Sony’s PS4 Outsells Microsoft’s Xbox One in March (video)

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Bloomberg’s Mia Saini reports on the state of the video game market and how Sony’s PS4 outsold Microsoft’s Xbox One game console in the U.S. for the last three months. She speaks to Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Television’s “On The Move Asia.” (Bloomberg April18) 

Flickr Ventures Into Instagram's Territory With Mobile Redesign
Cult of Mac
Flickr's redesigned mobile apps, which are out today, look very much Instagram. And I think it's safe to say that the design decision was intentional. The question now is whether Flickr can set itself apart with its pro-friendly features and more free cloud storage ...

Earth-size planet with right temperature found 500 light-years away
Press Herald
The planet is the first Earth-size sphere found outside the solar system in the 'Goldilocks zone.' By Meeri Kim The Washington Post. The hunt for Earth's alien twin reached a new milestone with the discovery of a faraway exoplanet that's not much bigger than ...

Twitter Makes Bold Moves in Mobile Ad Game
TechNewsWorld
Twitter has taken a deep breath and plunged into mobile advertising with zeal, announcing a MoPub platform integration that could provide marketers with access to more than a billion pairs of eyeballs. In addition, it's taking another page from Facebook with ...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Released.
PC Perspectives
Ubuntu, the popular Linux distribution, has been on a steady six-month release schedule for eight years. Every four versions, that is, once every two years, one is marked as Long Term Support (LTS). While typical (non-LTS) releases are supported for around ...

Modern sharks are sleeker, faster than their ancestors, fossil find suggests
Fox News
Sharks turn out to be more modern and sleek than anyone had ever imagined, given a new study that negates a prior theory that today's sharks are “living fossils,” changing little over time. Instead, like the latest and greatest electronic devices or sports cars, ...

Windows Phone 8.1: Finally, a worthy rival to Android and iOS
Economic Times
It has been nearly four years since Microsoft launched Windows Phone. The OS is beautiful to look at and with its unique tile-based user interface, offers an approach to software that is fresh and modern compared to Android or iOS. The OS even forced both ...

Marshall Space Flight Center prepares for dynamic year with Space Launch ...
WAAY
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAAY) - The Marshall Space Flight Center says, over the next several years, it could break new ground, when it comes to all kinds of discoveries. As NASA and the Marshall Space Flight Center enter next year's budget year, they're poised ...

In weird Brazilian cave insects, male-female sex organs reversed
Reuters UK
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This may be the role reversal to end all role reversals. Scientists on Thursday described four insect species that dwell in extremely dry caves in Brazil, feed on bat guano and possess what the researchers called an "evolutionary ...

Centipede eats its way out of deadly snake [PHOTO]
Science Recorder
Scientists are astonished to find a viper eaten alive from the inside out by his prey, a centipede. Centipede eats its way out of deadly snake [PHOTO]. Science Recorder | Delila James | Friday, April 18, 2014. While scientists were on a field study in Macedonia, ...

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China chooses Ubuntu as state-endorsed operating system

Looks like Ubuntu Linux will become the next major OS (PCs, tablets, smartphones) and perhaps, eventually, the number one OS in the world (China could easily deliver one billion users)--

China chooses Ubuntu as state-endorsed operating system | Business Tech - CNET News: "Canonical, the organization behind popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, is working alongside the Chinese government to deliver a state-endorsed operating system. According to Canonical, it's working alongside the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to bring a suitable Ubuntu version to China. The operating system, which will be known as Ubuntu Kylin, is expected to be released in April."

HTC to Roll Out New Phone This Week
Wall Street Journal
TAIPEI—HTC Corp. said Sunday that it will roll out its new flagship handset HTC One in the U.K., Germany and Taiwan this week after the Taiwanese smartphone maker delayed the launch earlier this month due in part to a shortage of several key ...

