50 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

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Carnegie Mellon researchers develop robot that takes inventory, helps you find aisle four

Fed up with wandering through supermarket aisles in an effort to cross that last item off your shopping list? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Intel Science and Technology Center in Embedded Computing have developed a robot that could ease your pain and help store owners keep items in stock.

Texting and Driving: A Crash Course [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Where Are All The iPad Shopping Apps?

For a tech company founder in San Francisco, I’m a terribly late adopter of new technology. My buddy in med school had a smart phone before I did. The iPhone was out for a year before I bought the 3G. The iPad? I’m embarrassed to admit, I got my first one a month ago.

I held out on the iPad because

Ted Movie “hits the top bar” with Visual Effects Supervisor Jenny Fulle

This week as the fuzzy teddy bear toting R-rated Seth MacFarlane movie Ted comes out, we got the chance to interview Jenny Fulle of The Creative-Cartel, the group responsible for overseeing the visual effects for the film. As it is with many of the films The Creative-Cartel works with, Ted presented

Twitter Hashtag History Gets a Musical Tribute [VIDEO]

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Microsoft catches a break: ITC remands Motorola case, Xbox 360 dodges at least a 2012 ban

Things were looking grim for gaming in April, when the International Trade Commission decided that the Xbox 360 violated Motorola patents and the console’s US future was in doubt. The agency hasn’t necessarily reversed its decision, but it just gave Microsoft a significant (and possibly permanent) reprieve.

For Kristi Yamaguchi, Social Media Reshapes the Olympics

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NFC Is Great, But Mobile Payments Solve A Problem That Doesn’t Exist

For the past few years, we’ve been told over and over again that NFC will eventually replace the common wallet. And yes, NFC is a great technology. Parts of Europe and China are using it for public transport transactions, and the sharing of content between devices is incredibly cool (just check

Website Posts Mug Shots, Then Offers to Delete Them For a Fee [VIDEO]

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