Report: North Korea Linked To Cyberterrorism Against Sony (video)

U.S. Links North Korea to Sony Hacking - NYTimes.com: "... Senior administration officials, who would not speak on the record about the intelligence findings, said the White House was still debating whether to publicly accuse North Korea of what amounts to a cyberterrorism campaign..."



Sony’s New York premiere of “The Interview” was canceled and the fourth-largest U.S. cinema chain won’t screen the film after threats of violence from the hackers behind a devastating cyberattack on the studio. Adallom President of Marketing Tal Klein and Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw speak on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Google's Detractors Take Their Fight to the States
New York Times
Google's detractors complain about the search giant to everyone they can, ... ForMicrosoft, any limits imposed on Google might help it improve the ...


Wired
Sci-Fi Author Neal Stephenson Joins Mystery Startup Magic Leap as 'Chief Futurist'
Wired
Silicon Valley is already abuzz over this stealthy augmented-reality startup, mainly due to some funding from Google and a brief glimpse of the company's technology that shows a 3-D virtual elephant floating above someone's hands. And now, the company ...

ABC News
Instagram Gets Five New Filters
PC Magazine
It's been two years since Instagram added any new filters to its lineup of classics like Rise, Lo-Fi, and X-Pro II. So it's high time the Facebook-owned company got on that, right? Well, get ready to get excited, Instagrammers. Because the photo- and ...

The Independent
Google Reveals 2014's Top Searches
PC Magazine
Google clocked trillions of searches worldwide in 2014, but one man managed to steal the spotlight: The late Robin Williams landed the No. 1 spot in the global trends charts. The comedian and actor passed away in August, prompting folks around the world ...

PCWorld
Sony can make any eyewear more like Google Glass
Engadget
Sony has just announced a new attachable display module that can turn a "pair of fashionable glasses, goggles, sunglasses, or other type of eyewear" into smartglasses. And, yes, it's completely detachable so you can remove it whenever you want to.

Wall Street Journal
Sprint to Face Record Fine Over Unauthorized Customer Charges
Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to fine Sprint Corp. a record $105 million over allegations the company charged consumers for unwanted text message alerts and other services. An FCC official confirmed that the ...

USA TODAY
Report: Samsung Eyeing Apple Pay Competitor
PC Magazine
Samsung is in talks with payments startup LoopPay for a technology that would rival Apple's new mobile payment system, according to a Tuesday report from Re/code. The technology, slated to make its debut in 2015, would bring greater convenience to the ...

CNET
Alleged OnePlus Mini spied in leaked photos
CNET
A pair of images have emerged showing what purports to be a smaller take on the OnePlus smartphone...

Forbes
Why Nintendo's Wii U Might Be The Best Console To Unwrap Christmas Morning
Forbes
In the next week or so, there will likely be many articles stacking up the three major consoles, the PS4, the Xbox One, and the Wii U, comparing price, features, graphics, games and so on as you try to understand which one to buy for someone (or yourself) this ...

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Does Sony Have a Case to Stop Hack Reporting? (videos)

Does Sony Have a Case to Stop Hack Reporting?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Sony Pictures Entertainment requested news outlets stop disclosing material from a devastating computer hack as its studio chief made plans to meet a civil-rights leader after the exposure of a racially tinged e-mail exchange. Rasch Technology And Cyberlaw Principal Mark Rasch weighs in on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 12/15)

Sony Asks Media to Destroy Hacked Data: Do They Have a Case?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Trend Micro's Tom Kellermann and Bloomberg's Lucas Shaw discuss the ethical issues raised by the hack attack on Sony Pictures. They speak with Bloomberg's Trish Regan on "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg 12/15)


New York Times
Apple Wins Decade-Old iTunes Suit
New York Times
Several other Apple executives were called to the witness stand. ... in the process of fixing hacks, “it might screw up the Real technology anyway, ... accusation: that Appleand the online retailer Amazon had colluded to make their ...
Apple Wins iPod Antitrust Trial - Wall Street Journal
Jury finds Apple not liable of harming consumers in iTunes DRM case - The Verge
Apple Wins Class-Action Lawsuit Over iPod Prices - ABC News