Microsoft teasers, tips and tidbits: 5 things to know now
PCWorld (blog)
Microsoft has had a busy week, judging from the breadth of the buzz about the company's next ventures. Windows 8 is shipping on all its myriad platforms; now what? Plenty, say a mix of official and clandestine sources. Microsoft has more in store for Windows ...

Canonical Teams With China to Create National OS
Tom's Hardware Guide
"[CISP] has selected Canonical's Ubuntu as the basis for that reference architecture in order to provide a flexible, open, widely-used and standardized operating system," the company said. "The announcement is part of the Chinese government's five year plan ...

Facebook Events now show weather foreecasts
SlashGear
Facebook has updated its Events feature to include weather forecasts. The weather forecasts only begin to appear when the event is happening within the next 10 days, however, but its a nifty little feature that should aid when planning a get-together.

The lights go out for Earth Hour
Washington Post
More than 7,000 cities and towns across the globe — including many well-known spots — go dark for 60 minutes to get people thinking about climate change. Before Earth Hour: The National Library is illuminated in Minsk, Belarus. At left. 1 / 23. Rate this ...

Linkpost | 3.24.2013
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Apple Acquires Indoor Location Company WifiSLAM – Apple reportedly spent about $20 million for the company, which provides indoor GPS services in large spaces, such as malls.

Part 2: Whitehead acknowledgment adds to state's aviation legacy
Shelton Herald
Andy Kosch with a replica of Gustave Whitehead's No. 21, now recognized by Jane's All the World's Aircraft as the first powered aircraft to leave the ground, at the Connecticut Air and Space Museum in Stratford. (Photo by John Kovach). For more than a ...

Shelton Herald

Meteorite or Asteroid Sudden Strike Confirmed by NASA Scientists
Guardian Express
How many of you have heard about the Meteorite, or small asteroid as it's been called, that entered the Earth's atmosphere over Russia on February, 15, 2013? Many, some, a few residents on the planet? Did you think it was a hoax, conspiracy, something ...

PAX East 2013 preview: DuckTales Remastered hands-on
GameZone
You needn't look further than the crowd at Capcom's PAX East panel to know that DuckTales is just one of those games. The uproarious cheers and impromptu DuckTales theme song sing-a-long indicated that Capcom has made the right move by bringing ...

GameZone

Walking Dead on PS Vita, Sony's new handheld, to shock and fright users
Guardian Express
According to IGN, The Walking Dead video game on PS Vita, Sony's new handheld device, will surprise users in terms of shock and fright. Moreover, the game will soon be available. I'm sure there will be a lot of zombie apocalypse-based gamer's who will be ...

Rocketdyne retirees interested in rocket engine recovery
Joplin Globe
NEVADA, Mo. — Retirees of the former Rocketdyne plant watched this past week with interest as a team sponsored by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recovered an F-1 engine from a Saturn V rocket on the ocean's floor. Bezos was seeking to recover an engine ...

Nebraskan swallows may be evolving to avoid becoming roadkill
The Verge
A 30-year study of birds and roadkill may have given us a look into how animals respond to man-made changes in the environment. According to a study published last week in Current Biology, an area in southwestern Nebraska has seen a marked drop in ...

Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 Riding Crest of Wii U's Failure
Eagle's Rant
Xbox 720 and PlayStation 4 Riding Crest of Wii U's Failure There's a silver lining to be found in ever cloud it seems and in the case of the ailing Nintendo Wii U, both the Microsoft Xbox 720 and the Sony PlayStation 4 are gathering serious momentum in its...

Eagle's Rant

Mankind Gets First Look at the Dark Side of the Moon
Nature World News
The dark side of the Moon has long intrigued scientists, and not the shadow cast by the ever-changing alignment of the Earth, Sun and Moon. Rather, they're fascinated by the extreme poles of the Moon's surface that, due to its nearly perfectly perpendicular ...

Friday Night Flash That Lit Up East Coast Skies Identified as a Meteor
LongIsland.com
NASA said a "fireball" meteor was seen up and down the East Coast Friday night, and it landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean. See anything strange in the sky on Friday night? You weren't the only one. A bright streak of light was seen by people across Long ...

