Image Source : womensrights.change.org The greatest threat to healthy female body image might just be…a computer program. That’s right : Photoshop isn’t just manipulating the colors and shades of the sky in the background, it’s manipulating the way we think about female beauty

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Photoshop Disasters: Technology Used to Uphold Dangerous Beauty Standards

Barbie Computer Engineer | Image Source : Escapistmagazine.com Barbie is no longer the less-than-intelligent blonde she once was, now earning her keep as a professional geek. Barbie has had over 100 careers since 1959, taking on the work of firefighter to astronaut, and Mattel has just revealed her latest. Barbie’s 126th career will be computer engineer, establishing her as an official nerd

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Barbie Finds New Career in Information Technology

nullA series of mysterious music clips uploaded to YouTube over the last week have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times and have bloggers excitedly guessing which artist is behind it. Is it pop princess Christina Aguilera?

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Who is iamamiwhoami? The making of a Web Mystery

Image Source : Silicon.com London: A group of computer scientists have come up with a system that deciphers the templates a botnet uses to create spam, and these templates are then used to teach spam filters what to look for. This can be used to block the most common kind of spam.

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A system to cut down computer’s spam diet

Touch Screen Table : Image Source : siliconindia.com Washington: Researchers have designed Pictionaire, a 1.8 meter long table, which is placed directly beneath a ceiling-mounted camera and projector, which can “read” and respond to items placed on the table. This is developed by Microsoft researchers Andy Wilson along with colleagues from University of California, Berkeley, according to ANI. When a user places a sketchbook on the table, the ceiling mounted equipment recognises it by its size and shape, and projects virtual “drag-off” handle onto the corner of the page.

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After touch screen tablet, now touch screen table

Larry Page and Sergey Brin | Image Source : Mashable.com Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two billionaire co-founders of Google, will each sell 5 million of their Google shares over the next five years, according to an SEC filing. Since Page and Brin are significant shareholders and executives for the technology giant, they are required to report their transaction plans for their piece of the company they founded over a decade ago.

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Google Founders to Sell 10 Million of Their Google Shares

Auto Lift Iron | Image Source : Telegraph.co.uk An iron that prevents inattentive users from burning their shirts has been developed by retailers. The £57 Auto Lift iron from appliances company Ariete has micro-sensors embedded in the handle so it ‘knows’ when it is not being held or used

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Iron ‘that won’t burn clothes’

Software giant issues patch to prevent attacks like the one that hit Google in China. Google China | Image Source : Media.macworld.co.uk Microsoft Corp.

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Microsoft Acts To Ward Off Attacks

Cell phones | Image Source : Collegemedianetwork.com Tech-savvy people ushered in 2010 with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where companies from around the world showcased new products and ideas about technology. Cell phones were a staple of the show, specifically phones featuring Windows Mobile or Google Android operating systems.

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Google Innovates in Distribution, Not Just Technology

TATA-Nano Car | Image Source : Theautochannel.com The Nano is one of the most talked about cars in the automotive universe. You may recall stories over the last couple years about this Indian company building the cheapest real car in the world to sell for $2,500 – the same Indian company, by the way, that bought Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford. The story goes that the fourth generation leader of the Tata Group, Mr

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Tata Nano in Detroit