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It’s not entirely clear to me that March 17 is the actual birthday of the so-called “Black Box”, but who am I to argue with Wired’s This Day in Tech ? According to them, the idea for the flight data recorder was born in 1953 by an Australian named David Warren. The first prototype was complete in 1957, and within a couple of years became a standard feature on all commercial airplanes

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Today in history: the flight data recorder

Ten years ago, Final Fantasy VII upped the ante on realistic portrayals of their human characters in their cinematics. It’s a good thing, too –those cinematics became a terrific reward for the hours spent acquiring EXP and levelling up to make one’s characters fortuitous enough to withstand the battles they laid in wait behind

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NVIDIA tries creating real hair

Look at this little guy. It’s just a $20 camcorder that promises to shoot 640

Autoquake, an online used car retailer in the UK, has raised another £6 million round of venture capital and venture debt financing from existing investors Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners. The debt is being provided by Kreos Capital. This is after raising £4m from Accel and Highland only last year. That takes its total funding so far to £20 million. The money will be used to expand internationally.

Autoquake’s plan is to disrupt the car retail industry by selling quality used cars on behalf of large corporate fleets and leasing companies direct to consumers via virtual showrooms. High quality pictures of the actual cars on sale appear instead of the usual fuzzy pictures on the average second hand advert.

I first learned of Allmyapps at Le Web ‘09 when the company’s CEO Thibauld Favre, and co-Founder Aranaud Coulondre, grabbed my attention and enticed me into a demo. I nearly missed my flight. Allmyapps, a small but ambitious startup based in France, aims to become the “iTunes for software applications” as Thibauld puts it, bringing simple 1 click multi-application install to end-users.

When is a qwerty keyboard a bad idea? When it’s on the Samsung E61 e-book reader

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Samsung shows off E61, the ebook reader with a bad keyboard

Five days. We’re a whopping five days away from the game’s official release date, but BioShock 2 , the second truly big game of the year (the other being Mass Effect 2 ) has now leaked. Well, the Xbox 360 version, that is.

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Where were you when the Xbox 360 version of BioShock 2 leaked? (Because it just did, you see.)

Get ready home shoppers, Alienware is going to be paying you a visit at 1am Eastern time on the 6th. Apparently, showing up on geeky TV shows and at Blizzcon isn’t enough, so Alienware is going to be selling it old school: on QVC late nights

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Alienware to probe shoppers on QVC

Oh my gaaaaaawwwwd. Why would you play it in any other way

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Aliens Vs. Predator on Eyefinity – sweet lord YES

A recent AT&T earnings call consisted of a lot of talk talk talk but one slide stands out: it essentially admits that 3G in San Francisco and New York sucked ween AKA were both far below their official performance objective.

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Holy wow! AT&T admits NYC/San Fran 3G service sucked