NASA Halts Education and Outreach Efforts
Daily Beast
What do politicians have against aliens? It was bad enough when it was announced that several air-traffic-control towers were shutting down across the nation. But now NASA? Due to sequestration-induced cutbacks, the space agency is halting its education ...

Daily Beast

Mass Effect 4 a fresh new take on for the franchise
Attack of the Fanboy
Bioware has made no secrets about a new Mass Effect game coming out of their Montreal studio. This weekend at PAX, Casey Hudson explained that the next entry in the Mass Effect sereis will be a “fresh and new” start for the franchise. Hudson will still be ...

Attack of the Fanboy

Fla. coast protected for sea turtles
UPI.com
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 23 (UPI) -- Much of Florida's space coast is being declared "critical habitat" to protect the threatened loggerhead sea turtle, federal wildlife officials said. That means sea walls built below the mean low tide line will face ...

Magic 2014 announced at PAX East; original trading card game comes to ...
Nerdvana (blog)
Wizards of the Coast announced its product lineup for Magic 2014 this week at PAX East, revealing that the digital version would debut for the first time on Android devices. Magic 2014 — Duels of the Planeswalkers will also be available as an app for iPad, ...

Nerdvana (blog)

Take A Spin (VIDEO): The 2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series
stupidDOPE.com
The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series went for a spin, compliments of the Drive Channel. The car was taken to Paul Ricard Racing circuit in France and thrown on the road. The 631 horsepower beast machine has seven speeds and with a weight of ...

Marvel Heroes Launch Date
Zam News
RuneScape 3 Coming Summer 2013Runescape to receive massive update evolving into RuneScape 3 Summer 2013; GW2: The RazingThe third installment of Flame and Frost will be released on March 26. Marvel Heroes Launch DateDetails on the Marvel ...

'Dishonored' (ALL) The Knife of Dunwall DLC - New Screens
WorthPlaying.com
Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. Creatively eliminate your targets with the flexible combat system as you combine the numerous supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual ...

Top China college in focus with ties to army's cyber-spying unit
NDTV
Shanghai: Faculty members at a top Chinese university have collaborated for years on technical research papers with a People's Liberation Army (PLA) unit accused of being at the heart of China's alleged cyber-war against Western commercial targets.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist Video Walkthrough
New Gamer Nation
One of the flagship titles that Ubisoft is showcasing at PAX East 2013 this weekend is Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist and in light of that, they have released an all new video walkthrough for the Abandoned Mill level showing three distinct play styles.

New Gamer Nation

Barnes & Nobles now offering a free e-reader with purchase of the NOOK HD+ ...
Afterdawn.com
Barnes & Nobles now offering a free e-reader with purchase of the NOOK HD+ Barnes & Noble, in an effort to boost sales of their flagship tablet, will offer a free Nook Simple Touch e-reader with purchases of the NOOK HD+. From March 24th until March 31st,...

Afterdawn.com

Six of 19 beached whales dead, some to be euthanased
Times LIVE
Six of 19 beached whales dead, some to be euthanased. Some of the pilot whales that beached at Noordhoek Beach on Sunday morning will be put to death, the National ...

Times LIVE

'Fuse' for May release in UK and US
Digital Spy
The game centres around Fuse, a volatile energy source that each of its four playable characters can use for different weapons. Customers who pre-order the title will receive numerous bonuses, including new armor, weapons customisation and team perks.

Lockheed Martin Looking To Use Quantum Computing For Product Development
RedOrbit
A US-based aerospace and defense developer is looking to become the first company in the world to use quantum computing technology as part of its commercial business ventures. According to Quentin Hardy of the New York Times, Lockheed Martin is ...