RT
Apple halts online sales to Russia as the ruble plunges in value
The Verge
According to reporters at Bloomberg, Apple is shutting down its online sales to Russia because of the "extreme fluctuations" in its currency, the ruble.
Apple Stops Online Sales in Russia Over Ruble Fluctuations - Bloomberg


Newsweek
What People Are Searching For, According to Google
Newsweek
Every December, as one year is about to give way to the next, Google ... pumpkin pie, anapple and an egg; Paleo, Atkins and Gluten-free were the ...
Robin Williams Tops 2014 List of Google Searches - ABC News


CNET
Dozens of vendors jump on Apple Pay bandwagon
CNET
Log In to CNET; Sign In with Facebook Google Yahoo; Join CNET; Member Benefits ... With the expanded list, Apple says its mobile-payments system now ... Other services such as Google Wallet and Softcard have tried to find ... CNET, Computer Shopper,Microsoft TechNet, and other technology sites.
Apple Pay Recruits Dozens of New Banks and Stores - Wired
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Bionic Eyes, What If the Blind Could See Again? (video)

What if the blind could see again? Today, more than 40 million people in the world suffer from total blindness. But robotics and scientific research could change that, with European and U.S. companies fighting for the market. Bloomberg’s Caroline Connan met with the French company developing the next bionic eye. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Windows 10 no 'loss leader' for Microsoft, but making money may rely on services
PCWorld
Mary Branscombe is a freelance journalist who has been covering technology for over two decades and has written about everything from programming languages, early versions of Windows and Office and the arrival of the web to consumer gadgets and ...

Reuters
CBS pulls programming off Dish Network in several US markets
Reuters
(Reuters) - CBS programming will no longer be available to Dish subscribers in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other markets, after CBS Corp (CBS.N) and Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) failed to agree on a new contract. The talks fell apart after two ...

Wall Street Journal
Sony Pictures Employees Receive Email Claiming to Come From Hackers
Wall Street Journal
Cars enter Sony Pictures Entertainment headquarters in Culver City, Calif. On Friday, employees of the studio received a threatening email purporting to be from recent hackers....

Tom's Guide
PlayStation Experience Preview: What to Expect
Tom's Guide
Sony always has a massive presence at gaming trade shows, and this weekend the Japanese tech giant is cutting out the middleman and hosting an all-PlayStation Event of its own. Running on Dec. 6 and 7 in The Venetian in Las Vegas, Sony's PlayStation ...

VentureBeat
Zuckerberg is on shaky ground criticizing Apple's business model
VentureBeat
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone on the attack against Apple, calling its products overpriced, and its views on Internet privacy “ridiculous.” Back in September as the furor over the leaked celebrity photographs raged, Tim Cook took a little shot at the ...

CNET
Want to watch one of the last videos of Steve Jobs? Too bad
CNET
Six months before he died, Apple's co-founder and CEO gave a video deposition for a lawsuit over the iPod. The plaintiffs' lawyers refuse to release the video, even though it was shown at the trial on Friday....

NDTV
Samsung Galaxy S6 Rumors: Truly “The Next Big Thing”?
PhoneDog
It's the end of the year. The holidays are ramping up, the malls and retail stores are rich with sales, and you are itching to purchase a new gadget. Why wouldn't you be? It can be hard to resist some of the deals that manufacturers and carriers offer with the ...

CNET
Gearing Up for the Hour of Code
NBC Bay Area
A group of elementary school students from East Palo Alto are learning how to help their peers with the Hour of Code, a nationwide effort by Code.org to expose students to coding during Computer Science Education Week ...

