Hyperloop to Begin Building First Systems 2017-2020 (video)

Hyperloop to Begin Building First Systems 2017-2020 - Hyperloop CEO Rob Lloyd discusses the growth and future of Hyperloop. He speaks from CES 2016 on "Bloomberg Markets." (Source: Bloomberg) Published on Jan 8, 2016

Hyperloop - Wikipedia: "The Hyperloop is a conceptual high-speed transportation system put forward by entrepreneur Elon Musk, incorporating reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors. As of 2015, designs for test tracks and capsules are being developed, with construction of a full-scale prototype scheduled for 2016."

Hyperloop | SpaceX: "Since we first unveiled the idea for a new high-speed ground transport system called the Hyperloop back in 2013, there has been a tremendous amount of interest in the concept. We are excited that a handful of private companies have chosen to pursue this effort. Neither SpaceX nor Elon Musk is affiliated with any Hyperloop companies. While we are not developing a commercial Hyperloop ourselves, we are interested in helping to accelerate development of a functional Hyperloop prototype...."

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SpaceX Rocket, Cost to Launch (video)

SpaceX Rocket: How Much Does It Cost to Launch? -
“BWest Byte” -- $56,500,000, for the cost of launching a Falcon 9 rocket. Bloomberg's Cory Johnson reports on “Bloomberg West."

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SpaceX and ESA Successfully Launch Rockets (video)

SpaceX and ESA Successfully Launch Rockets -

The Falcon 9, a SpaceX rocket, lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying NOAA’s $340 million Deep Space Climate Observatory. Bloomberg “Money Clip” Host Pimm Fox also reports on a successful ESA rocket launch.

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SpaceX Launches First 3-D Printer to ISS (video)

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., the rocket maker led by Elon Musk, launched an unmanned cargo mission on Sunday from Cape Canaveral, Florida containing the first 3-D printer destined for the International Space Station. Here is raw footage of the liftoff with narration from NASA TV. (Bloomberg 9/22/2014)


New York Times
Months After Buying Beats, Apple's Plans for Its Music Service Remain Unclear
New York Times
On Monday, an online report by the technology news site TechCrunch claimed that Applewould “shut down” Beats' streaming service, Beats Music, ...


Wall Street Journal
Google Must Improve Search Settlement or Face Charges, EU's Almunia Says
Wall Street Journal
Ms. Vestager's position on the Google investigation remains unclear. But in an interview with The Wall Street Journal Tuesday, Ms. Vestager stressed ...


Wall Street Journal
Alibaba Deal Pummels Yahoo Stock
Wall Street Journal
Yahoo shares have plunged 8.2% in the two trading days since Alibaba ... Yahoo shares had surged 27% from mid-June through Thursday's close, ... Still, Yahoo continues to lose advertising revenue to Google Inc. GOOGL ... in Yahoo shares rose to its highest on Friday since May 2008, when Microsoft ...


Forbes
Why The Apple TV HomeKit Update Makes An Apple Television More Likely
Forbes
With all the hoo-ha surrounding the launch of Apple Apple's new iPhones and ... As reported by Forbes, Apple also apparently rolled out last week an ... For years now attechnology shows around the world TV brands have been ...


Economic Times
Wall Street thinks Yahoo is worth less than nothing
CBS News
In the shadow of that news is Yahoo (YHOO), the old-time Internet "portal," which held a bundle ... Say Google (GOOG) and you think search. Apple (AAPL) is consumer electronics. Facebook (FB)? Social networking. Even often dismissed Microsoft (MSFT) has been financially successful with operating ...


PC Advisor
Apple's Watch marks its transformation into a fashion brand
The Verge
Apple's big event this month relegated the company's best known and best selling ... The thing is, the Apple Watch isn't even all that special. ... and explain a piece of newtechnology is as essential to its commercial success as .... Sep 10 Between Google andApple, the smartwatch wars are over before ...

After eight years with Facebook's News Feed, there's no such thing as 'TMI'
Washington Post
When Facebook introduced its News Feed in 2006, users quite literally .... When you Google something, an algorithm surfaces some results and ...


TechCrunch (blog)
Google X Founder Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role As Google VP And Fellow
TechCrunch (blog)
Sebastian Thrun has left the building — the Google X building, that is. ... and robotics that have paved the way for autonomous driving technology.

How Facebook Can Predict Your Politics, Your Love Life, And Even Your Sister's Name
Forbes
Oh sure — the reality TV stars inhabit a different universe than most Americans. But their names aren't as unusual as you might think. If you have a ...

