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Google & Historypin Honor The Queen’s 60th Anniversary

[youtube id=”UurA34Kzpl8″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Google announced yesterday that the web giant will partner with Historypin to debut an educational online gallery to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, which marks the.

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Microsoft’s New Voice Translation Software Helps You Speak 26 Languages

Microsoft recently unveiled software that can translate your words into another language in your own voice, in fact it’s capable of  translating any pairing of 26 languages. The company gave a live.

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Netflix Launches “Just For Kids” Suite

Netflix announced that it will be expanding its section of family friendly movies on the instant queue to its own space for the PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Apple TV, and.

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Path 2.1 Update Encourages Deeper Sharing And Engagement

Mobile social life streaming app Path has had a rocky rise to the top of the app store. First, the half baked Path 1.0 was lukewarmly received by users. Path.

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American Psycho Author Feverishly Tweets Sequel Notes, Talks Killer Technology

Between 1 and 5 am on Saturday morning in Los Angeles, Bret Easton Ellis, author of the controversial 1991 bestseller American Psycho, began tweeting notes on a new sequel to.

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Heavy Rain Developer Pushing Facial Capture Tech Forward

At the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco this week, studio Quantic Dream showed off an eight minute long clip highlighting their new facial capture technology. The demo titled Kara.

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Dining Dialog Wins $50,000 MillerCoors Grant

Dining Dialog, a startup based in Bolingbrook, IL, recently won the 2012 MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneur Series grant of $50,000. The grant has been awarded each year since 1999 “to help.

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Chicago Techweek Gets New Executive Director; Pasky Out

Arabella Santiago has been appointed the new Executive Director of Chicago tech conference Techweek.  The Board of Directors at Techweek asked the former Executive Director, Jon Pasky, to step down.

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Instagram May Soon Be Valued At $500 Million

Instagram, the mobile image sharing app, is rumored to soon secure $40 million in financing. The new round of investors would bring the company to a total value of $500.

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Foursquare Hours – The Yelp Killer?

Foursquare announced a new feature for merchants this week just in time for SXSW: hours. This comes two months after the release of menus for merchants, which allows users to.

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