Amazon may bring Silk browser to PC, Mac, Android, and Windows Phone

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Amazon has registered domain names that indicate it may plan to bring its Silk browser to PC, Mac, Android, and Windows Phone platforms.

On Wednesday, while Jeff Bezos was taking the stage to unveil the Kindle Fire (our impressions here) and its new Silk browser, Amazon employees were furiously buying up about 500 different Website domain names related to the Kindle Fire and Silk. All of the purchases were defensive, but a few of them hint that Amazon may have broader plans for its Silk browser. The online retailer may bring its browser to PC, Mac, Windows Phone, Windows Shop, and Android. Registrations for “silkontablets.com” and “silkonsmartphones.com” hint at even broader support.

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Palm on Amazon's own wish list, report says

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Amazon may have Palm on its shopping list.
The retail giant is said to be in "serious negotiations" to acquire what's left of Palm from current parent Hewlett-Packard, according to VentureBeat.
Citing a "well-placed source," VentureBeat says that HP is eager to get rid of Palm, and among the current suitors, Amazon is the closest to cutting a deal. The tech news site also notes a connection between the companies as former Palm CEO Jon Rubinstein, who currently has a role at HP working with WebOS, joined Amazon's board of directors last year.

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Street photography inspiration from Stephane Paquet

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“Living in a city of 2 million people, I quickly discovered that I didn’t have to drive to the country to find interesting subjects to photograph. Street photography was, at first, convenient (considering that I didn’t have a car at the time) but it has become my favorite kind of photography. I love this art because of its immediacy. Just outside my apartment, any time of the day, any time of the year, people walk, chat and wait… people smoke, bike and beg.. people scream, yawn, and frown… making the city vibrant with life… making the city the best of places for a photographer without a car.

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IBM Tops Microsoft to Be World’s Second-Most Valuable Technology Company

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International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) passed Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to become the world’s second-most valuable technology company, a reflection of industry changes including the shift away from the personal computer.
IBM’s market value rose to $214 billion yesterday, while Microsoft’s fell to $213.2 billion. It’s the first time IBM has exceeded its software rival based on closing prices since 1996, according to Bloomberg data. IBM became the fourth-largest company by market value, based on yesterday’s closing price, and, in technology, trails only Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world’s most valuable company.

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Privacy groups and Congress want Facebook investigated for ‘super cookies’

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Groups are lobbying for another Facebook investigation regarding privacy practices.

By now, you’ve likely heard about Facebook’s alleged inadvertent cookie tracking. A hacker recently discovered soon after the new upgrades hit that some of the site’s programs remain active even once you’ve logged out of Facebook. This means regardless of whether you were logged into Facebook or not, it was able to follow what you were doing online.

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Yahoo Is Having A Big Mystery Press Conference Monday

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Yahoo's president of Americas, Ross Levinsohn, will speak at a press conference early Monday morning to announce some as-of-yet undisclosed news.
We'll be there!
Our guess is this is not a press conference to announce a Hulu purchase, a new CEO, or a Yahoo buyer.
We're guess the news will be that Yahoo is forming a coalition with AOL and Microsoft to sell all of their remnant inventory together.

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Assassin’s Creed: Revelations PC release delayed until December

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Ubisoft reveals that the PC release of Assassin's Creed: Revelations will be delayed until December 2, coming a couple of weeks after the console versions on November 15.

Once again, the PC gamers are left with the short straw. We already knew that Assassin’s Creed: Revelations would be hitting stores on November 15… but now there’s one less platform in the mix on launch day. The PC version of the Ubisoft-published game has been delayed, with the release now set for December 2.

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How to Use a Single Mouse and Keyboard Across Multiple Computers

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If you’ve got multiple computers at your desk, you probably know that it’s a pain to use more than one keyboard and mouse. Here’s how to use a single keyboard and mouse on more than one PC using a tool from Microsoft.

Most geeks will be familiar with Input Director and Synergy, which do the same thing, but now Microsoft has released an application called Mouse Without Borders, which has some great features—like dragging files from one PC to another.

