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(Credit: ThinkGeek) Too busy buying Facebook stock to keep up with Crave? Here’s what you missed while you were tracking Facebook’s IPO , which, it turns out, didn’t quite live up to the hype
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This week in Crave: The Facebook phone home edition
(Credit: CNET) Everyone who uses Instagram , EyeEm , or other photo-sharing apps knows how easy it can be to add effects to photos and make them look even better than the original.
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Turn photos into sketches on iOS
(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) The way I see it, there are three major draws to AT&T’s Samsung Focus 2 , a Windows phone that goes on sale May 20. First, there’s the glossy white design
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Samsung Focus 2 review: Great value Windows Phone
(Credit: Josh Miller/CNET) Sprint today is shouting its unlimited iPhone 4S data plan from the rooftops, hoping to attract Verizon customers who are hopping mad at losing their unlimited data . Starting today, you can trade in your current non-Sprint iPhone for the carrier’s own model, and get at least $100 off when you sign a new two-year contract. Related stories Should angry Verizon subscribers ditch Big Red
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Sprint aggressively promotes iPhone 4S unlimited plan
A member of the Karmetic Machine Orchestra, based at CalArts. (Credit: Karmetic Machine Orchestra) With technology making itself all but unavoidable in an increasing number of areas, a special university program designed to get undergraduate art majors up to speed with computer science and programming has received a grant from the National Science Foundation.
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CalArts wins grant for arts-and-technology program
(Credit: Jeff Bakalar) Sorry about the rather short show today, but the Facebook IPO just started trading and we have to make way for a special edition of Reporter’s Roundtable featuring our own “Aunt” Jill Schlesinger , Andy Rachleff of Wealthfront , and Tom Merritt. Check it out for in-depth discussion about the offering! We’ll be back on Monday with a week of new episodes, but you can stay in touch on our Instagram page–look us up @the404.
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The 404 1,057: Where we’d rather have an IPA (podcast)
The Weather Channel 5.0 for iPhone.
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Blue skies for The Weather Channel’s overhauled iOS app
A frame from the video for “The Human Theremin,” a Kinect-based project by students Duncan Boehle and Nicholas Inzucchi. (Credit: Screenshot by Edward Moyer/CNET) It’s end-of-term time, which means brainy college students throughout the land are busily quaffing coffee and eschewing sleep to get their final projects and shows sewn up. That means too, of course, that many of these compelling projects are being put on display for the first time
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Carnegie Mellon students get naughty, nice with new-media art
LG Eclipse 4G LTE has been spotted in wild. Folks from BriefMobile managed to find the Now Network’s new devices and show offs the full inside look on the device
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LG Eclipse 4G LTE Spotted in Wild
Demand for Samsung‘s Galaxy S III is already running hot. (Credit: Jessica Dolcourt/CNET) Samsung‘s Galaxy S III has scooped up 9 million pre-orders , Reuters said today, based on information from the Korean Economic Daily. Already finding a home among more than 100 global carriers, the Galaxy S III will debut in Germany on May 29 and then expand around the world
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Casio Japan has announced the Exilim EX-ZR300, a high-speed CMOS-based 16MP 12.5x zoom compact. The ZR300 features a 24-300mm equivalent zoom and dual ‘Exilim Engine HS’ processors to offer autofocus in as little as 0.12sec and start-up in under 1 sec.
Do you like your cars smart ? Are you itching to drive something a bit more K.I.T.T. than KIA
The ONE Street Tweeter is kind of like a giant, mobile ink-jet printer, only way more political. It wasn’t around in time for the height of the Occupy protests, but made its debut at the G8 Summit
When we’re not looking up at the stars, we’re likely looking at a screen, so any chance to combine those two is greeted with open arms.
NPD DisplaySearch is declaring Apple to be the undisputed champion of the mobile PC business for the first quarter of the year. The fruity phone flinger shipped ( shipped , not sold) 17.2 million mobile PCs in the time, a figure that contentiously includes the iPad
Dell hasn’t been having the greatest of years, and the blows are still as heavy as ever in Round Rock’s fiscal Q1.
3D printing with ABS and other plastics that have a low-melting point are old hat. And, with the price of entry dropping below the $500 mark , soon enough anyone will be able print their own pirated 45s
Charitable entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox has teamed up with Microsoft , TalkTalk , and Simplify Digital to bring a cheaper option for cash-strapped folks in the UK. Starting today, you can buy a refurbished computer with broadband service for a year (with a 40GB monthly cap) for as little as £149 ($240) — and that price drops even lower for people on state benefits. The “Go On UK” initiative also throws in a WiFi router and Windows 7 to further spread that non-profit love around the nation — just like we have going on in the US .
In my view, smartphones are all about the future, and the best handsets are usually the ones with the wildest, slickest mobile technology. Sure, cutting-edge wireless computing rarely comes cheap, especially phones running Google’s latest and greatest version of Android software, Ice Cream Sandwich . Still it’s good to have a dream, and right now I’m fantasizing big time about the best phones money can buy
We’ve seen DNA flirt with computing and storage before, but a biological system that can record digital data? That’s something different