Mirror.co.uk
YotaPhone 2 dual-screen smartphone launches in UK and Europe
Sin Chew Jit Poh
(AFP Relaxnews) -- Presented in February at Barcelona's MWC 2014, the surprisingly original YotaPhone 2 is finally available in Europe and the UK. This Android smartphone from Russian brand Yota Devices has screens on both sides, one of which uses ...

New York Times
Cisco Systems sues rival for infringement of network patents
Reuters
WASHINGTON Dec 5 (Reuters) - Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc filed two lawsuits on Friday against Arista Networks Inc, accusing the smaller rival of copying its networking technologies. The lawsuits, filed in a federal court in California, accuse ...

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Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr Notify of Zendesk Hack

Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr Notify of Security Breach After Zendesk Hack
Mashable
Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr have all warned their users that some of their data might be compromised after a security breach at Zendesk, a company which provides customer support services for all three companies. In a blog post titled "We've been hacked," ...

What Facebook's Search Engine Tells Us

New York Times
NEW YORK — Oh, the things you learn on Facebook's new search engine! Among them: that the hardware chain Home Depot wins the top ranking among employers of people who “like” sadomasochism; that a lot of people are not embarrassed to profess a ...

Google May Clinch EU Settlement After 'Summer,' Almunia Says

Businessweek
Google Inc. (GOOG) may reach a settlement of a European Union probe into its search business in the second half of the year, the bloc's antitrust chief said today. Joaquin Almunia said he may be able to start checking Google's January settlement offer with ...

Robert C. Richardson, Laureate in Physics, Dies at 75

New York Times
Robert C. Richardson, who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for coaxing a rare form of helium into a bizarre liquid state that had never been seen before, died on Tuesday in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 75. Enlarge This Image ...

Red Hat throws its hat into the Big Data ring

ZDNet
Summary: Red Hat has gathered together a reasonable selection of open source software to create a Big Data development and deployment environment. The company has thrown its hat into the ring to compete with and cooperate with many in the Hadoop ...

Twitter implements DMARC standard to fight phishing

PCWorld
Twitter has implemented DMARC, a standard for preventing email spoofing, in order to make it harder for attackers to send phishing emails that appear to come from twitter.com addresses. Twitter users are constantly targeted in phishing attacks that try to pass ...

Bees use 'electrical SIXTH SENSE' to nail nectar-stuffed flowers

Register
There's electricity in the air when bees meet flowers: according to a new study, the blooms and approaching insects uses electrical signals to find out whether there is nectar and pollen to spare. A bee covered with pollen on a flower. My spidey bumble senses ...

Google+ Hangout hits the final video frontier on International Space Station

NBCNews.com (blog)
By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News. Follow @b0yle. Friday's live Google+ Hangout represents one small step for NASA, one giant leap for the Web-based videoconferencing tool. Space-to-Earth hookups are nothing new for the International Space ...

Report: Injured Russians leave hospital, analysis of meteorite fragments begins

CNN
(CNN) -- Twenty-five people were discharged from hospital Friday, state media reported, a week after a meteor exploded in spectacular fashion in the skies above Russia's Urals region, shattering glass in thousands of buildings. Eleven children were among ...

Google's Pixel Chromebook Has a Konami Code Easter Egg

Wired
Google's Pixel laptop is the Lamborghini of Chromebooks. It's packed with all the best specs and it's got an absolutely amazing display you've gotta see to believe. But the thing we're all talking about is the Konami Code. At least one person on the ...

Cellphone unlocking petition hits 100000 signatures
TG Daily
The US government will have to reconsider its decision to ban cellphone unlocking, after an online petition reached the necessary 100,000 signatures. The petition was prompted by a decision last year to ban the procedure under the 1998 Digital Millennium ...

TG Daily

Those Rumored Google Stores Are Starting To Make A Lot Of Sense
TechCrunch
When talking about Apple's rise from near-bankruptcy to become the most valuable company in the world, people often credit the amazing string of products from the iMac to the iPod to the iPhone to the iPad. And rightfully so. But just as important was another ...

