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But not because you’ll crash the plane. “The power coming off a Kindle is completely minuscule and can’t do anything to interfere with a plane,” said Jay Gandhi, chief executive of EMT Labs, after going over the results of the test. “It’s so low that it just isn’t sending out any real interference.” But one Kindle isn’t sending out a …

Scientists are growing human skin out of harvested foreskins in order to reduce the need to use animals to test drugs and cosmetics. The foreskin used for the process is only taken from boys up to the age of four. “The older skin is, the worse the cells function,” explained Andreas Traube, an engineer at the institute’s department of production …

Napster ceased to exist yesterday as it was quietly folded into the streaming service Rhapsody. It was only twelve years ago that Napster heralded the still-accelerating demise of physical media, a decline jolted at rocket-speed by the 2001 advent of iTunes. But even download sites like iTunes are inevitably doomed as the world moves into the Spotify-Netflix-Rhapsody cloud. Remember when …

“If it looks the same, HOW will people know I upgraded?”

The only Apple product I’ve ever owned. (It was a gift.)

They make them so human-like just to freak people out.

A new $35 tablet (subsidized by India’s government) is in the hands of some tech sites and the reviews are surprisingly positive. What makes the Aakash tablet different is that its creators didn’t strive for perfection. Instead, the emphasis was on getting the product into the market quickly so it could be adopted, tinkered with, and improved over time. As …

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Via Atlantic: Tomorrow Amazon will unveil its answer to the iPad, reports TechCrunch’s MG Seigler. “On Wednesday morning in New York City, Amazon will unveil the Kindle Fire. Yes, this is the name Amazon has settled on, to help differentiate the product from the e-ink Kindles, which will still be very much alive and for sale.” With Amazon’s online retail …

The windows are self-tinting!

Failed politician and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has been hired to run the foundering HP, who last month pulled the plug on their brand new line of tablets. Whitman replaces current CEO Leo Apotheker after a short-lived,11-month stint, as the Silicon Valley giant continued its steep decline in both profit and investor confidence. HP not only suffers from poor …

Android Authority has the deets: Specs of Galaxy Skin include 1 GB RAM; 1.2 GHz processor; 8 MP rear camera and VGA front camera with auto focus, self-portrait, stop motion, action shot, and Panorama shots; and 1500 mAh battery. Connectivity-wise, it has Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0, and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n features. It will reportedly run on Android Jellybean (the next …

Poor Groupon. Aside from being one of the most over-hyped and destined to flameout internet companies since Kozmo, they face hordes of competitors who have not only jumped on their concept, but use similar names as well. Via Techcrunch, here’s the backstory on Gaypon: Before becoming a Gaypon merchant, businesses are put through a background check of sorts, where they …

Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab hooked up two chatbots to see what they’d say each other. Creepy. And right afterwards, they plotted together to destroy humanity. In other news, chatbots exist.