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Valentine's Day 3D Screensaver will give you tons of brilliant ideas and entertain you at the same time.

Give Away of the Day - 12 hours 56 min ago

Saint Valentine’s Day is an excellent time to remind all the special people in your life that you love them and really care for them. This jolly screensaver will give you tons of brilliant ideas and entertain you at the same time.

Watch as the little rascal known as Cupid shoots his very special arrows making more and more couples happy. Decorate your screen and set the right mood for this adorable holiday celebrating love and devotion!

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But with Animated Screensaver Maker you easily create animation by yourself.

Give Away of the Day - Sat, 02/04/2012 - 00:00

Many screensaver builders allow you to create only slideshow screensavers or use only previously-created animations. But with Animated Screensaver Maker you easily create animation by yourself. For example, you can add weather effects, turn a photo into an underwater world with moving fish, or create a beautiful sea background.

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When Is an Electric Bike Like a Suitcase?

MIT Technology Review - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 10:26

When it's the Boxx.

This isn’t your grandfather’s electric bike. (Assuming he had one?)



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How Apple Can Revolutionize Television

MIT Technology Review - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 03:54

An intelligent assistant would be the ideal way to deal with remote-control overload.

Rumor has it Apple is about to start making the the world's favorite gadget.



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Chameleon Startup Manager can control programs that run at Windows startup, which makes Windows start faster and operate with increased stability.

Give Away of the Day - Fri, 02/03/2012 - 00:00

Chameleon Startup Manager can control programs that run at Windows startup, which makes Windows start faster and operate with increased stability.

Programs can be run according to various functions including startup order change, startup delay, priority, consecutive program launch, day selection and much more.

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Concentrated Solar Startup Sets a New Efficiency Record

MIT Technology Review - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 21:00

Semprius makes solar modules using tiny cells that need less cooling.

Semprius, a startup that makes miniscule solar cells capable of capturing concentrated sunlight without costly cooling systems, announced this week that it had made the world's most efficient solar panel.



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Startup Turns Data Crunching into a High-Stakes Sport

MIT Technology Review - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 21:00

Kaggle organizes contests for organizations looking to make valuable predictions from mountains of data.

Some things—fog in San Francisco or traffic in New York City—are easy to predict. Others, such as the way a stock market will react to big trades, or the progression of an HIV patient's illness, are far more complicated. That's where a startup called Kaggle comes in. It organizes contests in which participants attempt to make seemingly impossible predictions by analyzing mountains of data.



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Too Young to Fail

MIT Technology Review - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 21:00

17-year-old Laura Deming doesn't drive and can't vote. Is now her chance to change the world?

Laura Deming was studying for finals in a crowded MIT reading room last April when her phone rang. That's when she learned she may never again take another exam.



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GM Reveals Dismal Volt Sales in January

MIT Technology Review - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 14:07

But is it a bad sign for electric vehicles?

Electric vehicle enthusiasts (and critics) are keeping a close eye on sales of GM’s Volt this year to get a sense of whether electric vehicles will really finally catch on. GM has said that it hopes to sell 30,000 Volts in 2012, which would mean selling, on average 2,500 a month. It’s far short of that pace for January having sold just 603.



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iRobot Goes to the Hospital

MIT Technology Review - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 10:13

But it's doing very, very well.

iRobot Corp., makers of the beloved Roomba (and a lot more), announced that it would be investing $6 million in InTouch Health, a telemedicine company operating in 80 hospitals around the world. Though $6 million represents just a minority stake in the company, it’s--needless to say--a substantial investment, and a strong expansion of a joint development and licensing agreement the two companies had announced last summer.



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Capture just everything on your screen with Snap 4!

Give Away of the Day - Thu, 02/02/2012 - 00:00

Ashampoo Snap 4 enables you to create high-quality screenshots, videos and demos of your screen content. Edit, save and share your excellent results with others. This new version offers lots of innovative features and improvements, especially in the areas of video capture and editing tools.

Use the video mode to create videos and demos tailored to your needs. Capture film sequences or computer games (in a window) and save them as high-quality video files. You can also produce demos like video tutorials for software or presentations of websites.