TechCrunch

Apple 'slap wrap' patent fuels iWatch rumour
ZDNet
Summary: A 'slap wrap' flexible screen patent filed by Apple has added fuel to rumours about an iWatch. Liam Tung. By Liam Tung | February 22, 2013 -- 11:53 GMT (03:53 PST). Follow @liamT. Apple filed a patent in 2011 for a wearable "slap wrap" device ...

ZDNet

Mercedes-Benz CLA 45 AMG and A 45 AMG to be featured in Driveclub PS4 game
SlashGear
This week was a big one for gamers with Sony unveiling the PlayStation 4 along with teasing some video games that will be coming to the system. Fans of driving/racing games and cool cars are excited about the video game Driveclub that looks poised to...

SlashGear

ZTE to Launch First Smartphones with Nvidia Tegra 4 Inside.
X-bit Labs
ZTE Corp. and Nvidia Corp. on Thursday said they had partnered to deliver the first super phones based on Tegra 4 application processor and Icera i500 4G/LTE software modem. ZTE aims to become the first manufacturer to release Tegra 4-based handset...

X-bit Labs

Discovered: The Most Adorable Planet Yet
TIME
Planets are like puppies. They're born litters, they stay close to their mama (in this case, their star), and no two are exactly alike. There are big planets, medium planets, and then there are the true runts. It's the runts that are often the cutest, and for those folks ...

TIME

Chrome App Launcher Makes PCs More Chromebook-Like
TIME
In the near future, using Google's Chrome web browser on a PC will become a lot more like using a Chromebook. That's because the app launcher, which has been a core part of the Chromebook experience, is on its way to Windows. The launcher sits directly ...

TIME

20 best Android apps this week
The Guardian (blog)
It's time for our weekly roundup of new and notable Android apps – those released for the first time this week, or which have been newly ported from smartphones to tablets (or vice versa). The roundup includes apps and games, and the pricing in brackets ...

The Guardian (blog)
Potential prehistoric link
Boston Globe
As Mike and Padi Anderson sold their catch of scallops on the dock Wednesday night in Rye Harbor, N.H., it was not just their shellfish that drew people's interest. It was an object that looks like a 6-inch-long tooth that Mike had dredged up from the ocean ...

Boston Globe

The Unparticle May Lurk in Earth's Mantle
LiveScience.com
It's a good time to be a particle physicist. The long-sought Higgs boson particle seems finally to have been found at an accelerator in Geneva, and scientists are now hot on the trail of another tiny piece of the universe, this one tied to a new fundamental force ...

Video of Plasma Rain on Sun Captured by NASA
Science World Report
A medium-strength solar flare exploded on the Sun's lower right hand side expelling light and radiation July 19, 2012. This beautiful dazzling magnetic display was trapped on film by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and released recently.

NBC.com HACKED to spread bank account-raiding Trojan
Register
The website of US TV network NBC was hacked to deliver Java and PDF exploits. The attack against NBC.com - which hosts entertainment and TV content - used a cybercrime toolkit called Redkit that was ultimately aimed at delivering Citadel, a banking ...

Siberian Caves Point To Devastating Future Thawing And CO2 Release
PlanetSave.com
A team of scientists from Britain, Russia, Mongolia, and Switzerland have released a report which finds that evidence obtained from Siberian caves suggest that a global temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius could result in permanently frozen ground end up ...

Is Microsoft readying Xbox 720 reveal for April?
Attack of the Fanboy
Microsoft could be readying a reveal of the Xbox 720 in April, according to reports that suggest the company was “caught off guard” by Sony's announcement of the PS4. Sony fired the first shots in the next-gen console wars with their announcement earlier...

Attack of the Fanboy

A scientist explains how the Brain Activity Map will cure mental diseases in the ...
NBC Latino
Dr. Rafael Yuste immigrated to New York City from Madrid, Spain, 26 years ago, with two suitcases, a medical degree, and not knowing a single person. Today, the neuroscientist is not only a professor at Columbia University, where he leads a laboratory, ...

