57: Dry Socket, Parasite, Larvae, Pupate

The Frequency

Today we talk about Belkin's new Thunderbolt Express Dock, the 5by5 Time Machine, another sighting of the giant rubber duck, Lenovo's ridiculously large 27" tablet, Walmart now offering DVD to Ultraviolet conversion, Adobe is not giving away CS2, HTC's profit takes a hit in Q4, and David Bowie releases an album for the first time in ten years.

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• BELKIN UPDATES NEW THUNDERBOLT EXPRESS DOCK
  The Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock eliminates the need to constantly plug and unplug numerous cable connected peripherals to your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air. It provides ultimate portability and enables users to instantly access multiple desktop devices with one cable. The dock allows users to simultaneously connect up to eight desktop devices, watch movies in Full HD 1080p, transfer volumes of data in seconds, and view online content at gigabit Ethernet speeds with just one cable
• 5by5 Time Machine
  5by5 Time Machine is an service that lets you subscribe to time-shifted feeds for current and retired 5by5 shows.
• Giant Rubber Duck Swims in to Sydney Harbor ~ Kuriositas
  The duck’s proportions are gargantuan – over 15 meters in height it makes for a wonderfully bizarre sight against the backdrop of the city. Other enormous ducks by Hofman have appeared in cities around the world so inevitably Australia’s turn had to come at some point.
• Lenovo's 27" tablet is a smart idea, costs £1,000 and is due this summer - Mobile Industry Review
  Lenovo is apparently launching a 27? ‘table tablet’ running Windows 8.
• Intel's New Chips: Everything You Need to Know
  Here's the quick version of everything Intel will be talking about today: Touch, Live Pay TV, Atom phones, all-day battery life for Intel Core computers
• Intel: 4th generation Ultrabooks will require touch and will retail for $599 by end of 2013 - The Next Web
  Intel made the claim that by the end of 2013, the market will enjoy the presence of $599, touch-enabled Ultrabook laptops. The company also stated that the devices will be required to support touch input. Finally, Intel promised functional “all day battery life.”
• In Apple's War on Taxes, Surrender Costs $28 Billion | Wired Business | Wired.com
  With the U.S. Senate reportedly finishing an investigation into how Apple and others dodge taxes, and with Apple fighting for an officially sanctioned tax holiday, it’s worth taking stock of Apple’s tax liabilities. Dealing with the tax man, it turns out, could cost the company upward of $28.5 billion or send it on a shopping spree abroad.
• Netgear's NeoTV PRIME with Google TV gets official at CES
  In addition to providing access to your favorite on-demand streaming services, just like the standard, PRO and MAX NeoTV models, the PRIME adds all the Google goodies -- live TV, the Chrome browser (Flash supported), Primetime, full access to the Play store and, of course, search.
• Walmart now lets you convert DVDs to UltraViolet digital copies without leaving home | The Verge
  Walmart first launched its disc-to-digital initiative last year, allowing customers to bring a DVD collection to any of the retailer's stores and pay to receive UltraViolet digital copies of their movies. But now the company is going to let you complete the entire process from home
• Exclusive: U.S. nuclear lab removes Chinese tech over security fears | Reuters
  A leading U.S. nuclear weapons laboratory recently discovered its computer systems contained some Chinese-made network switches and replaced at least two components because of national security concerns, a document shows.
• Microsoft determines Windows RT jailbreak poses no security threat, applauds hacker for ingenuity - The Next Web
  On Sunday, reports surfaced that the Windows RT operating system had been jailbroken to allow the execution of unsigned ARM desktop applications, and Microsoft quickly confirmed it was investigating the claims. The company has now issued a statement saying that it does not consider the findings to be part of a security vulnerability, and that the circumvention method may not be available for long.
• Super RARE King Kong Drinking Straw Animated Mego 1976 SEALED | eBay
  SUPER-RARE KING KONG ANIMATED DRINKING STRAW. 1976 Mego Corp./Dino DeLaurentis Corp. Inspired by the 1976 motion picture starring Jeff Bridges
• Samsung unveils 85-inch S9 UHD TV, 110-inch model to follow later this year
  At 85-inches, it claims a size that's one inch beyond the competition, and features a crazy "Timeless Gallery" frame design that Samsung says "showcases the juxtaposition of a minimalist concept with such a large display."
