Generate Your WiFi Password As A QR Code

Now here is a story that you might just want to live it out, especially when you have an organization or do invite plenty of friends over to your place often. Since we live in a mostly wireless environment these days, folks would definitely ask, "May I have your WiFi password please?" A Reddit user decided to do something about this situation, and has "enlisted" the help of QR codes to get the job done. In particular, an extremely large QR code that is subsequently printed out and framed, so that you can just let them use their smartphone app to scan and enter the code themselves.

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Google Removes 2 Billion Fake Views On YouTube

With 2013 just around the corner, Google is starting early with its resolution to remove millions of fake views on its popular video streaming service, YouTube. According to Daily Dot, around 2 billion fake views were removed from YouTube channels belonging to Sony/ BMG, Universal Music Group, and RCA Records, following reports of black hat view count-building techniques. These techniques required using unethical search engine optimization tactics that increases view counts. For example, Tapangoldy, a 16-year-old seller of YouTube views, uses Fiverr as a conduit for his services.

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LG Display Teases Its Display Lineup For CES 2013

LG Display has confirmed to Ubergizmo that it will showcase its latest innovations in display technology resolution and design at CES 2013. The company, touted as the world's largest LCD panel maker, says that it will first showcase what is believed to be the world's highest resolution 4K2K monitor, together with its line-up of Ultra High Definition TV displays during the said event. Specifically, LG Display is expected to reveal three UHD panels – a 55-inch, a 65-inch, and an 84-inch Ultra High Definition panel. On the other hand, LG Display's 4K2K monitor will sport a 30-inch display with a jaw-dropping 4096 x 2160 resolution.

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$99 Acer Iconia B1 Tablet Set to Arrive in Developing Countries

The coming 2013 is shaping to become the year of the ultra-budget tablets. The Wall Street Journal, citing a source who has “direct knowledge” on the matter, reports that the upcoming Acer Iconia B1 tablet will be priced at “around $99.” The final shelf price, meanwhile, will be determined on a country-to-country basis. The 7-inch tablet is slated to sport similar specs as older versions of the Kindle Fire and Nook Color, including a 1024 x 600 screen resolution and a 1.2GHz processor.
Acer is set to launch the Iconia B1 in developing markets first.

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Astroboy (Roboy) A Future Possibility?

Humanity is still very far from coming up with a robot that is so intelligent, it could function in the same way that we see C3-PO and Sonny (from I, Robot fame) interact. Well, this does not mean that we are not going to try (and hopefully, not die trying). A team from Switzerland has taken it up upon themselves to create a humanoid looking robot that intends to come in the form of a realistic robot boy. Known as Roboy, it was developed by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich, and comes across as a tendon-driven humanoid robot which will share a similar physical size as that of a human four year old.

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Huawei Ascend D2 Caught On Camera

So word has it that Huawei's Ascend D2 could be making an appearance at CES 2013, and given the scale of CES it wouldn't be surprising if Huawei decided to take that opportunity to show off their new products. We've seen renderings of the device before, but if you're curious as to how it might look like in real life, photos of the Ascend D2 handset have been caught on camera (via IT Home). Unfortunately these are not full body shots so we guess we will have to wait for more leaks or the official unveiling to see more of it. In the meantime hopefully these photos will be enough to give you guys a basic idea of what to expect.

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Foursquare Offers Curiosity Explorer Badge To NASA Fans

When Curiosity made its famous Mars landing this past summer, it started its very important mission to study the mysterious red planet to discover a number of things, including if we could one day treat Mars as a second home. Today, NASA is announcing another important mission that includes you, your smartphone and Foursquare as you can add an exclusive Curiosity Explorer badge to your collection when you like NASA on Foursquare and check into a planetarium, science museum or NASA visitor center. Just don't plan on becoming the mayor of Mars any time soon as we believe Curiosity has got dibs on that achievement for a long, long time.

