Jon Stewart investigates the Russian dashcam phenomenon

The streaking meteor event in Siberia last week has led Jon Stewart to spare a few minutes on The Daily Show to examine footage of the explosion 20 miles high and said to be equal to 300 kilotons of TNT. But his real interest is asking why so many Russians were able to get the footage in the first place, i.e., why are there so many dashcams. Coincidentally, Wired asked the same question just a few days ago.

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Instagram: No To BlackBerry 10

BlackBerry 10 is meant to be the messianic operating system for the company formerly known as RIM (all right, enough Prince references for now, we shall just call a spade a spade; BlackBerry), but a lot of that vision will also depend on famous development houses rolling out compatible apps for the new BlackBerry 10 platform. So far, BlackBerry World already has luminaries such as Skype, Facebook, Twitter and Angry Birds Star Wars, with others due to arrive as well, but a major name remains off the list – that is, Instagram.

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Acer V3-551G-H48D/K 15.6-Inch Gaming Notebook

Here comes a new gaming notebook from Acer, the V3-551G-H48D/K. The system packs a 15.6-inch 1366 x 768 LCD display, a 1.9GHz AMD A8-4500M processor, an AMD A70 FCH chipset, a Radeon HD 7670M graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB hard drive, an HD webcam, a DVD Super Multi Drive, an SD card slot, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 + HS and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The V3-551G-H48D/K will become available from February 27th for around 65,000 Yen (about $697).

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HTC One Ditches Megapixels for Ultrapixels

HTC introduced this week its latest flagship smartphone. The 4.7-inch HTC One is different in many ways from the maker's previous models. For one, this slim silver and black 4G phone is encased entirely of aluminum. Its user interface looks similar to Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 Metro design, but the phone actually runs on Android 4.1.2. This new interface, which HTC affectionately calls “Blinkfeed,” highlights updates from different apps in a grid layout.

The HTC One also features an ultrapixel camera. Yes, we are no longer counting megapixels here, but a step higher than that.

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Motorola Giving $50 Gift Card For Select Purchases By March 4

If you've been debating on possibly purchasing a new Motorola smartphone, this next week and a half would be the best time to finally take the plunge as Google is announcing a new promotion that will make you $50 bucks richer if you purchase one of the eligible Motorola devices. Starting today until March 4, you can earn a $50 gift card if your purchase any of the following devices: DROID RAZR M, DROID RAZR HD, DROID RAZR MAXX HD, DROID RAZR, DROID RAZR MAXX, DROID 4, ATRIX HD, ATRIX 2, PHOTON Q LTE, PHOTON 4G, TITANIUM, ADMIRAL, ELECTRIFY M, ELECTRIFY 2, ELECTRIFY, DEFY XT.

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Redesigned Buick LaCrosse and Regal spotted

Two more pieces of the nine-model product makeover from Buick and GMC are coming more into focus. Our spy shooters recently managed to capture the 2014 Buick LaCrosse (above) and 2014 Regal (at right) out testing, and it looks like General Motors has big things in store for both models. Based on these images, it looks like we might be seeing the redesigned LaCrosse before we see the refreshed Regal, and we wouldn't be too surprised for one of them making a debut at the Shanghai Motor Show at the end of April.


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2013 Dodge Durango R/T

Not too long ago, Chevrolet got itself into some trouble by throwing the SS badge on just about everything it produced, so I've always been a little hesitant about the seemingly excessive use of the R/T nameplate on Dodge vehicles. For the 2013 model year, practically every model in Dodge's lineup has an R/T trim level from the Avenger all the way up to the Durango. Although the R/T name used to signified models made for road and track, I doubt anyone would be delusional enough to assume the Durango – and some of the other models wearing this badge – are suited for any sort of track duty.

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War Journalist - Action Figure

Are you into photography. What about photography-related toy. Check out this War Journalist: Battlefield Hero. It is a 1x6-scale Toymaster-brand action figure that comes with a lot of detailed kit. Its DSLR camera kit comes with a body, three lenses, lens hoods, and a camera bag and the bag can really kept the accessories nicely. There are also additional kit you can get such as sweater, shirt, vests, pants, boots, sunglasses, bracelets, press pass, a pen and notebook, a cell phone, a Bluetooth headset, and a water bottle.







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UK Bugatti saleswoman sells nearly one Veyron per month

Selling cars is difficult enough without your company's only product being a $2.2 million supercar, but that doesn't seem to have slowed down Anita Krizsan. As a sales representative for Bugatti, Krizsan sold 11 Veyron models to clients around the world last year, and her efforts have earned her the nickname "The $15 million woman." For comparison's sake, most of the company's salesmen are happy to move three of the ultra cars in a calendar year, and Krizsan's exploits mean she's the worldwide Bugatti sales leader. But getting there has been plenty of work.