Ubuntu's Touch OS preview released for Nexus tablets and phones
ZDNet
Summary: Ubuntu Touch is here, but users have been warned not to run it on their primary device, as it has number of kinks still to be worked out. Liam Tung. By Liam Tung | February 22, 2013 -- 10:22 GMT (02:22 PST). Follow @liamT. Ubuntu Touch Preview ...

ZDNet

Giant goldfish photo, video: Lake Taho researchers say monster goldfish found ...
WPTV
On almost a daily basis, Lake Taho researchers head out on a customized boat to search for non-native fish like the large mouth bass -- but they found something much larger: A monster goldfish. Photographer: Handout. Regular Photo Size. advertisement. alt ...

WPTV

IBM Unveils MobileFirst Portfolio For Enterprise Mobility Push
CRN
IBM Thursday rolled out a new mobile solutions set dubbed MobileFirst, which combines a wide array of IBM software products and services under one umbrella brand. MobileFirst encompasses mobile security, analytics and application development software ...

Qualcomm completes new Qualcomm family with 200 and 400 SoCs
ITProPortal
Qualcomm has unleashed two more system-on-chip series (which it calls processors) yesterday. The Snapdragon 200 and Snapdragon 400 join the Snapdragon 600 and the Snapdragon 800 which were unveiled earlier in January at CES in Las Vegas.

ITProPortal

Millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito planning 2018 trip to Mars
Digital Trends
He was the first space tourist to stay on board the International Space Station (in 2001) and now he's planning to send two astronauts on a flyby of Mars by the end of this decade. Dennis Tito, who made a boatload of money through his California-based ...

Digital Trends

FCC orders 2M people to power down cell phone signal boosters
Ars Technica
The Federal Communications Commission today enacted a set of rules governing the sale and deployment of wireless signal boosters, devices consumers use to improve cell phone signals. More than 2 million of these devices are in use across the country,...

Ars Technica

Samsung and Apple Slugging It Out in the Smart Connected Devices Market
All Things Digital
Godzilla_mechagodzilla Apple sold a ton of smartphones, tablets, and PCs last year, but not enough to retain its title as the world's leading vendor of smart connected devices. In 2012, the company ceded that title to archrival Samsung. In a research note...

All Things Digital

Hardware Roundup: NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Edition
Overclockers Club
NVIDIA released its latest and greatest GPU yesterday in the guise of the GeForce GTX Titan and we managed to pick up a couple of reviews of the reference version on this card in addition to the pair of reviews done here at OCC. Named after the world's ...

'Harry Pota' and the wizards of Unit 61398
The Australian
THE bright red and yellow star emblem of the People's Liberation Army is the only signal that a dank, pale office building in a poor downtown area of Shanghai houses the world's most comprehensive and covert cyber-hacking networks. Inside the nondescript ...

Completely redesigned iPad 5 due in September?
TechRadar UK
While the iPad mini may be flavour of the month in the Apple tablet world, the company has a revamped 9-inch iPad 5 on the cards for a September launch. That's if you believe TrendForce, which reckons it has some inside info about the new iPad 5 including ...

BK Hack Triggers Twitter Password Smackdown

InformationWeek
"Operation Whopper" takeover of Burger King and Jeep Twitter accounts, and spoof hacks by MTV and BET, trigger Twitter's "friendly reminder" to use strong passwords. Mathew J. Schwartz | February 21, ...

Wearable Computers Struggle to Go Mainstream: 10 Reasons Why
eWeek
NEWS ANALYSIS: Google, Apple and others companies are betting wearable technology is the next big trend in mobile computing. But why is it taking so long to enter the mainstream? With Apple reportedly thinking about delivering a smart watch known as ...

eWeek

Foxconn: Recruitment suspended due to installation of robots
ZDNet
Summary: Key manufacturer for Apple has halted hiring at its Chinese plants because it wants to further automate its processes with robots and replace employees. Cyrus Lee. By Cyrus Lee for View from China | February 22, 2013 -- 03:45 GMT (19:45 PST)...

