Toyota Mirai, Hydrogen-Powered Car of the Future? (video)

Toyota Mirai: Hydrogen-Powered Car of the Future?: Video - Bloomberg:
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A new car from Toyota could be the blueprint of cars we’ll be driving in years to come. It’s called the Mirai -- which means "future" in Japanese -- and is Toyota's first emissions-free, hydrogen-powered vehicle...but the innovation, isn't without risks in an unproven market. (Source: Bloomberg 11/24)

USA TODAY
Apple launches massive two-week (RED) campaign
USA TODAY
... recent high-profile personal donations and corporate campaigns targeting the recent ebola crisis from companies such as Facebook and Microsoft.
Apple partners with app developers for major Product RED fundraising effort - The Verge


NPR (blog)
Marine Corps Finds It Tough To Shut Down Sexist Facebook Groups
NPR (blog)
A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Keleher soon became intimately familiar with unofficial Marine Facebook pages like JTTOTS, which are forums for ...

BBC News
Google case over online abuse settled
BBC News
A UK businessman who took Google to court over malicious web postings about him appearing in its search results has reached a settlement with the ...
Google settles online abuse court case - The Guardian


Computerworld
How Apple could exploit a forever-free iCloud
Computerworld
While Google and Microsoft are using large amounts of free cloud storage to sell inexpensive consumer notebooks, Apple has stood above the fray.

USA TODAY
Dell, Microsoft, Staples enter Black Friday fray
USA TODAY
Staples will also be offering a variety of deals throughout the week including a Google Chromecast for $25 ($10 off) and Amazon's new Fire TV Stick ...

Washington Business Journal
Supreme Court case tests the limits of free speech on Facebook and other social media
Washington Post
About a week after Tara Elonis persuaded a judge to issue a protective order against her estranged husband, Anthony, her soon-to-be ex had this to ...

TheStreet.com
How Apple Is Absolutely Poised to Win Black Friday 2014
TheStreet.com
NEW YORK (TheStreet) –– Apple (AAPL) is poised to win Black Friday and ... and Google(GOOGL) , should help Apple "shine bright this holiday season. ... With larger screens coupled with innovations such as Apple Pay, .... using your Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, OpenID or Yahoo login credentials.

Google Glass Was Never Given a Chance to Succeed | Digital Trends: "Viewed in the larger context of the consumer electronics industry, the answer seems pretty clear. Two years is a pretty abysmal lifespan for a product line, and it seems pretty clear that we can toss it on the heap of rare, but mounting Google failures, alongside Buzz, Wave, and that overpriced movie streaming cephalopod, the Nexus Q. But should we hold all such products to the same standards? More to the point, what ultimately was Google attempting to accomplish with Glass in the first place?"

Google Introduces New Security Dashboard and Wizard for Google Apps Users:  Google’s new Devices and Activity dashboard allows Google Apps users to quickly identify and revoke access for any device that has been used to access an account and its data.

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Amazon Fire Phone #FAIL; LA Schools Suspend iPads

35,000. That’s the maximum potential number of Fire Phones Amazon has sold so far, according to an estimate by The Guardian’s Charles Arthur. (source infra)

There's no hope for Amazon's Fire Phone | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Devindra Hardawar: "The ultimate problem? With the Fire Phone, Amazon ended up serving itself more than it actually served consumers."

L.A. Unified halts contract for iPads - LA Times: "LA schools Supt. John Deasy suspended future use of a contract with Apple on Monday that was to provide iPads to all students in the nation's second-largest school system amid mounting scrutiny of the $1-billion-plus effort. The suspension comes days after disclosures that the superintendent and his top deputy had especially close ties to executives of Apple, maker of the iPad, and Pearson, the company that is providing the curriculum on the devices. And an internal report that examined the technology effort showed major problems with the process and the implementation."Moving forward, we will no longer utilize our current contract with Apple Inc.," Deasy wrote in a memo sent to the Board of Education on Monday...Under the contract approved just over a year ago, Apple had been expected to provide iPads with Pearson as the subcontractor...."

Huawei Is Shaking Up the Smartphone Market - WSJ: "WSJ: Have you ever considered using the Tizen operating system [developed by Samsung and backed by Intel Corp. and others]? Mr. Yu: We have no plans to use Tizen. Some telecom carriers are pushing us to design Tizen phones but I say "no" to them. In the past we had a team to do research on Tizen but I canceled it. We feel Tizen has no chance to be successful. Even for Windows Phone it's difficult to be successful. We have no plans to build our own OS. It's easy to design a new OS, but the problem is building the ecosystem around it."

Speed and Spectators Lead to Twitch, a Gaming Nexus
New York Times
The website has quickly emerged as the go-to destination for watching video games, drawing tens of millions of viewers each month. On Monday, that success led to a huge payday for the company's founders, as Amazon said it had reached a deal to buy ...


