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Will Facial-Recognition Software Finally Reveal Mona Lisa's True Identity? [Art]





Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, received an initial grant of $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which they will use to explore the effectiveness of cutting-edge...
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All Things Hired: Bonnie Cha Is Our Latest ATD Reviewer

On the heels of our recent hiring of Mike Isaac to cover social tech for this site, Bonnie Cha will be joining the staff of All Things Digital as a senior reviewer.
She joins Walt Mossberg and Katie Boehret, as well as recent hire Lauren Goode, as part o...
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A Brief History Of Easter Eggs In Tech [Easter Eggs]





The Easter egg—as in a hidden surprise or in-joke, not the chocolate treat—can be dated back to the last Russian imperial family who gifted people with jewel-encrusted Fabergé eggs containing a...
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This Super Face-Scanning Software Thinks It Can Guess Your Age [Facial Recognition]





Here's a pleasant first little look at Skynet—Face.com, which develops facial recognition software, now boasts that it can pinpoint your age based on your mug alone. Let's test it out. More &...
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This Astronomy App Totally Justifies the Cost of a Surface Table [Video]





Unless you run a restaurant or need an eye-catching trade show demo, you've probably never considered dropping $8,400 on a Microsoft Surface table. But this galaxy-bending demo of David Brown's NUIverse a...
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Vaunted Yahoo Techie Departs for Microsoft (Surprised? Me Neither.)

One of Yahoo’s most respected researchers, Raghu Ramakrishnan, who is the author of one of the most famous database textbooks, “Database Management Systems,” has left the Silicon Valley company to join Microsoft. He was also critical to...
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The First 3D Model of DNA Looks Like the Spinning Beach Ball of Life [Dna]





Scientists have created the first 3D model of DNA, thanks to a new software buit by a young Harvard scientist. Depicting the way DNA packs itself inside a cell, we couldn't help but see it as a beach ball ...
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We're Expanding: All Things Digital Would Like You to Meet All Things Reviewed

Tomorrow, as part of the commitment that AllThingsD has to providing its readers with ever more high-quality content, this site will be launching a new reviews section, All Things Reviewed.
Simply put, we’re building on the consumer tech reviews we...
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Exclusive: Amid Layoffs in AOL's AIM and Mail Ranks, Top Execs Shellen and Van Miltenburg to Also Depart

According to sources, AOL will be announcing that it is making cuts of up to 40 employees in its communication products teams, specifically its AIM instant messaging and AOL Mail units. As part of the changes, its SVP of business operations Eric van Milt...
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Talent Management Start-Up PeopleMatter Raises $14M, Led by Morgenthaler

PeopleMatter said it has raised $14 million in a Series C funding, which was led by Morgenthaler Ventures.
The Charleston, S.C.-based software company, which focuses on hourly workers, said the new investment will be used for product innovation and custo...
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Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad Is Here [Photoshop]





Late last year, Adobe launched Photoshop Touch for Android, promising a version for iPad not long after. Now the wait is over. More »



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BlackBerry PlayBook OS2 Is Available to Download [BlackBerry]





As predicted, RIM's attempt to salvage the PlayBook—an updated operating system—is available today. Now, basic tablet functionality can be had by PlayBook users: e-mail, calendar and contacts p...
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Health Help: Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz Talks About New CareZone Start-Up (Video)
I certainly was not expecting the kind of start-up that former Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz — he of the fantastic ponytail — showed off to me at AllThingsD.com Global HQ earlier this week.
No enterprise. No servers. No software.
Ins...
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VLC 2.0 Announced: New UI and Blu-ray Support for OS X

VideoLAN has announced VLC 2.0 and the first release candidate is available to the public today. The biggest changes are in the OS X version but there are a few interesting changes in the Windows version as well, such as a 64-bit version and suppor...
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Not the iPad 3 or New TV -- But Apple Planning Media-Related Event in the Big(ger) Apple This Month

According to sources close to the situation, Apple is planning an important — but not large-scale — event to be held in New York at the end of this month that will focus on a media-related announcement.
Per the usual caveat, the tech giant i...
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How Can Online Massage Scheduling Help Me Run a Smoother Business?
We are living in a mobile era. These days, nearly any sort of transaction can be conducted via mobile device. With the increase of scheduling software, many LMT’s are seeing the benefits of online massage scheduling.
One scheduling limitation therap...
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Google Will Pay Mozilla Almost $300M Per Year in Search Deal, Besting Microsoft and Yahoo
Please see this disclosure related to me and Google.