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85 Amazing Showcase of Responsive Web Design

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One of the hottest topics in the web industry nowadays is the birth of responsive web design. Responsive web design is a method of designing a website that responds to user’s behavior and automatically adjusts its size to diverse mediums such as tablets, smart phones, netbooks and monitors. There are three key features to consider in developing and designing a responsive web design. First, a website must have flexible grid foundation; that is to consider the mechanics of your layout sizes and spacing. Second, images must be flexible themselves. Third, it must use media queries for enabling different views of the website in different mediums. In this post, we showcase 85 Amazing Responsive Web Design that you can use as your inspiration in designing your next project.

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire Silk browser has serious security concerns

OK, here’s the good stuff about the new Silk Web browser, which Amazon will be embedding in its new Amazon Kindle Fire tablets: From all reports it makes Web-browsing amazing fast on relatively low-end hardware. The bad news? It does it by watching all, and I mean all, of your Web activity through Amazon’s cloud-based Amazon Web Services.

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14 Epic Tech Failures - Infographic

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Some of these epic technology failures you’ll recall–like the short lived Swatch Internet Time Watches. Others, like the Gizmondo handheld console, you probably never even heard of.

Courtesy of Mashable’s infographics department, we get a glimpse at 14 of the more notable consumer technology and web site failures over the last two decades. Want a high res version of the infographic? Hit up the link below. Can’t believe they made LaserDiscs until 2000? Have a failure to add to the list? Let’s hear about it in the comments.

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20+ DESIGN COMPETITIONS FOR DESIGNERS TO ENTER

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The following are over 20 different design contests going on for designers to enter.. They have various deadlines, so be sure to take note.. Good luck!

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Rumor: Amazon Is In Talks to Buy webOS

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We already know that HP wants to sell webOS to someone else. VentureBeat is reporting that Amazon is "the closest to finalizing a deal" for webOS. Oh my god, that would make our dreams come true.

There are other unnamed contenders looking to buy webOS but VentureBeat's source seems pretty confident that Amazon currently has pole position.

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20 Adorable 3D Animal Illustrations for your inspiration

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We love sharing top notch works of creatives! This is a talented packed bundle of adorable 3D Animal illustrations by Anton Bugaev, created in 3D max. 3D and funny animals is a deadly combination and in this post, this combination shows its full powers. Although these funny illustrattions are quite enjoyable to watch, we should not forget to praise the imagination and hard work of the Anton Bugaeu. This is a rare kind of 3D digital art and it is the first time that we are posting something like this..

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The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Caught by Fishermen

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If you're fishing in the right place, the other end of your line might as well be in deep space for all we know about the bottom of the ocean. That's the sort of thought that tends to come rushing back to you once you're cranking a line in with something alive on the other end. Of course, what you drag up is usually in the realm of what you were expecting. Other times, it looks like a horror movie creation.

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Researchers hack e-voting machine, similar to 2012 Election Day machines

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A group of American computer science and security experts have performed a hack on an e-voting machine similar to ones which will be used on Election Day in 2012.

Voting machines that could be used by up to a quarter of the US electorate on Election Day next year can be hacked, says a group of computer science and security experts at the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. In fact, they’re not only saying it. They’ve done it.

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China launches its first space lab module

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BEIJING — China launched an experimental module to lay the groundwork for a future space station on Thursday, underscoring its ambitions to become a major space power over the coming decade.
The box car-sized Tiangong-1 module was shot into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert aboard a Long March 2FT1 rocket.

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The Art of using Illustrations in Web Design

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There are many of elements that go into enhancing a web design project. Typography, new technologies and UX design patterns are only some of them. One the most powerful is illustrations and vector graphics. They can be handy in a broad range of applications. Remember the cliché, a picture is worth a thousand words? In using them, we designers are able to do more while spending less.

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Microsoft looking into Xbox TV service, report says

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Microsoft is said to be planning a Web-based pay-TV service that it can build onto its Xbox Live platform.The software company is in talks with two dozen content companies, as well as Comcast and Verizon Communications, according to a Bloomberg report. The menu of programming will include music, movies, sports, and TV shows.

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Awesome And Imaginative 3D Characters For Inspiration

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Character Design similar to any other design method is best begun with sketching your ideas on paper. Constructing the character’s skeleton and then fleshing it out will open up your options as to how you want the character to be portrayed. One of the basic rules of imaginative, quirky, 3d character design is “Don’t follow norms!”. Mostly all creatures have 2 eyes, so try not to stick to routine. How about 1 eye? or no eyes at all? Let your mind run really wild during the illustration process and your final little cartoon sculpt will not only be exclusive, they will be much more fun to look at.