Create perfect-looking screenshots of your entire screen content or specially selected parts. After making a screenshot, an intuitive editor opens automatically and provides you with extensive editing tools, with which you can make your shots even more individual and original.

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The Secret of Ant Transportation Networks

MIT Technology Review - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 21:10

Just how ants create the highly efficient network of trails around their nests has never been fully understood. Now researchers think they've cracked it

Among the most impressive transportation networks on the planet are the complex trails that ants create around their nests. These networks arise through the ants' exploration of their environment and end up channelling the distribution of food for the colony and the daily movements hundreds of thousands of individuals.



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Why Viewers Could Soon Control Super Bowl Ads

MIT Technology Review - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 21:00

Tweets and other social media comments are about to drive real-time changes in programming.

During this Sunday's Super Bowl, a record five million viewers are expected to tweet or make other social media comments—not just about the game, but also about the many beer, snack, and car ads that are integral to the annual sports and entertainment ritual.



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In IPO Filing, Facebook Shares Its Own Secrets

MIT Technology Review - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 16:41

The world's largest social network is profitable, but fears Google and Apple.

In an announcement that Facebook hopes will be “liked” by many, the world’s largest social network filed to become a publicly listed company late Wednesday. Documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission provide investors and Facebook users the first public glimpse of the company’s financial state, technological challenges, and ambitions.



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Giants Beat Pats 59 to 41 (in Social Media Super Bowl Buzz)

MIT Technology Review - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 10:46

New England gets more website hits, but the Giants get more social buzz.

Social media analysis reveals that Giants fans show more online gusto than do their Patriots counterparts.



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How Apple Can Win Enterprise

MIT Technology Review - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 09:42

It's not all that different from how it won consumers.

Back in 2010, an audience member at a conference put a question to Steve Wozniak: Could Apple ever become the dominant player in the enterprise, as opposed to the consumer, market? Woz had a measured response. “It can happen, but it’s going to be gradual,” the Apple co-founder said. “What drives a buying decision of a person is a lot different than what drives the buying decision of the enterprise.”



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Melomania is a handy music collection program for Windows, which allows you to catalog music collections of any kind, from vinyl to MP3s, and provides you with the facilities to manage a music database.

Give Away of the Day - Wed, 02/01/2012 - 00:00

Melomania is a handy music collection program for Windows, which allows you to catalog music collections of any kind, from vinyl to MP3s, and provides you with the facilities to manage a music database.

Key features:
  • automatic adding of digital tracks,
  • lent media tracking,
  • instant cover download,
  • handy navigation,
  • instant and powerful search,
  • customized item grouping,
  • multi-format export,
  • printing,
  • customized views,
  • statistics and custom ratings.
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How Neutrino Beams Could Reveal Cavities Inside Earth

MIT Technology Review - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 21:10

Geophysicists want to use neutrinos to 'x-ray' the Earth, a technique that could reveal undiscovered oil fields. But how practical is such a scheme?

Neutrinos are peculiar particles. They have little mass, no charge and come in three flavours. These flavours are not fixed. The strange thing about neutrinos is that once created, they change from one flavour to another as they travel. 



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Tough Times for U.S. EV Battery Makers

MIT Technology Review - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 21:00

Companies need more consumer demand for electric vehicles to grow rapidly.

The U.S. government's effort to create an electric-vehicle battery industry suffered a setback last week when one of the companies it funded as part of this effort saw its parent company file for bankruptcy protection. Battery maker Enerdel had been awarded a $118.5 million grant to build a lithium-ion battery factory in Indiana as part of a $2 billion grant program for electric-vehicle component and battery manufacturing; its parent company is Ener1.



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Innovation without Age Limits

MIT Technology Review - Tue, 01/31/2012 - 21:00

Young stars dominate the technology headlines. But outside the Internet, research shows, innovators are actually getting older as complexity rises.

Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley prefer to fund the young, the next Mark Zuckerberg. Why? The common mantra is that if you are over 35, you are too old to innovate. In fact, there is an evolving profile of the "perfect" entrepreneur—smart enough to get into Harvard or Stanford and savvy enough to drop out. Some prominent figures are even urging talented young people to skip college, presumably so they do not waste their "youngness" on studying.



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