Boston police chief says facial recognition tech did not help find bombing suspects

Facial recognition technology failed to perform in the Boston bombing case--

Boston police chief: facial recognition tech didn’t help find bombing suspects | Ars Technica: "While the whole country is relieved that this past week’s Boston Marathon bombing ordeal and subsequent lockdown of the city is finally over, Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis told the Washington Post that the department’s facial recognition system “did not identify” the two bombing suspects. “The technology came up empty even though both Tsarnaevs’ images exist in official databases: Dzhokhar had a Massachusetts driver’s license; the brothers had legally immigrated; and Tamerlan had been the subject of some FBI investigation,” the Post reported on Saturday."

Google Play revenue surges, but still far short of Apple: data
Reuters
SEOUL (Reuters) - Google's app store revenues are growing much faster than those of Apple Inc, but Apple still dominates overall sales, market research data taken from the first three months of the year shows. The app stores collectively raked in $2.2 ...

Google's former CEO explores opportunities, challenges of technological ...
Washington Post
SAN FRANCISCO — Some illuminating books already have been written about Google's catalytic role in a technological upheaval that is redefining the way people work, play, learn, shop and communicate. Until now, though, there hasn't been a book ...

Google Celebrates Earth Day
Indiatimes.com
Open up Google today and a beautiful green landscape complete with streams, a bright sun, birds and trees greets you. It's time for a doodle again and today folks atGoogle are celebrating Earth Day with this interactive, animated doodle. GoogleDoodle ...

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Apple Profit Probably Fell First Time Since 2003 on IPhone Slump
Bloomberg
Apple's projected quarterly profit is more than what Google Inc. (GOOG) and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) reported last week combined. In the smartphone market, Apple accounted for about 70 percent of all profits in 2012, according to Canaccord Genuity.

Amazon Originals the Most Watched TV Shows on Amazon Instant Video Since ...
Wall Street Journal
(NASDAQ: AMZN)--Following their Friday debut, the new Amazon Originals TV pilots from AmazonStudios, the original film and series production arm of Amazon.com, were the most watched TV shows across Amazon Instant Video over the weekend, making ...

Microsoft asks: What's your online privacy type?
Washington Post
Microsoft launched the quiz as part of a larger Web site dedicated to “Your Privacy” on Monday. The campaign is first focusing on the Washington, D.C. area — which included an ad in Monday's print edition of The Washington Post — but will roll out ...

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Google Stays Fit With Fiber
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The search giant said last Wednesday that Provo, Utah would be the third city to receive GoogleFiber, its ultrafast broadband Internet and pay-TV service. The announcement came only a week afterGoogle named Austin, Texas its second Google Fiber city, ...

Apple confronts the near mother of all earnings
MSN Money
He believes Apple is likely to miss fiscal second-quarter numbers when the Cupertino, Calif. technology giant reports earnings Tuesday after the close of trading. Wu is expecting Apple to earn $10 per share on $41.3 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson ...

Is Apple Looking For Tim Cook Replacement?
InformationWeek
Apple's board of directors may secretly be looking for an executive to replace current CEO Tim Cook, reports Forbes. Citing Wall Street sources, Forbes says the search cannot be confirmed, but it is a distinct possibility given the massive drop in ...

For Developers, Google Glass Looks To Be A Fascinating But ...
By Frederic Lardinois
Last week, Google finally released the developer guides and other necessary documents that will allow developers to write apps for Glass. In some respects, the so-called Mirror API may have been a disappointment to developers who were ...
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Google fined $190,000 in Germany for illegal WiFi snooping with ...
By Jamie Rigg
Google's been taking heat for a number of years since its Street View cars were found to be pulling WiFi data, and the Hamburg Commissioner for Data.
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Dishonored shaves off 50% for Amazon's weekly deal | Joystiq
By Jessica Conditt
Dishonored slices off half of its price on Amazon this week, available for $30 for Xbox 360, PS3 or PC. Meanwhile, NBA 2K13 and ... Source: Amazon · Share. Tags: amazon, dishonored, microsoft, nintendo, pc, playstation, ps3, wii, wii-u, xbox ...
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Apple's Fading Allure Worries Investors, Suppliers - Huffington Post
By The Huffington Post News Editors
That quip, uttered in front of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd's trial lawyers and the media, no longer rings true as Apple appears to be losing a once vice-like grip on its supply chain and Wall Street. ...speculation has centered on whether demand for the iPhone is waning as an increasing number of consumers choose alternatives, including phones from Samsung - now the world's biggest seller of cell phones - and those produced by other adopters of Google Inc's Android software.
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Facebook Home Passes 500,000 Installations on Google Play
By Josh Ong
Facebook's new Home Android launcher has passed the 500000 download mark on the Google Play store after a little over a week in the wild. ... Facebook Home passes 500,000 installations on GooglePlay one week after launch. 254 ...
The Next Web

