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How Much Can You Really Learn With a Free Online Education?
Domo Schola / Doctrina GratisJon ValkThe world's most prestigious universities have begun posting entire curricula on the Web-for free. Is there such a thing as a free higher-education lunch? I...
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Fully Loaded: The Ultimate Backyard Observatory for Stargazers
My SpaceBrian KlutchThis backyard observatory lets you see more stars than ever before What a heavenly year for stargazers. We've had a spectacular solar eclipse in Asia, a clutch rescue of the Hubble...
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Dutch Hacker Holds Jail-Broken iPhones Hostage, Demands Ransom Or The Gadget...
Goedemorgen, You've Been Hacked via Ars TechnicaThe media generally portrays hacker as criminals going after law-abiding computer users, but one Dutch hacker has turned his sights on more fertile prey:...
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Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010
Exclusive Patent Rights CountdownCoherentimages.comA deeper look at polar ice. An electric-car renaissance. The death and rebirth of major scientific experiments. Read on to discover what this year has...
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Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010
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A Rebuilt GTO with iPod Remote Control
High Tech GoatJalopnik (www.jalopnik.com)The wiring in many classic cars is more likely to be a fire trap than a masterpiece of industrial control. Not so with Dave Phipps' 1969 GTO, which he controls...
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Watch the iPhone Control a 'Mars' Rover on Earth
iPhone RoversFly me to Mars!EclipseThese guys didn't win, but you get the idea Astronauts probably won't use iPhone-controlled Mars rovers if they ever get to the red planet, but perhaps NASA could...
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Repurposed Tech: Don't Throw Your Old iPhone Away
Don't Stay Home Without ItOld iPhones can perform a host of useful functions.KoppIllustration.comThere are a lot of ways to use your old iPhone around the house, even without a contract If your old...
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MIT Software Easily Stitches Together Any Display Screens Into 'Junkyard...
Junkyard JumbotronMIT Center for Future Civic MediaIs your latest photo just too great to show on a small touchscreen? Gather up all your mobile devices and old computers and stitch them together. If...
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Interfaith Group Calls For Shutting Off All Devices During Holy Week
Put 'Em Face DownCould you turn off all your screens for a week?Yutaka Tsutano via FlickrIt is time for a "media fast"To celebrate Holy Week - the seven days between Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday - a...
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Your iPhone Keeps a Secret Log of Everywhere You Go, Security Experts Find
iPhone Location TrackingPete Warden and Alasdair AllanNo other phone stores this information in this way British security researchers have figured out that iPhones keep track of where their owners go,...
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iPhone Controlled Cannon Tosses Beer From the Fridge
Beer MeRyan Rusnak programmed a three-second delay between trigger and release so you have time to put down your iPhone and set up for the catch.John B. CarnettA hard-to-build fridge makes grabbing a...
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Last Shuttle Mission Will Carry iPhones to the Space Station
No 3G in SpaceScreenshots from the SpaceLab for iOS app.iTunes App StorePlenty of gadgets we take for granted come to us via the space program - GPS, cordless tools, the Fisher space pen. But NASA...
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The Goods: July 2011's Greatest Gadgets
Safer SawThe JawSaw mini electric chainsaw tears through branches of up to four inches thick. Its jaw-shaped frame lets you hold wood firmly in place and shields your hands from potential accidents....
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iPhone Includes Russia's GLONASS Nav System Alongside GPS
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How Much Can You Really Learn With a Free Online Education?
Domo Schola / Doctrina Gratis Jon Valk I was not screwing around. When I took the first physics class of my life, at age 35, it was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and my professor was...
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Fully Loaded: The Ultimate Backyard Observatory for Stargazers
My Space Brian Klutch View Photo GalleryWhat a heavenly year for stargazers. We've had a spectacular solar eclipse in Asia, a clutch rescue of the Hubble Space Telescope, and the surprising crash of a...
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Dutch Hacker Holds Jail-Broken iPhones Hostage, Demands Ransom Or The Gadget...
Goedemorgen, You've Been Hacked via Ars TechnicaThe media generally portrays hacker as criminals going after law-abiding computer users, but one Dutch hacker has turned his sights on more fertile...
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Your Guide to the Year in Science: 2010
Exclusive Patent Rights Countdown Coherentimages.comOur annual sci-tech forecast looks at what 2010 has in store for medicine, space, aviation, the environment, technology and entertainment....
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A Rebuilt GTO with iPod Remote Control
High Tech Goat Jalopnik (www.jalopnik.com) The wiring in many classic cars is more likely to be a fire trap than a masterpiece of industrial control. Not so with Dave Phipps' 1969 GTO, which he...
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