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Psychic code cracked’

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Psychic code cracked’ Everyone can be a psychic one day, or so that is the impression that I received after reading up about the efforts of a group of neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley, who claimed to have discovered a new [...] Read complete Psychic code cracked’ [...]

Coliloquy’s Active Publishing Platform Lets Readers Create Designer Heroines (Demo)

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Coliloquy’s Active Publishing Platform Lets Readers Create Designer Heroines (Demo) Back when we were kids, cutting-edge publishing technology was pretty much limited to “choose your own adventure” books. Coliloquy, a start-up demoing at D: Dive into Media, is running with that idea, in the hopes [...]

The New Yorker’s David Remnick Moves Beyond the Magazine (Video)

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The New Yorker’s David Remnick Moves Beyond the Magazine (Video) In his interview at D: Dive Into Media today, New Yorker editor David Remnick said that mobile devices, even phones, are creating new opportunities for long-form content.Remnick said that reading on a three-inch screen isn’t his [...]

Opera Mini Predicts the Winner of Super Bowl XLVI

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Opera Mini Predicts the Winner of Super Bowl XLVI I am not going to lie to you. I am a little distracted this week. You would be too if your favorite NFL team was in the Super Bowl. I am spending an inordinate amount of time reading about the Patriots and the Giants when I should, you know, be [...]

Pulse Creates a One-Stop Shop for Election News

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Pulse Creates a One-Stop Shop for Election News Want to pull yourself out of the “filter bubble” and read political news from a wide variety of sources’ You might try Pulse’s new election section. The mobile news-reading app has compiled some 25 political news outlets, including some significant [...]

Apple Encourages iPad Owners to Download E.O. Wilson's “Life on Earth”

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Apple Encourages iPad Owners to Download E.O. Wilson's “Life on Earth” Apple is using Inside iTunes to promote iBooks 2, a new version of the company’s e-reading app that now supports “a whole new level of Multi-Touch interactivity.” Not only that, but textbook authors and publishers can take [...]

Why Goodreads Gave Up on Amazon

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Why Goodreads Gave Up on Amazon Goodreads, the social network for reading and reviewing books, had to make a change this month. It moved away from its main source of book data, the Amazon Product Advertising API, citing its “many restrictions.” It completed the transition to Ingram Book Company’s [...]

These Videos Took First Place in the 2011 Original iPhone Film Festival

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These Videos Took First Place in the 2011 Original iPhone Film Festival Last Summer we told you about  the Original iPhone Film Festival. The contest only had two rules of entry: the contestants must shoot their entire video with an iOS device, and the clip could not exceed 4 and 1/2 minutes.Well [...]

New Nook Reader Tipped for Spring

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New Nook Reader Tipped for Spring The New York Times tipped that a new eReader from Barnes & Noble is currently in the midst of getting its final touches. The new eReader from Barnes & Noble will be the fifth in its line of digital reading devices called the Nook. The details of the eReader are [...]

Barnes & Noble readying ‘e-reading device’ for spring, doesn’t want to talk about it

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Barnes & Noble readying ‘e-reading device’ for spring, doesn’t want to talk about it Oh spring, flowers blooming, bees buzzing, the smell of new e-readers in the air. According to The New York Times, the folks over at Barnes & Noble’s digital team are putting the finishing touches on a “fifth [...]
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