How Google Glass Will Save Car Enthusiasts From Extinction

  “Computers are killing the automotive hobby!” Car geeks say this with defeatist disdain; tech nerds utter it with futurist superiority. Thing is, they’re both wrong. Virtual reality and wearable tech could very well save hobbyist mechanics from becoming the 21st century’s

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A Magical Internet Machine That Guesses your Passwords

  Got a super-secure password? Maybe you shouldn’t be so sure. Telepasswords can help you find out, and practically read your mind in the process. The new project from Microsoft Research has a simple premise: you start typing one of your favorite

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How YouTube Works

You’re about to watch a video via YouTube. Hell, you watch dozens of videos every day on YouTube. But do you have any idea how it works? If not, it’s worth watching this video. Where does all that video live? How does

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The Faces of Facebook app shows all 1.2 billion users

Faces of Facebook is aggregating the profiles of every user to give a birds-eye view of the social network     Do you ever wonder about the first person to join Facebook after you? Probably not, unless you and a friend clicked

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Google celebrates its 15th birthday with animated pinata doodle

  TheMech: Wish Google a Happy Birthday! Google on Friday marks its 15th birth anniversary with an animated and interactive doodle on its home page. Google, the search engine giant, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, students of

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Nokia: Selling phone business to Microsoft painful but necessary

Outgoing CEO Stephen Elop, who’ll head back to Microsoft with the $7.2 billion acquisition, says Nokia didn’t have enough clout on its own to rise again in the mobile market.   The decision to sell Nokia’s devices and services division to Microsoft

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Micromax’s biggest, most expensive phone launched

Micromax launches Canvas Doodle 2 (A240)   Micromax has rolled out the successor of its Canvas Doodle smartphone.  The new handset, dubbed as Micromax Canvas Doodle 2, is now available on snapdeal.com for Rs 19,990. The A240 Canvas Doodle 2, which is

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Google Search Gets Improved Dictionary Definitions With Sample Sentences, Synonyms, Translations And Usage Stats

Here is a small but cool update to Google Search: Google’s dictionary definitions — which you can invoke by using a query like “define crunch ” — now feature significantly more information about virtually every word in its catalog. The update, Google says,

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Facebook Wants to Get the Entire World on the Internet :: TheMech.in

  In either a selfless bid to change the world or an unsurprising play to get another billion users on Facebook, good ol’ Zuckerberg has announced a new initiative called Internet.org that teams up Facebook with Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm and Ericsson to

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Windows XP Secrets

Notepad Secrets Create a log Open Notepad On the very first line, type in “.LOG” (without quotes) then press Enter for a new line Now you can type in some text if you want, then save the file. Next time when you

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