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How small biz uses social media - infographic

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Small businesses are becoming savvier about social media. And, increasingly, smaller-scale operations are turning to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social channels for promotions, customer acquisition, and sales leads. An impressive 75 percent of small businesses now have a presence on a social media site.
Interestingly, 27 percent of small businesses are on Facebook, while 18 percent reside on LinkedIn, and just 7 percent use Twitter. This new data comes from CrowdSpring, a Web design firm that crowdsources all of its projects and that created the splendid new infographic below.

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Netflix Is Getting Whacked Again, The Stock Is Down 10% Today

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Netflix lost another 10% in stock value today. We have no idea why it's tanking today, but this one-year chart of the stock is ugly.

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Another Dead Satellite Is Blindly Plummeting to Earth

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So apparently dead satellites blithely falling from the sky is a thing now. After last week's UARS debacle, the now-defunct German Roentgen Satellite (ROSAT) is scheduled to crash to Earth in late October or early November.

The ROSAT was originally an X-Ray observatory developed by Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom and launched in 1990. Its design life was 18 months, but it functioned fully through 1994, and was only shut down for good in 1999. And now it's coming to kill us all.

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Nokia to cut another 3,500 jobs

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Nokia said today it would cut another 3,500 jobs as the handset giant continues to seek ways to lower its operating costs to run more efficiently.
The Finnish company will close a manufacturing facility in Cluj, Romania, and reduce workers in its supply chain operations, accounting for a loss of 2,200 employees. It will also cut 1,300 workers in its commerce and location business, which was made up of its Navteq operations and Nokia's social location services.

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India's $35 tablet said to ship in October, do dreams really come true?

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This mysterious $35 tablet has broken our hearts, crushed our fantasies and even made unicorns cry with delay after delay. Today, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal assured us that the much anticipated slate will be released on October 5th -- promising that this time, "[It's] not just a dream." Evidently, the tablet has overcome the manufacturing problems that plagued the project previously and now production is proceeding according to a new plan. That means that five, seven and nine inch slates are said to be shipping to lucky Indian students in early October -- sadly, both the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot have advised us not to hold our breath.

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Best Of Web And Design In September 2011

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This is a wrap of the month of September featuring all best Photoshop and illustrator tutorials published throughout September, as well as a great collection of freebies and good web design articles to read. I hope you enjoy the roundup and would love to hear your feedback in the comments below.

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Apple’s Search Engine: Speculations of Apple’s Future Ventures

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In today’s technology age three names come to mind. Those are, Facebook, Apple, and Google. All three are powerhouse companies with an enormous amount of users in many different countries. While they are all catering to different desires, they all have one common thing in mind, dominance. Facebook the largest social network, Google the best search engine, and Apple the best technology for tablets, phones, and music players. All three are learning from each other, and whether they like to admit it or not, are in direct competition with each other. Facebook and Google have been battling to become the “the Internet” as we know it for quite some time. And under the radar, Google has come out with the Chromebook, while both Facebook and Google have launched successful application platforms to compete with Apple. So what is next for these companies?

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Microsoft Is Getting $444 Million Annually From Android Patent Licenses

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Microsoft will generate $444 million in revenue from Android patent deals for fiscal year 2012 (started in July 1, 2011, ends June 30, 2012), according to a note from Goldman Sachs's tech analyst team.
Goldman estimates that Microsoft is getting $3-$6 per Android device sold. With settlements from Samsung, HTC, and others, Goldman arrives at its estimate. It also says the patent deals will add $0.04 in EPS annually for Microsoft.

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How To Land A Job At Google, Apple, or Facebook - Infographic

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It can be safely said, in 2011, that everyone wants a tech job. The seemingly unstoppable industry continues to charge ahead as the rest of the economy stumbles, posting record sales and innovating at an astonishing rate. To work at Apple, Google, or Facebook is the dream of many wide-eyed college grads, and it’s no surprise; in addition to creating some of the best products on the market, the three big companies are consistently ranked as some of the best in the world to work for. So how do you go about getting that job? This infographic details the state of the tech jobs scene as it stands today, paying special attention to the aforementioned tech giants.