Germany Fines Google Over Data Collection
New York Times
BERLIN — A German privacy regulator fined Google €145,000 on Monday for the systematic, illegal collection of personal data while it was creating the Street View mapping service, and called on European lawmakers to significantly raise fines for violations ...

New York Times

Hedge Fund Takes $2 Billion Stake In Microsoft
Wall Street Journal
A hedge-fund executive disclosed that he owns about $2 billion in Microsoft Corp. stock, stating that the value of the software giant's businesses wasn't appreciated by other investors. Jeffrey W. Ubben, founder ValueAct Capital Management L.P., discussed ...

NYC Adds 6 Nissan Leaf Electric Cars to Taxi Fleet
PC Magazine
New York City on Monday added six Nissan Leaf electric cars to its official taxi fleet for a year-long pilot program that will determine whether an all-electric cab makes sense in the Big Apple. Nissan donated a half dozen of the zero emission cars to the NYC ...

Photojojo introduces iPad telephoto lens
CNET
For a reasonable $25, you can add a 10X or 12X optical zoom to your iPad or iPad Mini. Get ready for your close-up. Rick Broida. by Rick Broida. April 22, 2013 12:03 PM PDT Follow @cheapskateblog. The Photojojo iPad Telephoto Lens adds some serious ...

Google Now could be Google's new home page
CNET
iGoogle isn't long for this world, but that doesn't mean that Google won't have a personalized home page for you. Seth Rosenblatt. by Seth Rosenblatt. April 22, 2013 12:52 PM PDT Follow @b1g1nj4p4n. A Google-made extension appears to port Google...

Tumblr Rolls Out Ads on Mobile Apps
PC Magazine
Tumblr today introduced ads into its mobile feed, adding another revenue source for the popular blogging service. Advertisers can now pay to promote their posts to those using Tumblr's iOS and Android applications. "It works very simply," Lee Brown, ...

Huawei debuts 5-inch A199 for China
CNET
The Jelly Bean has room for two SIM cards, which means that it won't land at a U.S. carrier. Scott Webster. by Scott Webster. April 22, 2013 1:33 PM PDT Follow @swebster77. Huawei's latest Android, the dual-sim A199, features a 5-inch display.

CA piles into API management with Layer 7 acquisition
Register
CA Technologies has hopped into API management via the acquisition of Layer 7 technologies as the company continues to reinvent itself for the software-as-a-service era. The acquisition follows a similar move by Intel to acquire Mashery last week, and API ...

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FBI facial recognition technology a threat to liberty?

Blog: FBI facial recognition technology a threat to liberty?
Dubbed the Next Generation Identification (NGI) program, the high-tech endeavor ... Let's just say this facial technology isn't going to be used for lighthearted ...
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Android developers: Go all-in with the Kindle Fire HD

ZDNet
Summary: The Android app landscape is so vast that individual apps have little chance to reach the proper audience. That could be changed with the proper approach to app development. Forget the dozens of Android tablets and target your app at the ...


Most valuable penny of universe helping Mars Curiosity rover
Economic Times
LONDON: A century-old coin which is currently helping NASA's Curiosity rover explore the surface of Mars has been hailed as the most valuable penny in the universe. The coin, one of the first batch of Lincoln pennies ever minted, is a tool to help ...

Amazon to allow ads opt-out on Kindle Fire HD for $15 upcharge
PCWorld
Amazon vs. AppleAmazon doesn't want to drive even more customers Apple's way, so it has done an about-face on its decision to include ads on the lock screen and main home screen of its new Kindle Fire tablets and is letting buyers opt out -- for a $15 ...

The Apple effect on your next 'PC'
CNET
Google and Amazon devices are in the market just to show they want to be relavent from a purely consumption device. .... "Apple co-founder Steve Jobs used his iPad 2 event as a platform to criticize not just other mobile tablet makers but Microsoft as ...

Apple Issues Java Security Update
eWeek
Apple has released a security update for Java, but it does not address another security hole that has been at the center of recent attacks. Apple on Sept. 5 pushed out an update for Java 6 Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion. The patches ...

