| NYU Professors Invent Real-Life Star Trek Tractor Beam | |  | Tractor beams, devices that use energy to move objects, are no longer the stuff of Trekkie dreams. Two New York University professors developed a technique for harnessing "Bessel beams" to attract a particle towards a source, according to science...
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| College Football Coach Bans Players From Twitter | |  | Washington State football coach Mike Leach has banned his Cougars from tweeting. And not only that, he's soliciting enforcement help from fans and media. "Twitter's now banned around here, so don't expect anything on Twitter," he told the...
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| Veteran Game Journalists Unite to Launch Vox's 'Polygon' | |  | What happens when you bring game journalism talent from big sites like Joystiq, Kotaku and The Escapist together to launch something completely new? You get Polygon, a gaming website from Vox Media, the brains behind The Verge and SBNation....
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| The Philosophy Behind Windows 8, From One of Its Creators | |  | Microsoft will officially release Windows 8 to the public on Friday, and although company executives would never say so, they must be at least a little bit nervous about it. After all, the user interface (formerly known as Metro) is the most...
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| Cellphone Heart Test's Young Inventor Doesn't Own a Smartphone | | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:57 PM | |
|  | Catherine Wong is a 17-year-old student (with a perfect SAT score) and the inventor of the first cellphone-compatible electrocardiogram (ECG) test. The New Jersey Morristown High School student's cellphone ECG system could give nearly 2 billion...
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| ESPN Radio Host Loses Job After Tweeting Death Wish | | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:15 PM | |
|  | Sports talk host Scott Torgerson is gone from Columbus, Ohio, ESPN radio affiliate 97.1 The Fan two weeks after tweeting a death wish about former University of Michigan star and current college football analyst Desmond Howard. Torgerson tweeted...
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| Facebook Barely Beats Twitter, Trounces Google+ Among Teens [VIDEO] | | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 9:30 PM | |
|  | It came as little surprise that Facebook was the social network of choice in a recent survey of 7,700 teens across the U.S. But now that the study's authors have revealed its numbers, we can see just how much -- or indeed, how little -- Facebook...
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| Facebook's Final Price Tag for Instagram Falls Far Under $1 Billion | | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 9:09 PM | |
|  | Facebook is paying well under the $1 billion price tag originally agreed upon for Instagram back when it acquired the mobile photo sharing app in April. The final price tag -- $715 million -- was revealed in a quarterly investment report, filed...
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| Operators Recall Wild Night Orson Welles Broadcast 'War of the Worlds' | | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 9:06 PM | |
|  | Orson Welles (somewhat intentionally) created one of the great hoaxes in American history on Oct. 30, 1938, broadcasting a too-real seeming Martian invasion of New Jersey. While you've undoubtedly heard this story, AT&T just posted a 1988 video...
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| How Kids' Pics Are Going From Social Networks to Porn Sites | | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 8:42 PM | |
|  | Technology has made things a whole lot easier for child predators and pornography sites. It turns out they're getting much of their material straight from kids' online accounts. A new study found that 88% of sexual or suggestive images -- taken...
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| This Could Be James Bond's Next iPhone 5 Case [REVIEW] | | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 8:13 PM | |
|  | Element cases are some of the most highly engineered and unusual iPhone cases in the world, and now the company's rolled out its latest creation, the Sector 5 FE (First Edition), a lightweight aluminum case created for the iPhone 5. When you...
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| Students Build and Fly 3D-Printed Plane | | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7:53 PM | |
|  | The sky's the limit for 3D printing. Two students at the University of Virginia 3D-printed and assembled a plane. When it successfully took off, their unmanned plane became just the third 3D-printed drone to ever fly. 3D printing is a...
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| Federal Agencies to Cut Billions in IT Spending | | Wednesday, October 24, 2012 7:10 PM | |
|  | U.S. agencywide reviews of information technology spending project government savings of $2.5 billion during the next three years, Office of Management and Budget acting Director Jeffrey Zients said in a blog post Wednesday. The savings will come...
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