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Twitter Censorship?

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Twitter blocking 'graphic imagery' of James Foley beheading
USA TODAY
Twitter says it is blocking accounts related to "graphic imagery" after the Islamic State released a video that shows the beheading of American ...
Twitter removes images of James Foley's death - CNNMoney
Twitter suspends accounts tweeting graphic images of James Foley beheading - Telegraph.co.uk
Twitter Tries to Block Images of Foley Killing - ABC News


IBNLive
Twitter to delete images of deceased family members on request
CNET
Policy revamp comes a week after Robin Williams' daughter abandoned Twitter after gruesome images of her late father were sent to her on the social ...
Twitter Will Remove Images Of The Deceased At The Request Of Family - Gizmodo

How Facebook and Twitter control what you see about Ferguson
Washington Post
Social media is controlled by algorithms – a mathematical formula that dictates what you see and when. In the past week, people have noticed ...

Foley video, photos being scrubbed from Twitter
Washington Post (blog)
Shortly afterward, Radio Sawa's Washington correspondent Zaid Benjamin, who seems to have broken the news of the execution, had his Twitter ...
Twitter Is Suspending Accounts For Sharing Beheading Images - TechCrunch

Should Twitter and YouTube remove images of James Foley's beheading, or do we have a right to ... - Gigaom


Daily Mail
Why CSIS' Twitter faux pas was worse than that time the Red Cross got slizzerd
Washington Post (blog)
As police and protesters clashed in Ferguson in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, theTwitter account for the Center for Strategic and International ...


TIME
Your Twitter Favorite Button Just Got a Lot More Powerful
TIME
If you've noticed tweets from people you don't follow popping up on your Twitter timeline, you're not going crazy. Twitter has updated its help ...
Twitter To Start Showing You Tweets From People You Don't Follow - Search Engine Journal

Twitter Has Changed A Core Function Of How It Works, And Users Are Freaking Out
Jay Yarow
Twitter has opened up the possibility of changing how its core function works. Dan Frommer at Quartz saysTwitter updated the page that defines its ...

Twitter is suspending accounts of people sharing journalist beheading video
Mark Sullivan
Twitter sprang into action today to prevent its users from sharing a graphic and disturbing video of Islamic militants beheading American journalist ...

Twitter to add "tweets from accounts you don't follow" to timelines
Rob Beschizza
So far, this has meant tweets favorited by people you do follow, but the idea is clearly to get users accustomed to feeds made of all sorts of things you ...

Twitter Suspends Accounts of Users Posting Execution Images
Re/code
Twitter is "actively suspending accounts" of users posting images related to the apparent execution of journalist James Wright Foley, CEO Dick Costolo ...

Why Facebook is for ice buckets, Twitter is for Ferguson
Digiday
Facebook's aspires to be a veritable news provider, but Twitter remains the hard-news king.


Reuters
News and ads to appear on Snapchat
The Australian
SNAPCHAT, the mobile app for disappearing messages, could soon be a service for disappearing videos, news articles and advertisements. The start-up has held talks with advertisers and media companies in recent weeks about a service called Snapchat ...


Nature World News
Falcon 9 gracefully lands in SpaceX released video
Tech Times
Commercial spaceflight outfit SpaceX releases new video of successful soft ocean landing of Falcon 9 rocket. Test was third meant to lead to recoverable, reusable launch vehicle. (Photo : SpaceX). Commercial spaceflight company SpaceX has released a ...


Economic Times
Apple shares close at all-time high weeks before iPhone 6 launch
CNET
The stock closed above $100, which marks a record for the electronics giant when accounting for June's 7-for-1 stock split. by Shara Tibken · @sharatibken; August 19, 2014 6:00 PM PDT. comments. 0. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. more. more +.


The New Yorker
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, August 19th
The New Yorker
Strongbox is a new way for you to share information, messages, and files with our writers and editors and is designed to provide you with a greater degree of anonymity and security than afforded by conventional e-mail. To help protect your anonymity, ...

Tumblr Partner Will Now Scan Photos for Clues About Brand Affiliation: "Every day, users post about 130 million photos on Tumblr. Starting this week, the Yahoo-owned media brand will start to parse all those images for clues to users' brand affiliations."

Tech Times
NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Stalled By 'Hidden Valley' Sand
Huffington Post
This image, taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity in August 2014, looks across the northeastern end of sandy "Hidden Valley" to the lower slopes of Mount Sharp on the horizon. | NASA/JPL-Caltech. Share · Tweet. Email. Comment. Share on Google+ ...


