It's harder to brainstorm Italian artisan BLU bearing a added complex plan than 2008's amazing MUTO artery animation. And yet! "Big Bang Big Boom" tackles the history of activity itself in anatomy afterwards august anatomy of wall-painted animation. It's unreal.

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The aftereffect is about stop-motion: a still angel is corrective on a wall, photographed, again adjourned or corrective over in favor of the next image. It took months to complete, and untold amounts of paint. But the final, absolute artefact was absolutely account it. [New Scientist]

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Last night, a bandit absolved out of the Paris Building of Modern Art with some $127 actor in paintings by Picasso, Matisse, and Braque. There were no lasers and no temperature-sensitive aegis systems. Hell, there wasn't even an alarm.

My accomplished compassionate of what a major-museum art break-in entails is abreast by the Pierce Brosnan adaptation of the Thomas Crown Affair, and I agnosticism that this is one of those cases in which Hollywood is exaggerating; if anything, I brainstorm that building aegis is even more avant-garde than the being they appearance in the movies, with adult motion sensors and cruise affairs and big abundant gates that accident down and allurement thieves like rats in the average of their bloody operations.

So what happened in Paris endure night? Not abundant of anything, actually. The museum's cameras managed to grab a few shots of the crook, who entered by smashing a window and snipping a band with some bolt cutters, but he didn't set off any cyberbanking alarms as he calm his five-painting haul, demography the time to abolish anniversary from its anatomy instead of slicing them out with a razor blade, as is common. In fact, one antecedent claims that the museum's cyberbanking anxiety hadn't been alive for two months above-mentioned to the theft, so the absolute aegis of the ability was larboard up to a few night guards—a lot of acceptable they did.

It all just goes to appearance that while technology is more begin in places you ability not apprehend it—WiFi on airplanes and AR codes in the Sunday paper—sometimes it's boilerplate to be begin in the places you do apprehend it. People who visited the building today were greeted with a assurance answer that the building was bankrupt for "technical reasons." It absolutely meant the abridgement thereof.

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While at this point the year-and-a-half old 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD ability be assuming its age a bit, it's still one of the best tablets you can buy. Especially because that you can get one today for just $130—less than an e-ink Kindle Paperwhite.

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Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is planning to barrage a smaller, cheaper iPad to attempt with Amazon and Google—and suggests that it will access by the end of 2012.

Citing bearding sources from aural Apple, Bloomberg reports that the accessory would accept a awning that's 7 to 8 inches on the diagonal, with a lower pixel body than the accepted Retina display. The aforementioned sources suggest that the artefact could be appear as aboriginal as October of this year.

It's not the aboriginal time rumors accept broadcast about a abate iPad, but it is the aboriginal time an Apple agent has been cited in one of the reports. While there is no way to affirm whether the rumor is correct, it would acquiesce Apple to attempt added carefully with Amazon's Fire and Google's Nexus 7. It's absurd that Apple would anytime barrage a artefact which didn't accomplish a profit, though, so if it does barrage a abate book it's ambiguous it would anytime be priced as low as $200.

So, will there be a abate adaptation of the iPad? At the moment, there's not abundant affirmation to say and, if anything, on antithesis it's a lot of acceptable not to be the case. But that doesn't beggarly we can aphorism it out. Fortunately, belief that the accessory could be launched by the end of year fits with the Apple's accepted October iPhone announcement—so you just ability see a collective advertisement getting made. [Bloomberg]

Update: The WSJ is aswell wading in, with independent reports that a abate iPad is on the way

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The adversary of my adversary is my abstracts centermost server provider, or something. Anyway, rumor says Apple is application Microsoft and Amazon servers to ability iCloud. How cozy! [AppleInsider]

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