RedOrbit

Chinese firms reportedly losing interest in US taxpayer-backed Fisker, citing loan ...
Fox News
Chinese firms in talks to buy electric car maker Fisker Automotive reportedly are having second thoughts, balking over the possibility that Fisker's U.S. government loan would compel any buyer to churn out cars at an aging GM plant in Delaware. The Wall ...

3 of the Week's Biggest Surprises
Motley Fool
Say what you want about the tech sector, but it's never boring. Any given week will keep tech investors flooded with product announcements, earnings surprises, and crazy strategy shifts that absolutely nobody saw coming. These are three of the most ...

Apple ID security issue fixed, password page back online
CNET
The page was taken down yesterday, after reports of an exploit that could let hackers with a user's e-mail address and birth date change the user's Apple ID password. The company has fixed the issue. Edward Moyer. by Edward Moyer. March 23, 2013 9:03 ...

PAX East: 2K Games announces XCOM Enemy Unknown for iOS; debut trailer ...
The Gaming Vault
One of the best games of 2012 and certainly, a vision of the RTS genre performing at its zenith, XCOM Enemy Unknown has now been confirmed to arrive on iOS later this year by publisher 2K Games. Best of all, this will be no cut-down version of the ...

Complex Magazine "40 Hottest Women in Tech" List Actually Ranked Them By ...
PolicyMic
Every one loves a good top 40 list. They're catchy, easy reading (or listening), and usually make a good guilty pleasure debate over who made the cut. But outside of Time Magazine's annual 100 Most Influential People list, we don't often see "top" lists of ...

PolicyMic

Build-Your-Own Motorola X Phone to Revolutionize Android Market?
Press Blue
Build-Your-Own Motorola X Phone to Revolutionize Android Market? Here's a rumor to chew over – what if the Motorola X Phone were to launch with no specs and features at all? A hollow, empty shell of a Smartphone, if you will? Yeah it sound like complete ...

Press Blue

Monitoring your kids on Facebook? Try harder
TheNewsTribune.com
Rebecca Levey, mother of 10-year-old twin girls, says it is important to educate children on the risks of Internet social media sites. (KATHY WILLENS/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS). WASHINGTON –. After Friendster came MySpace. By the time Facebook ...

TheNewsTribune.com

Letter revealing the structure of DNA to be sold for £1.2 million
Telegraph.co.uk
Francis Crick used the handwritten note to tell his son Michael that he and his colleague Jim Watson had "probably" made a "most important discovery". The scientist describes in the letter to his 12 year old son that their finding may explain how "life comes ...

Telegraph.co.uk

New Theory Suggests That A Comet Was The Culprit Behind Chicxulub ...
RedOrbit
One of the most popular theories on the disappearance of the dinosaurs surrounds the 110 mile-wide Chicxulub crater in Mexico. Many scientists believe the extinction was caused by an asteroid that crashed into Earth, leaving only a massive crater behind.

RedOrbit

Fujifilm XP200 and S8400W Go Extreme in Ruggedness and Zoom
PetaPixel
Fujifilm has announced two new consumer-level cameras that go extreme in different ways. The first is the new FinePix XP200, a new rugged cameras for outdoor environments. The second is the FinePix S8400W, a bridge camera that packs a massive zoom ...

PetaPixel

Low Cost 8" & 9.7" Tablets From Archos Are Now Available In US
News For Shoppers
The Archos 80 Titanium features a dual core Cortex A-9 processor that's clocked at 1.6 GHz. It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, has a Mali-400 MP4 GPU, 1 GB RAM, a microSD card that allows for up to 64 GB expansion, rear and back cameras, and an 8-inch IPS...

News For Shoppers

T-Mobile began testing 4G LTE network
Kabir News
Reports by OpenSignal.com suggest T-Mobile began testing its new 4G LTE network in several cities including: Las Vegas, New York, Kansas City, Denver, Seattle, San Diego, New Orleans, Las Vegas and the San Francisco Bay Area. T-Mobile's unofficial...