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Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano rumblings prompt orange alert (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
When Iceland's Grimsvötn volcano became active in April 2011, its explosive eruption sent ash plumes into the sky, disrupting flights in northwestern Europe for three days. Bardarbunga is another under-ice volcano.

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Is the Amazon Fire smartphone a threat to Apple, Samsung? (video)

Is Amazon's Fire Phone a Threat to Apple, Samsung?: Video - Bloomberg:
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Amazon.com jumped into the smartphone market with a handset called Fire Phone that is closely tied to the Web retailer’s other services, ramping up competition with Apple and Samsung Electronics. Brad Stone takes a look at the new phone on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg June 18)

Why iPhone 6 Won't Reverse Apple's Market Share Decline - Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) | Seeking Alpha: "When iPhone 6 arrives this Fall, it will only briefly arrest Apple's smart phone market share decline. This decline speaks to the increasing competition that Apple's iPhone faces rather than the inherent worth of iPhone 6...."

Amazon Fire: Pros and cons of new ground breaking smartphone
Detroit Free Press
Apple is very stingy and offers little cost-free space (just 5 GBs for free iCloud) ... There's no reason why Apple and Samsung, and to a smaller extent, Microsoft, should ... Why could Google sell a new Nexus phone last year for just over $300, yet Amazon .... Twitter · Facebook · Mobile · RSS · E-mail Alerts.

Facebook Ads and Tracking: What You Need To Know
CIO Today
If you use Facebook, the specific ads you see have been based mostly on what ...Google, Facebook and Yahoo -- among the largest hubs for online ...

Apple's smartwatch reportedly launching this fall
USA TODAY
Apple appears poised to jump into the smartwatch market this fall. According to ... Later this year, Google enters the space with its line of Android Wear ...

Facebook, Twitter, Google score during World Cup
Bryan-College Station Eagle
NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter and Facebook lit up in a World Cup frenzy this ... Google, meanwhile, tracked more than 641 million World Cup-related ...

Apple blurs line between Mac, iOS platforms and that's OK
The Seattle Times
Apple is bringing the OSX and iOS platforms a bit closer to each other in their ... (and not reflexively open a Web browser to perform Google searches).

Cutting the Cord: Aereo decision could be turning point
USA TODAY
Either way the decision goes, the Supreme Court's ruling on the legality of the Aereo streaming service could drive more people to cut the cord. The court is expected to rule before the end of the month — and as early as Monday — on whether Aereo is ...

SpaceX launch delayed again, this time because of weather
Reuters
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, on Saturday delayed the planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying six communications satellites after cloudy skies socked in its Florida launch site. The privately owned ...

Apple to partner with Kobe Bryant and others to test IWatch
Atlanta Journal Constitution
9to5Mac reports sources familiar with the matter say Apple is teaming up with professional athletes to test the iWatch "in intenest training environments." The outlet names pro athletes such as Lakers player Kobe Bryant and Kings player Dustin Brown. They, of ...

Power of Microsoft's Bing an open question in search industry
DAWN.com
SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp's new chief executive, Satya Nadella, likes to boast that Bing is growing and powers 30 per cent of the Internet search market, making it a worthy competitor to Google Inc. But within the advertising and research industries that ...

Video game athletes battling it out in California
San Jose Mercury News
ANAHEIM (AP) -- The nation's video game athletes have gathered in Southern California to battle aliens and bad guys. The Orange County Register said more than 1,000 eSports players are taking part in the Major League Gaming Championships in ...

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Priceline buys OpenTable (video); Amazon Fire Smartphone

Why Priceline Paid $2.6B for OpenTable: Video - Bloomberg:
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Priceline is buying OpenTable in a deal valued at $2.6 billion to add restaurant bookings to its travel business as the industry steps up investments in local listings and mobile services. Bloomberg Contributing Editor Paul Kedrosky, Cory Johnson and Jeffrey McCracken comment on Bloomberg Television's “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg June 13)

Amazon.com unveils the Fire Phone, its first smartphone
Los Angeles Times
Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos holds up the Fire Phone at a media ... The silhouette of Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., ...

Amazon And Samsung Are Locked In A Battle Against Google
Forbes
Amazon's operating system – for the Kindle, and presumably the Fire Phone ... This is, to some extent, the ultimate rebellion by Amazon, using Google's ... and here Amazon might even be able to beat Apple and Google, because it ...