ZDNet

RIAA Not Impressed With Google's Anti-Piracy Efforts
PC Magazine
The recording industry is not impressed with Google's efforts to rid its search engine of sites that facilitate piracy. A top lobbying group today said it has found "no evidence" that Google has followed through with a plan to demote sites with pirated content.

Hipsters have spoken: Microsoft is 'hip to be square'
Register
Microsoft is getting hip again, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, but Google's still the coolest kid in school. The polling organization asked the US's finest 18 and 29-year-olds what the coolest tech brands are, and for the first time in a long while around half ...

What's the point of the Breakthrough science prize?
The Guardian
Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg have joined forces with venture capitalist Yuri Milner to announce a new "Breakthrough prize in the life sciences". What does this mean for the science community? Well, science is already pretty well served for prizes. If not a...

The Guardian

Ford's Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid granted carpool-lane access
Los Angeles Times
Ford Motor Co. had some good news for California drivers Thursday: Its Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid had been approved for use in the state's carpool lanes. The Fusion plug-in is the third Ford vehicle currently sold that is eligible for the much-coveted HOV ...

Saverin: Facebook's rapid growth is its 'biggest risk'
CNET
The Facebook co-founder argues that the rapid growth makes it "hard to iterate, educate." Don Reisinger. by Don Reisinger. February 21, 2013 6:44 AM PST. Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin. (Credit: Facebook). Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin ...

Facebook reveals plan for new archival data centre
Register
Facebook has discussed details of a new data centre it is building to house photos nobody looks at any more. The Social Network TM already has two data centres in the spot the new one will splash down, namely the town of Prineville, Oregon. Facebook's ...

Mount Etna: Psychedelic satellite image of volcano erupting from space
Daily Mail
After ten months of what experts call a 'low simmer', Italy's Etna volcano boiled over on February 19th, with three massive outbursts in 36 hours. According to the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, each outburst (paroxysm) featured 'emission ...

Daily Mail

104-year-old woman forced to lie about age on Facebook
Telegraph.co.uk
Mrs Joseph was born on April 19, 1908 and joined the social network when she was 102. But thanks to Facebook's restrictions on entering birth dates, she's forced to lie about her age. Writing in the about section on her Facebook page, she says “Facebook ...

Telegraph.co.uk

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is officially a next-gen title for PlayStation 4
VentureBeat
Geralt of Rivia is bringing his monster-slaying skills to the next generation of video game consoles. Polish developer CD Projekt RED today officially announced that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will launch on the PlayStation 4 in 2014. This marks the first time the ...

Windows 8 Tablets
Windows IT Pro
Windows 8 moves Microsoft's desktop OS firmly into the mobile OS arena for the first time. So it should come as no surprise that the devices on which Windows 8 runs have likewise expanded. Windows 8 is available on traditional portable and desktop PCs, ...

Windows IT Pro

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Twitter Crash Hack Or Hardware Fail?

Twitter Crash: Hack Or Hardware Fail?
InformationWeek
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek Twitter was unavailable for about two hours Thursday due to a bug or to a denial of service attack. Twitter claims the problem was equipment-related. "Today's outage is due to a cascaded bug in one of our ... 

Microsoft Surface: Wi-Fi Only at Launch?
PCWorld
By Ian Paul, PCWorld Jun 22, 2012 6:24 AM We may have an answer to one of the big questions about Microsoft's Surface. The software maker's tablets will be available only with Wi-Fi at launch, according to an online report.

AMD pulls back curtain on Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
Washington Post
AMD has pulled back the curtain on the Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition, a 28nm graphics card based on its Southern Island family of GPUs. The name says it all: the original Radeon HD 7970 was clocked at 925MHz, and this update brings that base clock speed ...

