Light of my life: Homemade engagement ring glows when fiancee is near
(Photo courtesy of Ben Kokes)
An inventor’s romantic proposal idea has come to happy fruition. It took months of work, but Ben Kokes crafted an engagement ring for his girlfriend, Julie, that would light up from within — but only after he put it on her finger and took her by the hand.
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Creator of GIF files insists it’s ‘jif’ - Internet in turmoil
(Photo: Webby Awards / YouTube, GIF: Sappavu / YouTube)
And the battle rages on: After the White House weighed in on the “gif” versus “jif” issue, some thought it was settled in favor of a hard “G” — but the creator of the .gif image format himself has made a final pronouncement: “It’s a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”
Tell us, Tumblr: Is it ‘GIF’ or ‘JIF’?
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Microsoft reveals Xbox One, the ‘new generation’ console
(Photo: Wilson Rothman / NBC News)
On this dreary Tuesday at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., executives are on stage to share news and a glimpse of the new Xbox One console.
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Can Yahoo avoid ‘screwing up’ Tumblr and still make money?
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Plunking down $1.1 billion for blogging platform Tumblr was the easy part. Now Yahoo has to live up to its pledge “not to screw it up,” as CEO Marissa Mayer put it.
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Vowing ‘not to screw it up,’ Yahoo buys Tumblr
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Yahoo and Tumblr made their wedding vows Monday with the stumbling Web search giant publicly announcing its promise not to “screw up” the relationship.
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Report: Yahoo agrees to buy Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash
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The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion for the blogging site Tumblr, according to The Wall Street Journal’s All Things D.
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Teen’s invention could charge your phone in 20 seconds
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Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student’s invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds.
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Gadgets may be making us dumber, studies show
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Are our beloved devices messing with our heads? They might be, according to two new studies that reveal the ways technology can distract the brain.
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Google Maps gets new look, built-in Earth and (later) mobile update
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Google Maps got a few significant updates at the company’s I/O event in San Francisco Wednesday, with a refreshed look and some handy new features aimed at letting you explore your surroundings without keyword searching. The updated maps will be coming to desktop and mobile, though you may have to wait a bit to try them out.
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Google I/O begins: Expect a music service, revamped Maps and more
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Google I/O, the tech giant’s annual developer’s conference, kicks off today, with a keynote event taking place in San Francisco. We’re right here and ready to bring you all the news live, starting at 9 a.m. PT/noon ET, but for now, here’s what we expect.
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Goodbye productivity… Google image search leads to impromptu game of ‘Atari Breakout’
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Always looking for new opportunities to turn its mammoth search engine and associated features into interactive and exceedingly distracting Easter eggs, Google has put on another show in honor of the 37th birthday of Atari’s classic video game “Breakout.”
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Dawn of the bot? New era nears, experts say
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The country’s leading roboticists believe that over the next fifteen years, robots will become as ubiquitous “as computer technology is today,” a new report reveals.
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Woman haunts ex online for years after breakup
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Ah, romance. Boy meets girl. Boy dates girl. Boy dumps girl. Girl embarks on a campaign of online harassment that lands her a prison sentence. Girl flees country.
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Man gives up Internet for a year, lives to tell tale
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From our email to social networks and shopping, there’s probably not a day that goes by that we don’t use the Internet. Paul Miller from The Verge decided to give it up for an entire year, and shares what he learned from his Web-free life.
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We can now 3-D print a gun – what’s next?
(Photo: Defense Distributed / YouTube)
With a shot heard round the Internet, the first known 3-D printed gun is a reality. But the bigger ruckus comes from the gun’s digital blueprints, now available for free download by any shooters who want to build their own.
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Step one: Talib Kweli comes in for rehearsal and sees Al Roker on a bike.
Step two: Someone else spots Talib, then Al on his bike, and has the...
Wait for it…this actually happened.
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