When an earthquake hits, most of us know to run for a doorframe or duck next to a desk. Protecting your noggin should be the priority, and the Mamoris chair wants to help: This clever chair quickly disassembles into a brain-and-neck-protecting helmet.
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The former technical analyst for the CIA, Edward Snowden, who leaked a treasure trove of documents earlier detailing the National Security Agency’s various electronic spying programs is back with another cache of highly classified documents. These documents, which have been provided and confirmed by sources to The Washington Post, reveal that the NSA tapped into Google and Yahoo data centers around the world without telling either company. This, despite the fact that both companies are already said to be involved in PRISM, a program that gives the NSA front door access to their user accounts through a process approved by FISA courts.
NSA Apparently Tapped Into Google And Yahoo Data Centers Around The World original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Facebook primarily collects two types of data which helps it improve its various services, behavioral and demographic data. Demographic data relates to a user’s life outside of Facebook, basically information about their work, school, hometown etc. Behavioral data is collected in real time as the user browses Facebook, this is data about their interactions with their friends, likes, comments, shares and more. Facebook’s head of analytics Ken Rudin tells WSJ that the social network is currently testing a broader system that tracks deep behavioral data, such as tracking how long a user hovers their cursor over an ad before they decide whether or not they are going to click it.
Rudin also says that the system will be able to ascertain if certain elements on the News Feed were in a visible area or off the page. Facebook is currently conducting tests, which are part of a broader technology testing program. Rudin doesn’t promise if these user-tracking features will ever be rolled out, he says it could take a couple of months before this becomes evident. So what would Facebook do with this user-tracking data? It would use it to improve its services, offer advertisers greater insights into users’ behavior with regards to their ads, it may also use the data to improve News Feed and even add more features to it.
Facebook Might Track Your Cursor As You Browse In The Future original content from Ubergizmo. 
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NASA has offered up three amazing images captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The three images are somewhat eerie, yet incredibly beautiful to look at. All three of the images are 100% real and are actually planetary nebulas. They are created by material ejected from dying stars.
These three nebulas all have official names – starting with the Exposed Cranium Nebula. This one clearly looks like a brain and is situated about 5000 light years away from Earth in the Vela constellation.
The next image is called the Ghost of Jupiter nebula and is about 1400 light years away from Earth in the Hydra constellation.
The final image is called the Little Dumbbell Nebula because it vaguely resembles a squat dumbbell. It’s located about 2500 light years from Earth in the Perseus constellation.
NASA says that all stars about the same mass as our Sun will eventually die and wind up as similar structures. As the stars die, they become red giants and throw their outer layers into the cosmos. Ultraviolet light from the core the dying star then energizes the injected layers causing them to glow.
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Sprint Spark was announced today, the carrier’s new “super-high-speed” capability which is going to bring peak data speeds of up to 50-60 megabits per second. Sprint believes that the data speeds will grow as the technology matures. To prove its point, the carrier demonstrated 1Gbps or gigabit per second live over-the-air speed today at its lab near Silicon Valley. Sprint says that its technically feasible to offer over 2Gbps of over-the-air speed per sector, thanks to Spark. The carrier believes that this new wireless technology will allow it to surpass the data speeds offered by its rivals.
The new service is going live with “limited availability” in five markets initially, which includes New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Tampa. Sprint plans to deploy Spark in 100 of the largest cities in America over the next three years. It expects that over 100 million people in the U.S. will have access to Spark by the end of 2014, while its 4G LTE service is expected to reach 250 million people by mid-2014. Existing smartphones won’t be compatible with Spark. Smartphones with tri-band hardware, capable of utilizing all spectrum bands used by Sprint, will arrive starting next month. LG, Samsung and HTC are few of the companies that are initially going to be provide smartphones compatible with Sprint Spark.
Sprint Spark Announced, Touts Peak Data Speeds Of 50-60Mbps original content from Ubergizmo. 
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While you’ll not be seeing one whole heck of a lot of new details appearing on the operating system known as Android 4.4 KitKat in the following teaser trailer, you will find entertainment in abundance. Google and Nestle appear to be rolling out one – if not a whole series – of video advertisements for […]
We’re all going to die one day. And no holiday celebrates our fragile mortality with as much gusto as Día de Muertos (Nov 1st-Nov 2nd), when Mexico (and increasingly, the world) remembers friends and family with alters, marigolds, poetry, food, and of course, skulls.
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