Will every iPhone accessory you own become obsolete?
Fox News
All those expensive iPhone accessories you own, all the stuff that plugs into the bottom of the device -- speakers, docks, chargers and so on -- may be about to become obsolete. Tech blog TechCrunch reports that Apple plans to change the design and ...

Apple's iPad costs you $1.36 per year to charge
CNET
According to the Electric Power Research Institute, its data is based on owners fully charging the slate every other day. by Don Reisinger Apple's iPad costs precious little for you to charge it each year, according to a new study.

CNET

The flashy yet familiar Windows Phone 8 start screen (hands on)
CNET
by Brian Bennett Hot on the heels of Microsoft's big Windows Phone 8 unveiling, we were able to see how the software's touted new start screen looks and feels in our hands. It's fun, fast, bigger, yet strangely familiar too. Microsoft's Greg Sullivan ...

Will UN regulate the Internet? Battle for net freedom nears
Fox News
WASHINGTON – Secret negotiations involving dozens of countries preparing for a United Nations summit on international telecommunications could lead to changes in a global treaty that would diminish the Internet's role in economic growth and restrict ...

Apple's App Store travels to 32 more countries
CNET
by Lance Whitney Apple yesterday widened the reach of its popular online App Store to an additional 32 markets. The App Store expansion follows an announcement by Apple CEO Tim Cook at last week's Worldwide Developers Conference that the online store ...

Gigapixel camera offers super sharp shots
BBC News
A camera capable of creating images with "unprecedented detail" has been unveiled by US engineers. It works by synchronising 98 tiny cameras in a single device. The machine is likely to be used first for military surveillance.

BBC News

Nintendo to launch 3DS XL on August 19 for $199.99
CNET
The game company says that the device will come with a 4.88-inch display on top and a 4.18-inch screen on the bottom. by Don Reisinger Nintendo has announced a new entry in its portable game lineup. Dubbed the Nintendo 3DS XL, the device delivers the ...

Flipboard Releases Android App
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius The service also confirmed its partnership with Google+ and YouTube and announced that it will expand to five new countries. On the Android front, Flipboard will now be available on Android phones worldwide, as well as on the Nook...

Samsung investigating 'exploding' Galaxy S III in Ireland
Apple Insider
By Sam Oliver Samsung has begun investigating an incident where its newly released Galaxy S III smartphone reportedly exploded when charging in a user's car in Ireland. "Samsung is aware of this issue and will begin investigating as soon as we receive ...

Asteroid 2012 LZ1 highlights holes in Earth's asteroid detection program
SlashGear
Something happened this month that you probably weren't even aware of. Astronomers working at the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wells, Australia spied an asteroid in the skies on June 10. That asteroid was originally estimated to be 500 m or ...

SlashGear

Facebook should be worried about Wooga's HTML5 exit
GigaOM
By David Meyer Jun. 22, 2012, 6:22am PT No Comments It's a shame how 'open-sourcing' has so often come to mean 'abandoning'. Case in point: Berlin social games developer Wooga's announcement that its HTML5 mobile game Magic Land Island is “going open ...

GigaOM

Google denies preventing anti-competition probe
BBC News
Google has denied that it is preventing a Texas investigation into whether it is abusing its dominance of the internet search market. It comes after Texan attorney general Greg Abbott accused the company of improperly refusing to hand over evidence he ...

BBC News

Google's CEO Larry Page loses his voice
Inquirer
By Carly Page GOOGLE CHIEF Larry Page won't be speaking at the company's I/O Conference in San Francisco next week because he's reportedly lost his voice. Soft-spoken Page sat out of the company's annual shareholders' meeting on Thursday due to having ...

Voyager may exit our solar system much earlier sooner than expected
SlashGear
NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe back in 1977 and sent it on its journey through our solar system to study planets as it passed on its way outside of our solar system. Back in December of 2011 NASA mentioned that Voyager 1 was entering into a new ...

