Sony Bravia KDL-55EX710 HDTV, $900 Off

Pay only $1400 for the 55-inch Sony Bravia KDL-55EX710 HDTV, with a coupon code.

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Firefighter Burns Self with iPad 2 in Ironic Blaze [Apple]

What's the biggest risk the iPad 2 poses to you? Damage to your wallet? No, damage to your very flesh. Retired firefighter Hector Camacho burned himself while unplugging his new tablet. Now he wishes he "never would have bought it." Typical! More »

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Daily Crunch: Shapes Edition

Yes. These Pallet Coasters Are Industrial-Strength Awesome Hela Disc: The Aerobie, Evolved LEGO Outs The First Official Minifig Flash Drive Students Make The World?s Largest Sierpinski Triangle (As Far As They Know) Porto: Denmark Creates Text Message Postage Stamp

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Windows 8 now available to OEMs via Microsoft Connect

Select Microsoft Connect partners -- major players like HP -- have been given their first taste of Windows 8. According to various sources, the build string currently sits at 7971.0.110324-1900, which is the third milestone build of the successor to Windows 7.

So far, there haven't been many details revealed about Windows 8. An actual System Restore -- which is being referred to as History Vault -- has been reported, and the feature will allow users and administrators to completely roll back a system to a previous state. A factory reset option is also said to be included.

We've also seen Windows Live integration taking shape on the desktop. It's believed that you'll be able to log in to Windows 8 using your Windows Live credentials, not just a traditional offline Windows username and password.

All that's left now is for a leaked Windows 8 build to show up on a torrent site. Feel free to tip us if you see that happen.

Windows 8 now available to OEMs via Microsoft Connect originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Devs Grapple for WWDC Tix as Prices Skyrocket

Tickets to Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, to be held in San Francisco in June, are hot. Some would-be attendees seem to be willing to pay thousands to get in on the event -- a quick search on eBay showed tickets being offered at prices ranging from $1,600 to $4,500 each. Many of them had multiple bids. What would be worth $4,500 to an app developer?

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Do Not Track Momentum Mounts

Legislation to be proposed by Senator John Kerry and analysis of business comments to the FTC may point toward stronger privacy protections.

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Lasers let deaf ears pick up what the sonic world is putting down

Not going to front: we've a soft spot in our heart for focused beams of light. We've seen 'em rid the world of its space junk and set the pace of human hearts, and now, they're taking a leading role in aural advancement. As improbable as it sounds, a research team from the University of Utah led by Richard Rabbitt has found that lasers may be able to give deaf people the ability to hear. Using a low-power infrared diode -- similar to those in laser-pointers tormenting cats the world over -- Professor Rabbitt found that exposing oyster toadfish hair cells (analogous to the cells found in humans' inner ears) to infrared light caused them to release neurotransmitters and activate adjacent neurons. This could lead to laser-based ear implants able to stimulate focused areas of cells with thousands of sound wavelengths, as opposed to today's electrode implants whose electrical current spreads through human tissue and limits the deliverable sonic range. Smaller, more efficient power supplies and light sources are needed before optical hearing aids become a reality, but if these newfangled lasers ever get their act together, we should be able to hear version two (and three) coming down the pike.

Lasers let deaf ears pick up what the sonic world is putting down originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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POV Cams That Capture the Action: VIO POV HD

This HD camera is shock-resistant and waterproof, but its hard-wired, so it's not as versatile.

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Skype 5 for Mac continues to frustrate -- how's it treating you?

It's rare that a new piece of software generates only positive feedback, but the world's most popular VoIP app has seemingly frustrated throngs of loyal Mac users, including a number of technologically savvy individuals within these very walls. A brilliant comparison of the old vs. new has emerged over at Ignore The Code (linked down below for your perusal), and it got us wondering -- are average consumers seeing this any differently? There's no question that Skype 5 for Mac looks a heck of a lot like the Windows build, but as the aforesaid article points out, it seems that the UI engineers lowered the standard of the OS X version rather than dragging the Windows variant up. What makes the new edition so difficult to swallow is just how ideal the prior model was -- now, it's a chore to spot contacts, initiate chats and handle the most basic of tasks that Skype should handle. So, we'll leave it to you: is Skype heading in the wrong direction in terms of usability and functionality, or should the collective world just get a grip?

