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As he tries to show off features of the new iPhone 4, Apple CEO Steve Jobs' Wi-Fi connection fails twice, bringing his World Wide Developers Conference keynote to an uncomfortable standstill.

The images in this video will make you look at least twice, maybe more. The Artists use every technique they've got to manipulate your perception and confuse trick you brain into recognizing images that may not exist and missing the ones that do.

Sometimes a great visual is all you need to make a point.

The unusual wedding ceremony, held on the rooftop of a took a restaurant in Tokyo, was performed by an I-Fairy robot decorated with flowers. In true "Wizard of Oz" style the robot was controlled remotely by a man hidden behind a black curtain operating a computer. The wedding ceremony, was according to the Kokoro Company, the first to be performed by a robot.

Author Thomas Friedman discusses the forces accelerating globalization and how they affecting the business and lifestyles of people everywhere. By examining phenomena as diverse as Google and the fall of the Berlin wall, he observes how this technology-fueled transition is inevitable and ongoing, while attempting to chart the trends which are making the world flatter in the name of progress.

Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated on March 24th as an international day of blogging to recognize the achievements of women in technology and science. Ada Lovelace wrote the world’s first computer programs for the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage. In the spirit of giving women in tech the recognition they deserve, post a blog and give props to your favorite girl geeks.

VotaVox is a new website that allows people to vote on issues that are important to them. The results are forwarded to the people power to let them know what people are thinking.

A RickRoll occurs when an expected piece of Web content is hijacked and the link instead directs your browser a YouTube cllip of '80s singer Rick Astley performing "Never Gonna Give You Up." YouTube temporarily removed the video, threatening the possibility of future RickRolls. Fortunately, a YouTube spokesman confirmed that the clip would remain and RickRolls could continue.

To better understand how the human brain recognizes and processes images, the Air Force is acquiring 1700 PS3 gaming consoles to create what it calls the "500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster." Researchers plan to run such applications as Back Projection Synthetic Aperture Radar Imager formation, and Neuromorphic Computing, which mimics human nervous systems.

You've got to wonder whether the Apple marketing department had any women in the room when they named their latest product. This MadTV clip was created in 2007.

Will the release of Apple's iPad this spring cause the murse (man-purse) to rise in popularity? There are many murse styles already on the market, from combat ready to somewhat girlish. will your murse make you look like Indiana Jones or Brüno? No matter which one you choose, being a tech-addicted geek has never been so hard.

Learn to create images for this great new art form. Just get a stack of album covers from some old vinyl records, a digital camera, a bunch of friends and let it happen. Upload the results to flicker and send us a link, we'll post our picks.

Need an assistant to help finish a project or want to expose your skills to some new people? Either way get over to UrbanInterns.com and start posting. Urban Interns matches people who need help with those who can. There are jobs for pay as well as those that might give you the experience you need to get hired.

A video showing an HP computer's facial recognition system reacting correctly to a light skinned person and not recognizing an African American is causing HP a PR nightmare. While HP claims the video exposes a technical problem caused by insufficient lighting and contrast, it makes you wonder whether the company tested this feature with people of different races before bringing it to market.

At one time, people sent love notes or steamy letters when they were apart. Unless you were the object of an FBI probe, a telephone call filled with heavy breathing wa notheing more than a moment in time. But, as Tiger Woods so painfully found out, a text message, much like a diamond or an STD, can last forever. Read more at the nytimes.com.

Not sure if pitchfork.com has correctly identified the worst covers but some of the images and comments are amusing and definitely worth a peek.

MobileActive.org is a global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. The site provides helpful instructions for correspondents and discusses the latest techniques in mobile communication. Learn about the tools and organizations that are shaking things up around the world and share your knowledge about promoting environmental and social causes using mobile technology.

Either it's the cool factor, the black curtain effect or Google has a hit on their hands with WAVE. A black market has sprung up for invites to "surf." It sure looks like web developers ARE the new rockstars because they're first on the guest list.

Will YouTubeDirect connect mainstream media outlets with the most compelling bits of user generated content available? Certainly the thought of the big networks and sites picking up one of your clips is very exciting, but will announcing a need for a particular piece of footage produce a new generation of exposure-hungry viderazzi and cause them to stalk celebrities and hound disaster victims?

Following the installation of a massive glass cube near the eastern corner of Central Park South, Apple has built what appears to be an even more imposing glazed monument on the Upper West Side. Read more at All Things Digital

Police arrest a woman whose craigslist ad stated she was a "gorgeous tall buxom blonde" desperate for a tickets to a Phillies World series game.

Another wonderful example of security camera footage as a silent film. In a thoroughly intoxicated state, this convenience store customer portrays the common man as well as Chaplin ever could. Does life imitate art or does art imitate life?

A clip from a security camera shows a gang of thieves shatter the front door of an Apple retail store and make off with 23 MacBooks, 14 iPhones and 9 iPod touches worth over $40,000 less than a minute later.

Some say this is an amazing fabrication, actually an ad for Microsoft Germany created by a marketing firm that deals with viral ads. You decide.

Perhaps the only thing more embarrassing than making a mistake on live television is having that mistake posted to YouTube, where it can be played over and over again. Here are ten of the worst live-news bloopers.

Yes, the timeless classic by Monty Python.

In the video he posted on YouTube, George Sodini exposes the frustration that led him to kill three women and injure 15 others during a shooting spree at a Pittsburgh health club. Immediately after his rampage he ended his pain by shooting himself in the head. Claiming in his blog that he tried to dress well and smell nice, the 48-year-old computer programmer was disturbed by the fact that he hadn't slept with a women in 19 years."

Watch a group of college students execute a particularly difficult and complex prank. They turn their friend's dorm room upside down... literally.