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Penn Students Leave School to Launch CourseKit With $1 Million Seed Round

Three students at the University of Pennsylvania?Joseph Cohen, Dan Getelman, and Jim Grandpre?are quitting school to launch a new education startup called Coursekit, and they've raised $1 million in a seed round to do it. (Peter Thiel would be proud). The New York City startup just closed a seed round from Founder Collective, IA Ventures, Shasta Ventures and some angels. Coursekit is like Facebook or Yammer for courses. Like many other students frustrated with Blackboard, the current online course management standard, the Coursekit founders think they can do a better job. "It is really a Blackboard replacement with a heavy emphasis on social networking," says CEO Cohen.

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Scrabble Helper helps you improve your Words With Friends gameplay

If you play Scrabble (or a scrabble-like game) from time to time, you may want to check out Scrabble Helper. This simple website is a godsend when you're at a loss for words. Simply enter whatever letters you have, and the word you'd like to connect with. Scrabble helper comes up with a whole bunch of suggestions sorted by score.

The site lets you select one of five dictionaries - Scrabble International/US, Lexulous International/US, and Words With Friends. Some people might say this constitutes cheating -- I think if the other side knows you're doing it, it's definitely not cheating. And it doesn't take the challenge out of the game, because implementing Scrabble Helper's suggestions and deciding which words you'd like to connect with still takes a fair bit of thought.

Very handy, though perhaps not one for the Scrabble puritans in the crowd.

Scrabble Helper helps you improve your Words With Friends gameplay originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hardware Hack Takes Control of Your Hand, Freaks You Out

If this technology developed by researchers at the University of Tokyo ever ends up as a commercial product, then you could have the terrifying experience of your hand being possessed, moving itself without any commands from your own brain.

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/possessedhand-takes-control-of-your-hand-freaks-you-out/

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PossessedHand Takes Control of Your Hand, Freaks You Out

If technology by researchers at the University of Tokyo ever ends up as a commercial product, then you could have the terrifying experience of your hand being possessed, moving itself without any commands from your own brain. You would, for all intents and purposes, become Bruce Campbell’s Ashley ‘Ash’ J. Williams in The Evil Dead. The [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/06/possessedhand-takes-control-of-your-hand-freaks-you-out/

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Solar Sinter solar-powered 3D printer turns sand into glass, renews our faith in higher education (video)

Where would we be without the world's graduate art projects? In the case of Markus Kayser's Solar Sinter, we might never have seen the day when a solar-powered 3D printer would turn Saharan sand into a perfectly suitable glass bowl. Well, lucky for us (we suppose) we live in a world overflowing with MA students, and awash in their often confusing, sometimes inspiring projects. Solar Sinter, now on display at the Royal College of Art, falls into the latter category, taking the Earth's natural elements, and turning them into functioning pieces of a burgeoning technology. Solar Sinter uses the sun's rays in place of a laser and sand in place of resin, in a process that is perhaps more visually stunning than the results. See for yourself in the video after the break.

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Solar Sinter solar-powered 3D printer turns sand into glass, renews our faith in higher education (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Experience the Civil War As Did Those Who Lived It ? One Day at a Time

The History Channel worked with Bottle Rocket Apps to bring the history of the American Civil War to the iPad.  Daily updates let you watch the war unfold day by day.  You’ll explore photo galleries; newspaper articles; personal letters and diary entries from 15 people (including Abraham Lincoln and Horatio Nelson Taft); authentic period maps; [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/06/22/experience-the-civil-war-as-did-those-who-lived-it-one-day-at-a-time/

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Potential Hulu deal with Disney increases ads, value to prospective buyers

Now that Hulu's owners have apparently decided the best thing to do is sell it to someone else, long arrangements for content are needed to bring the highest price. Bloomberg is reporting that after cutting a deal with Fox a few days ago Hulu has now tentatively reached a deal with another of its owners, Disney. While both arrangements could keep the TV shows flowing, they also reportedly include provisions to increase the number of ads shown on the service. That would also put it in position to reach a similar agreement with Comcast-owned NBCUniversal, because of the media giant's FCC promise to reach similar agreements as its competitors for online content. A change of ownership and including more ad breaks could turn off viewers, but really what else are they going to do, go back to watching Saturday Night Live on TV?

Potential Hulu deal with Disney increases ads, value to prospective buyers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ARCHOS G9 Tablets Announced

ARCHOS announced two new Android tablets. They include two for factors; the 80 G9 (8″ 1024 by 768 display) and the 101 G9 (10.1″ 1280 by 800 display). They also ship with the fastest dual-core processor,  a CORTEX A9 OMAP4 1.5 GHz. In addition to putting the quickest processor in, they add a couple more features [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/06/24/archos-g9-tablets-announced/

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Apple Previews iOS 5

Apple today previewed iOS 5, the latest version of the world?s most advanced mobile operating system, with over 200 new features that will be available as a free software update to iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch users this fall. New iOS 5 features include: Notification Center, an innovative way to easily view and manage notifications [...]

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Dropbox Breach: Fewer Than 100 Accounts Affected, But One Person Actively Exploited Security Hole

It's been an incredibly rough week for Dropbox. On Monday, news broke that a bug in the service's authentication software effectively made passwords optional for around four hours over the weekend ? meaning that you could log into anyone's account simply by entering their user name. Given what Dropbox is used for ? namely, syncing your most important files between computers ? that's a huge deal. Especially since the service has promoted its security features as one of its selling points. At the time Dropbox said that "much less than 1 percent" of users could have potentially been affected. Now we've obtained an email that Dropbox sent out this afternoon to users who were affected by the breach and it's much more specific. First, the good news: the scale of the attack affected "fewer than a hundred accounts". But according to the letter, those accounts were all accessed by a single individual. In other words, these weren't accidental logins due to typos ? someone discovered the hole and actively used it to access files that were not theirs. That's obviously very alarming.

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