GizModo: Top Tech News and Reviews [March ‘11 Diet]

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    What's happening right now in Fukushima is terrible, for sure. But how does it rank in the pantheon of nuclear disasters? We humans have had an awful lot of atomic foulups; here are the ones that have caused the most widespread contamination and destruction.            More »

Source: The Top 10 Worst Nuclear Nightmares [Disasters]

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                      Phosphor's magnetic crystal watch is a bit gaudy, since by its very nature it needs to be adorned by Swarovski crystals. And as everyone knows, Swarovski is not German for the word "restraint." But a watch that mimics an LCD screen by manually flipping over crystals? That's damn cool.            More »

Source: Phosphor Appear Solid Crystal Display Watch Sure is Shiny [Video]

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    In some ways, visiting cyberspace is kind of like entering a crowded subway car during the peak of flu season. You're surrounded by all sorts of germs-in the form of trojans, spyware, viruses, rootkits, etc.-just looking for a vulnerable host to invade and feed on. Once you're infected, these pests can wreak havoc on your system, swiping your personal information and passwords, annihilating your credit rating, and stealing your identity. To avoid a potentially virulent attack, you need to take precautions.            More »

Source: The Ultimate Antivirus Guide: 10 Top Programs Reviewed [Bestmodo]

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                     The Tokyo Electric Power Company has released new images from the interior of Fukushima's reactor 3, as well as video of emergency personnel frantically working inside the plant.            More »

Source: First Look Inside Fukushima Reactor 3 After the Catastrophe Is Rather Unsettling [Video]

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    By approving or denying every single app that lines the virtual shelves of its App Store, Apple puts itself in an interesting position: It makes itself personally responsible for every single one.            More »

Source: The App Store Moral Quandary [Apple]

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    First Look | The Fukushima situation remains critical as images from inside the power plant begin to emerge.

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Source: Top Stories: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 [Total Recap]

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    Times of global disaster are ripe for hyper-social networking. Friends sound-off on their walls, and vigorously tweet and blog of impending doom and gloom. And all these updates raise a tough question: How do you respond?            More »

Source: How to Respond to Bad News Online [Etiquette]

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    Shortly after midnight on Wednesday, two DC airliners approached Washington DC's Reagan National Airport. They waited for guidance from air traffic control. And waited. And waited. And waited. They never got a response.            More »

Source: Air Traffic Control Abandoned as Two Passenger Planes Try To Land [Wtf]

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    I'm not one to over-specunosticate, but sometimes things are what they are. Like the Amazon tablet.            More »

Source: What the Amazon Kindle Tablet Might Be Like [Amazon]

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    Americans talk about traffic like the English talk about the weather. It's a constant upset, a never-ending obsession. We've heard the stats: The commuter loses 36 hours a year stuck on the road, over $800 dollars in the same amount of time, and, well, an immeasurable amount of sanity. There's a lot of talk about what has to happen to make it better, but not a lot of discussion about what causes the problem in the first place. So why is there so much damn traffic?            More »

Source: Giz Explains: Traffic [Beep Beep]