Epson America has unveiled the new Perfection V37 and V370 photo scanners. Both scanners feature a high-rise 180-degree lid for scanning oversized artwork, 3D objects, photo albums and documents. The Epson Perfection V370 is a more advance model that provides a built-in 35mm transparency unit for scanning mounted slides, negatives and film strips in 135 format. The Epson Perfection V37 and V370 photo scanners are priced at $89.99 and $119.99, respectively. [PhotographyBLOG]
Yahoo‘s CEO Marissa Mayor is in talks with Jawbone in consideration of a place on the company’s board, reports AllThingsD. Jawbone is known for its high-end, classy Bluetooth gadgets, including the Jambox, which we reviewed back in 2010. It seems she’s looking at a director position, something sources say was happening before she joined Yahoo.
The talks are said to be late stage, but caution was given that the deal may not happen for numerous reasons, which were not specified. According to AllThingsD, Jawbone’s founder/CEO Hosain Rahman and Mayer both attended Standford at the same time, and are close friends. When requested, Jawbone declined commenting on the claim.
Jawbone’s products include the Bluetooth mobile speakers Jambox and the Up fitness wristband. The company specializes in “human-centered wearable technology and audio devices,” according to its website. It was winner of the 2010 IDSA Design of the Decade, and boasts its NoiseAssassin technology, which is the only military-grade noise-zapping technology in the world.
Before coming to Yahoo, Mayer was Vice President of Local, Maps, and Location Services at Google, and was recently ranked as the 14th most powerful businesswoman in America by Fortune magazine, as well as holding the title of youngest CEO of a Fortune 500. She currently sits on the board of directors of Walmart, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the New York City Ballet, the San Francisco Ballet, and the Sanfrancisco Museum of Modern Art.
[via AllThingsD]
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So all the furore surrounding a flying saucer has a source, and unfortunately for X-philes, that would mean there are no extra terrestrial lifeforms out there to contact. Recently declassified documents by the US Air Force have depicted a flying saucer that seems to hail from a Cold War-era plan. The whole idea was to construct a round, vertical take-off and landing aircraft, and what else would you call this other than a flying saucer?
Having said that, who are we to say that there has been no attempts to come up with working prototypes of such an aircraft? That might just explain the numerous flying saucer sightings in the past near Area 51, don’t you think so? It would be really cool if we were to be able to get our eyes on an actual flying saucer prototype that has a human behind the controls instead of a large headed, green blooded alien whose only phrase it knows in our language is, “Take me to your leader.”
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Mozilla’s love of web apps is more than obvious; we just haven’t had a real chance to try the Firefox Marketplace that represents a large part of the company’s app strategy. The doors are at last open for a peek, although Mozilla has chosen the unusual path of giving mobile users the first crack: Android users willing to live on the bleeding edge of an Aurora build of Firefox can browse and run those web apps in Mozilla’s store. Everyone else willing to venture into the Marketplace will have to wait until their own Firefox builds receive a matching update, including that rare group with access to Firefox OS. We’re not quite in a rush to try a first wave of apps in an alpha-grade browser. Should you be the sort who thinks that even beta releases are too sluggish, however, your gateway to the Marketplace awaits at the source links.
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He’s been called one of the Internet’s biggest trolls, responsible for disseminating offensive and, at times, questionably legal content via popular social news site Reddit. But 49-year-old Texas resident Michael Brutsch now says he’s says he’s “sorry” for the years he spent posting controversial content online.
Brutsch, who until recently went by the Reddit username Violentacrez, sat down with Drew Griffin of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 on Thursday evening in the wake of an exposé by Gawker that linked Brutsch’s Internet habits with his real name and recently cost him his job.
“All I can say is that […] I’m sorry,” said Brutsch, a married man and a grandfather. “I have made mistakes.”
Twitter has set up a block for a neo-Nazi account, preventing access to all and sundry. This particular block was put in place at the request of the German government. Basically, in plain English, this means that tweets on that neo-Nazi account will no longer be visible to users in Germany, but folks living outside of Germany can still take a gander at what is being tweeted. This move would mark the first time that Twitter implemented its local censorship policy that came into force not too long ago – in January this year, in fact. The policy will enable Twitter to block content in specific countries if tweets violate local laws.
Twitter’s general counsel Alex Macgillivray said, “Never want to withhold content; good to have tools to do it narrowly and transparently.” No idea on whether the neo-Nazi group also started a Facebook pace, but a Twitter spokesman said, “We work with anti-Nazi organisations and would encourage anyone who finds content like this to report it to Facebook.” All we can say is, the world does not need any more hate speech than there already is.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Flies send tweets via Flytweet , Twitter rumored to be interested in a video hosting service of their own,
TEMPE, Ariz. — Oregon lost a fumble on its second play, setting up a touchdown and a quick 7-0 deficit.
Cause for concern? Yeah, right.
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We’ve seen some pretty beautiful desktop setups with gorgeous monitors and spotless desks—these desktop setups are not those. In fact, you can think of them as the complete opposite. These home offices are foul, filthy, disgusting, awful and come from the hoarder devil’s armpit. You can smell the stench through the pictures. Try not to look or you’re going to throw up. More »
ROCHESTER, Minn. — It was a tall order to fill, but the tallest man in the United States now has his own custom-made tennis shoes.
Igor Vovkovinskiy (voh-kov-IN’-ski) stands just over 7 feet, 8 inches tall. He’s long struggled to find shoes for his size 24, 10E feet.
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The FCC claims that the phenomenon known as “bill shock” would be a thing of the past, where mobile carriers charge users exorbitant rates because of flawed billing policies. Hopefully, especially when it was less than a week ago when we reported that a lady in France was billed a whopping 11,721 trillion Euros. Yes sir, that’s right, but thankfully things were sorted out shortly after that. According to the FCC, carriers should be adopting a new set of policies that ought to minimize the occurrences of “bill shock”, where these policies will kick in to warn users whenever they approach their minute or text limits.
Today, there was a deadline in the rules where carriers had to have put in place warnings for customers on at least a couple of a quartet of components – namely, voice minutes, texts, data usage, and international roaming. The last deadline would be April 17, 2013, where carriers will need to deliver alerts for all four items. What do you think of the FCC’s efforts, and this most probably mean that there will be no more bill shock stories to report on in the future.
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