Earlier this week, Google and Mozilla said they had struck a deal to renew their search royalty agreement for another three years.
What the pair declined to add: The search giant will pay just under $3...
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What Exoplanets Might Really Look Like











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Casino Denies $57 Million Jackpot Because of "Software Glitch" [Wtf]





Have you ever imagined how would it feel to hit a $57 million slot machine jackpot? It must be an amazing feeling. Now, what would you do if the casino denied you the prize because of a "software glitch"? ...
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The Windows 8 Public Beta Rumored for a February Release [Windows 8]





TheNextWeb has sources at Microsoft telling them that the Windows 8 public beta will arrive in February of next year, though little is known about what new features might be included in the beta. More&n...
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Former Palm and Twitter Techie Mike Abbott Jumps From EIR at Benchmark to Kleiner Partner

Kleiner Perkins has nabbed former Twitter engineering head Mike Abbott, who left the social communications company less than two months ago to be an entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital.
(Well, that didn’t last long, Mike, but maybe the ...
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No One Ever Reads Software Licence Agreements
You could put absolutely anything in those agreements and no one would know!
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The Fate of Flash on Mobile Devices: Here's the Adobe CEO Talking About It at D9

When Walt Mossberg interviewed Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen in June at the ninth D: All Things Digital conference about the future — or lack thereof — of Flash, and about the software company’s ugly fight with Apple over not supporting th...
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Horse Flash: Apple's Steve Jobs on Adobe Vendetta in 2010 at D8 (Video)

At a 2010 onstage interview with Walt Mossberg and me at the eighth D: All Things Digital conference, the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs spent a lot of time — and with considerable passion — talking about his company’s decision to dump Adobe...
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Adobe Admits It Is Saying Buh-Bye to Flash for Mobile Devices

In a blog post by one of its execs, titled “Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5,” Adobe said what had already been reported: That it would no longer be developing its well-known Flash ...
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Jawbone Debuts UP, Which Tracks, Well, You (Video)

Jawbone, the San Francisco mobile products company famous for the Jawbone mobile headsets and the Jambox wireless speakers, introduced its latest offering today called UP.
The company had previously shown off the small $99 wristband and an Apple iPhone a...
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Former FCC Chairman Reed Hundt Joins Kno Board

Former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Reed Hundt will join the board of Kno, the online education start-up.
He is currently the principal at REH Advisors.
The Silicon Valley-based Kno began its life offering a student-aimed tablet and educat...
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For Amazing Replica Halloween Costumes, Just Be Shawn Thorsson [Video]






Also, own a 3D printer and some 3D digital modeling software and have some sick design skills. Besides that, not a very difficult costume to pull off. More »






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Viral Video: Microsoft Songsmith Demo (Justin Bieber Can Relax Now)

Some things you cannot even make up. Take, for instance, this achingly awkward demo video for Microsoft’s Songsmith software.
[Update: The video has now been removed from YouTube. Can't imagine why ...]
Released several years ago, Songsmith is a pr...
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Yahoogle Redux? Why "Project Porcupine" Means Someone Is Definitely Going to Lose an Eye This Time.
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You gotta hand it to those geniuses over at the Googleplex, thinking up adorkable names for all their various plots and schemes.
And for its latest look-see of the Yahoo situation, it has revived an ol...
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Enough With The Ridiculous Product Code Names [Rant]






You see that photo right above these words? That's a fucking ice cream sandwich. You know what's on the next generation of Android phones? An operating system. Android 4.0 to be specific. I defy you to ea...
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Exclusive: Twitter's VP Engineering Mike Abbott Departs

According to sources close to the situation, Twitter VP of Engineering Mike Abbott has left the company.
He is apparently interested in doing more investing.
[UPDATE: Twitter confirmed the departure in a statement, noting that Abbott was joining Benchmar...
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Analog for Mac is like having Instagram on your desktop. Almost.
Adding filters and effects to your photos is a popular trend on the web right now, and Instagram is leading the charge. Path also lets you do similar things on its super small social networking app. But what about when you’re on your actual laptop...
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You Won't Believe This Video Is Not Real Slow-Motion [Video]






A year ago, BASE jumper Jeb Corliss defied death by jumping off a mountain in Switzerland wearing only his wing-suit and five GoPro cameras. A few days ago he processed some of his video through Twixtor....
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My Picks for Yahoo's Next CEO -- Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

The firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz leaves open one of the bigger and more difficult jobs in tech — one that has taken its toll on many.
Nonetheless, rapper Snoop Dogg stepped right up to the Twitter plate yesterday, as soon as news broke of the ou...
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HuffPo Hires Google Engineer Dierks
AOL’s media arm, the Huffington Post Media Group, has hired longtime Google techie Tim Dierks to oversee its growing programming engineering team as SVP of engineering.
Dierks founded and developed Google Checkout, among other things, at the search...
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WebOS Won't Find a Home at Samsung [WebOS]






If HP is as eager to sell! sell! sell! as they seem, today's Samung Electronics news must be a little disheartening: CEO Choi Gee Sung said that his company would "never" buy webOS. Won't anyone give it a...
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A Happy Birthday Linux Post Written by a Linux Script [Linux]






Our birthday tribute to Linux might have been a little lacking. So we turned the mic over to a custom-written Linux script running on Ubuntu to let the OS to talk a little about itself on this special day...
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Linux Turns 20 Today—And Shut Up, Yes, It Still Matters [Techversary]






We get it. Linux is just for nerds. Not mere nerds—we're all nerds—Linux nerds. It's a hobbyist OS for contrarians. It's an antique. An oddity. Pointless. Right? Very, very wrong. Happy birthd...
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Photoshop Tutorial Rap 2: Still Surprisingly Handy! [Video]






The Photoshop Rap Tutorial is back in all its remarkably educational glory. In fact, if anything it's less funny than the first but more instructive, and I'm pretty sure I'm happier that way: More ...
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This $5 Million Piece of Art Is a 1 Terabyte Hard Drive Filled with Pirated Software, Songs and More [Art]






This hard drive contains software like Adobe's Font Collection, a 124GB music collection, tons of games, books and more. All the files were downloaded illegally and is supposed to represent, I'm assuming ...
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Download.com Is Pushing Bloatware [Internet]






Ew. Download.com is making users download new software through a proprietary installer that also installs a bunch of 3rd party programs, ExtremeTech reports. This is pretty gross and dishonest. But really...
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With HP's Raising of the World's Biggest White Flag, Will Jon Rubinstein and Todd Bradley Surrender Too?

It wasn’t until dinner this past Sunday night that CEO Léo Apotheker told Todd Bradley, the head of its Personal Systems Group, that he was about to push key parts of Bradley’s huge unit off the cliff.
That included stopping selling hardware ...
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Motoogle: BOOM! The Mobile Business Just Got Completely Blown Up
With the entry of Google into the handset-making market, the search giant has just declared a number of things, most especially that its own future is all about mobile.
With the $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility, the iconic but struggling maker...
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Every Horrible Wrinkle Is Visible In Microsoft's 3D Modeling Software [Microsoft]






Even if your skin resembles a dewy peach more than Daniel-Craig-as-Mikael-Blomkvist, be worried: Microsoft's 3D modeling is the most advanced ever built; capable of showing every wrinkle in your face. Nat...
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In Defense of Youthful Piracy: One Mac Developer's View [Piracy]






Mac developer Phillip Ryu has written a compelling post on Google + describing his experience with software piracy as a young high school student. More »






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More AsiaD Speakers: Sony, Google+, Microsoft, Hollywood, Huawei and Hot SV Start-Ups!

After our grand tour of Asia last week — with stops in Korea and Japan — it seems like a perfect time to update the speaker list for our upcoming AsiaD conference in Hong Kong in October.
As Walt Mossberg and I said, we are trying to mix both...
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Microsoft PR Ninja Strikes Back at Google Patent Whine With Email Jujitsu

After Google’s legal head David Drummond let forth with a blog post about how Microsoft and Apple had formed an evil patent cabal against the search giant, the software giant’s PR head Frank Shaw was not having any of it.
In his post, Drummon...
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Scientists Build Software to Rescue Stalled Programs

By Ryan Paul, Ars Technica
MIT researchers have developed an experimental software framework called Jolt that allows applications to recover in some cases when they hang. When Jolt detects that a program is stuck in a certain kind of infinite loop, it...
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Why An Amazing Surf Director Thinks FCP X Should Be Called Final Cut Amateur [Video]






Cyrus Sutton is a surfer. And he's reviewing Final Cut Pro X for Gizmodo. Why? Because he's one of the best surf flick directors in decades. His movies exude a summertime vibe I wish I could bottle up f...
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