Sony, for its part, is working to make that secondary display massively more appealing -- the company's latest generation of high-end camcorders adds an HDMI input, with an option to display content from any compatible source (a full-size adapter ships in the box).

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The Newspaper Guild, which represents 26, 000 U.S. media-industry workers (34, 000 if you include Canada and Puerto Rico) is endorsing a call by Visual Arts Source magazine (staff size: 50) to stop providing free content to Huffpo now that its acquisition by AOL has made a fortune for its founders.

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And figuring out the appropriate size and role of government has always been a source of rigorous and, yes, sometimes angry debate.

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On televisions, this is achieved via a small set-top box -- a prototype of which approaches the size and noise level of a mini-fridge -- that plugs into the video source and the TV and converts the video in real-time with virtually no latency.

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The source of most of the recent storms, a sunspot known as active region 9393 that is 13 times the size of Earth.

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