Amazon joins gadget makers jockeying for edge on market
Your Houston News
Tuesday: Microsoft Corp. releases the first major update to its server operating system since 2009, a prelude to releasing Windows 8 to consumers in October. Microsoft says Windows Server 2012 adds features that make it easier to manage large ... a ...

Apple And Pandora: Why The California Fruit Company Should Take Control Of ...
Seeking Alpha
History has shown that when Apple (AAPL) enters a new market, on average, it is better to bet on the California fruit company than against it. This happened with the music industry (iTunes), the mobile phone industry (iPhone), and the tablet industry ...

FBI to roll out $1 billion public facial recognition system in 2014, will be ...
Engadget
By Jason Hidalgo posted Sep 9th 2012 8:46AM They're watching you -- or at least will be in a couple of years. That's when the FBI is gearing up for a nationwide launch of a $1 billion project designed to identify people of interest, according to the ...

Best Gadgets of the Week: Amazon Kindle Fire HD, Kindle Paperwhite, Nokia's ...
ABC News
By JOANNA STERN (@joannastern) In the gadget world, weeks just don't get busier than this. Some of the biggest tech companies in the world -- Nokia, Amazon, Motorola and Sony -- took to the stage this week to release their own gadgets, likely before ...

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Global warming: Otters, kelp and CO2
Summit County Citizens Voice
By Summit Voice SUMMIT COUNTY —Maintaining healthy sea otter populations could put a dent in the seemingly unstoppable build-up of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere, according to a pair of UC Santa Cruz researchers.

Molecular milestone: scientists unravel the human genome
Fox News
In a milestone for the understanding of human genetics, scientists just announced the results of five years of work in unraveling the secrets of how the genome operates. The ENCODE project, as it is known, dispensed with the idea that our DNA is ...

The AppAdvice Week In Review
AppAdvice
Call it the drizzle before the storm. As Labor Day ended, Apple announced their own version of Christmas in September. As expected, Sept. 12 was scheduled for the day for Apple's fall event. Here are just a few of the stories we followed during the ...

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Spacewalking Astronaut 'Touches' the Sun
Discovery News
Sept. 8, 2012 -- In legend, the bright sun was a dazzling temptation for Icarus and so, too, it is for NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who appears to touch our closest star in a photo snapped during a spacewalk this week. But unlike Icarus, the boy who ...

Discovery News

Google buys browser-based malware scanner VirusTotal
PCWorld
By Jared Newman, PCWorld Sep 8, 2012 12:20 PM Google has acquired Web-based URL scanner VirusTotal in what may be an effort to improve browser security. In a blog post, VirusTotal says it will operate independently from Google and will keep its ...

NFL Network, a la carte NFL RedZone Channel are coming to Google Fiber subscribers
Engadget
By Ben Drawbaugh posted Sep 8th 2012 11:12PM It isn't quite ESPN, but sports fans who also happen to love technology -- yes, they exist -- will be happy to know that choosing Google Fiber doesn't mean going without NFL Network and NFL RedZone.

Apple Inc (AAPL); iPhone 3G To Be Dropped After Launch Of iPhone 5
PT News
When Apple Inc (AAPL)'s iOS 6 was announced there were two surprises to the list of devices that it would run on; one that it would not run on the very first iPad ie the iPad 1 and two that it would be compatible on the iPhone 3G.

HTC may be able to seek import ban on LTE iPad and new iPhone
ZDNet
Summary: Apple won a major case against Samsung, but all may not be rosy for Apple as patents that HTC owns are holding strong at the moment. Apple screwed up HTC's EVO 4G LTE launch and now HTC may return the favor with the new iPhone.

Texas raises speed limit to 85 mph: Other states could, too
USA TODAY
Texas' new highest-in-the-nation speed limit — 85 mph on a 41-mile stretch of toll road between Austin and San Antonio— could mean that other states will soon see higher speed limits, experts say. The Texas Transportation Commission approved the new ...

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How Can Pandora Save Itself?
PC Magazine
By David Murphy The news hit like a one-two punch to Pandora's stock price: With rumors that Apple's considering jumping into the wide world of Internet radio, Pandora shares dropped just around 17 percent in a single day — not the best news for the ...

