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Amazon Starts Delivering Items In Reusable Totes

By Chris Scott Barr

If you do a lot of shopping online, then chances are that you’re used to having a plethora of boxes and packing supplies taking up space in your house. Not only is it a pain to get rid of, but it’s not very environmentally friendly. Amazon is trying to do their part to cut down on the amount of waste used in shipping by introducing the Amazon Tote.

If you live in the Seattle area, you can select to have your orders sent to you in a tote. The totes go out once a week, and everything you’ve ordered in that time will be delivered in one. They’ll come back and pick it up on their next round, or you can keep it. The option is free, so you don’t need to pay more to do your part. However, if you do happen to be an Amazon Prime member, you can have totes sent out twice a week, instead of just once.

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La Porsche Spyder 918 en Chine en Avant-première

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Attendu par tous les fans d’automobile, la Porsche Spyder 918, première supercar hybride et une des voitures les plus chères chez Porsche n’a été pour le moment que présenté en tant que concept car… sauf en Chine où elle existe déjà ! La ressemblance est quasi parfaite et l’aérodynamisme est

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Android leader Motorola still well behind Apple's iPhone

Motorola reported a phenomenal 600 percent leap in earnings this quarter, but is still behind Apple in mobile units sold and is far behind in smartphone sales, leaving Apple the top US phone vendor by units for the second quarter in a row.

Lab tested: 21.5- and 27-inch Core i3 iMacs/3.2GHz

Straight from Macworld Lab: Benchmark results of two new iMacs, both of which sport Intel's 3.2GHz Core i3 processor.

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MeeGo becomes infotainment operating system of choice for BMW, GM, Hyundai and more

It's getting to the point where it's not terribly easy to keep track of all the in-car entertainment initiatives our wondrous connected future has in store, but here's two names you'll want to remember: GENIVI and MeeGo. The former is an industry alliance that now includes automakers GM, BMW, Hyundai and Peugeot Citroen alongside the likes of ARM, NVIDIA, Nokia and Intel, and MeeGo is the Linux-based OS that they've just decided will soon be powering our cars. Don't expect this to affect your daily drive anytime soon, but in the long run we wouldn't be surprised to hear that the Moblin-Maemo base underpins future revisions of Terminal Mode and OnStar.

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Nadia Digital Camera Lacks Live Preview, Instead Provides An Aesthetics Rating Of What You’ve Shot

By Andrew Liszewski

Normally it’s not the camera that makes a good photograph, but the photographer. But the Nadia digital camera, created by Andrew Kupresanin, could turn anyone into an Ansel Adams. Instead of an LCD display showing what you’ve just shot, or even a viewfinder for that matter, the Nadia shows a judgment of the aesthetic qualities of your most recent photo as a percentage. The camera, which is actually a boxed up Nokia N73 communicating with a Mac over Bluetooth, uses the ACQUINE Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine to gauge the merit of your photography. And since Nadia is just a prototype, hopefully future versions will be able to provide real-time feedback so you’ll know the optimal time to snap a photo. Who says the Pulitzer Prize for photography should only be for professionals who know what they’re doing?

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Bend to zoom tablet

This mysterious bending screen recently appeared in the Tech channel ot China’s Youku video sharing site. The video shows what seems to be a prototype/pre production tablet screen that allow the user to zoom in and out by literally bending the screen!
The screen in the video seems to bend a fair amount without very little

Limited iMac retail inventory precedes anticipated update

Some Apple retail stores have run out of stock of both 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMac models, ahead of an expected refresh to the desktop Mac hardware.

Mozilla re-patches Firefox 3.6 to fix plug-in problem

For the second time in two months, Mozilla has rushed out a fix for Firefox to patch a problem with a browser update issued just days before.

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