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  • Once upon a time, the future belonged to an increasingly smaller form factor when it came to mobile phones. Now it seems the tide has changed, and larger screens continue to expand their requisite real estate on new handsets. In this week's issue of our weekly, Jon Fingas takes a good, long look...
    Source: Engadget
  • iOS (Jailbroken): The lock screen on the iPhone hasn't changed much since its inception, but if you're looking to give it a slight overhaul without changing everything, SubtleLock is a simple little jailbreak tweak that gives your lock screen a lot more room to breath. More »
    Source: Life Hacker
  • Samsung is planning to blitz the Academy Awards telecast on Sunday with a total of four and a half minutes of commercials, one of which will feature director Tim Burton. The ads continue the story of a small company trying to create a videogame called Unicorn Apocalypse, a shift that comes as...
    Source: Mashable
  • An eye-implanted chip from Retina Implant has restored patients' ability to discern light during its latest trial, according to German researchers. The device works in a similar fashion to the newly FDA-approved Argus II retinal prosthesis to return limited vision in patients with photoreceptor...
    Source: Engadget
  • Online college courses are replacing traditional classrooms at a crazy-fast pace, yet it is still unknown whether they are actually better for students. A new large-scale study of 40,000 community and technical college students finds that, compared to traditional courses, students in online courses...
    Source: TechCrunch
  • Sometimes you don't need to be in on a joke in order to laugh, and that's certainly the case with many comics by Drew at Toothpaste For Dinner. SEE ALSO: The Internet Smells Like Urine [COMIC] Below are three comics that really don't make any sense (unless Skrillex has a winery we don't know...
    Source: Mashable
  • Cloud storage is everywhere, but if you don't want to mess around with keeping your data on someone else's computer, or you simply don't want to pay for it, DIYer Dominic came up with a solution to use his own computer as a DIY remote storage system over Wi-Fi. More »
    Source: Life Hacker
  • Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Google gave the tech world a bit of a surprise Thursday when it revealed the Chromebook Pixel...
    Source: Mashable
  • cylonlover writes "In the wake of the meteor blast over Russia and the close-quarter flyby of asteroid 2012 DA14 last week, many people's thoughts have turned to potential dangers from above. It is timely then that the Canadian Space Agency will next week launch NEOSSat (Near-Earth Object...
    Source: Slashdot
  • If you've ever wished you could read stories from The Atlantic's print edition on your iPhone, you're finally in luck. The Atlantic announced Friday that it has updated its iPhone app to give subscribers access to all of the magazine's content -- including features, fiction and more -- in...
    Source: Mashable