Sony's Wonderbook: Book of Spells Gets A Release Date
Just Push Start
Sony has announced the official release date for Wonderbook: Book of Spells for the PlayStation Move. Wonderbook: Book of Spells will be out in the US from November 13th. Wonderbook was first unveiled at E3 and was like an interactive storybook for ...

Pope, soon heading to Lebanon, says lasting Mideast peace would help entire world
Washington Post
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday characterized his trip to Beirut later this week as a pilgrimage for peace for the entire Middle East region and its anguished people. Benedict told pilgrims at his summer residence in Castel ...

Apple's new iPhone plug shows up in photos, again
CNET (blog)
What is largely expected to be Apple's next sync and charging cable for the iPhone 5 and future iOS devices crops up in images again. by Josh Lowensohn What is purported to be Apple's new iPhone plug. More images of Apple's next iPhone dock connector ...

The Bing It On Challenge
iProgrammer
Microsoft is inviting us to break the Google habit and try out its search engine Bing instead. The idea is to take a blind test and see whether you prefer Bing's results or Google's. Microsoft claims that in independent research Bing was preferred over ...

BMW Celebrates 25 Years Of V-12s With Special Edition 760Li
Washington Post
It was 25 years ago that BMW launched its first production V-12 engine, with the unit, code-named the M70, debuting in the E32 7-Series flagship sedan. BMW engineers joined two of the automaker's legendary straight-six units on a single crankshaft, ...

The 84 Inch 4K LG Set Comes in at $20000 – Comes to the US in October
AVRev.com
A recent announcement regarding price and availability from LG means Sony's 4K set just isn't looking as exciting. While Sony is going to be asking $25000 this November, LG is selling its set for a chunk less and a month earlier.

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Where Have All the Gamers Gone?
IGN
by Colin Campbell In a widely-publicized posting earlier this week, respected market-research firm NPD reported that there are an estimated 211 million people who play video games in the United States, down 5% from last year.

iPhone 5 specs updates & realase date
South Asian News Agency
iPhone 5 release date officially pegged for September 12. The shadow on the invite shows a 5, which almost definitely means Apple is to call its latest handset the iPhone 5. Based on the roadmap of mobile chip design specialist ARM (of which Apple is a ...

New Blackmagic Cinema Camera debuts at IBC
OnScreenAsia
Blackmagic Cinema Camera MFT (passive Micro Four Thirds lens mount) model plays nice with most lenses and takes third-party PL mount adapters. Amsterdam – At IBC, Blackmagic Design unveiled a second model of the Blackmagic Cinema Camera that features ...

OnScreenAsia

DARPA's 'Cheetah' robot outpaces Olympic champion Usain Bolt
French Tribune
The four-legged 'Cheetah' robot – which Boston Dynamics developed on behalf of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) – has set a new speed record, outpacing the world's fastest man --- six-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt.

French Tribune

India launches satellites in 100th space mission
Boston.com
NEW DELHI, India (AP) — India's national space organization has marked its 100th mission by launching French and Japanese satellites. The Indian Space Research Organization said Sunday's launch of a French observation satellite and a Japanese ...

NVIDIA Quadro K5000 is 'most powerful GPU ever for the Mac'
ITP.net
By Stephen McBride Published September 9, 2012 NVIDEA announced its new graphics accelerator for Mac Pros today, promising "the most powerful professional-class GPU ever for the Macintosh" that will bring "unprecedented visualisation and computation ...

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Scientists start 'terrifying' search for life trapped under Antarctic ice
Yorkshire Post
British scientists are poised to begin a “terrifying” mission to search for extreme forms of life in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. They plan to probe an ancient lake that has been sealed off from the outside world for up to 500000 years ...

Google Maps Makes Live Traffic & Navigation Updates
Tech Gadgets Web (blog)
Search engine giant Google has added two new features to the Google Maps in India which are: live traffic updates and voice navigation. At the moment the traffic information through Google Maps is only available in Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, ...

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Voyager 1 poised to leave solar system, enter interstellar space
Newsday
Voyager 1 poised to leave solar system, enter interstellar space In 1977, Jimmy Carter moved into the White House, "Star Wars" and "Saturday Night Fever" premiered in theaters and the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral to...

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FTC Seeks Public Comments on Facial Recognition Technology

FTC Seeks Public Comments on Facial Recognition Technology ...
By Hunton & Williams LLP
On December 23, 2011, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is seeking public comments on the privacy and security implications raised by the use of facial recognition technology. The FTC recently held a public workshop entitled ... http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2011/12/facefacts.shtm
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Skywatcher Captures Image of Troubled Russian Mars Probe
Space.com
by Leonard David, SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist Russia's Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt, is stuck in low-Earth orbit, dropping closer and closer to its destructive encounter with the planet's atmosphere next month. Thanks to the talents of Ralf ...

