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Google has launched Art Project, an interactive site allowing users to wander around the world’s great museums and zoom in on masterpieces with great detail. Pretty damn cool. And talk about an internet time suck!

The cereal brands at your grocery stores may soon be shouting and dancing at you courtesy of a new technology called eCoupling. An electric induction strip under the boxes powers the animation and records inventory levels as items are removed. Very Minority Report.

Nearly a billion more people in just ten years and almost twice as many endangered species. Embiggen for a better look. (Source)

OK, this one kinda blows my mind. (Via – The Daily What)

Using stem cell technology, scientists have been able to create male and female baby mice from two male parents. Most notably for us here, the breakthrough raises the possibility of same-sex couples having children genetically related to both parents. In the work reported today, the Behringer team manipulated fibroblasts from a male (XY) mouse fetus to produce an induced pluripotent …

Hit this link for 19 amazing examples of high dynamic range photography.

Russia Today reports: A private company has launched a spacecraft in a bold demonstration test for NASA. The Space Exploration Technologies rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday morning. The Falcon 9 is carrying a capsule named Dragon. The company, known as SpaceX, hopes to place the capsule in orbit and then bring it back to Earth three hours …

Smartphone market shares stand at about a three-way tie, with third-place Android predicted by some to take first place in the next few months. Lots of wonky demographics at the link.

Apple is teasing a “huge” announcement for iTunes that will make the product “unforgettable.” Tech watchers are betting on a change to a cloud-based service in which your library would be hosted remotely, but accessible from any web-enabled device such as your iPhone. Others are guessing on a Zune-like subscription service in which you’d have access to all of iTunes …

More than 3.6M views on YouTube in just three weeks.

The commenters here do a pretty good job of explaining both sides of the chart.

After test-running the feature in some markets, this week Time-Warner Cable officially launched its free “Look Back” feature, which is a sort of On Demand function that allows you to pull up shows that have run in the previous 72 hours. That’s handy if you forgot to set your DVR or see a bunch of raves about something on Facebook. …

Remember how much I detest those self check-out stations at CVS and elsewhere? Well, I ran into the same thing at a hotel for the first time this weekend in Philadelphia and I must report with chagrin that I actually liked it. No line at the unstaffed front desk, just a quick credit card swipe and the machine spat out …

Electronics self-repair site iFixit has issued a manifesto against Apple and other manufacturers that purposely create products that thwart any repair attempts by their owners. An excerpt: Manufacturers push new models every year with just enough style tweaks to make our last one feel obsolete. They use legal threats to keep repair manuals away from us and deploy so-called ‘security …

British scientists are working on a cell phone app that will let you pee on your phone to get an instant STD test. Sort of! People who suspect they have been infected will be able to put urine or saliva on to a computer chip about the size of a USB chip, plug it into their phone or computer and …

The Technics analog turntable, the most beloved and widely-used machine in the history of nightclubs, is no more. Sigh. If I had back all the time I’ve spent within earshot of a pair of SL-1200s, I’d still be in my 30s. I am not kidding.

More vintage tech ads are here. OMG the hair.

I, for one, welcome our new Japanese lady robot overlords.

After 30 years and 200 million units, Sony has announced the end of its iconic cassette Walkman. In other news, Sony was still making the Walkman. The Sony Discman, inexplicably, continues to live. I remember thinking the Walkman was overpriced and always getting cheapo knockoffs which would fall apart within a few months. I finally caved when that super-fly bright …