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Strange News
3:41 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Tweeted Tattoo Gets Man Free Netflix For A Year

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Originally published on Mon March 11, 2013 4:23 am

Myron Robinson managed to score a year of free Netflix videos and online streaming by tweeting a photo of his new Netflix tattoo. The company tweeted back, "No way! Free year for you!"

Shots - Health News
1:41 am
Mon March 11, 2013

New Voices For The Voiceless: Synthetic Speech Gets An Upgrade

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Samantha Grimaldo was born with a rare disorder, Perisylvian syndrome, and has never been able to speak.
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Joseph, Alexandra and Samantha Grimaldo sit around the kitchen counter in the family's home in Marlborough, Mass., playing with Samantha's voice app, though they mostly use sign language at home.
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Samantha uses a text-to-speech iPhone app to help her communicate. Here she shows the app interface.
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When Samantha was younger, she carried this device with her to help her communicate.
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Samantha watches her brother Nicholas play piano. Their mother says that a new customized voice created by researcher Rupal Patel from a young Samantha's voice sample is happy and has a sweetly familiar quality. "My son — my son Nicholas — I could hear some of his voice in it," she says.
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Samantha speaks with her mom, Ruane, about going to the movies with a friend.
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Samantha Grimaldo was born with a rare disorder, Perisylvian syndrome, and has never been able to speak.
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The text-to-speech iPhone app that Samantha Grimaldo uses has three voice options for her to choose from.
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Rupal Patel is a speech scientist at Northeastern University.
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Originally published on Wed March 13, 2013 10:23 am

Ever since she was a small child, Samantha Grimaldo has had to carry her voice with her.

Grimaldo was born with a rare disorder, Perisylvian syndrome, which means that though she's physically capable in many ways, she's never been able to speak. Instead, she's used a device to speak. She types in what she wants to say, and the device says those words out loud. Her mother, Ruane Grimaldo, says that when Samantha was very young, the voice she used came in a heavy gray box.

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All Tech Considered
1:41 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Controlling Your Computer With A Wave Of Your Hand

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Festival attendees experiment with Leap Motion technology.
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Originally published on Mon March 11, 2013 5:48 am

If you've had wrist and shoulder pain from clicking a mouse, relief may be in sight. This spring, a new motion sensing device will go on sale that will make it possible for the average computer user to browse the Web and open documents with a wave of a finger.

The Leap Motion Controller is on display at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, for the first time. It's one of the most talked about startups at the conference, where some 26,000 people have gathered to see emerging tech companies.

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Art & Design
1:41 am
Mon March 11, 2013

For John Baldessari, Conceptual Art Means Serious Mischief

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"Cutting Ribbon, Man In Wheelchair, Paintings (Version #2), 1988" shows John Baldessari's signature technique, faces covered with colorful circles. The practice had its genesis when the artist idly stuck a price sticker on the face of someone pictured in a newspaper clipping.
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In 1970, John Baldessari burned everything he had painted between 1953 and 1966. "I said ... 'I don't really need them.' So I decided I'll just destroy them." After that, Baldessari turned to photography and sculpture.
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"Pure Beauty," shown here at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2010, is one of John Baldessari's many provocative "text paintings."
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It's All Politics
6:51 pm
Sun March 10, 2013

For Some Conservatives, It's Homecoming Week

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., last year.
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Originally published on Mon March 11, 2013 4:23 am

The American conservative movement has its homecoming this week: the Conservative Political Action Conference, where everyone from politicians to peddlers is out to inspire the faithful.

Last year, one of the headline speakers was former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who harked back to the second-ever CPAC in 1975, when Ronald Reagan laid out a vision for a conservative Republican Party.

She invoked his image of a banner of bold colors, not pale pastels.

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