Consumers have been spending more over the past few months, but deep concerns about the health of the economy are keeping those purchases in check. (Oct. 15)
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A man suspected of killing his parents in their Staten Island home has been arrested in Israel. (Oct. 15)
Continue reading …Stephen Colbert: Goats are Stealing Jobs and Destroying America! (Video)
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Image: Screen grab from Colbert Report Are Goats the New Bears? We’ve written often about goats being the greenest way to clear brush (see Goats Spotted in San Francisco , Rent-a-Goat , and What is Yahoo! Doing with Goats? ). But according to Stephen Colbert, we were fooled… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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With Epic 4G styling, a front-facing camera and a $150 post-rebate price, it’s easy to mistake the Samsung Transform for a high-end phone. Don’t. The reality is that it’s a evolution of Samsung’s mid-range Moment and Intercept more than anything else — you’re paying an additional $50 here to get a front-facing camera, an LED flash and a few welcome tweaks, but the same ho-hum performance plus a few new annoyances to boot. Where does it improve and where does it fail? Find out in our full review. Gallery: Samsung Transform unboxing and hands-on Gallery: Samsung Transform and Epic 4G, sized up Continue reading Samsung Transform review Samsung Transform review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Image credit: Charity: Water This guest post was written by Change.org as part of Blog Action Day Today is a huge day for bloggers and activists around the world: it’s Blog Action Day . For those of you that aren’t familiar with the event, Blog Action Day is a single day on the web where thousands of bloggers across more than 130 countries all write about the same issue…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Some might say that you have somewhat of a problem when calling a solid state drive “cute,” but what do they know, anyway? Iomega’s newest batch of external SSDs are easily the most adorable we’ve seen, as these 1.8-inchers can just about slip into any oversized Fifth Pocket that you may have. Available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB sizes, the diminutive drives support USB 3.0 and are built to be lugged around and occasionally dropped, stepped on or used as a stress-relief tool. Specifically, the metal enclosure is engineered to handle drops from up to ten feet, and the 256-bit hardware encryption ensures that only you and your cronies will see what’s inside. The company’s also tossing in its Protection Suite (loaded with anti-virus, cloning and backup applications), and it’ll be hawking these in early November for $229, $399 and $749 from least capacious to most. Oh, and that noise you hear? A hundred million USB 3.0 flash drives getting all sorts of perturbed. Gallery: Iomega External USB 3.0 SSD drive Continue reading Iomega serves up adorable 1.8-inch External USB 3.0 SSD pocket drives Iomega serves up adorable 1.8-inch External USB 3.0 SSD pocket drives originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The first three rescued Chilean miners out of the hospital celebrated their new lives as national heroes Friday, as word emerged that the 33 want to closely guard their story. (Oct. 15)
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‘Heroes’ actress Hayden Panettiere talks about the challenges of playing Amanda Knox in an upcoming film. Knox is currently serving a 26 year jail sentence in Italy after being convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher. (Oct. 15)
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It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything on the Nabaztag front. Violet, the company that built the original “ambient” bunnies, went bankrupt but was snapped up by MindScape a year ago. Now MindScape is ready to show off the latest addition to the Nabaztag family, dubbed “Karotz.” The WiFi rabbit runs on Linux, with a 400MHz ARM CPU, 64MB of RAM and 256MB of storage, so it should have plenty of headroom for that vibrant hacker community that sprung up around the first two Nabaztags. Karotz can also run off batteries or be plugged in via USB, and has the same RFID reader functionality of the Nabaztag/tag. The biggest new feature is a webcam, which will purportedly have face recognition (to be paired with Nabaztag’s existing voice recognition), along with allowing you to check up on your home from a smartphone app. Karotz will retail in France starting in November for €150 (about $210 US), followed by the UK in December and February in the US. Hopefully Karotz can find a bit more market success than its ill-fated predecessors. Gallery: Karotz press shots and a peek under the hood MindScape’s Karotz continues the proud Nabaztag lineage originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Week in Animal Photos: New Carnivorous Mammal, Celebrity Goose and More (Slideshow)
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Photo: Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust CuteOverload it’s not. This fellow is a newly identified cat-sized species called Durrell’s vontsira , found in the wetlands of Madagascar. This image is just one amazing shot in our roundup of the week in animal photos: We’ve also got news on a goose that, thanks to persistence, now has its own music video; a female humpback whale who travels 6,125 miles for a mate; and a human-led migration of whooping cranes.
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