Kabir News

Supergiant Games' Transistor will feature Bastion narrator Logan Cunningham ...
Neoseeker
Logan Cunningham, the voice of Rucks from Bastion, has earned himself quite a following since his work on Supergiant Games' wildly successful action title. So when Supergiant announced their new game, Transistor, you can imagine how badly fans hoped ...

Australian Researchers Show Signs of Progress in Reviving Extinct Species
Nature World News
(Photo : Reuters) An endangered poison frog (Phyllobates terribilis) is seen at the Santa Fe Zoo in Medellin, January 15, 2013. Should it go extinct, scientists may one day be able to revive it. In 1983 one of the world's most decidedly bizarre species of frog ...

Nature World News

Unusually Low Sun Activity Expected to Give Way to Maximum And Solar Storms ...
Science World Report
The 11-year cycle of solar activity was supposed to be at a maximum in these months, but our sun is instead very quiet until now, apart from the occasional CME shot towards Earth, with only light effects for the last two this week and last month. But scientists ...

Exclusive: 2013 Ford Fusion at the Denver Auto Show
Torque News
Kendra Clayton of Ford talks us through the highlights of the all-new 2013 Ford Fusion, including its five powertrain options and safety features, at the 2013 Denver Auto Show in Colorado. n/a. Kendra Clayton 2013 Ford Fusion Energi. Ford hit the 2013 ...

Torque News

Biology Prevents Men to Pursue Friends' Wives, Claims Study
Latinos Post
(Photo : Reuters) A couple sits along the seafront promenade at dusk in Mumbai's suburbs May 16, 2012. Scientist have discovered that a man's biology may prevent him from attempting to pursue a friend's spouse or girlfriend, a new study shows. In a study of ...

Latinos Post

Google+ Quietly Rolls Out a Photos-Only Filter for Search Results
PetaPixel
Facebook announced its photos-only news feed filter earlier this month (alongside a major News Feed revamp) at a major press event surrounded by much fanfare. Now, Google has followed suit with its Google+ social network — albeit much, much more ...
 
PetaPixel

Vagrant Sea Otter Settles into Vancouver Aquarium; How You Can Help Choose ...
Latinos Post
Last fall, an eight-week old motherless sea otter was spotted wandering alongside a tarmac road in Homer, Alaska. The vagrant pup, malnourished and un-groomed, found a home in the I.Sea.U division of the Alaska SeaLife Center by the order of the U.S. ...

Latinos Post

35 years after launch, Voyager 1 still in earth's solar system
South China Morning Post
A spacecraft that took off from Cape Canaveral 35 years ago is continuing its journey out of the solar system, Nasa said. The Voyager 1 probe was fired into space to observe the outer planets and the mysterious interstellar medium that lies beyond the solar ...

Huge and widespread volcanic eruptions triggered the end-Triassic extinction
Eureka! Science News
More than 200 million years ago, a massive extinction decimated 76 percent of marine and terrestrial species, marking the end of the Triassic period and the onset of the Jurassic. This devastating event cleared the way for dinosaurs to dominate Earth for the ...

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BlackBerry Z10 greeted with caution - who will take and hold third position?

While Google's Android and Apple's iOS appear to have first and second positions for the foreseeable future in the mobile OS wars, the interesting action is for the number 3 spot--BlackBerry, Windows, Tizen, Firefox, Ubuntu, or ???

BlackBerry Z10 greeted with caution; stock drops 8%: "Despite its high-profile launch in New York and a TV advertising blitz during March Madness for the company's new smartphone, BlackBerry's shares tumbled 8%, to $14.91, Friday. The dip came amid some reports of lackluster consumer reaction at retail stores to the new phone. Think having physical buttons on your smartphone isn't a big deal? Ask any longtime supporter of BlackBerry."

Attack of the killer smartwatches
ZDNet
Summary: Rumors would have you believe that no fewer than four companies are busily readying smartwatches for public consumption. Problem is the public hasn't asked for them. James Kendrick. By James Kendrick for Mobile News | March 23, 2013 ...