Yahoo, LinkedIn, Google: Not A Diverse Club
InformationWeek
Yahoo joined LinkedIn and Google in releasing workplace diversity statistics. They tell the same tale: Silicon Valley is predominantly white and male....

Facebook announces its open data-center switch
Computerworld
Facebook has taken networking into its own hands, building a switch to link servers inside its data centers, and wants to make the ...

Amazon Appstore heads to BlackBerry 10 phones
CNET
BlackBerry 10 supports apps designed for Google's Android mobile ... Its selection of apps is limited compared to Google's Play store and Apple's App ...

Google Ready to Comply With 'Right to Be Forgotten' Rules in Europe - NYTimes.com
By By MARK SCOTT
Google will start to remove links to online content in Europe by the end of the month to ... Last month, Google created a rudimentary framework, including a new online form for ... BlackBerry to Add Amazon App Store to Phones ... Yahoo Tech | Harvard scientists successfully transferred a smell across ...
NYT Bits

Amazon Fire Phone: An All-Seeing 3D Prime Contender - Gizmodo
By Brent Rose
...Amazon's phone is here, and it's called the Fire Phone. ... Report: Google in Talks to Buy Stake in Virgin Galactic ...
Gizmodo

Yahoo CEO takes heat for stilted presentation in Cannes
USA TODAY
CANNES, France — This is an advertising conference, so some spinning and selling is expected. Yet, a Tuesday presentation from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was flagged by some attendees as an excessively hard sell. Audience members took to Twitter to ...

Earth's Most Abundant Mineral is Seen for the First Time and is Given a Name
Chinatopix
Believe it or not but the Earth's most abundant mineral doesn't have a name and hasn't been seen, until now. What on Earth is the Earth's most abundant mineral? If you answered quartz, you'd only be partially correct. Quartz is the commonest mineral in the ...

BC court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide
The Globe and Mail
In an unprecedented ruling, a B.C. court has ordered Google Inc. to block a group of websites from its worldwide search engine – a decision raising questions over how far one country's courts can exert their power over the borderless Internet. The temporary ...

Agency Aims to Regulate Map Aids in Vehicles - NYTimes.com: "“They don’t have enough software engineers,” said Catherine McCullough, executive director of the Intelligent Car Coalition, an industry group. “They don’t have the budget or the structure to oversee both Silicon Valley and the auto industry.”"

SpaceX's Elon Musk hopes to put humans on Mars in 10 years
CNET
The founder of the private space transport company gives a short timeline for the possibility of firing up a self-sustaining city on the Red Planet. by Dara Kerr...

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NASA Schedules 2nd SpaceX Resupply Mission

NASA Schedules 2nd SpaceX Resupply Mission for March
Motley Fool
For the second time in less than five months, Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX, will be looking to make history next month. The first time was when, on Oct. 8, SpaceX became the first privately owned space company to successfully launch a rocket to ...

Social media survey looks at race, gender and age of users

PCWorld (blog)
Social media users who are white tend to flock to Pinterest, Twitter is popular among blacks and people who live in cities, more people on Facebook are women than men and Instagram attracts adults under 30, a newly released survey finds. The interesting ...

Dropbox for iOS offers new notifications and a pdf reader
SlashGear
Dropbox for iOS has just been updated to version 2.1, and with it comes a few updates that should make your Dropbox experience much more pleasant. In order to take advantage of this new Dropbox update, your mobile device has to be on iOS 5 or higher.

SlashGear

United Nations Reviewing Asteroid Impact Threat
Space.com
The Russian fireball and the close flyby of the asteroid 2012 DA14 on Friday (Feb. 15) came at a moment in time when the United Nations is discussing international response to the near-Earth object impact concern. Detailed discussions about the Russian ...

Scientists create 'sixth sense' brain implant to detect infrared light
Telegraph.co.uk
Scientists have created a "sixth sense" by creating a brain implant through which infrared light can be detected. Although the light could not be seen lab rats were able to detect it via electrodes in the part of the brain responsible for their sense of touch.

Telegraph.co.uk

BMW recall: 51 970 cars affected in South Africa
Moneyweb.co.za
PRETORIA – BMW South Africa confirmed on Sunday that there are 51 970 BMW cars sold in South Africa that are affected by possible failure of the plug connector at the power distribution box. The problem has led to BMW recalling almost 570 000 cars in ...

Alfa Romeo Gloria concept announced for Geneva
Torque News
A collaborative project between Alfa and students at the European Design Institute, the Gloria is a car meant for the Asian and American markets. n/a. Alfa Romeo Gloria concept. Set to debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month, the Alfa Romeo Gloria ...

