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When it was announced that the iPhone 3G had a proper GPS chip inside it (the original could only work out its location very roughly by looking at which cell phone masts were nearby), we all got very excited at the prospect of using the iPhone as a turn-by-turn satellite navigation system. The idea that you could jump in your car, slot the iPhone into a cradle, and have it direct you to your destination, guided by billions of dollars of satellite infrastructure, was beguiling. Especially since even the cheapest standalone sat nav costs more than £100… The reality, sadly, turned out to be less utopian.

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Most of the tools that humans have invented are designed to increase physical ability. Only a few tools have been invented to increase mental ability—language was the first. Then math. Then books

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We all know the importance of backing up, but how many of us actually do it? To stop you losing your precious files in event of a PC meltdown, we’re bringing you a free download of Paragon Backup & Recovery 10 Compact, worth $39.99. Paragon Backup and Recovery is a fast, feature-packed and highly professional back-up tool that makes it very easy to protect your valuable data from disaster. The program is extremely versatile. You can use it to back up everything from an entire hard drive or individual partitions, to your emails, multimedia files, documents, or whatever specific files and folders you’d like to select

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Have you seen the BMW-designed Mesh PC ? If Mesh hadn’t told us that BMW was involved, we’d never have known. The computer doesn’t have kidney-shaped grilles, a Hofmeister kink or any other bits of BMW design DNA. It’s just a weirdly shaped PC case with a few glowing bits on it. BMW may have made some seriously stupid-looking cars in recent years, but compared to the Mesh they’re masterpieces of restraint.

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Here’s a scary statistic for video streaming services: 4 out of 5 viewers will click in the other direction if a video stream rebuffers, according to a new study by Tubemogul. Before dismissing that figure, content providers should be aware that Tubemogul didn’t just gather up a small group of caffeinated teens and feed them a poor internet connection. Instead, the Emeryville-based video distribution and analytics startup analyzed 192 million video streams over a two week period with the goal of figuring out how much rebuffering really matters.

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In a few more days, Black Friday will be here, and if you plan on braving the crowds, that means getting up early (or staying up late) and making a mad dash for the electronics section among a frenzy of shoppers with no qualms about pushing, shoving, and trampling anyone who gets in their way. But should your reach your destination unscathed, you may find that the deals are nothing to get excited over considering stores have already had to mark prices down in the current economic climate, or that quantities are so low that if you’re not near the front of the line donning a pair of running shoes, you’re going to miss out. CNNMoney.com reveals that in some cases, stores may stock as little as 3 units of those enticing low-priced electronics advertised in your local flier.

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