Typical college grads earns about $650,000 more than their peers who just have a high school diploma over the course of a 40-year career, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of census and college expense data.
From Gizmodo: Don’t Believe How Fast Apple Says the New iPad Is
From Gizmodo: Whoever Wrote the Duqu Trojan’s Framework Wrote It in an Unknown Programming Language
From Engadget: Happy Biiiirthday Mr USAF X-37B Robot Space Plane
The X-37B was only meant to stay up in space for a gestational nine months, but a full year has now passed since launch and the US Air Force apparently has little interest in bringing its baby home. On the contrary: according to Space.com, the plan is to send up another unmanned space plane to keep the X-37B company on its [CLASSIFIED] missions. Whatever it’s getting up to in that airless playground, it must be doing something right. Air Force Lt. Col. Tom McIntyre says the craft is “setting the standard for a reusable space plane and, on this one-year orbital milestone, has returned great value on the experimental investment.” Which is a fine way of saying [STILL CLASSIFIED].
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From Droid Life: Slice Released on Android, One Hell of an Online Shopping Organizer
 
Slice, an online shopping organizer, made its way to Android today. If you do any or all of your money spending online, this is an app you should probably download immediately. All it takes is an email address that you send most of your online receipts to and it starts going to work. And what I mean by “work†is that it scans recent purchases and then grabs all of the important information out of them including tracking numbers. So once that email arrives in your inbox, Slice begins tracking its progress including when it will arrive on your doorstep. You can add up to 5 email accounts, in case you use more than one. It will tell you how many items you have purchased online over the years and how much you have spent (Yikes!). Again, an amazing tool for those that spend their days shopping over this wonderful thing called the Internet.
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Cheers Jeff!
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From Engadget: Toshiba builds scanner that can identify fruit without a barcode, yup
During our hurried supermarket sweeps, we’re aiming for the Granny Smith, yet somehow always come away with French Jonagold. That’s why we’re in awe of this new supermarket scanner from Toshiba-Tech that can identify individual species of fruit and veg from sight. Rather than a cashier keying in a produce code, a camera with optical pattern recognition technology filters out “visual noise” before identifying the genus of your apple by shape, surface pattern and coloration. It’s also able to scan labels and coupons, but so far the database only contains a handful of items. It’ll take over a year (when each thing has been harvested and scanned) to build a database necessary to make it commercially useful. Still, if you can’t bear to wait those precious seconds as your server finds the right code for lettuce, head on past the break to watch your future in action.
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From Lifehacker: Download Any MP3 from SoundCloud with This Bookmarklet
Music-hosting service SoundCloud makes it easy to share your voice, music, or any other audio with a few clicks. It’s great, but sometimes you’re desperate to actually download and save a track from SoundCloud. This handy bookmarklet, courtesy of github user pheuter, adds a Download MP3 link to any track on SoundCloud. More »
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