Today, Facebook is having an emergency meeting to discuss their site’s privacy problem. But these instant messages, supposedly sent by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook’s early days, suggest that user privacy may have always been an afterthought
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19-Year-Old Facebook CEO Didn’t Take Your Privacy Seriously, Either [Blockquote]
As you might’ve notice, either here on the site or likely elsewhere on the internet , we at Engadget have somewhat of an affinity to social networking. With a new screen sitting here saving us some screen real estate, we decided to give a number of Twitter and other pro-social apps a go for perennially staying connected to our online friends — so long as there’s a decent WiFi connection nearby.
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iPad apps: Twitter and social networking essentials
I guess I should have sent my story to Giz as well since it reminds me of what this tipster had to say. I happened to be in an elevator with Steve Jobs who appeared to be eating a small child, blood smeared across his face and spilling down his turtleneck in evanescent streaks.
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I guess I should have sent my story to Giz… [From Comments]
TechCrunch is hearing some veeeeeery interesting talk about a true Google Phone : Not just an Android device, but a phone designed top-to-bottom by Google to fulfill their dream of exactly what Android can be. It’s a resilient rumor. We’ve heard rumors like this before, but this time there are a few distinct elements that seem credible, maybe even enough to make us rethink our previous position
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The True Google Phone May Be Coming Soon [Rumor]
The ATI Radeon HD 5970 slaughters the competition in pretty much every benchmark thrown at it. It’s outrageously fast. We’re talking five teraflops here, people
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ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World’s Fastest Graphics Card [Graphics Cards]
I wish that Julian Voss-Andreae had made some of these sculptures when I was in school. While we can’t really claim that they represent quantum physics concepts accurately, they still would’ve made reading about Bosons and Fermions more pleasant
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Quantum Physics Visualized [Art]
Noah Feehan looked at his raw steak one day and thought “What if I plug some composite video into that hunk o’ meat?” So he did just that. Turns out that it lets him judge when the steak’s perfectly cooked.
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Judge How Cooked Your Steak Is Based on Video Transmission [Art]
There are plenty of electric bike designs out there, but few (possibly none) can compare to the Grace E-bike. Its CNC-aluminum frame is fitted with eurofighter and Formula One parts, and it has a top speed of 40 mph. So it’s a hell of a lot cooler and more powerful than a scooter, moped or Segway—but the 1300 watt lithium ion-powered motor will only take you between 18 and 31 miles on a one hour charge (depending on weight).
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Grace Electric Bike Is Part Motorcycle, Part Race Car and Part Fighter Jet [Transportation]
Every single day we oooh and aahhh over the latest design concepts , but right now, let’s focus on one of the minds behind such designs and smile in awe of her motivations and inspirations. Meet MIT designer , Neri Oxman . Oxman went through medical school, but abandoned that career path for a “mishmash of design, architecture, art, and computer programming.” She works out of MIT’s media lab and strives to bring about her vision of the future which consists of all objects living, breathing, and adapting as we interact with them
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This Woman Will Make Our Walls Breathe [Designers]
You drive them, you idiot . But if that’s not an option—say, if you’re shipping your Belaz mining truck from Belarus to South Africa—you’ve got to break them into pieces. Hulking, multi-ton pieces
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How Do You Ship the Biggest Trucks in the World? [Heavy Machinery]