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Nokia Fires 3,500 Employees

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Nokia announced plans to let go of 3,500 employees this morning.
The cuts come from closing a manufacturing plant in Cluj, Romania and consolidating its Location and Commerce teams.
Nokia has been in a state of trouble for a long time now. Cuts like these are painful, and embarrassing, but probably needed to get the company back to health.

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50 Meaningful Effects of Bold fonts typography ads

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Typography is everywhere infact it is most import part of any design these days, from the web to the advertisement industry. Advertisers are constantly seeking ways to increase the persuasive power of their ads. To that end, advertisers are encouraged to match their advertising’s executional elements (e.g., spokespersons, visuals, etc.) with their consumer’s motivation. Following this approach, we have showcased meaningful Bold Fonts Typography, a potentially critical but relatively underinvestigated executional element. These days typography is a major executional element of word-driven advertising (e.g., print and internet), and has the potential to significantly influence motivation, opportunity, and ability to process advertising messages.

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Beautiful Portraits of Strangers

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Danny Santos II is a weekend photographer who likes to shoot strangers in the streets of Singapore. He’s been shooting street for about 2 years now. He has produced some stunning portraits with minimal equipment to work with.
Chances are that you’ve already seen some of his work mentioned on other websites. The reason I thought this post was worth publishing, was not to promote his past work, but to point out his latest follow-up project.

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Feds Taking Close Look at Google-Motorola Deal

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“On September 28, 2011, Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. and Google Inc. each received a Request for Additional Information and Documentary Material from the Antitrust Division of U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the proposed merger between the companies. The companies intend to cooperate fully and respond expeditiously to the DOJ. The transaction is currently expected to close by the end of 2011 or in early 2012.”

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Ten things we don't know about the Kindle Fire

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Testing and reviewing hardware requires an intimate knowledge of the specs, components, and features of a device (as we see all the time in our laptop and desktop reviews). The new Kindle Fire, however, still has a few too many blank spots on its spec sheet to be able to give it a truly thorough early analysis.

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Gamers help discover two new planets

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Using the game Planet Hunters, gamers have discovered two new planets in the Cygnus constellation.

In what is starting to look like the beginnings of a trend, casual gamers have helped scientists make significant discoveries through a specially designed game for the second time this month. Using a small portion of the massive amounts of data collected by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, people playing the browser-based game Planet Hunters have helped to identify two new planets in the Cygnus Constellation.

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This 90 Percent Successful Vaccine May Be Our Best Chance to Eradicate AIDS

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Spanish researchers have completed the first human trial of a new vaccine against HIV. It has been successful in 90% of the HIV-free volunteers during phase I testing. This vaccine brings great hope to eradicate this plague forever.

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The world in photos #10: Russia

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Russia (or the Russian Federation) is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. It also has maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk, and the United States by the Bering Strait.

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A Hands-On Demo Of The Kindle Fire Surfing The Web

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Here's what the Kindle Fire looks like in action. We were not able to handle it ourselves, so we had to film Jon Jenkins, who is the director of Amazon's Silk browser playing with it. You hear his voice in the background.
For what it's worth, the Fire looked pretty snappy, and the Silk browser seems to pack a punch.

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Video: Amazon takes on Apple's in tablet wars

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says the company is releasing a $199 tablet computer called the Kindle Fire on Nov. 15, challenging Apple's iPad by extending its Kindle brand into the world of full-color, multipurpose devices.

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Microsoft, Samsung deepen smartphone partnership with patent deal

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Microsoft and Samsung Electronics have agreed to cross-license each other's patent portfolios, with Microsoft getting royalties for the mobile phones and tablets Samsung sells that run the Android operating system.

Microsoft Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday that they also will work together to develop and market Microsoft's Windows Phone software. The deal, which is likely to help Microsoft gain more exposure for the Windows Phone, comes a year and a half after the company signed a similar deal with HTC, which was also reached without filing lawsuits.

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Space Station Watches Technicolor Aurora Erupt

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Magnetic activity on the sun has really been running on high gear recently and while it hasn't caused any problems so far, skywatchers around the world are being treated to some exceptionally energetic aurorae -- and the same goes for the skywatchers in orbit!