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PS4 Sports 6x Blu-ray Drive, 8-Core AMD Processor And 8GB RAM

More details on the recently announced Sony PS4 has surfaced, and while Sony did not manage to unveil the home console at the event earlier this evening in New York City, at least it has shed additional light on the kind of power packed underneath the hood. For starters, the Sony PS4 will clearly concentrate a whole lot on graphics, where it has a powerful custom chip from AMD run proceedings from within, boasting of eight x86-64 cores as well as a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) that is composed of a unified array of 18 compute units, where they will collectively generate 1.84 Teraflops of processing power (!).

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3GHz NovaThor L8580 CPU Set For MWC 2013 Debut

ST-Ericsson rolled out their most recent 2.5GHz NovaThor L8580 CPU earlier this year, but this does not mean that ST-Ericsson is going to remain comfortable, resting on their laurels. Well, it is nice to know that the company is now working on introducing a faster version of the processor at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, that is kicking off next week – namely, the quad-core NovaThor L8580 that clocks in at a whopping 3GHz.

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Docomo - Fujitsu "ARROWS X F-02E" with 1.7 GHz Quad Core CPU and Big Full HD Display

Docomo's new smartphone “ARROWS X F-02E” made by FUJITSU was released with higher specs than other similar models. It's got 1.7GHz Quad Core CPU, 5.0 inch full HD display, Android 4.1, 2420mAH battery, 16.3 mega pixel camera and high-capacity inner memory (2GB RAM, 32GB ROM). (Softbank's new ARROW's smart phone has 1.5GHz Quad Core CPU, 4.7 inch display and 13.1 mega pixel camera.). Also, there are several good functions with “ARROWS X F-02E”.



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GREEN HOUSE - Aluminum Bumper for iPhone 5 - GH-CA-IP5AF Series

From Green House comes an elegant, light aluminum bumper iPhone 5. Instead of hiding the simple elegance of the iPhone, it enhances it, covering only the vulnerable edges with sleek aluminum which matches the look of the iPhone. It comes in 3 different colors (black, ash silver, bronze). It's a sliding style with no need for screws to set up.






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Gears of War: Judgment - The Guts of Gears Multiplayer Trailer

Check out the latest multiplayer trailer ‘The Guts of Gears' from the upcoming Gears of War: Judgment title. For your info, the game will hit Xbox 360 on March 19th.

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ProxToMe: Sending Files To Nearby People Made Easier

ProxToMe is an iOS app that lets you send files to people who are nearby you. The cool feature of the app is that the person who you need to send the file to, doe not have to be in your list. They just need to be running ProxToMe. How does this work? Basically the receiver and the sender both need to have ProxToMe app installed on their iPhones. Once you have installed the app, you can then see nearby people who have the same app installed within a 250 feet radius. The app also shows the Facebook profile of the person you are trying to connect to and you can start a chat session as well.

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Third Rolls-Royce Wraith teaser looks inward

After shadowy images of the 2014 Rolls-Royce Wraith in profile and of the car's rump, the slow striptease of this hyper-luxury coupe finally starts to show us what the inside of the car will look like. We'll get our up-close look at the 2014 Wraith at the Geneva Motor Show on March 5th, but to tide us over until then, Rolls-Royce has provided a pair of images showing just some of the details that will be present inside.

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Diablo 3 Will Be Arriving On the PS3/PS4

We've all heard the rumors and speculation that Blizzard could be thinking about bringing the Diablo franchise onto consoles, and it looks like those rumors were spot on. Making an appearance at Sony's PlayStation 4 event today, Blizzard's Chris Metzen took to the stage and revealed that Blizzard would be bringing Diablo 3 onto both the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation 4. We're not sure if Blizzard will be making major changes to the game for console, but right now it looks like the multiplayer mode will still support only four players and its controls have also been optimized for the PlayStation's controllers.

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Kinect 2.0 For Xbox 720 Specifications Leaked

New information about Kinect 2.0 has been leaked. The device will be shipped with every Xbox 720, whenever that is launched. However the specs haven't been drastically changed. The Kinect 2.0 is now rumored to have a new sensor for infrared detection. This will change the depth resolution to 512x424. The view field will be increased to 70 degrees horizontal and 60 degrees vertical. The Kinect 2.0 will sport a camera with a resolution of 1920x1080 and will have 6-bit YUV. Video stream will be at 30 fps.

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Computer That Never Crashes Mimics Biology

The University College London now has a computer that is said to never crash. We've all experienced it: computers do crash, so what makes this particular one impervious to crash events. To explain that, let's look at why computer crash to start with: at the highest (and simplest) level, computer programs are a linear sequence of instructions, that are executed in order. If for some reason, the execution stops (divide by zero, memory access fault…), that particular program will crash. Usually the Operating System (OS) can recover from that, and terminate that crashed task.