BlackBerry loses market share
San Francisco Chronicle
That's BlackBerry's continually shrinking share of US cell phone subscribers, according to a report this week from ComScore. The number - measured during a three-month period ending in November - declined from 7.1 percent in the previous quarter. ...

Physicist Builds Large Hadron Collider Out Of Legos
Forbes
As part of a public outreach program for the Large Hadron Collider, a physicist has created a scale model of the ATLAS experiment in the Large Hadron Collider – out of Legos. As part of a public outreach program in conjunction with the Niels Bohr ...

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Making Jony Ive a Knight sends UK Gov signal: 2012 is the year of tech
TechCrunch
by Mike Butcher Honours and medals from Queens and Kings may be an alien concept in Silicon Valley, but they are a delightfully steam-punk tradition, still continued in a Britain which long ago said goodbye to its Empire, yet still has Knights and ...

Infographic: Who's the Typical 'Mr. Android'?
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Despite continued discussion about the platform's fragmentation, Google's Android mobile OS had quite the year. Recent stats from comScore found that, in November, about 46.9 percent of smartphones in the US were Android-based, ...

LG to Sell 55-Inch TV Using New Ultra-Thin Tech
ABC News
By PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer For flat-panel TVs, the choice for years has been between plasma and LCD. In the coming year, there'll be another choice, at least for those prepared to spend big. LG Electronics Inc. says it's planning to sell a ...

Fisker Karma recall is official, 239 cars will need their battery packs swapped
Engadget
By Richard Lawler posted Jan 1st 2012 7:11AM The folks at Fisker are probably more excited to see the calendar roll over than anyone, as a tumultuous 2011 comes to an and with another setback for the Karma. A battery issue previously thought to affect ...

Orca Attacks Sharks on New Zealand Beach
NTDTV
People in New Zealand's South Island witnessed a natural event not often seen, when an orca attacked a group of sharks on a beach at the town of Tuatapera. The killer whale was on the hunt, chasing the sharks just meters from a popular swimming beach. ...

You Can Play 'Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D' On A Snakeskin 3DS
Ology
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Nintendo Wii-U To Feature Their Own App Store
Platform Nation
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The GIZMON iCA Can Make Your iPhone Look Like A Classic, Retro Camera
AppAdvice
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Google Ahead of Facebook as Top Web Site
San Francisco Luxury News
Nielsen Research has come out with its analysis of the most visited web sites in the United States, and Google is at top. The Nielsen data was based on a study of computer browsing habits at work and home, from the period Jan. 1, 2011 to Oct. 31, 2011. ...

Amazon Kindles sold at amazing pace of 1 million a week in December
Washington Post
Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc., the largest Internet retailer, said it sold “well over” 1 million Kindles a week in December, with record demand led by its Kindle Fire tablet. The top three sellers on Amazon's website were the Kindle Fire and ...

Duqu, Stuxnet Built on Common Platform With Other Similar Super-Malware
eWeek
Kaspersky Lab researchers believe the same platform that was used to build the Duqu and Stuxnet Trojans may have been used to develop other similar variants. Further analysis of the Duqu Trojan has revealed that the platform that was used to develop ...

Windows Phone Leaks, ASP.NET Vulnerability Marked Microsoft Week
eWeek
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Essential apps: a quick guide
Houston Chronicle
By CASEY NEWTON, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE For Christmas, millions of people found smartphones under the tree: More than 6.8 million Android and Apple devices were activated, according to the market research firm Flurry. The first thing those users did ...

Facebook IPO: the £64bn question of 2012
Telegraph.co.uk
If it ever happens, Facebook will be the frenzied float of 2012, with a possible valuation of $100bn (£64.4bn). An IPO will make founder Mark Zuckerberg one of the world's richest men and many of Facebook's 3000 employees exceedingly wealthy. ...

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Facebook Chat Now On Your Desktop - Messenger Client For Windows 7
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Following the leak of Facebook Messenger Client by Israeli blog TechIT, Facebook is now officially out with its messenger client for Windows 7. Facebook Messenger as a mobile app has been around for some time but this is Facebook's first official ...