This photo, taken from the International Space Station on Sept. 26, looks down on aurora ablaze with emerald and crimson light. The colors are created by energetic ions streaming from the sun interacting with the atoms and molecules in our atmosphere. Oxygen glows green, while nitrogen glows red and blue.

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25 Best Google Doodles

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From time to time, Google introduces humorous or artistic modifications in the company’s logo to commemorate holidays, anniversaries or major events. These modified logos are called doodles.

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How Zynga Makes Money

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Despite a worrisome June quarter, Zynga is by any measure an amazingly successful business. It is now consistently profitable on nearly a billion dollars in revenue, having been founded only in 2007.
But how does Zynga make money, exactly?
Two ways:
From the sale of so-called virtual goods, which are used as currency within Zynga's online games and are items that help the player in the game, and
From advertising, both in and around its games.

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Sony to stop supplying 3D glasses at theaters

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Beginning next summer, the movie going experience will be a bit different for audiences–and possibly more expensive. The big push over the last year has been 3D. It is almost as if there is court order requiring all action films to be released in 3D. At the very least there seems to be a sort of private agreement between studios to push the format. Ever since Avatar, studios have seen the lucrative benefits of 3D movies. Theater owners, however, have not been quite as happy to embrace the technology, as it requires major upgrades to convert older theaters into 3D-capable screens. And for many exhibitors, the cost of 3D movies is about to get a bit higher.

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Amazon unveils $200 Kindle Fire tablet; $99 Kindle touch eReader, $79 Kindle

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During a press event in New York City on Wednesday, Amazon took the wraps off of its $200 Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire is equipped with a 7-inch display and will have access to all of Amazon’s services including AmazonMP3, Amazon Prime, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Instant Video and the Amazon AppStore. The tablet is powered by a dual-core processor and weighs 14.6 ounces. Customers can pre-order the Kindle Fire today and it will ship in November.

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A Woman with a Toy Gun Tried to Rob a Store But Got Arrested By a Fake Cop

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A Woman with a Toy Gun Tried to Rob a Store But Got Arrested By a Fake Cop
Wilnelia Rivera Caraballo, a 19-year-old girl, got a little tipsy and felt empowered to rob a store. So she armed herself with a toy "Uzi-type" gun, a clear plastic mask and went to work. Too bad there was a keen worker who outwitted the dimwitted half of Bonnie and Clyde.

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Microsoft and Samsung Sharing Patents!?

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Microsoft put on its nicest suit when it invited Samsung to the patent-licensing barn dance. Whatever it whispered as the two snuggled close during the slow jams about rescuing the Korean giant from the quagmire of Android litigation, it worked. Sammy has entered into a deal to license Redmond's vast patent archive and, if the rumors are to be believed, it will pay $15 per handset sold for the privilege.

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30 Stunning PSD Files For Web Designers

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If you need to come up with a design but you don’t have inspiration or you’re looking for a graphic part that is already done, then you are in the right place. In this article I have collected 30 superb PSD’s for creating web components. You can find login boxes, icons, upload status icons, maps, coupon code images and much more.

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Huge Ancient Roman Shipyard Unearthed in Italy

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A large Roman shipyard has been uncovered an ancient port in Rome called Portus, researchers reported yesterday (Sept. 22).

They found the remains of a massive building, dating to the second century, where ancient ships were likely built close to the distinctive hexagonal basin, or "harbor," at the center of the port complex.

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Rat cyborg gets digital brain

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AN ARTIFICIAL cerebellum has restored lost brain function in rats, bringing the prospect of cyborg-style brain implants a step closer to reality. Such implants could eventually be used to replace areas of brain tissue damaged by stroke and other conditions, or even to enhance healthy brain function and restore learning processes that decline with age.

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Best Web Design Examples For iPhone

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Templates of a website is one of the most important part beside the content it self. You know, every people, at first, will be impressed by the front layout of a blog or web. And now, website is not only on PC, but also available on mobile device, such as handphone, smartphone, iphone, and others.

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Marketing Trends for 2013 and beyond

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You may have already seen my post on my top 5 marketing trends for 2012 but for me, there is nothing like looking ahead so I have been thinking about 2013 and beyond and here are some of my marketing trend predictions looking beyond next year.

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