Torque News

Staples Soon To Carry Apple Products
Hot Hardware
Apple rumors are to be taken with their own kind of salt, but the smoke that's leading to fire here certainly seems plausible. In recent years, Apple has started to offer its products in more places than just online or in one of the few Apple Stores scattered about ...

Hot Hardware

Wii U suffers post-holiday season sales slump
ITProPortal
Nintendo's flagship gaming console Wii U had a terrible January, selling merely 50,000 units in the US. Even though NPD no longer publishes monthly US hardware sales figures in the US market, the data was leaked to Gamasutra by an NPD insider.

ITProPortal

Is HTC One the company's last attempt?
The Droid Guy
We know that the 19th of this month is a very important day for the Taiwanese smart phone manufacturer, HTC. The company is going to unveil its brand new smart phone, the HTC One (according to rumors of course). The rumor mill has pushed out lot many...

The Droid Guy

Sister of Facebook founder to write memoir, kids book
Arizona Republic
Randi Zuckerberg attends Seventh Annual Women Of Worth Awards at Hearst Tower on Dec. 6, 2012, in New York City. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images. SHARE URL EMAIL. Tweet. FONT: A A A. Photo URL: To: From: Add a brief message (optional): Comments ...

Arizona Republic

Full Size iPad is Due for a Redesign, Analyst Says
Hot Hardware
Investment research firm Piper Jaffray suspects Apple is gearing up to host a press event by the end of April, one in which in the Cupertino outfit will introduce a line of redesigned iPad tablets. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster pointed out to clients that over ...

Hot Hardware

Adobe Photoshop 1 Source Code Released for Free
Hot Hardware
If there's one piece of photo editing software that just about everyone seems familiar with, or at least acquainted with, it's Photoshop. Adobe's history in the space stretches back many years, and every new edition of the program receives huge amounts of ...

Hot Hardware

Birder Has Already Added 30 Species to Great Backyard Bird Count
The Virginian-Pilot
You don't have to go out In the wind and cold to participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count today. Look at the photographs that Stuart McCausland in Virginia Beach's Brigadoon neighborhood took at his own bird feeder on Friday and Saturday.

The Virginian-Pilot

Watch Dogs Looking At A Holiday 2013 Release
Gaming Union
E3 2012 was taken by surprise last year when Ubisoft announced Watch Dogs. The game had unbelievable graphics and totted some pretty unique gameplay as well as multiplayer. The game now has a more detailed time for release thanks to a marketing...

Gaming Union

New Stats Show Apple's iPhone Dominance in Web Traffic due to Savvier users
Patently Apple
Apple and Samsung are two of the most powerful players in the mobile industry today with 91% market share for iOS and Android smartphones. Both companies launched new flagship smartphones in 2012 with Apple's iPhone 5 and Samsung's Galaxy S III.

Bioshock Infinite's new “Truth from Legend” trailer explains Songbird

TechnologyTell (blog)
With Bioshock Infinite coming out in about a month, trailers for the game have been coming down like water from a waterfall. This new trailer serves as a part two to Irrational Games' psudo-documentary, Truth From Legend: Columbia, A Modern Day Icarus?, ...

Microsoft's new job listing leaks more Windows Blue data

StudentNewsIE.com
We have had our share of rumors about the upcoming update from Microsoft for Windows 8 for computers, Windows Phone for smart phones, and Windows Server 2012. This update is the Windows Blue. The update is coming to both Windows Phone 8 ...

Will the new BlackBerry click in the Indian smartphone market?
Livemint
Reports peg the India price of the Blackberry Z10, expected to launch in the country on 25 February, at around `39,000. Photo: Mark Blinch/ Reuters. Also Read. Restructuring gave us the ticket to race last year: BlackBerry CEO. Updated: Sun, Feb 17 2013.

Livemint

Tesla Motors' CEO fought fire with facts, and he may have won
National Post
This week's highly-publicized exchange between the New York Times' John Broder and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has become an amazing case study for the idea of truth in journalism, and the significant hurdles facing the future of electric automobiles.

National Post

Russia cleans up after meteor blast injures more than 1000
Reuters
By Andrey Kuzmin. CHELYABINSK, Russia | Sat Feb 16, 2013 4:02pm EST. CHELYABINSK, Russia (Reuters) - Thousands of Russian emergency workers went out on Saturday to clear up the damage from a meteor that exploded over the Ural mountains, ...

Aussie Observatories Had Front-Row Seats To Asteroid 2012 DA14. Here Are ...