ZDNet

Pentagon Shoots Down Dump-BlackBerry Rumor
TechNewsWorld
Both the Pentagon and BlackBerry have said the mobile device maker's products still figure into the Department of Defense's plans to expand its use of commercial mobile devices. However, it now becomes a question of operating system security for the ...

Private SpaceX Cargo Capsule's Return to Earth Delayed One Day
Space.com
A private cargo capsule's trip home to Earth from the International Space Station has been delayed by one day to Tuesday because of weather concerns near its targeted splashdown site. SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft is now scheduled to splash ...

Space.com

S- You Are Slow
Destructoid (blog)
I've finally been playing the new Tomb Raider for the past few days, and really enjoying it! I'd been really excited about it since I first heard about its premise, and I was sad that it got so much negative publicity prior to its release, but it seems like everything ...

Destructoid (blog)

Barnes And Noble Will Give You a Free Nook Simple Touch If You Just Buy a ...
Gizmodo
Barnes And Noble Will Give You a Free Nook Simple Touch If You Just Buy a Given much thought to picking up a Nook HD+? Neither has anyone else, which is why Barnes and Noble is keen to sweeten the potential deal by adding a pretty enticing bonus to ...

Dropbox's Mailbox App Hits Million Mark
Sci-Tech Today
The Dropbox acquisition of Mailbox points to two evolutions going on, that of Dropbox and of e-mail. Dropbox has been rapidly adding services to complement what might otherwise become a commodity, online storage. In addition, Dropbox's competitor ...

Sci-Tech Today

Comet, Not Asteroid, Killed Dinosaurs in Mass Extinction Event
Science World Report
(Photo : NASA/Continental Dynamics Workshop/NSF) A comet, not an asteroid, may have killed 70 percent of the world's species during the mass extinction that destroyed the dinosaurs. Billions of years ago when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, a celestial object...

Science World Report

Denver Zoo Welcomes First Baby Gerenuk
Science World Report
Officials at the Denver Zoo are thrilled with the birth of the first gerenuk ever born at the zoo. Born to mother Layla and father Woody, the female named Blossom is the third generation female residing in the gerenuk exhibit. Gerenuk, a long-necked species of ...

Torment: Tides of Numenera Stretch Goal: Hire Planescape Torment Designer ...
Game Politics
The newest Kickstarter stretch goal for Torment: Tides of Numenera won't add any new bells and whistles into the game, but it will add an important person into the creative mix. inXile Entertainment's upcoming RPG will secure the services of Planescape ...

Microsoft Exec Sings High Praise for ARM and Windows RT, Downplays Legacy ...
Hot Hardware
Surface RT tablets haven't exactly been through the roof. Out of the 1.5 million Surface tablet sales to date, a million of them belong to Surface RT, falling well short of Microsoft's expectations, assuming it's true that the Redmond outfit ordered 3 million Surface ...

Hot Hardware

Apple blocks ad-injecting Mac trojan, Yontoo
Ars Technica
Don't lift a finger: Yontoo has been added to OS X's built-in protections. by Jacqui Cheng - Mar 22, 2013 9:17 pm UTC. OS X · 0. A day after Russian anti-virus firm Doctor Web highlighted an adware Mac trojan called "Yontoo," Apple has moved to block it.

Microsoft Cleared of Infringing Google Patents With Xbox
Bloomberg
Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox video-gaming system doesn't violate the patent rights of Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit, a U.S. trade judge said. In a one-paragraph notice yesterday, U.S. International Trade Commission Judge David Shaw sided with ...

Flash In East Coast Sky Has Social Media Buzzing
KYW Newsradio
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – There was a lot of buzz here and along the East Coast about a flash in the sky last night. Experts say it was a meteor. Peggy Morshack was just leaving the Philadelphia Museum of Art when a streaking light in the sky caught her ...

