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	20 high-tech toilets Lights, music, action! Today's tricked-out toilets have it all Read More In this Issue Barcode turns 60, doesn't look its age Microsoft Windows 8 ads leak online [Video] Facebook tests 'Want' and 'Collect' buttons: How to get started 'Pinkie Pie' trips up Chrome, close to $60K at Hack in the Box Star Wars themed Angry Birds set for launch on November 8 Nobel Prize for physics increasingly dominated by computing projects Huawei, ZTE ban is questionable, given its impact iPhone 5 vs. the HTC One X+ Texas school uses RFID badges to track student locations LinkedIn now lets you follow big thinkers, or even become one 'Underpaid' Microsoft CEO Ballmer sees pay slip 4% to $1.32 million Pirate Bay founders, due to speak, go missing in action Facebook is like chairs...but also like toilets Barcode turns 60, doesn't look its age While not a big infographic fan, I found this one marking the 60th anniversary of the barcode to be worth the time to read. I was particularly surprised to learn that barcodes didn't begin to appear in grocery stores until 1974, also known as the year before I graduated from high school. Read More Microsoft Windows 8 ads leak online [Video] Four new Microsoft ads for Windows 8 have leaked online. The standard game of 'cat and mouse' has already started with Microsoft having YouTube remove said ads due to copyright considerations and other users posting them back up soon thereafter. That said, try and catch these while they're hot. This one is called "Make it Yours" The next one is called "Work hard Play hard" Read More Facebook tests 'Want' and 'Collect' buttons: How to get started A week after reintroducing Facebook Gifts--a feature that lets you send real items to your Facebook friends--the social network is launching another possible push into ecommerce: "Want" and "Collect" buttons. Read More 'Pinkie Pie' trips up Chrome, close to $60K at Hack in the Box It appears the hacker known as "Pinkie Pie" produced the first Chrome vulnerability at the Hack In the Box conference on Wednesday, just ahead of the deadline for the competition this afternoon. Read More Star Wars themed Angry Birds set for launch on November 8 It's one thing for a mobile game to become extremely popular. But it's rather rare for a game to become so popular that it becomes part of the mainstream vernacular. Such is the success of Angry Birds, the popular franchise developed by Rovio. Read More Nobel Prize for physics increasingly dominated by computing projects Almost half of the Nobel Prizes for physics awarded in the 21st century have been computer-related Read More Huawei, ZTE ban is questionable, given its impact A congressional committee recently published the results of an 11-month investigation of the two highly controversial Chinese vendors ZTE and Huawei. The results of the probe have been widely disseminated in the media, including a front-page story in the Wall St Journal and a 15-minute piece on 60 minutes. Read More iPhone 5 vs. the HTC One X+ The iPhone 5, for better or for worse, is inevitably the one that all new smartphone releases will be compared to, at least for the next few months. Despite slightly underwhelming initial reviews, it's an inarguably impressive device that reaches, and in some areas exceeds, its Android-powered rivals. Read More Texas school uses RFID badges to track student locations As part of a controversial trial that could someday include 112 schools and nearly 100,000 students, Northside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas, recently issued students at two of its campuses new badges with an embedded RFID (radio-frequency identification) chip in order to track their locations. Read More LinkedIn now lets you follow big thinkers, or even become one LinkedIn, looking to lure more of its 175 million users to visit its website regularly, has begun inviting members to follow a cast of 150 "influential thought leaders." Read More 'Underpaid' Microsoft CEO Ballmer sees pay slip 4% to $1.32 million Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer received a $685,000 salary and a $620,000 bonus in fiscal 2012. At his own request, he didn't receive any stock or option awards. Read More Pirate Bay founders, due to speak, go missing in action Get your conspiracy theories ready: Two founders of The Pirate Bay were due to speak at the Hack in the Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday, but didn't show up. Read More Facebook is like chairs...but also like toilets Facebook would have you believe the social network is like chairs, bridges and other things that bring people together, as seen here in its pretentious video commercial: Read More
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