Gizmodo Australia
27,700km sounds far, far away… but not when you're talking about a 50m wide, 190,000t asteroid. In this case, it's 2012 DA14, which made its pass by our tiny area in the Solar System in the early hours of Saturday. It was close enough for a number of ...

Russian meteorite images caught on dashboard cameras
NDTV
It is no coincidence the first videos that captured the images of a meteorite breaking apart over central Russia on Friday were shot from drivers' dashboard cameras. The small video cameras, fixed to the dashboard or rear view mirror of a car to film oncoming ...

NDTV

Apps for your day to keep the doctor away
Times of India
Regardless of where you go, your cell phone is always with you - whether it's on your morning walk, to the office, out lunching with colleagues, an evening with friends, or a workout session at the gym. Why, you probably sleep with the device besides you too.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' week one championship qualifier recap
Examiner.com
Related topics. Call of Duty Black Ops 2 · black ops 2 · Call of Duty Championship. Advertisement. Activision posted a recap yesterday on the "Call of Duty" Elite website of the week one qualifying matches for “Call of Duty: Black Ops 2” hosted by Major ...

LinkedIn unveils new feature to help members find their dream job
IBNLive
New Delhi: LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, has unveiled a new feature - LinkedIn Jobs, as per a blog post. LinkedIn's Vaibhav Goel elaborates that the new LinkedIn Jobs is an attempt at helping users find their dream job. The feature brings ...

IBNLive

Climate change action within Obama's grasp
Palm Beach Post
President Barack Obama needs the Republican Party's blessing for many of the proposals he outlined in his State of the Union address last week, but climate change is not one of them. Using existing laws, regulations and international agreements, the ...

Rumor: Sony to Unveil Game Streaming Capabilities on PlayStation 4
PC Magazine
Let the rumors continue! With the impending (likely) announcement of Sony's new PlayStation console but a few days away, a new report from the Wall Street Journal suggests that Sony will also be unveiling new streaming capabilities for the device this ...

A full-featured keyboard pairs with the Apple iPad Mini
Times of Oman
While the small size of the iPad Mini is its charm, it is also a liability. The challenge of typing on a glass keyboard increases as its size shrinks. But accessory makers have come to the rescue. For the Mini, Logitech has created a diminutive keyboard with ...

Times of Oman

Soon Facebook Will Let You Pay To Promote Friends' Posts
Babble
facebook-logo2-300x300 Want to help your friends promote their Facebook posts? Well, soon you can do more than just share your friends' posts on your own wall – you can actually pay to promote their posts as well. These days, an average of only about ...

Sega's Back In The Hardware Game With A Gaming PC
Gameranx
Sega's back in the hardware game—but before you get excited about a new Dreamcast, just know that the game publisher has instead announced a line-up of retro-themed gaming laptops. Co-developed by Japanese PC retailer Enterbrain, the new laptops ...

Gameranx

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive Technology Powers Cigarette Boat
GTspirit
Mercedes AMG has incorporated the technology used in the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Electric Drive to power a Cigarette Racing boat. The partnership involves a cooperation between the German firm and Affalterbach Miami. The project has produced the ...

GTspirit

Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey hits Kickstarter target, gameplay ...
games.on.net
In just over a week, generous backers have met and exceeded Red Thread Games' US $850,000 Kickstarter goal for Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey. A new thank you video has been released, but the developer has also posted new stretch goals ...

EA and Zynga agree to settle The Ville dispute

ITProPortal
Electronic Arts and Zynga have reached a settlement over the dispute involving the massively popular title The Ville. With this development, both the gaming giants are now believed to be working towards dismissing the lawsuit that EA filed against Zynga last ...

German court rules in favor of Facebook: no more pseudonyms for account holders
VR-Zone
A recent court battle in Germany over the legality of Facebook's real name policy has temporarily halted. Facebook argued that they do not observe German privacy laws because their E.U. headquarters are in Ireland—the court agreed, at least for now.

VR-Zone

Opera Buys Skyfire
RootzWiki
You currently have javascript disabled. Several functions may not work. Please re-enable javascript to access full functionality. Applications Announcements Contests General News Kernels ROMs Root Themes Reviews Interviews Leaks Rumors Series...

RootzWiki

Tamagotchis are back and taking over your smartphone
Canada.com
Namco Bandai is going after the late teens to early 20s crowd that experienced the initial Tamagotchi craze first hand as children. The app is basically the exact same first-generation Tamagotchi you might have owned years ago. It features the same pixelated ...