• Parasitic wasp larvae clean house by sanitizing cockroaches | Ars Technica
  A female wasp stings a cockroach—momentarily paralyzing its front legs—and drags it by its antennae to her burrow, where she glues a single egg to the roach’s leg. Once the larva hatches, it feeds carefully on the internal organs of the still-living insect, keeping it alive until the larva is ready to pupate. At that point, the larva spins a cocoon inside the roach's exoskeleton and finally emerges as an adult, leaving the carcass of the now-dead cockroach behind.
• Tim Cook Heads Back to China as Retail Presence Nearly Doubles - Mac Rumors
  Bloomberg reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook is in the midst of a return trip to China, some ten months after his last trip to meet with government and business leaders.
• Adobe is NOT Giving Away CS2 | InDesignSecrets
  This is simply not true. What is happening is that Adobe has shut down the activation servers for CS2. Because of that, CS2 users were unable to activate if they reinstalled the software. In order to allow these people to continue to use their software Adobe has made available, for download, CS2 software which does not require activation.
• HTC Earnings Q4 2012: $34.5 million is lowest profit in 8 years | BGR
  The Taiwan-based smartphone maker on Monday reported fourth-quarter profit of just NT$1 billion ($34.5 million) — its lowest quarterly profit since 2004 — on NT$60 billion ($2.69 billion) in sales.
• ThinkGeek :: HAL 9000 Life-Size Replica
  The most accurate HAL 9000 replica ever created.
• Netflix Licenses Warner Bros. Television's Dramas - John Jannarone and Shalini Ramachandran - Media - AllThingsD
  Netflix will be able to stream complete previous seasons of several Warner Bros.-produced shows, including several that debuted this season, starting a couple of months after each season ends. These include “Revolution,” a hit show on NBC, and less successful shows such as “666 Park Avenue,” which ABC recently canceled. The deal also includes “The Following,” whose premiere episode won’t air until later in January on Fox.
• Samsung hits five quarters of record profits, sells 500 handsets per minute | Ars Technica
  Samsung, in an earnings preview Monday, estimated its Q4 2012 profit at $8.3 billion, edging out rival Apple’s quarterly profits in its most recent earnings posted in October 2012. The company also said it sold nearly 500 handsets across the globe every minute.
• Introducing Contributions · GitHub Blog
  Today we're happy to release Contributions: a new addition to profile pages that lets you see what everyone has been up to on GitHub.
• BitPay Banks $510K In Investment To Become PayPal for Bitcoin, Already Has 2,100 Businesses On Board | TechCrunch
  Today, a payment solutions company called BitPay has announced $510K in investment, led by Shakil Khan, Barry Silbert, Jimmy Furland and Roger Ver.
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• David Bowie Releases The Next Day, His First Album in Ten Years
  
• ThinkGeek :: Giant Minecraft Foam Creeper
  Foam Creeper for fans of Minecraft
• Another danger for astronauts: Super bacteria - Boing Boing
  Bacteria living zero-gravity environments become more virulent. People living in zero-gravity environments have less-than-fully-functional immune systems. The result is a danger for space travelers that few of us on Earth ever think about — even though a lot of early astronauts, right up through the Apollo program, suffered severe infections in flight, or shortly after landing.
• Cake-Cutting, New Exhibit Mark Elvis' Birthday - NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather & Sports
  It's Elvis Presley's 78th birthday, and Memphis-area dignitaries will join fans at a cake-cutting celebration at Graceland, the rock `n' roll icon's longtime home.A proclamation of Elvis Presley Day also will be part of Tuesday's ceremony remembering the birthday of "The King of Rock `n' Roll" on January 8, 1935.
• Leaded gasoline and the 20th-century crime wave - Boing Boing
  Scientists are amassing evidence that suggests exposure to tetraethyl lead — the additive once used in almost all the gasoline sold in the United States — could account for the dramatic increase in crime that happened in this country between the 1960s and 1980s. As leaded gasoline was phased out, they say, children were exposed to less lead, leading to the decline in crime that began to really kick in in the 1990s.
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