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Missing Colo. Teen’s Mom Awaits Word in Case

The mother of a 19-year-old woman who went missing from a Denver nightclub a week ago awaited word about her daughter Friday as police said they made the disappearance a top priority. (April 8)

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Missing Colo. Teen’s Mom Awaits Word in Case

The mother of a 19-year-old woman who went missing from a Denver nightclub a week ago awaited word about her daughter Friday as police said they made the disappearance a top priority. (April 8)

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Missing Colo. Teen’s Mom Awaits Word in Case

The mother of a 19-year-old woman who went missing from a Denver nightclub a week ago awaited word about her daughter Friday as police said they made the disappearance a top priority. (April 8)

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Missing Colo. Teen’s Mom Awaits Word in Case

The mother of a 19-year-old woman who went missing from a Denver nightclub a week ago awaited word about her daughter Friday as police said they made the disappearance a top priority. (April 8)

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Missing Colo. Teen’s Mom Awaits Word in Case

The mother of a 19-year-old woman who went missing from a Denver nightclub a week ago awaited word about her daughter Friday as police said they made the disappearance a top priority. (April 8)

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Missing Colo. Teen’s Mom Awaits Word in Case

The mother of a 19-year-old woman who went missing from a Denver nightclub a week ago awaited word about her daughter Friday as police said they made the disappearance a top priority. (April 8)

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Syrian city of Deraa hit by deadly clashes

At least 23 protesters have been killed during anti-government rallies in the southern Syrian city of Deraa, witnesses have told the BBC. There…

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Syrian city of Deraa hit by deadly clashes

At least 23 protesters have been killed during anti-government rallies in the southern Syrian city of Deraa, witnesses have told the BBC. There…

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Anger against corruption unites India

New Delhi, April 09: At age 67, Rajendra Yadav is convinced India is a land of the corrupt. Ever since officials in Ghaziabad forced him to shell out Rs.20,000 as bribe to spike an inflated electricity bill issued to him, Yadav has been a bitter man. “Nothing gets done in this country unless you pay a bribe,” Yadav told IANS, echoing a sentiment that has today pushed tens of thousands to rally behind the fasting Gandhian Anna Hazare. “You have to pay bribe to get a water connection,…

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Aurasma’s AR iPhone app to turn everyday objects into multimedia triggers

We’ve seen augmented reality done what seems like a million different ways, but we’ve never seen it quite like this. The New York Times reported Wednesday on a forthcoming iPhone app called Aurasma that has the power to turn ink-and-paper publications into interactive mine fields. Aurasma, conceived by enterprise software firm Autonomy, uses a scaled down version of the outfit’s IDOL pattern recognizer to identify images stored in a vast database, and then converts those images into related video. Unfortunately, the first release of the app, scheduled for sometime next month, comes in the form of an AR advertisement / game for an unidentified upcoming movie, and the company’s founder seems solidly focused on the technology’s marketing potential. No word yet on when or if we can expect to see our New York Times come to life, as seen in the video at the source link below, but if this is the future of augmented reality, count us in. Aurasma’s AR iPhone app to turn everyday objects into multimedia triggers originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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