Canada.com

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ISS Welcomes SpaceX Dragon

ISS Welcomes SpaceX Dragon - First Private Spacecraft At Station
Wired News
By Jason Paur The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft successfully berthed with the International Space Station this morning after a long overnight approach including several unplanned maneuvers. The crew at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California concluded ...

Giant Telescope Project Goes to South Africa, Australia
Wall Street Journal
A consortium of countries chose South Africa and Australia to share a groundbreaking €1.5 billion ($1.87 billion) radio telescope that will be the biggest and most sensitive instrument of its kind. The telescope, known as the Square Kilometer Array, ...

Diablo 3 review: Games this thoughtfully crafted don't happen very often
Washington Post
Diablo 3 is the first game to render Diablo 2 obsolete. With Diablo 2 and its 2001 expansion, Lord of Destruction, Blizzard set a standard for loot-based action RPGs that everyone else struggled to meet. There were better looking games over the course ...

You can now 'Bump' photos to your computer
USA TODAY
By Taylor Hatmaker, Tecca Bump, a photo sharing app and longtime App Store all-star, just took its flavor of seamless swapping to the next level. The app, which has been around since the mobile dark ages of 2009, was originally conceived as a way to...

USA TODAY

Apple CEO Cook gives up $75M in stock dividends
USA TODAY
By Gary Strauss, USA TODAY Apple CEO Tim Cook is foregoing about $75 million in payouts tied mostly to the restricted shares he received when he replaced the late Steve Jobs last year. Paul Sakuma, AP Apple CEO Tim Cook announces the new iPad in San...

USA TODAY

Astronomers prepare for rare transit of Venus
Los Angeles Times
By Thomas H. Maugh II On June 5, astronomers will witness an astronomical event that has been observed in the modern era only six times previously, a passage or transit of the planet Venus across the face of the sun. The next time such an event will ...

Report: Google Picks Up HP's webOS Enyo Team
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius HP will reportedly hand over a portion of the team behind its Enyo HTML5-based webOS framework to Google. As reported by The Verge, several Enyo team members - including leader Matt McNulty and many of those behind the software's ...

Google tablet set to be unveiled at I/O conference?
CNET
A new report by technology site TechnoBuffalo claims Google will unveil the tablet at its I/O conference on June 27. by Don Reisinger May 25, 2012 9:23 AM PDT Google is set to unveil its long-rumored tablet at its I/O conference next month, ...

Galaxy S III may arrive in Canada on June 20
CNET
Newly leaked details suggest that Samsung's flagship Android smartphone enters the Canadian atmosphere on June 20. by Scott Webster May 25, 2012 9:08 AM PDT Follow @swebster77 Canadians may soon expect a Samsung Galaxy S III announcement.

Bonn climate talks end in discord and disappointment
The Guardian
The latest round of international climate change talks finished on Friday in discord and disappointment, with some participants concerned that important progress made last year was being unpicked. At the talks, countries were supposed to set out a ...

Google releases data on piracy, takes copyright infringement pretty seriously
Christian Science Monitor
Ever wondered what Google does when copyright holders complain their work is being pirated? Now we know. On Thursday, Google released a huge amount of data on how it responds to copyright-related takedown requests. By Jeff Ward-Bailey / May 25, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Here's what video shot with Google Glasses looks like
USA TODAY
By Brett Molina, USA TODAY Turns out these shades are great for taking photos and capturing video, as showcased in the clip above and through images unveiled during the Google+ Photographer's Conference in San Francisco. The video posted above features ...

USA TODAY

Facebook Camera for iPhone takes best of Instagram
Christian Science Monitor
Facebook has released a photo-sharing app called Facebook Camera. So how does it stack up with Instagram? By Matthew Shaer / May 25, 2012 Facebook Camera, a new photo-sharing app, comes on the heels of Facebook's $1 billion acquisition of Instagram.

Christian Science Monitor

IBM bans Dropbox, Siri and rival cloud tech at work
Register
By John Leyden • Get more from this author IBM has banned employees from using Dropbox and Apple's iCloud at work as it claws back permission to use third-party cloud services. The rethink has also resulted in a edict against the iPhone 4S's Siri voice ...

Microsoft's upgrade avalanche a challenge for IT pros
InfoWorld
By Juan Carlos Perez | IDG News Service Microsoft is in the midst of an unprecedented, massive upgrade cycle for its enterprise software products, a refresh wave that represents a major challenge for CIOs and IT managers responsible for charting their ...

