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| New iPad Unboxed and Tested: 1 GB of RAM,  1 GHz Processor [VIDEO] |  | 10:37:14  AM | Stan Schroeder |  
  |    | A Vietnamese site called  Tinhte.vn has managed to get the new iPad ahead of schedule, treating us with a  video of the device's unboxing and revealing some previously unknown  specifications. The new iPad -- the third-generation device lacks a  new...
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 | SXSW 2012: The Year of Infectious  Optimism |   |    | The fearsome rain at this  year's South By Southwest Interactive conference couldn't dampen our spirits; it  just made downtown Austin all the more sweet when the clouds finally parted on  Sunday. The unprecedented hour-long lines for badge pickup...
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 | Today's Top Stories: Sony Alpha A57, Yahoo Sues  Facebook |   |    | 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. Sony Announces Alpha A57 DSLR Camera Sony...
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 | Sony Xperia Sola Brings "Floating Touch"  Navigation |   |    | The latest Android smartphone  from Sony, the Xperia sola, takes the touch out of the touch screen - although  we're not yet sure how. One of the device's key features is "floating touch"  navigation, which enables web browsing without touching the...
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 | Startup Aims to Cut the Cost of Solar Cells in  Half |  | 5:26:38 AM | Technology  Review |  
  |    | Twin Creeks Technologies, a  startup that has been operating in secret until today-has developed a way to make  thin wafers of crystalline silicon that it says could cut the cost of making  silicon solar cells in half. It has demonstrated the...
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 | Man Beats Machines In DNA Alignment Computer Game  [VIDEO] |   |    | Here's one instance when man  triumphs over the visually-impaired machine. The online game Phylo lets gamers  solve the multiple sequence alignment (MSA) problem by finding the best possible  DNA sequence match between up to eight species at a time...
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 | Google Confirms It's Working on Chrome for Windows  8 |  | Monday, March 12, 2012 7:53 PM | Pete Pachal |  
  |    | Google says it's working on a  version of Chrome that will run in the Metro environment of Windows 8. The news  follows the revelation that Mozilla is building Firefox for Metro as well. A  Google spokesperson told Mashable that the new version of...
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 | Analyst: Apple Will Sell 1 Million iPads on Launch  Day |  | Monday, March 12, 2012 7:35 PM | Pete Pachal |  
  |    | The new iPad isn't even out  yet, but that's not stopping people from trying to guess how big a hit it will be.  One industry analyst estimates it'll best the original iPad launch by more than a  factor of three. Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster said in...
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 | Pinterest's iPad App Is on the  Way |  | Monday, March 12, 2012 5:29 PM | Lauren Indvik |  
  |    | Pinterest is actively working  to bring an iPad application to market, said one of the white-hot startup's  co-founders. In an interview with The New York Times, Ben Silbermann said an app  is in the works, but did not name a launch date. The...
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 | AT&T Firing Up 4G LTE in 12 More Cities,  Including Staten Island |  | Monday, March  12, 2012 5:13 PM | Pete  Pachal |  
  |    | When AT&T turned on its 4G  LTE network in New York City in January, it finally gave Verizon some needed  competition in the market for high-speed mobile broadband. There was one part of  the Big Apple that was shut out of the party, however: Staten...
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