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Microsoft Research uses Kinect to translate between spoken and sign languages

Posted by hackhackhack on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @03:59PM
from the thenextweb.com dept.

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/10/30/microsoft-research-uses-kinect-translate-spoken-sign-languages-real-time/

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Branch based workflows simplified | Bitbucket Blog

Posted by hackhackhack on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @01:56PM
from the blog.bitbucket.org dept.

http://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/10/30/branch-based-workflows-simplified/

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Barnes & Noble's Nook GlowLight is lighter, brighter, whiter for $119

Posted by hackhackhack on Wednesday October 30, 2013 @12:05AM
from the engadget.com dept.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/30/nook-glowlight/

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IPad Air Review: Apple Makes Big Tablets Beautiful All Over Again

Posted by hackhackhack on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @11:40PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/29/ipad-air-review/

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Google+ starts offering custom URLs to almost all accounts

Posted by hackhackhack on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @05:32PM
from the thenextweb.com dept.

http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/10/29/google-starts-offering-custom-urls-accounts-30-days-old-10-followers-profile-photo/

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BlackBerry says BBM for Android and iOS passed 20m users in the last week

Posted by hackhackhack on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @02:09PM
from the thenextweb.com dept.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/29/blackberry-says-bbm-android-ios-gained-20m-users-last-week-pushing-bbms-total-userbase-past-80m/

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The Endangered Double Irish Could Make Apple, Google, And Twitter Pay More Taxes

Posted by hackhackhack on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @12:31AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/the-double-irish-could-be-endangered-preventing-companies-like-google-and-twitter-from-shedding-tax-liabilities/

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Attachments.me shutting down its Gmail file sharing service on November 11

Posted by hackhackhack on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @12:30AM
from the thenextweb.com dept.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/29/gmail-search-tool-attachments-shutting-service-november-11/

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Apple Says Future Versions Of OS X Will Be Free, Notes $900M Increase In Costs

Posted by hackhackhack on Monday October 28, 2013 @05:31PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/apple-says-future-versions-of-os-x-will-be-free-notes-900m-increase-in-costs-from-free-software/

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Mozilla Location Service: Geolocation lookups from public cell tower, WiFi data

Posted by hackhackhack on Monday October 28, 2013 @01:06PM
from the thenextweb.com dept.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/28/mozillas-location-service-pilot-project-provides-geolocation-lookups-based-public-cell-tower-wifi-data/

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A Michael Arrington Fan Takes The Stage At Disrupt Europe

Posted by hackhackhack on Monday October 28, 2013 @11:15AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/arrington-fan-at-disrupt-europe/

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Vkontakte: “Big Brother”-Like Surveillance Can Be Conquered By Technology

Posted by hackhackhack on Monday October 28, 2013 @10:59AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/28/vkontaktes-pavel-durov/

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Obama Unaware as U.S. Spied on World Leaders: Officials

Posted by hackhackhack on Sunday October 27, 2013 @08:35PM
from the online.wsj.com dept.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304470504579162110180138036

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Hackathon Team Builds ‘Open Radioactivity Warning System’ For Crowdsourced Data

Posted by hackhackhack on Saturday October 26, 2013 @02:38PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/26/open-radioactivity-warning-system/

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H2O-Pal Helps You Get Your Two Gallons Of Water A Day

Posted by hackhackhack on Saturday October 26, 2013 @11:58AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/26/h2o-pal-helps-you-get-your-two-gallons-of-water-a-day/

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The Other IPO Roadshow: Design Your Product To Attract Fortune 500 Enterprises

Posted by hackhackhack on Saturday October 26, 2013 @02:44AM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/25/5-steps-for-enterprise-startups-to-win-f500-reference-customers/

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A Way To Save BlackBerry

Posted by hackhackhack on Friday October 25, 2013 @05:09PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/25/a-way-to-save-blackberry/

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Twitter’s IPO Roadshow Video Unites Dorsey, Stone And Williams

Posted by hackhackhack on Friday October 25, 2013 @12:40PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/25/twitters-ipo-roadshow-video-unites-dorsey-stone-and-williams-emphasizes-news-and-media-uses/

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BlackBerry does ‘not approve of or condone’ the fishy BBM for Android reviews

Posted by hackhackhack on Friday October 25, 2013 @10:15AM
from the thenextweb.com dept.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/25/blackberry-approve-condone-fishy-bbm-android-reviews-denies-involvement/

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Django 1.4.9 and 1.5.5 released

Posted by hackhackhack on Friday October 25, 2013 @09:18AM
from the djangoproject.com dept.

https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/oct/24/bugfix-releases/

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TechStars Seattle Demo Day Showcases Google Glass Apps And More

Posted by hackhackhack on Thursday October 24, 2013 @05:20PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/24/techstars-seattle-demo-day-showcases-google-glass-apps-and-more-from-area-startups/

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Official Node.js support

Posted by hackhackhack on Thursday October 24, 2013 @02:56PM
from the stripe.com dept.

https://stripe.com/blog/official-nodejs-support

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Chrome is Used More Than Firefox, IE, and Opera Combined

Posted by hackhackhack on Thursday October 24, 2013 @01:12PM
from the thenextweb.com dept.

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/10/24/across-desktop-mobile-chrome-used-firefox-ie-opera-combined/

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Vine Update Lets Users Edit Videos, Save Multiple Drafts

Posted by hackhackhack on Thursday October 24, 2013 @12:28PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/24/vine-update-finally-lets-users-edit-videos-save-multiple-drafts/

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Coursera passes 100 institutions, 5 million students, and 500 courses

Posted by hackhackhack on Thursday October 24, 2013 @12:48AM
from the thenextweb.com dept.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/24/coursera-partners-13-institutions-pass-100-total-sees-5-million-students-500-courses/

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Nokia's Chris Weber says there's no 'silver bullet' for Windows Phone success

Posted by hackhackhack on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @08:04PM
from the engadget.com dept.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/23/nokia-world-chris-weber-interview/

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Yahoo acquires image recognition startup LookFlow to improve discovery in Flickr

Posted by hackhackhack on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @04:49PM
from the thenextweb.com dept.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/10/23/yahoo-acquires-ai-startup-lookflow-improve-discovery-flickr-build-deep-learning-group/

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Adobe Releases Snap.svg Open Source Project to GitHub

Posted by hackhackhack on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @12:53PM
from the adobe.com dept.

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/201310/102313AdobeReleasesSnapsvg.html

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LinkedIn Hits 38% Of Unique Visits From Mobile, Up From 8% In Q1 2011

Posted by hackhackhack on Wednesday October 23, 2013 @12:50PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/23/linkedin-mobile/

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