubiquitous Apple Preview JPEG icon is symbolic computer shorthand for an image, but artist Alan Continue reading…

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  Watch this 1950s short film explain the first accurate atomic clock

  By Adi Robertson on May 8, 2012 09:46 am + 24 comments

  We've had atomic clocks for so long that we take them for granted, putting them into preamps and Continue reading…

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  How Steve Jobs came to play FDR in a 1984 Apple short film

  By Ellis Hamburger on May 8, 2012 09:20 am + 13 comments

  In 1984, Steve Jobs played FDR in an Apple short film intended to follow its famous Super Bowl Continue reading…

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  DVD playback: how VLC does what Windows 8 can't

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 8, 2012 07:25 am + 88 comments

  It's safe to say that Microsoft's recent announcement regarding (the lack of) native DVD playback in Continue reading…

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  Mark Zuckerberg's CEO skills examined ahead of Facebook IPO

  By Jeff Blagdon on May 8, 2012 05:35 am + 7 comments

  With Facebook's IPO looming just a few days away, and given CEO Mark Zuckerberg's controlling Continue reading…

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  How HTML5 could beat out apps as the future of magazines

  By Sam Byford on May 7, 2012 08:48 pm + 39 comments

  The iPad was supposed to herald a new dawn of magazine publishing by providing a reading experience Continue reading…

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  Blue Origin details testing plans for its next-generation Space Vehicle

  By Adi Robertson on May 7, 2012 08:48 am

  Blue Origin, the commercial space company founded by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, is fairly secretive about Continue reading…

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  O'Reilly Media's VP for Content Strategy thinks of piracy as just another marketing expense

  By Jeff Blagdon on May 7, 2012 05:31 am + 12 comments

  For content authors, obscurity is the real problem, while piracy isn't much more than an Continue reading…

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  How the ARM architecture was born at Acorn Computers

  By Sam Byford on May 7, 2012 12:09 am + 21 comments

  ARM processors now power everything from your Android phone to the latest version of Windows on Continue reading…