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Loaded: Your own personal yellow submarine

2010-07-23
it's Friday July 23rd I'm Natali del Conte and it's time to get loaded Amazon has a new deal on the kindle to be the exclusive digital publisher for Andrew Wiley a book agency that represents famous authors such as Salman Rushdie Philip Roth and the estate of John Updike this means that other eBook stores like nook or Borders won't be able to sell digital copies of those books meanwhile Barnes & Noble released a nuke reader for Android phones this means you can access your Barnes & Noble ebooks from your Android phone the app will sync your place in your book across your devices Barnes & Noble expects to bring a Nuke application to iPhone and iPad soon and you to prevent its music page to focus more on music discovery the new page has several new features that will help you find new music videos you can also find promotions curated playlists and create on-the-fly mixes that's their term for it not mine it will even show you events near you so you can find concerts and the like you can find this at youtube.com slash music and Google is in hot water in Brazil because of its social network Orkut prosecutors in Rio de Janeiro say that the services used to promote pedophilia and defamation and also to defend organized crime Google has 120 days to create some kind of technology that will identify the offending profiles if they do not they will be fined around fifty five thousand dollars per day and your toilet flushes could save you energy the hydro system turns your toilet flushes into a small hydroelectric dam every time the water rushes from the pipes it turns that energy into electricity using four blades like a turbine it's estimated that it could save you fourteen hundred dollars per year in electricity costs kind of gross but kind of cool and finally how would you like to own your own submarine well here you go the personal submarine seats too and lets you descend up to 1,000 feet under the sea for up to six hours it has a climate controlled pressure sphere for your subsea comfort and all this could be yours at the bargain price of two million dollars that's your news for today thank you for watching i'm natali del conte with cnet.com and you've just been loaded
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