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Mass extinction 200 million years ago has lessons for today
The Courier-Journal (blog)
Palisade Sill near Alpine, N.J., has geologic remnants of the end-Triassic extinction event. That's ancient lava you are looking at. Credit: Terrance Blackburn and Paul Olsen. Climate change and ocean acidification likely wiped out nearly 80 percent of marine ...

The Courier-Journal (blog)

Enjoy the Web in a New Way with Google's Chrome Maze
Overclockers Club
If you need a little break from your daily grind or just want something new to do, Google has you covered. The folks in Mountain View have a new experiment for you to try, and so long as you have Google Chrome on your PC, you can take part. Google's ...

6 of 7 billion people have cellphones, 4.5 billion have toilets
msnNOW
Priorities, priorities, priorities. Six billion of world's 7 billion people have cellphones, but only 4.5 billion have a toilet, says a shocking UN report. The UN reports 22 emerging economy nations account for 80 percent of humanity's "open defecation." India, for ...

msnNOW

Apple Fixed The Security Hole That Let Anyone Change Your Password With ...
Business Insider
Apple has restored its "iForgot" Apple ID password reset page after discovering a bug that let anyone change your passwords as long as they had your email address and birthday. The Verge first wrote about the security hole, and Apple quickly took down the ...

Business Insider

T-Mobile's New LTE Network Spotted Being Tested In 8 Major U.S. Cities
TechCrunch
While T-Mobile is more than a bit late to the LTE game, the company confirmed on Monday that their new network would be launching by the end of the month. Where it would launch, however, was kept under wraps. That's the idea, at least. Thanks to some ...

TechCrunch

Facebook Adds Weather Information To Events
RedOrbit
Facebook, the world's largest social network is moving one step closer to total Internet domination with the announcement that they will be adding weather forecasts to events and public place pages. According to PCMag's Stephanie Mlot, the new feature ...

RedOrbit

SUV with versatility
Vancouver Sun
Agile, stylish, powerful, and versatile: That's the popular 2013 Dodge Durango. This is Chrysler's no-compromise midsize SUV, one that offers seven-passenger seating as standard, plus highway fuel efficiency of up to 32 mpg/8.8-litre per100 km, and ...

Sea turtle protection plan includes South Florida beaches
Sun-Sentinel
The entire coastline of Palm Beach County and the northern portion of Broward County would be designated critical habitat for loggerhead sea turtles, under a proposal announced Friday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The government plans to protect ...

SendGrid fires staffer for sex jokes tweet
USA TODAY
A software developer in San Francisco was fired Thursday after she tweeted a photo of a fellow conference attendee who made sexual jokes she overheard and considered offensive, triggering a firestorm of debates about sexism and social media decorum in ...

'Diablo 3' for PlayStation 3 unveils first gameplay footage - watch
Digital Spy
Blizzard Entertainment is bringing the PC hit to PS3 and the upcoming PS4 as part of a strategic partnership with Sony. In addition to online multiplayer, the console version will feature four-player split-screen co-operative play and an optimised user interface.

GTC 2013: Nvidia doubles down on mobile
ZDNet
Summary: Nvidia has broadened its portfolio, stepped up product development and bet everything on a version of Tegra with integrated 4G LTE wireless in a bid to become more competitive in the cutthroat mobile chip business. John Morris. By John Morris ...

Google+ Introduces Photo-Only View
PC Magazine
Following Facebook's lead, Google this week tweaked its Google+ social network so users can now filter search results to show only photo posts. Google+ users can access the new photo filter from a drop-down menu on search result pages. Simply type what ...

Capcom Reviving DuckTales for Modern Consoles
PC Magazine
Be still, the hearts of '90s-era children: Capcom today announced plans to revive the classic NES DuckTales (woo-oo!) game. But you won't need to dust off the clunky Nintendo Entertainment System to climb back into Scrooge McDuck's top hat — with ...

A lizard robot for Mars: Scientists dream while Curiosity snoozes
Los Angeles Times
Curiosity may be sitting idle during the solar conjunction (more on that below), but there's fresh Mars-focused news. Researchers have suggested the rover could use a friend — a scuttling lizard robot. Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...

