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Headlines: Alien edition
Welcome to our first weekly headlines roundup. The aim of this series of articles is to give you a good insight not only on the tech world’s top news of the week, but to redirect you towards hand picked articles that are definitely worth reading. As always, if you’d like us to include a certain topic or if you know about an article that you feel worthy of this selection, send us an email at tips@techhaze.com and we’ll have a look. Also, don’t hesitate to leave comments bellow.
Alien research is crazy: Yup, Brad Niesluchowski got fired from his job at Higley Unified School District, because he looked for aliens using the SETI program of which he was the NEZ. Don’t ask, read.
Google’s Zeitgeist: Google published its 2009 Year-End Google Zeitgeist analysis. Surprise, Michael Jackson and Facebook are the fastest rising search terms on the net, while Beijing and Euro 2008 are freefalling. Have a look at the page
The second camera on smartphones is finally useful: Remember that small camera the the more expensive phone models? Yes, the one your girlfriend uses to do endless self-shoot sessions. Well guess what, it finally got useful, thanks to to VoIP video calls on mobile devices. Speciffically, there’s and iPhone app for that, “Fring”. Oh right, the iPhone doesn’t have any forward facing cam. Too bad.
Welcome to the bionic age: A guy managed to control a robotic hand using his mind. Anakin Skywalker, your bionic show off doesn’t impress anymore.
Quicksilver got updated: The popular (and genius) launch application for Mac OSX (only) got refreshed for Snow Leopard and also underwent performance tweaks and bug fixes. Not too bad for an app that’s not being developed anymore, and whose developer is working on Google Chrome.
Yes, an Apple Tablet post: We managed to go through two weeks of TechHaze writing without posting a single Apple Tablet article, but this time, we couldn’t resist: Have a look at Times Inc.’s approach to the matter.
Twitter founder wants your credit card info so bad that he invented an app (and accessory) for the iPhone. Oh, and he wants the money on the card as well, so be ready to spend 299$ for it.
It’s not the end of the world yet: I’ve always been worried the LHC would explode or something, creating a black hole that would swallow our aerospace writer, Raimondo, who lives in Swizzerland, because we need him. Anyway, our spacegeek readers can stay assured, the LHC is plagued by power failures (and world records).
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