SlashGear

HP says Project Gemini ARM servers will come soon after Atom
Inquirer
By Lawrence Latif MAKER OF EXPENSIVE PRINTER INK HP will bring out ARM based processors for its Project Gemini servers despite launching them with Intel's Centerton Atom chips, with the possibility of using low-power Xeon and other ARM products in the ...

Facebook forced to allow users to opt out of adverts
Telegraph.co.uk
Facebook has been forced to allow users to opt out of their names being used in 'sponsored stories' as part of a legal settlement with five angry members of the network. By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor The legal case against Facebook began last ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Pixelpalooza: 15" Retina MacBook Pro reviewed
Ars Technica
by Chris Foresman - Jun 22, 2012 9:00 am UTC Enlarge / Apple applied lessons learned from the MacBook Air to make its Retina MacBook Pro thinner and lighter. A thinner, "Retina" MacBook Pro had been rumored for some time, and Apple did not disappoint ...

Ars Technica

Tesla's New Sedan Will Make Or Break The Company
Manufacturing Business Technology
Tesla has lost nearly $1 billion selling high-end electric sports cars to the likes of George Clooney. Now it's going to attempt to sell them to the rest of us — and try to make money doing so. The company's first mass-market, five-seat sedan will be ...

RIM: First New Device Won't Have Physical Keyboard
Manufacturing Business Technology
Rob Gillies, AP TORONTO (AP) — The first BlackBerry device running Research In Motion Ltd.'s new operating software will not have a physical keyboard, only a touch-screen one. The BlackBerry 10 software will be offered on devices with physical ...

Gasoline prices still falling ahead of holiday
U-T San Diego
Average gasoline prices in San Diego have dropped to within a penny of last year's levels after three straight weeks of double-digit declines. A gallon of regular unleaded averaged $3.89 on Thursday in San Diego, according to AAA's daily fuel gauge.

Don't Delete Your Stupidity. Fix it. Facebook Rolls Out Comment Editing and ...
TechCrunch
No more “Arggh! Copy, delete, paste, edit, post.” Facebook is now rolling out the ability to edit comments, but users will be able to see the full edit history of a thread. This is just one more feature that I really liked about Google+, since I could ...

New Data on Elusive Particle Shrouded in Secrecy
New York Times
Dr. Higgs, I presume? A team of physicists gathered in a room at CERN on Friday to begin crunching new data from the Large Hadron Collider this year. And they will be at it all week. What they are seeing nobody knows. What they are looking for is the ...

Irish language may be preserved by Google's Endangered Language project - VIDEO
IrishCentral
On Thursday, Google launched its new Endangered Languages Project which aims to preserve and revive some 3000 languages that are dying out around the world. Included in the project is Irish Gaelic, which according to Google, has less than 20000 ...

Google's Motorola Mobility Offers to End Microsoft Cases
Bloomberg
Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit said it made a new offer to settle its patent-infringement disputes with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) over the Xbox gaming system and smartphones. Microsoft questioned whether the offer was serious.

Huge Moon Crater's Water Ice Supply Revealed
Space.com
by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor A crater on the moon that is a prime target for human exploration may be tantalizingly rich in ice, though researchers warn it could just as well hold none at all. The scientists investigated Shackleton Crater, ...

Alien Planets Kepler-36b, Kepler-36c So Close Together They See 'Planetrise'
Huffington Post
An artist's conception shows the newfound alien planet Kepler-36c as it might look from the surface of Kepler-36b. It is science fiction made fact: Astronomers have discovered two alien planets around the same star whose orbits come so close together ...

'Steam for Schools' is a free version of Steam for students, facilitates ...
Joystiq
by Ben Gilbert on Jun 20th 2012 11:16AM "Steam for Schools" is Valve's next push into edutainment. This summer, educators can apply for beta inclusion in the program, which includes a "limited version of Steam" featuring Portal 2, the game's level ...

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