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After winning a billion dollar patent infringement judgment against Samsung, Apple has already named the products it wants taken off the market.

Virgin Airlines has launched an in-flight voter registration screen. Scan the QR code and you’ll be linked to Rock The Vote, who registered two million new voters in 2008.

The Federal Trade Commission has fined Google $22.5M for secretly placing tracking cookies on the users of Apple’s Safari browser after telling them that they wouldn’t. It’s the largest tech fine in FTC history. In its complaint, the FTC charged that for several months in 2011 and 2012, Google placed a certain advertising tracking cookie on the computers of Safari …

Microsoft is doing away with Hotmail and replacing it something a jillion times better, swear! On Tuesday, Microsoft took the wraps off its new webmail service, which eventually will replace the highly popular Hotmail. The updated service is a big redesign that allows Outlook.com accounts to be synchronized across a range of devices, and includes integration with social networking sites …

An inevitable development for 3D printers. Get ready. It’s now possible to print weapons at home. An amateur gunsmith, operating under the handle of “HaveBlue” (incidentally, “Have Blue” is the codename that was used for the prototype stealth fighter that became the Lockheed F-117), announced recently in online forums that he had successfully printed a serviceable .22 caliber pistol. Despite …

Complaints about hook-up sites and their effect on the gay social scene have existed since before the launch of Manhunt. This week New York Magazine claims that Grindr is destroying Fire Island’s legendary see and be seen culture. Log in to Grindr on Fire Island, as you would anywhere else, and you’ll see a grid of 100 smiling faces and …

Via the Los Angeles Times: Apple’s next iPhone is expected to have a bigger screen and now a new report says it will also have a thinner one. The Cupertino, Calif., tech giant is already mass-producing the screens, which will integrate touch capabilities into the LCD and thereby removing the need for a second layer used to make it a …

It’s the 21st century version of that geek favorite, the calculator watch. And Gizmodo really hates it.

Yahoo went fishing in the executive offices of rival Google for their new CEO. The appointment of Marissa Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google and was one of the few public faces of the company, is considered a surprising coup for Yahoo, which has struggled in recent years to attract top flight talent in its battle with competitors …

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The ACLU of New Jersey has launched a smartphone app that will secretly record your encounters with the police. The ACLU’s Alexander Shalom said the app is easy to use. “There’s really only three buttons that the user needs to deal with,” Shalom said. “There’s a know your rights button that educates the citizen about their rights when encountering police …

Well, it was impressive for the few seconds it lasted. Confused crowds were told to go home several minutes later.

Geek sites are slavering over Google’s coming Nexus 7, their smaller than an iPad, bigger than an iPhone tablet. Engadget raves: The Nexus 7 is an amazing package for something that costs a penny less than $200. It feels like something that could sell for much more. It has a great screen, solid performance and a clean, clear, uncluttered version …

If it has a keyboard is it really a tablet? The tablet features many of the now-standard tablet specs, including a 10.6 inch high-definition touchscreen and front and rear facing cameras, which all fit into a 9.3 millimeter, 1.5-pound frame. But Surface also brings some new innovations to the tablet space. The device’s cover, for instance, flips down to become …

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I’m one of those rare folks who are more fascinated than repelled when a nurse’s needle plunges into my arm. But I have some sturdy butch friends who get the vapors at the prospect of a shot. This is for them, surely. And chalk up another prediction for Gene Roddenberry.

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Not unlike the floating chairs from WALL-E.