Daily Mail
Is the universe a 2D hologram? Fermilab intends to find out
CNET
An experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory called the Holometer intends to test several theories about the universe, including the holographic principle...


CNN
A quick photo primer on Instagram's Hyperlapse app
CNET
Instagram's new time lapse toolkit is a ton of fun -- more so if you know the ins and outs of the art form. Here's a best practices guide for snapping sped-up shots through space...


Laboratory Equipment
Cosmic effort provides best view yet of distant colliding galaxies
CNET
Behold the best look yet at a massive intergalactic train wreck in progress. It's also a glimpse at what the universe looked like when it was only half its current age...


Businessweek
Is Apple Prepping a Bigger iPad for 2015?
Businessweek
Remember when gadgets used to keep getting smaller? Now they keep getting bigger. Apple (AAPL) is rumored to be bringing out a larger iPhone this fall, and now our colleagues at Bloomberg News are reporting that a larger iPad is in the pipeline, too.


MiamiHerald.com
Social media not a vehicle of debate, instead encourages self-censorship: Study
IBNLive
Washington: People who use Facebook and Twitter are less likely than others to share their opinions on hot-button issues, even when they are offline, according to a surprising new survey by the Pew Research Center. The study, done in conjunction with ...


New York Times
Google Acquires Video and Special-Effects Startup Zync
Wall Street Journal
The service operated on Amazon computers, but Google said it would move ... Googlelaunched a push earlier this year to get more developers and ...

Here’s How Amazon Might Take Over Brick-and-Mortar Retail | Re/code: "Broadly, they said the world’s largest online retailer aims to make it easy for a wider array of brick-and-mortar shops to sell on Amazon while giving Amazon shoppers another way to receive orders on the same day they are purchased. The move would extend Amazon’s reach far beyond the virtual checkout aisle to the real ones in your neighborhood."

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Who Wants A Smartwatch?

Apparently, not many people do --

Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch? -- NYMag: "Despite all the buzz surrounding wearables, it isn’t clear who’s supposed to be buying them. Fewer than half of the respondents to a recent Accenture survey said they would consider buying a smartwatch, and even the most optimistic experts predict only 20 million smartwatch sales this year, a pittance compared with phone and tablet sales. "

The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valley: "How John Arrillaga Sr. [real estate developer] transformed California fruit orchards into high-priced office space for the likes of Google, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco."

Google Directors Wanted Page, Brin to Court Facebook Employees
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Google considered having its cofounders personally recruit Facebook workers and instituted a policy to make counteroffers within an hour to workers ...

Facebook: World Cup Biggest Social Media Event Ever
Voice of America
Brazil's World Cup was the biggest social media event on record involving 350 millionFacebook Inc users worldwide, the company claimed on ...

Google, Others Push for 'Strong' Open Internet Action
PC Magazine
The Internet Association - whose members include Google, Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, and more - filed comments with the FCC today, which ask for ...

Facebook 'Friends' Its City, Pays for Officer
Wall Street Journal
Facebook has funded the salary of a Menlo Park police officer and the construction of a police substation near its headquarters. Experts say such ...

Google Glass creator heads to Amazon
CNET
Babak Parviz, who led the development of Google Glass and other ... at the Internet search-engine giant, confirms to CNET he left to Amazon.

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning: Pier 1 Digs In
InformationWeek
Microsoft formally announced on Monday that Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (Azure ML), is now available as a public beta service. And as part of ...

Microsoft CEO Nadella writes long memo to employees -- Oh my!
Computerworld (blog)
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) CEO Satya Nadella enjoys writing a good memo. His latest tome written to employees -- published online Thursday -- has ...

Yahoo: Focus on Alibaba, display business
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Yahoo Inc. is set to report second-quarter results after the closing bell on Tuesday. This is what investors can ...

Google's 3D mapping tech flying to space station
Computerworld
Computerworld - After a successful Sunday launch, a cargo spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station, carrying a Google 3D ...

Apple Denies Chinese Media Claim of IPhone Security Risk
Businessweek

... the microblog of the People's Daily newspaper said Apple...

Developers and Apple open up on new Swift programming language
ZDNet
Is its just-launched developer blog about the Swift programming language a sign of a new, more open Apple? Whatever the answer, the blog's information will no doubt be welcome to developers. Some are working away at adding new libraries; others are ..

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China Social Media (video)

How the West Can Capitalize on China Social Media: Video - Bloomberg:
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Vincent Digonnet, executive chairman of APAC at Razorfish, discusses the growth of social media in China with John Dawson on Bloomberg Television's "On The Move Asia." (Source: Bloomberg May26)

Amazon escalates standoff with publisher Hachette Book Group
Los Angeles Times
In its ongoing battle with publisher Hachette, Amazon has removed ... who on hisFacebook page noted that the purchase of books written by him, Malcolm ... The issue was also e-books; Apple Inc. was about to launch its iBookstore.

