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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- May 16, 2012

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Can a Fresher Flickr Be Yahoo's Ray of Sunshine?
Entertaining Home Technologies
The MacBook Pro's Mystery Mix
The BBC's Olympian Streaming Ambitions
Whatever You Want, Miro Finds It, Gets It, Plays It
Brainput Project Takes a Load Off Humans' Minds

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Today's Story Highlights

Can a Fresher Flickr Be Yahoo's Ray of Sunshine?
Flickr announced a redesign recently, introducing larger onscreen
displays for high-res images. The photo sharing site launched what it
calls its "liquid layout," stating that "Large sizes + Low compression =
Beautiful photos." Since Flickr uses less compression than many other
image sharing sites, it claimed, the detail and color of Flickr photos
is richer.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75128.html

Entertaining Home Technologies
Ever since the advent of the first radios and TVs, home entertainment
has been a relatively high-tech enterprise, but in the past few years,
there has been a revolution in the quality of sights and sounds
available. This arena continues to be an experimental space for new and
improved technologies that enhance viewing and listening experiences.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75104.html

The MacBook Pro's Mystery Mix
With the expected unveiling of new MacBook Pros just weeks away, rumor
mongers have begun to solidify their predictions about the new
notebooks. Most Apple prognosticators seem to agree that the MacBook
Pros will be thinner, run Intel's new Ivy Bridge chip, and sport an eye-
popping Retina Display.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75127.html

The BBC's Olympian Streaming Ambitions
Today in international tech news: The BBC unveils plans to stream all
2,500 hours of the Summer Olympics. Elsewhere, Apple has reportedly
engaged in talks with China Mobile, the world's biggest phone company,
about teaming up to offer the iPhone; a criminal gets busted in Columbia
for failing to log out of Facebook; and a report suggests most computer
users in the world have acquired pirated wares.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75126.html

Whatever You Want, Miro Finds It, Gets It, Plays It
The Internet is a hub for acquiring music, video and a just about any
other form of content. Miro is one of the most capable player apps that
I have seen for all of this media. Keeping up with the various forms
of content the Web has to offer can be a daunting task.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75115.html

Brainput Project Takes a Load Off Humans' Minds
A group of researchers from several universities led by MIT have shown
that robots controlled mentally by suitably equipped humans who are
multitasking can take over some of the workload when needed. The
Brainput project had researchers use a technique called "functional
near-infrared" imaging to measure the activity of brains in test
subjects.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/75122.html

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