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This past week we took a look at the very beautiful (although perhaps not awfully practical) glass foosball table from Teckell. We reviewed a powerful nutrition scale to help you keep an eye on what you eat.
Virgin Galatic is looking to offer uber short long haul flights and we reported on the new bill that [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Wolfram|Alpha launched on Friday night, thought it was delayed by some last meaning technical glitches. After trying it out for a while, I admit it’s different than a typical search engine such as Google, but it’s not what I was expecting and probably not much more than a niche search engine at [...]

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Scoopler, a real-time search engine, has exited private beta and gone public. For those not in the know, a real-time search engine will update its results in real-time as things change on the Web. For example, Twitter has such a search feature, but Scoopler works across Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious [...]

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Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
I would have expected this to come from robot-crazy Japan, but I would have been wrong. Dr. Nikolaus Mavridis and co-researchers from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML) at the University of the United Arab Emirates are going to give a robot a Facebook page. Why?
Researchers are giving a [...]

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Newspapers hurting? Big yeah. But rather than relying on the Kindle DX, which some hope will be the savior of the newspaper and magazine industry, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch said on Wednesday night that the age of free internet news is over.
Apparently subscription revenue is rising at the Wall [...]

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In March, Cook County, Illinois Sheriff Tom Dart announced that his office had sued Craigslist over the websites “erotic services” section, which the sheriff said facilitates prostitution. Despite this, and despite the highly publicized “Craigslist Killer,” the site says it has no intention of pulling the section.
On Friday night, both Craigslist [...]

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Here’s our usual weekly summary of featured items from Gizmos For Geeks:
Here are some of our notable articles for the past week. First we pondered whether Twitter’s popularity would last. Google News now has a Timeline of Events – nice feature.
We noticed that YouTube were looking to accept full length and legal content, while Fuijitsu [...]

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Contributing Writer, RealTechNews.

We started off the week by reporting that Amazon’s Kindle Store has surpassed 260,000 books with an exponential growth rate – at least lac of books is not a reason not to own one.
We took a look at some of the available VHS to DVD converters and other analog [...]