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A museum in New York now allows visitors to digitally modify the exhibits

Yes, the British Museum's interactive mummies exhibit sounds intriguing, but what if preserved corpses aren't your thing? If you're in New York, you can instead visit the Cooper Hewitt Design...

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Vertu has released a new Android smartphone for $21,900

With Vertu finally offering an up-to-date luxury phone, we naturally had to check out the Signature Touch up close and personal. After all, it's not everyday that one gets to...

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How are Google’s internet balloons holding up after one year?

It’s been a full year since Google announced Project Loon, its plan to bring Internet service to the world with an army of high-flying balloons. In that time the project,...

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Every Gmail user’s address may have been exposed in a recent bug

A huge flaw in Google’s wildly popular Gmail service was recently discovered that may have exposed the email addresses of every single user. According to a report from Wired, security...

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Google and Twitter are teaming up to improve disaster alerts

Google's and Twitter's relationship has been a bit rocky since the former launched a social network of its own, but, for the greater good, that's changing. When a "more extreme" natural disaster...

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A Berlin artist has created his own Google Glass Wi-Fi jammer

While there are some who wholeheartedly embrace Google Glass, there are those whocompletely shun it. In fact we have heard reports of violence against those who wear Google Glass, even when that...

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WWDC attendees will be gifted a $25 App Store card by Apple

With the start of this year’s WWDC just hours away, attendees of Apple’s annual developer conference have begun registering for the event. As expected, registered participants have been given swag...

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A hacker turned FBI informant named Sabu will be sentenced on May 27th

Wired reports that Hector Xavier Monsegur, a.k.a. Sabu, the LulzSec hacker who became an FBI informant and helped take down numerous other hackers, will be sentenced on Tuesday, May 27th. The government will...

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DARPA could be turning the Oculus Rift into an advanced weapon

DARPA has finally demonstrated one of its most promising inventions: An augmented-reality HUD system that will give soldiers the same advantage of a jet fighter pilot. It displays battlefield data over...

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The Senate may have just dealt a deathblow to patent reform

Senators delivered a potential deathblow to patent reform on Wednesday as the Judiciary Committee postponed work on the tech industry’s top legislative priority. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said weeks...

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