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| Today's Top Stories: Facebook Buying IBM Patents, iPad Charging Woes | | 10:15:15 AM | Stan Schroeder |
|  | 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. Facebook to Buy 750 Patents From IBM [RUMOR]...
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| Google Doodle Honors Spanish Painter Juan Gris | |  | Google's logo on Friday is an unreadable agglomeration of cubist images designed to salute Spanish surrealist painter Juan Gris. Born on March 23, 1887, Gris, a contemporary and friend of Pablo Picasso's, studied mechanical drawing at the Escuela...
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| Future iPhone May Be Made Out of Glass | |  | Apple has filed a patent application that describes a handheld device with a case made entirely out of glass. Such a case could be formed from a "hollow glass tube" or two pieces of glass bonded together. The material would be radio transparent,...
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| Europe Launches Giant Cargo Ship Toward Space Station | |  | A huge robot European cargo ship launched to the International Space Station today (March 23), lighting up the night sky over the northeast coast of South America to begin a five-day journey to deliver key supplies to the orbiting outpost. The...
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| Apple Patent Suggests iPhones to Become Universal Remotes [VIDEO] | | Thursday, March 22, 2012 11:12 PM | Emily Price |
|  | Apple is rumored to be working on its own Apple-branded HDTV, and a new patent filed by the company suggests it may also be working to turn your iPhone or iPad into a universal remote for that television and a whole lot more. According to...
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| 'The Hunger Games' Comes to Draw Something [EXCLUSIVE] | | Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:23 PM | Emily Price |
|  | Hunger Games fans will get a surprise on Friday when they load up Draw Something, with the addition of seven words related to the novel and movie franchise. Game creator OMGPOP recently added the ability to update the game with new words,...
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| How Tech Will Transform the Traditional Classroom | | Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:00 PM | Benjamin Jackson |
|  | As the post-PC era moves from interesting theory to cold, hard reality, one of the most pressing questions is: How can we use tablets, and especially the iPad, to help people learn? Most of the focus has been on ebooks replacing textbooks, a...
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| How Private Are Your Apps? Congress Investigates | | Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:36 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
|  | Just what information is software sold in Apple's App Store collecting about its users? Two members of Congress are trying to find out. Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and G. K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) have sent letters to 34 top mobile software...
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| Feel Your Facebook Pokes With This Poking Machine [VIDEO] | | Thursday, March 22, 2012 7:16 PM | Kate Freeman |
|  | What is the purpose of a poke you can't feel? That's what occcured to the creators of a device called, appropriately enough, the poking machine. Netherlands-based student inventors Jasper van Loenen and Bartholomäus Traubeck constructed an...
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