Apple nudges developers to make taller, Retina apps
CNET
A new rule requires developers' apps to work on the newest iPhones and iPods, as well as support higher pixel displays. Josh Lowensohn. by Josh Lowensohn. March 22, 2013 9:11 AM PDT Follow @Josh. Apple's Retina Display on the third-generation ...

Apple's IPad, IPhone Distribution Faces EU Antitrust Scrutiny
Bloomberg
Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s distribution practices for iPhones and iPad tablets are being examined by European Union antitrust regulators who said they'll act if they see any behavior harmful to customers. The European Commission is “currently looking at this ...

China chooses Ubuntu as state-endorsed operating system
CNET
Canonical, which runs Ubuntu, is working with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the project. Don Reisinger. by Don Reisinger. March 22, 2013 9:49 AM PDT. Canonical, the organization behind popular Linux distribution Ubuntu, ...

Blizzard reveals HearthStone strategy card game
CNET (blog)
World of Warcraft's maker officially announces a free-to-play collectible card game for PC, Mac, and iPad. The beta starts this summer, with a full product out by the end of the year. by Eddie Makuch. ...

Secrets of Bioshock Infinite
Wall Street Journal (blog)
On Tuesday, after years of waiting, video game fans will finally get to play BioShock Infinite, the highly anticipated release from Take-Two Interactive. While there's been lots of talk about the game's floating city and allusions to the notion of American ...

Wall Street Journal (blog)

When Apple's new iPhones are due
Fortune
FORTUNE -- Apple (AAPL) will launch the iPhone 5S in June or July or before September. The company will launch a lower-priced iPhone simultaneously or maybe after September. Anyway, that's what these three analysts predict based on ... well, I'll let them ...

Fortune

HP 3D Display Technology: Will IPhone 6 Have 3D Display?
iScienceTimes.com
iPhone: Hewlett-Packard unveiled its new 3D display technology that doesn't require special glasses to see. Suitable for small screens, will the iPhone 6, rumored to be released this summer, have 3D capability? (Photo: Reuters). Comments 0: Print: Email ...

iScienceTimes.com

Big Bang Afterglow Reveals Older Universe, More Matter, Slower Expansion
PBS
A new map shows the oldest light in our universe, as detected with the precision by the Planck mission. Image by ESA and the Planck Collaboration. You may have seen this map, which has been making the rounds since its release by the European Space ...

PBS

Firaxis' Haunted Hollow on iOS: The Next Angry Birds?
iTech Post
Get ready Angry Birds fans: Firaxis is about to blow your mind. The game developer best known for such titles as the Civilization series and last year's smash-hit XCOM: Enemy Unknown is gearing up to release Haunted Hollow for iPhone and iPad users.

iTech Post

How Apple invites facile analysis
Los Angeles Times
For those of us not directly invested in Apple, the stock's trajectory over the last six months has been a thrill ride to rival anything you'll find at Magic Mountain. Since hitting an all-time peak of $705 in mid-September, the shares have been on a long slide, ...

Los Angeles Times

Microsoft Releases Details Of Law Enforcement Requests
Techdirt
Kudos to Microsoft for joining companies like Google and Twitter in releasing transparency reports about government/law enforcement requests for information. On Thursday, Microsoft released data on law enforcement requests from 2012. The report covers ...

Zynga Upgrades Website, Cuts More Ties With Facebook
Fox Business
Despite being slapped with an “underperform” rating, Zynga's shares edged higher on Friday as the company unveiled a more personalized and streamlined website that further engages players and minimizes its dependence on Facebook (FB). The maker of ...

Apple working on 'drop-proof iPhone'
Digital Spy
Apple is exploring ways of preventing future iPhone models from sustaining screen damage when dropped, a recent patent filing suggests. The Cupertino firm's 'Protective Mechanism for an Electronic Device' filing describes a means of ensuring that a ...


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