Florida story of the year: Shuttles shut down
Pensacola News Journal
AP ORLANDO — The end of the space shuttle program after more than three decades of flights to low-earth orbit launched past Gov. Rick Scott's shakeup of state government and the Casey Anthony trial as Florida's top story of 2011, according to a poll of ...

Apple fined $1.2 million in Italy over warranty practices; Appeal planned
Network World
Last week, Italy fined Apple $1.2 million for failing to provide consumers with 2-year warranties, free of charge, as provided by Italian law. By Yoni Heisler on Sat, 12/31/11 - 6:44pm. Last week, Italy fined Apple $1.2 million for failing to provide ...

PHOTO BLOG: Schlanger Park Train Engine
Pittsburg Morning Sun (blog)
By SEAN STEFFEN A piece of history that has been in Schlanger park since 1955 will be heading to a new home. Engine No. 1023 is the only Kansas City Southern steam engine still in existence. To read the story by Andrew Nash, follow the link below. ...

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VIDEO: The Difference Between A Very Fast Car And A VERY Fast Car, Is It ...
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Little-known Quadrantid meteor shower can still put on a good show
The News-Press
Call it the Rodney Dangerfield of meteor showers: It just can't get no respect. Although the Quadrantid meteor shower can put on a spectacular display during its peak, which is expected to be about 2 am Wednesday, it doesn't have the same reputation as ...

Social Media Metrics and People
Business 2 Community
By Brent Pohlman, Published January 1, 2012 You have been actively communicating or trying to have a consistent voice on sites like Twitter, Google+ or Facebook, joining conversations, posting interesting content. You are starting to see value in the ...

Twisted Metal: Co-Director Offers Free DLC With Upcoming Title
Gamebandits (blog)
The co-director of Twisted Metal for PlayStation 3 David Jaffe has just announced through the PlayStation Blog that Twisted Metal – Black will be a free downloadable game together with the upcoming Twisted Metal. Jaffe even went on to record himself ...

Borderlands 2: Gunzerker And Siren Class Detailed
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In the Borderlands 2 teaser trailer released back in August, the new Gunzerker class was introduced. Gearbox has since then about how the gun-wielding class works. The class can wield two weapons at a time but can only bring just as many guns. ...

Half-Life 3: Valve Debunks Rumors About Upcoming Title
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There have been a lot of rumors circulating about Half Life 3, which should be the next instalment in the franchise. So it was great that Valves's Chet Faliszek finally put an end to at least one. He declared that gamers had been trolled because there ...

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PS Vita: Online Pass Confirmed
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There is some horrible news about PlayStation Vita games, well quite a few of them anyway. So, PS Vita owners should read on. It has been confirmed that some Vita games will have an online pass that is just like what publishers have been doing on PS3 ...

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MIT Student Creates 'Almost Self-Balancing' Electric Unicycle (VIDEO)
Huffington Post UK
A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created an 'almost self-balancing' electric unicycle which he uses to zip around the MIT campus. However, the key word here seems to be 'almost' because while users lean to control their ...

Rumor: Spark Unlimited working on Star Wars Battlefront 3?
Strategy Informer (press release)
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Dec 31, 2011 By unsilviu (SI Core) on Dec 31, 2011 I don't think so, Battlefront is traditionally centered on the grunts, with Jedi being elite, one-click-kill units used to kill many other grunts, but who knows what ...

2011 Technology Related Successes and Failures | PadGadget
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emailprint New year's eve is always a time for consideration of the year gone past and so it is on this occasion that we reflect on the technology-related successes and failures from 2011. Read on to see what we consider some of the great moves during 2011, while we ...
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Craft Design Technology | NEW - It's just the time of the year when we're all starting to think about our fresh start to the new year, from our lifestyles and health right through to work.
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Technology holds promise for paraplegics, others with limited ...
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Technology holds promise for paraplegics, others with limited movement, Neurosurgeons at Phoenix Children's Hospital are seeking to further develop technology that could allow paraplegics, stroke victims and others with limited movement ...
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Technology in Education: Finding the Balance
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By Katy Foster of Centralia High School Activities Click to view image Education is the key to the future of our nation. Without it, society would be one where intelligence no longer mattered because modernized technology has taken its.
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When Technology Goes Wrong … SkyCam Camera Comes ...
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When Technology Goes Wrong … SkyCam Camera Comes Crashing to Ground During Insight Bowl Between Iowa & Oklahoma. The sky is falling, the sky is falling … nope, it's SkyCam crashing to the ground, barely missing players … ...
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