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Dec
30th

Tue

Playing Board Games Boosts Important Skills [Mind Hacks]

The BBC Magazine suggests that board game players, young and old, benefit from the social, mental, and patience-building aspects of sitting down to play them. If you’ve still got relatives…

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How Much You're Really Paying for Text Messages [Text Messaging]

The New York Times details a dirty little secret the phone companies really don’t want you to know—the text messages they charge you for each month cost basically nothing to send.

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Dec
29th

Mon

Playing Board Games Boosts Important Skills [Mind Hacks]

The BBC Magazine suggests that board game players, young and old, benefit from the social, mental, and patience-building aspects of sitting down to play them. If you’ve still got relatives…

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How Much You're Really Paying for Text Messages [Text Messaging]

The New York Times details a dirty little secret the phone companies really don’t want you to know—the text messages they charge you for each month cost basically nothing to send.

The…

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Walmart Photo Keychain Comes Preloaded With Malware Blowit writes “With the Christmas holidays just past and opening up your electronic presents may get you all excited, but not for a selected lot of people who got the Mercury 1.5” Digital Photo Frame…

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How Much You're Really Paying for Text Messages [Text Messaging]

The New York Times details a dirty little secret the phone companies really don’t want you to know—the text messages they charge you for each month cost basically nothing to send.

The…

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Playing Board Games Boosts Important Skills [Mind Hacks]

The BBC Magazine suggests that board game players, young and old, benefit from the social, mental, and patience-building aspects of sitting down to play them. If you’ve still got relatives…

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Dec
28th

Sun

John Lennon eerily returns to push OLPC cause

John Lennon may have departed this planet 28 years ago, but that’s not to say he can’t still have an impact. With the assistance of technology and the consent of Yoko Ono, the heralded…

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Dec
23rd

Tue

VHS distribution grinds to a halt

We already gave VHS a proper burial after JVC became the last firm to shut the door on VHS player production, but there was still one nail in the coffin that wasn’t quite hammered shut….

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Dec
20th

Sat

Scientists Hack Cellphone to Analyze Blood, Detect Disease, Help Developing Nations

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LOS ANGELES — A new MacGyver-esque cellphone hack could bring cheap, on-the-spot disease detection to even the most remote villages on the planet. Using only an LED, plastic light filter and…

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