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We know that prototype iPhone 4 units were disguised to look like older generation units using some clever cases. Now the NYT is speculating that this clever iPhone 4 testing disguise may have actually prevented Apple from noticing the odd antenna performance when the phone is held directly. More »










IPhone – Apple – Handhelds – Smartphones – iPhone 4

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The debate on how the internet is affecting our brains rages on, with the latest take coming from Nick Bilton on the NYT’s Bits Blog. His contention? The web is stretching our brains in new and valuable ways. [NYTimes] More »










Nick Bilton – Bits Blog – FAQs Help and Tutorials – Business – History

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Yelp has plenty of restaurant reviews and OpenTable lets you make reservations at many of those restaurants. Well, now you can make those OpenTable reservations directly from the Yelp website. A perfectly logical union. [NYT] More »










OpenTable – Food – Recreation – Dining Guides – United States

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One of the biggest advantages Barnes & Noble’s Nook has had over the Kindle is that prospective purchasers can fondle one in store—the Kindle, available only online, is a “thing” more than a product. But that’s going to change Sunday when Target starts selling Kindles. The ability to replenish my ever-low supply of Axe Body Wash and buy some of that future readin’, in one store? I love Target. [NYT] More »










Barnes & Noble – Target Corporation – AmazonKindle – E-book – Business

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Our very own Wilson Rothman teamed up with his friends “Addison Richards, a certified sommelier and the wine director of the Wild Ginger restaurant in Seattle, and Noah Musler, an avid wine collector” to review some bottle-top wine accessories for the NYT’s Diner’s Journal. The article is well worth a read even if you’re not ready to hop into #drunkmodo just yet. [NYT] More »










Wine – Drink – Shopping – Food – Recreation

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Facebook has 50 settings with more than 170 options…just for privacy. The absurdity is charted here thanks to what surely took a team of supercomputers and thousands of sacrificial interns at the NYT. [NYT] More »










Facebook – Privacy – Security – Social network – Online Communities

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This week’s NYT Magazine cover story, penned by Wired’s Gary Wolf, is about people who obsessively collect data on themselves—how much they eat or sleep, how happy they feel, etc.—and use those numbers to methodically improve their lives. More »

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Google’s TV ambitions scrambled into view last month, when the NYT outlined the company’s plans. Today, we learn a little more: Google—with Sony—is making an announcement next month, around a version of Android called Dragonpoint. UPDATED More »

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Asked by the NYT how he’d feel if someone lost a prototype Android phone in a bar, Google’s Andy Rubin reveals the stark difference between Google and Apple—among other topics, like Flash for Android 2.2. [Bits] More »

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The Chemex defines clean coffee—the spare apparatus, and the actual brew it produces. Both timeless and starkly modern, it might surprise you that its inventor drove a Cadillac with a gold Chemex mounted on the driver’s door. [NYT] More »

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