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Amazon.com is offering unlimited streaming of television shows and movies for Amazon Prime subscribers. For $79 a year, customers get free 2-day shipping and access to Amazon’s library of over 5,000 shows and movies. The company’s war chest of cash allows it to pay high licensing costs of media so consumers don’t. Continue Reading →

A new scientific study showed that 50-minutes on a cell phone is enough to change your brain’s cell activity. Areas closest to the antenna showed an increase in brain metabolism, but that isn’t necessarily bad news. Much larger shifts in metabolism happen naturally. Continue Reading →

Apple’s iPad 2 may finally be on its way to store shelves. A rumor from within Apple says that the company will announce the device during an event on March 2nd. The release would be consistent with Apple’s production cycle and could step on the heels of Motorola’s Xoom launch. Read the full article at Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer shows off robots that will make cleaning your house much easier. Continue Reading →

Microsoft released a Windows software development kit for the Kinect. Enthusiasts have already been modifying the Kinect for all sorts of creative uses and Microsoft hopes the dev kit will make it easier. Encouraging people to play with these modifications can only mean that the Kinect will work with your PC sooner than later. Read Continue Reading →

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Blogs used to be the method of choice for expressing yourself online for most teenagers. But now they’re taking a backseat to the increasingly popular social media sites like Twitter. Those blogging between the ages of 12 and 17 has decreased in half with only 14% of teens still using the format. Read the full Continue Reading →

Should an employer be allowed to ask for your Facebook username and password? The ACLU is asking that question after the Maryland Department of Corrections required the information for a job interview. The information is part of their background check. Read the full article at TheAtlantic.com Continue Reading →

Motorola Xoom is supposed to be the first Android tablet to compete with the iPad, but it won’t be launching with Flash support. Flash is one of Android’s main selling points over iOS with over 6 million downloads in its app store. Xoom’s support for flash should roll out by Spring 2011. Read the full Continue Reading →