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Facebook Lets You Pay To Promote Your Friends' Posts

You read it correctly. Facebook is all set to roll out a brand new feature for promoting posts. Users can now pay to promote posts of their friends on Facebook.  The promoted post will have greater coverage, as it will be pushed to the top of the newsfeed. To promote a post, click on the menu button on the top right corner of the post and click promote. Users can promote friends' posts without any permission requests. However the promoted post will only be made visible to the people, with whom the original post was shared with. This is done so that privacy concerns do not become a problem.

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“mat;chocolat” by Masaki Matsushima – Put on a chocolate scent for your Japanese Valentine this year

In Japan, retailers are asking their customers: “Why don't you be like chocolate for your loved one this year?”. Masaki Matsushima's perfume “mat;chocolat” makes you smell like dark chocolate with a hint of fresh fruit flavor, blackcurrant and rose. It's not a sickly sweet perfume, it is more of a bitter dark chocolate smell.



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SoftBank – Fujitsu “ARROWS A 201F” – High-spec smartphone with ultrafast-speed data communication service

SoftBank today revealed their new ARROWS smartphone, the ARROWS A 201F, made by Fujitsu. It runs SoftBank 4G which is their ultra-speed data communication service (up to 76Mbp). It runs a 1.5GHz Quad Core CPU, Android 4.1, and high-def 4.7 inch HD (1,280 x 720). It also covers NFC, One-Seg, is waterproof and dustproof, Bluetooth, and infrared data communication. With its 13.1 mega pixel, you can take beautiful pictures and full HD movies. 2,420mAH battery allows a long battery life.

There are 4 colors: Ocean Blue, White, Sparkling Pink and Black.






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Sony Sued By RED For Allegedly Infringing Upon Their Patents

Uh-oh, it looks like Sony's new and somewhat affordable (at least as far as its quality is concerned) Cine Alta cameras are in trouble, and by that we mean that well-known company RED has taken them to court. Yup, RED is alleging that Sony has willfully infringed upon their patents in the development of the Cine Alta F65, F55 and F5. RED claims that by infringing upon their patents, the company has lost sales, reduced the business and profit, and at the same time damaged the general reputation of RED.

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Rdio For iOS Updated

Earlier this morning, we talked about how Slacker revamped their service to offer a more competitive service, and here we are with word that a possible Slacker rival, Rdio, has just introduced an update to the iOS version of the app. Well, before we proceed any further, here is a little bit of history about Rdio – it started off as a streaming music service from the co-creator of Skype, and we are glad to hear that Rdio has rolled out what they deem to be the *first* in a series of updates to its iOS app.

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HoodiePillows = Hoodie – Jacket + Pillow

I saw the HoodiePillow Pillowcase pitched on ABC's Shark Tank last Friday and thought the idea of a hood built into a pillow was a pretty silly idea. I still do. But the same company has another product that isn't so silly and one that I would even use. It's their Travel HoodiePillow. It's a drawstring hood built into an inflatable neck pillow. Available in Grey or Black, the Travel HoodiePillow supports your neck and provides privacy while you're trying to sleep on a plane, train, etc. The HoodiePillow Pillowcase is available now for $19.95. Pre-orders for the Travel HoodiePillow are currently being accepted.

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Apple Loses To Amazon As Top Trusted Company

Apple is no longer the most trusted company in America, according to the 2013 Harris Interactive Reputational Quotient survey. Instead, the title is given to Amazon. The survey has been done by 14,000 people who have ranked different companies. Google is on number four position, while Microsoft is on fifteen. Last year, Apple was the leader in the race with Google closely following in second place and Amazon was behind in fourth place, but the trend has changed this year.

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SRT Viper's initial allotment sold out, convertible still a ways off

The launch of the 2013 SRT Viper marked the first time the car has been introduced as a coupe rather than a roadster, but that didn't matter to buyers.

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Wahoo Fitness RFLKT Bike Computer

Ladies and gentlemen, might I present you the Wahoo Fitness RFLKT Bike Computer, which is touted to be the only iPhone-powered cycling computer in the world. Available from today onwards, the interestingly named RFLKT will be able to receive or "reflect" your cycling App data, heart-rate, speed, cadence, and music data amongst others wirelessly, ensuring that your iPhone remains safely in your jersey pocket or storage box. Compatible with the iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, the Wahoo Fitness RFLKT can be purchased for $129.99 a pop.

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Judge rules against builder of Batmobile replicas

A federal judge has ruled that Batmobile replicas built by Mark Towle, of Gotham Garage, do, in fact, infringe on copyrights and trademarks held by Warner Bros. Towle's attorney, Larry Zerner, argued that US copyright law doesn't allow "useful articles" to be copyrighted. Zerner, in court documents, insisted that Warner Brothers' lawsuit claimed the entire Batmobile was protected including doors, seats and tires. The judge agreed, but ruled the law does allow copyrighting of unique design elements of useful articles.

"The implications of a ruling upholding this standard are easy to imagine," Zerner wrote.

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