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Pre-show Huawei Watch first hands-on from the The Verge  (1:40 min video) "The best Android watch so far" Swiss watchmaking figures "29.2 million finished watches exported in 2012" China  produced "663 million watches in 2012" "Switzerland produced 95% of all watches sold at prices of over 1,000 francs" "exports totaled 21.4 billion francs" 1 World Trade Center observation deck The new observation deck is expected to account for a hefty 40 percent of the revenue from 1 World Trade Center. The Empire State Building observation decks drew over four million visitors last year and generated net income of $60.6 million in 2011. On the Pricing of Apple Watch "And Edition isn’t just made of 18-karat gold — it’s made of the best 18-karat gold in the world. (I don’t know that for a fact — I don’t know anything about gold — I’m just saying what Apple is saying.)" Show In major goof, Uber stored sensitive datab...

Modern Family "Season 1 was met with critical acclaim." "Reception in its more recent seasons has been slightly less favorable than before." ASUS Transformer Book T300 Chi Thin detachable laptop On Yelp, are you a Dukes, Barons, or Kings ? If Google Was A Guy , from CollegeHumor Multiple patterning iOS "iOS also shares the Darwin foundation with OS X" "The iOS kernel is XNU, the kernel of Darwin. The original iPhone OS (1.0) up to iPhone OS 3.1.3 used Darwin 9.0.0d1." Obama was in the Bay Area for a security summit at Stanford

BJ's TV EZTV "TV torrent distribution group" "On 9 December 2014, The Pirate Bay was raided by the Swedish Police and it resulted in EZTV going down, by the 11th of December EZTV was releasing torrents again though the main site is not yet up." The Blacklist "A former government agent turned high-profile criminal, who had eluded capture for decades, voluntarily surrenders to the FBI, offering to cooperate on capturing a list of criminals who are virtually impossible to catch." "On Rotten Tomatoes, the show has a rating of 82%, based on 45 reviews." Restaurants Recommendations in Redwood City Vesta Donato Enoteca Good pizza Tonys Pizza Napoletana Napoletana Pizzeria Haircuts Jimmy’s Barber Shop That Darn Cat!   "is a 1965 American Walt Disney Productions thriller comedy film starring Hayley Mills […] in a story about bank robbers, a kidnapping and a mischievous cat." http://www.yelp.com/biz/city-v...

Time delay between Mars and Earth : "minimum delay of around 4 minutes and the maximum of around 24 minutes" Lamb and mutton "The meat of an adult sheep is mutton, a term only used for the meat, not the living animals." Kobe beef "refers to cuts of beef from the Tajima strain of wagyu cattle , raised in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, according to rules as set out by the Kobe Beef Marketing & Distribution Promotion Association. The meat is generally considered to be a delicacy , renowned for its flavour, tenderness, and fatty, well-marbled texture ." "Prior to 2012, Kobe beef was not exported" Senate Votes 98-1 That ‘Climate Change Is Real And Not A Hoax’ Sarah Palin: Send Immigrants ‘Back Across Ocean’ to Mexico The Western Schism  "or Papal Schism was a split within the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1418. Several men simultaneously claimed to be the true pope. Driven by politics rather than any theological disagreement, the schis...

eMac "short for education Mac, is a Macintosh desktop computer made by Apple Inc. It was originally aimed at the education market , but was later made available as a cheaper mass market alternative to Apple's second-generation LCD display iMac G4. The eMac was pulled from retail on October 12, 2005 and was sold exclusively to educational institutions thereafter. It was discontinued by Apple on July 5, 2006 and replaced by a cheaper, low-end iMac that, like the eMac, was originally sold exclusively to educational institutions" Release date: April 29, 2002 Wuhan "is the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China, and is the most populous city in Central China . It lies in the eastern Jianghan Plain at the intersection of the middle reaches of the Yangtze and Han rivers . Arising out of the conglomeration of three cities, Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang ,[…] it is a major transportation hub , with dozens of railways, roads and expressways passing t...

January 7 Taconite "is a low-grade iron ore. When the high-grade natural iron ore was plentiful, taconite was considered a waste rock and not used. But as the supply of high-grade natural ore decreased, industry began to view taconite as a resource." Duluth "is a seaport city in the State of Minnesota […] Situated at the westernmost point of the Great Lakes on the north shore of Lake Superior, Duluth is accessible to oceangoing vessels from the Atlantic Ocean 2,300 miles (3,700 km) away via the Great Lakes Waterway and the Saint Lawrence Seaway ." U.S. Steel : "The United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X), more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer with major production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe. The company was the world's 13th largest steel producer in 2010 ." Table saw safety Saw Stop  (video) Interstellar IMAX: doesn't seem like there are many showing around exce...

Google’s for-profit surveillance problem Royals  "is a song recorded by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde" 我的好妈妈 : cute Chinese children song The National Palace Museum  "(traditional Chinese: 國立故宮博物院; simplified Chinese: 国立故宫博物院; pinyin: Guólì Gùgōng Bówùyuàn) is an antique museum in Shilin, Taipei, Republic of China. It is one of the national museums in the island nation of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and has a permanent collection of more than 696,000 pieces of ancient Chinese imperial artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest in the world." Syzygium samarangense  "is a plant species in the Myrtaceae, native to an area that includes the Greater Sunda Islands, Malay Peninsula and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, but introduced in prehistoric times to a wider area and now widely cultivated in the tropics. English common names include Jambu air […] lian-woo (from the native Taiwanese name ; Chinese: 蓮霧; pinyin: liánwù ; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lián-b...