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Norman, OK Chevy dealer sells rather than selling out

Just like any other retail store, car dealerships are as much about branding as they are about selling products. So when Marc Heitz decided to design his Chevrolet franchise to resemble more of an outdoor enthusiast store rather than a conventional Chevy dealer, General Motors stepped in by stopping payment of quarterly dealer bonuses to the tune of $250,000 each. Now, Automotive News is reporting that rather than redesigning the store or losing an estimated $1 million per year in bonuses, Heitz has instead sold his franchise to a cross-town rival, David Stanley Chevrolet.

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Bring a colorful new dimension to gaming with the ROCCAT Isku FX keyboard

The Isku FX multicolor gaming keyboard from ROCCAT is designed for the ultimate gaming experience.  The backlit keyboard has multicolor lighting with 16.8 million possible colors and six lighting levels.  The keyboard is packed with programmable macro keys and three Thumbster macro keys near the space bar.  There's even an Easy-Shift key that not only allows secondary functions to be accessed on dedicated keys, but it also can activate functions on certain ROCCAT gaming mice.

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Samsung reportedly plans to ship 510 million phones in 2013

We know that Samsung has recently beat Nokia as being the top phone maker of 2012, and it looks like they have no plans of slowing down in 2013. According to a report from The Korea Times, they claim that based on their source who is supposedly an executive at one of Samsung's key supplies, Samsung has plans to ship more than half a billion mobile devices in 2013 - 510 million to be exact. This is definitely an increase over 2012 where Samsung targeted 420 million. Out of the 510 million, a whopping 390 million will be smartphones alone which means that Samsung is pretty sure that their new smartphones will be hits.

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Watch the Ducati 1199 Panigale RS13 at Mugello

Ducati has finally put the finishing touches on its newest race bike: the 1199 Panigale RS13. To celebrate, the team took its newest creation down to Mugello for a quick sprint around the track ahead of its date with the World Superbike Championship. Factory riders Carlos Checa and Ayrton Badovini have put in plenty of hours on the saddle during development in an effort to fine tune the bike before making their official competition debut at Phillip Island early next year. We'll have to wait and see if it has paid off.



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Speed bumps used to diagnose appendicitis?

This. doesn't seem right, but just bear with this report from Wired. It seems as though driving over speed bumps can reveal those who are enduring acute appendicitis. This was a rumored thing among medical circles based purely on anecdotal data, but now there is an empirical study by the University of Oxford and Stoke Mandeville Hospital in the UK to back it up.
Apparently, when attempting to diagnose appendicitis, some doctors would ask if pain worsened when driving over speed bumps. It was not exact medicine, but according to Dr.

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i-Transport Robot Wheelchair Lets Rider Stand At Full Height

Being seated in a wheelchair to get around does take some getting used to, and it is safe to say that most of the time, you are bound to the seat's elevation if you want to reach out for a particular object, which say, is on a shelf or on top of a cabinet. What do you do then. Get a robotic arm to do the job on your behalf, or perhaps ask someone else in the house for assistance. Perhaps if you were seated in the i-Transport robot wheelchair, things might be very different as you gain more independence on your side.

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Temple Run Is One Hot Download This Christmas

I guess you know that smartphones and tablets are one hot ticket item this Christmas, otherwise how else do you explain the massive download of the Temple Run game over the Christmas period. Keith Shepherd, founder of Imangi Studios, the very same studio behind the highly addictive Temple Run game, just announced on Wednesday that their game received more than its fair share of love over Christmas. In fact, this game was downloaded over a million times on iOS, and also more than one million times on the Android platform.

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Samsung GT-N5100 spotted on GLBenchmarks

The Samsung GT-N5100 is said to be a new 7" Samsung Galaxy Note device that the South Korean company is working on, and it looks like it has made another appearance in GLBenchmark tests. The results have revealed that the GT-N5100 will sport a display resolution of 1280×800, and a quad-core Exynos 4412 processor on board clocked at 1.6GHz and that it will run Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean right out of the box. It is unclear as to what this device might look like or when it will be launched, but given that CES 2013 and MWC 2013 are around the corner, we couldn't think of a better time for Samsung to show off their new products.

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