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Dell Pulls ?Business? Card to Trash-Talk the iPad

The iPad is doomed to fail because it doesn’t appeal to business users. That’s what Dell dreams, at least. Dell’s global head of marketing for enterprises Andy Lark claims Dell will have an edge because it entered the tablet PC market with an enterprise approach, whereas Apple’s iPad has a consumer approach. ?Apple is great if you?ve [...]

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Apps and other electronic fitness aids

Let me guess: You've resolved to get healthier in 2011. That goal is nothing new, but the technology you can use is. Want to carry a personal trainer in your pocket to the gym, mountain board from the comfort of your living room, calculate exactly how fast you ran the first mile of your morning j...

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Internet Explorer 9: Speedy Google Chrome Competitor

Microsoft released Internet Explorer 9 late March 14. For anyone who's toyed around with the beta or Release Candidate, there's nothing wholly unexpected in the browser's final version. The bigger question now is whether its features--including a stripped-down interface and fairly deep integration with Windows 7's user interface--can entice users who would otherwise drift in the direction of Google Chrome and Firefox.

The first thing you notice about IE9 is its absences. With this release, Microsoft has stripped out from the interface pretty much everything nonessential to power users and reduced the size and prominence of the remaining widgets. This helps bring Web content front-and-center, and it also invites comparisons to Chrome and its similarly less-is-more design.

In keeping with Microsoft's recent focus on integrating its various software assets to work together, IE9's most eye-popping features come in conjunction with Windows 7. These include the ability to drag-and-drop a Website tab to the Windows 7 taskbar, transforming it into an icon that can, when right-clicked, open up a "jump list" full of one-click links to that Website's most vital content.

Windows 7 users can also "Aero Snap" their browser windows to the left or right of the screen, which comes in handy when organizing multiple Websites or trying to view two Web pages side-by-side. I've played around with IE9 through multiple builds, on multiple PCs, and I've found that Aero Snap comes in particularly useful with a widescreen monitor; your own mileage, as always, may vary.

IE9 also leverages your PC's GPU and CPU, along with a revamped JavaScript engine named Chakra, to help speedily render rich Web content. Whether benchmarks and independent testing support Microsoft's claim that IE9 is their fastest browser ever, it certainly feels fast in practice, especially when displaying Websites thick with rich content.

IE9 might work great with Windows 7, but its incompatibility with Windows XP effectively shuts off a wide swath of users from downloading the browser. In turn, those users will either gravitate toward a rival, such as Firefox, or stick with one of the antiquated versions of Internet Explorer that Microsoft is trying so desperately to kill off. Microsoft evidently hopes that Windows 7's adoption will continue at a fast enough pace to prevent this from becoming a major issue, although with 55.09 percent of PCs still running XP (according to analytics firm Net Applications), it could be some time before it's negated entirely.

IE9 is also compatible with Windows Vista, from which users are fleeing like first-class passengers from the Titanic.

This newest browser also comes with some nifty security features designed to assuage the paranoid and match its rivals' capabilities. InPrivate Browsing allows for Web surfing without leaving any traces that can be discovered later. The baked-in SmartScreen Filter evaluates potentially suspect Websites based on their reputation and notifies the user accordingly with pop-up windows and lists of suggested actions. Tracking Protection lets users decide which types of information they want viewable by third parties.

IE9 hits the market at a somewhat odd time for Microsoft. According to Net Applications, the company's share of the browser market currently stands at 56.77 percent, followed by Firefox at 21.74 percent, Google Chrome at 10.93 percent and Safari at 6.36 percent. For the Internet Explorer franchise, that represents a significant decline from the 68.46 percent it held in March 2009.

In other words, Microsoft is facing a slow but steady erosion in market share. Whether IE9 can help halt or even reverse that slide remains to be seen, but it's definitely a browser capable of going toe-to-toe with the latest versions of its rivals.

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