Hands-on with The Leap: It's smaller, better, and faster than you even thought
Digitaltrends.com
In our hands-on with The Leap, the new device taking the computing world by storm proves itself. This week consumer motion tech made big steps — leaps actually. Startup Leap Motion introduced The Leap, a pocket-sized piece of technology that turns ...

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Verizon likely to divest spectrum for cable deal
SlashGear
Verizon's proposed $3.6 billion deal to snatch up unused AWS spectrum from a coalition of cable companies in exchange for joint marketing will likely require the carrier to divest some of that spectrum. Senator Herb Kohl, chairman of the Senate ...

Time to reintroduce horse armor, Skyrim 1.6 update to add mounted combat
Neoseeker
Bethesda is continuing the trend of releasing fancy features for free as we wait for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's first big DLC release, Dawnguard. With patch 1.6, Skyrim will be seeing the addition of fully mounted melee and ranged combat -- no horse ...

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Absinthe 2.0 Untethered Jailbreak Released for iOS 5.1.1
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Looking to install unofficial third-party apps on your newly updated iDevice? You're in luck. The Chronic Dev Team this week released a new untethered jailbreak for devices running iOS 5.1.1. "After copious amounts of work and many ...

Google's Motorola buy seen boosting Android in workplace
Computerworld
By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - With the closing of Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility this week, talk of the possibilities for Android in the enterprise has spiked. While Android has taken the consumer market by storm -- the OS ...

Another RIM exec jumps ship
TG Daily
It seems anyone with an important title at Research in Motion is jumping away before it's too late. This time, it's Patrick Spence, the man who used to be the head of global sales for the Blackberry manufacturer. He was at RIM for a whopping 14 years, ...

TG Daily

Piper Jaffray details 10 Apple strengths for share price run up to $1000 - report
Apple Insider
By Josh Ong Investment bank Piper Jaffray issued a note on Friday highlighting 10 key points, which range from anticipated future products to China iPhone growth, that it believes will drive shares of Apple up to $1000 in the next couple of years.

With Gas Prices Down, Memorial Day Travel Up, Say Twitter, Facebook
U.S. News & World Report
By Meg Handley Get ready for traffic jams and other holiday travel headaches. If the chatter on Twitter and Facebook is right, a whole lot more Americans are going to be on the road and in the air this Memorial Day weekend. Conversations about Memorial ...

Climate change allows once-rare British butterfly to thrive
Christian Science Monitor
Although it's well known that climate change can prompt plants and animals to shift the ranges in which they live, the brown argus (Aricia agestis) has widened its living quarters with unusual speed, according to an analysis of decades of data ...

Christian Science Monitor

Nokia Launches Budget Windows Phone Lumia 610
InformationWeek
Nokia's Windows Phone lineup now covers all the bases, from the low-end Lumia 610 to the high-end Lumia 900. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek Nokia said that it will launch the Lumia 610, a Windows Phone-based device aimed at budget-minded buyers, ...

It's Official: Google Is Now a Hardware Company
BusinessWeek
By Brad Stone and Peter Burrows on May 22, 2012 Last August, Google (GOOG) Chief Executive Officer Larry Page fulfilled a pledge made to one of his senior executives, a square-jawed former attorney named Dennis Woodside. Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook had ...

Living with the Leaf for six months
Vancouver Sun
Andrew McCredie begins a long-term test drive of the all-electric Nissan Leaf today. Over the course of the next six months, The Vancouver Sun journalist will write about living in Vancouver with an electric car. He'll chronicle the ups and the downs, ...

NASA's Rover Will Explore Mars
Gizmodo
NASA may not be sending up manned shuttles anymore, but that doesn't mean we're done exploring the solar system—not by a long shot. On August 5th, the space agency's new flagship rover is expected to land on Mars as part of an unprecedented search for ...

Eugene Polley, Conjuror of a Device That Changed TV Habits, Dies at 96
New York Times
Eugene Polley, an inventor whose best-known creation has fostered blissful sloth, caused decades of domestic discord and forever altered the way consumers watch television, died on Sunday in Downers Grove, Ill. Mr. Polley, the inventor of the wireless ...

Cloak-on-a-chip unveiled
physicsworld.com
An invisibility-cloak array made up of more than 25000 individual minuscule cloaks has been built by a team of researchers in the US. The array is the first of its kind and operates in the visible frequency range. Individual cloaks could be used as ...

Text or Talk: Is Technology Making You Lonely? - Forbes
So it seems that because technology makes it easier to stay in touch while keeping .... This is a great reminder not to solely depend on tech for developing new ...
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