Manufacturers redirecting R&D on declining GPS device orders?If you enjoy the decimation of an industry as much as Google does then you’re going to love the latest rumor sourced from DigiTimes‘ manufacturing moles. According to the Taiwanese rumor rag, personal navigation device R&D teams at the manufacturing powerhouses of Foxconn (aka, Hon Hai) and...
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AT&T and Verizon drop lawsuits, make nice for the holidays // Well well, maybe we can all get along after all: AT&T and Verizon just dropped their various advertising-related lawsuits against each other. We can’t say we’re surprised, considering AT&T lost its request to have Verizon’s ads pulled down for the holidays — spending...
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Large Hadron Collider grinds to a halt… again In an increasingly unsurprising turn of events, the Large Hadron Collider suffered a major power failure this morning, knocking the machine and its website out of service. The failure occurred in an 18,000-volt power line in Meyrin, Geneva where the LHC is housed beneath the ground,...
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Victoria’s Secret’s first Asian modelA modeling contest in China four years ago led Liu Wen to a runway in New York.
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First (Official) Look at ‘The Karate Kid’ Remake – Updated with More Photos Update: Check out three more images in the gallery below. The initial trauma over Columbia’s remake of The Karate Kid seems to have passed for the children of the 1980s, enough that the first official image (not counting the teaser poster...
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Chris Weitz to Direct Two-Part ‘Breaking Dawn’ Finale?As The Twilight Saga: New Moon crosses $200 million, execs over at Summit Entertainment are quietly (or not so quietly) trying to figure out what to do about Breaking Dawn, the final (for now) adaptation in the Twilight movie franchise. According to a piece in Variety, only...
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REPORT: Lamborghini Gallardo cop car crashes in Italy thanks to careless driver Filed under: Europe, Government/Legal, Lamborghini The Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Polizia is a very capable police cruiser that just happens to also be an extremely desirable Italian exotic. How many police cruisers can go 200 mph while toting a vital organ in its...
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OSRAM Orbeos OLED lights are small, flat, right behind you The days of OLED wallpaper are still some years away, but you can finally start thinking about replacing those tired light fixtures with something a little more two-dimensional. After testing the waters with its Early Future lamp and then boosting efficiency of its product,...
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First Iron Man 2 Poster: Ker- Boom Ho. Lee. Crap. The first (real) teaser trailer’s coming in December, but after seeing this poster, I don’t know if I can’t wait that long. And yes, I know tomorrow is December.
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