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Fully Augmented Reality Glasses

 
For all you Iron Man, Minority Reporty augmented reality fans, here is a Kickstarter project for you to get behind.

meta 1 Dev Kit- the first device allowing visualization and interaction with 3D virtual objects in the real world using your hands.

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meta: The Only Fully Augmented Reality Glasses
meta 1 Dev Kit- the first device allowing visualization and interaction with 3D virtual objects in the real world using your hands.

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Find Free Wi-Fi Passwords for Local Spots on Foursquare

 
Lifehacker today mentions a couple apps for iOS and Android that use data from Foursquare to locate the password for public wifi hotspots. Could prove useful when out and about.

Find Free Wi-Fi Passwords for Local Spots on Foursquare
Free Wi-Fi is everywhere, but sometimes it isn’t always the easiest to find. If you’re at an establishment and don’t know the Wi-Fi password, you might be able to find it in the comments on Foursquare.

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Flickr Now Giving you a Terabyte

 
Looks like they held out through Google  #IO13  long enough to see what Google was going to do with photos. Boom. Here ya go, 1TB.

Haven't seen any fine print or how easy it is to use yet. Regardless, the battle continues.

Google is still my dark room for now.

Welcome to Flickr – Photo Sharing
Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos you take with a cameraphone.

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Reason 42 to Hate Adobe

Look at all that packaging for a single CD!!

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WordPress’ Mullenweg Claims 72,000 Blog Posts Imported From Tumblr in Just One Hour on Sunday

We fear change. Are you going leave Tumblr? I have one but it was basically an experiment I couldn't figure into any workflow except perhaps to simply reblog things. Seems Google+ could fill in nicely if users are looking for a place to post longer form content.

WordPress’ Mullenweg Claims 72,000 Blog Posts Imported From Tumblr in Just One Hour on Sunday
Whoa!

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ABC To Stop Streaming Recent TV Shows Via the Web For Free

 

Way down in this article on their new app, it says:
"In the future, ABC will withhold its most recent TV episodes from the free versions of Hulu and ABC.com, further limiting access to paying subscribers of cable and satellite providers only."

Wow. ABC is available over the air and yet they want you to have a service subscription to get their streaming shows? Seems to be a model that is becoming more and more common. 

ABC to Live-Stream Its Shows via App
The live stream, which will be available only to cable and satellite subscribers, is the first time that any major broadcaster has turned on such a technology.

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Deer Flies Through Bus Window – Video

 
Amazingly calm bus driver and crazy deer tries to get out the way it came in. Be careful out there.

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Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity

 
They use software to monitor for key words and look for other indicators like people without long term connections suddenly chatting.

Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity [REPORT]
Facebook and other social platforms are watching users’ chats for criminal activity and notifying police if any suspicious behavior is detected, according to a report. The scree…

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X-47B UCAS First Carrier-Based Launch From USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77)

 

The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator (UCAS-D) completed its first ever carrier-based catapult launch from USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) off the coast of Virginia on 14 May 2013. 

Now I want to see that thing land itself on a carrier.

Also, lets all read +Daniel Suarez's "Kill Decision" before we get to carried away here.

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Roku’s second gen players can get their grid menu update

 

The Roku 2 boxes, Roku LT, newer Roku HD and Streaming Stick can now update to the menu that the Roku 3 has.

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