Microsoft, Apple, and device discontinuity
CNET
Microsoft argues that the Surface will save you from having to buy a MacBook and an iPad, but its integrated tablet comes at the price of a disjointed ...

Facebook, Google dumb down the new media
MarketWatch
The movie “Network” taught us: “I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!” But, funny, the network in question was supposed to be ...

Apple wins patents on Game Center, iPhone Burst Mode
CNET
patentimages.jpg A look at Apple's Burst Mode patent drawings. Apple ... are Apple'sanswer to some of the features -- but not all -- found in Microsoft's ...

Google 'Right To Be Forgotten' Ruling Unlikely to Repeat in US
NBCNews.com
... Security Agency secretly broke into communications on Yahoo and Google abroad and targeted overseas ... "The right to be forgotten is a great idea philosophically, but it is wrong to put the onus on Google or Facebook," she said.

Apple granted patent for embedding sapphire displays in LiquidMetal iPhone chassis
Apple Insider
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday issued Apple a patent describing a process in which an iPhone's display glass — including ...

Google hands TV control powers to your phone with Chromecast TV adaptor
The Australian
Login with Facebook ... Google says the company has been working to have Australian content available. ... Google Chromecast product manager Raunaq Shah said more than 5000 developers ... Julian Hardy bought his Chromecast from online retailer Amazon towards the end of last year and says he ...

Apple's next big thing: Your iPhone controls your home
Washington Post
Apple's new software platform would turn the iPhone into a remote control for ... from customers' online habits is one of Google's main income sources.

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg ordered to Iranian court over privacy issues
Detroit Free Press
TEHRAN, IRAN — A judge in southern Iran has ordered Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear in court to answer complaints by ...

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Facebook user base drops in US

Facebook user base drops in US, says report
Computerworld
By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Facebook appears to be losing users in the US and other major markets, though its user base in parts of Asia is growing, according to an investment company report. Facebook saw its US user base drop by 0.7% over the ...

London's Olympic Legacy: 'Silicon Roundabout' to 'Tech City'?
CNBC.com
The media center at London's Olympic site has moved one step closer to being transformed into a world-class technology hub with the potential to generate more than 4000 jobs.

CNBC.com

Chrome packaged apps pump up Web apps with new abilities
CNET
Google has enabled a technology that could mean more powerful Web apps -- and a more powerful Chrome OS and Chrome Web store. by Stephen Shankland With Chrome packaged apps, Google supplies new tools to let programmers control standalone window ...

PayPal snaps up mobile-payments start-up card.io
Los Angeles Times
PayPal recently made a significant digital purchase of its own. The mobile-payment service provider, which is owned by eBay, acquired card.io, a San Francisco start-up that enables users to use a smartphone camera to scan in their credit card ...

PayPal Acquires Mobile-Wallet Tech Company card.io
Gizmodo
PayPal announced on their blog today that they have acquired card.io, the San Francisco-based company that "provides technology for developers to capture credit card information by using the camera on a smartphone." About this, Hill Ferguson, PayPal's ...

VMware, CEO Change News: 'Cloud' Move or Rebrand?
Wired News
VMware has named Pat Gelsinger as its new CEO, moving the industry veteran from parent company EMC, where he served as president and chief operating officer, Wired Enterprise reported late on Tuesday. Earlier in the day, the news leaked out about the ...

Motorola Moves to Ensure Its Smartphones Stay on US Market
Wall Street Journal
By Steven D. Jones Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Motorola Mobility unit is making changes to the way some of its mobile devices synchronize calendars after losing a patent battle with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) over how communication gadgets operate.

Microsoft sets Windows 8 launch as Oct. 26
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Microsoft today announced that it will start selling Windows 8 on Friday, Oct. 26, a little more than three months from now. New PCs equipped with the operating system will go on sale the same day, said Microsoft ...

HondaLink Connects Drivers to Apps, Messages
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot Honda today unveiled HondaLink, the car manufacturer's newest in-vehicle connectivity system that brings personalized, cloud-based news, information, and entertainment feeds into the 2013 Accord's interface. While the invention might ...

Barnes & Noble Offers $50 Gift Card With Nook Tablet Purchase
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Barnes & Noble is offering up a $50 gift card for those who buy its Nook Tablet before the end of July. The offer comes amidst a report that claims the retailer is prepping a new tablet with a "revolutionary" screen.

NASA's Curiosity rover is due to land on Mars in early August
Washington Post
NASA's Curiosity rover is due to land on Mars in early August, but a malfunction in another spacecraft orbiting the planet means we may not see any photos of the landing. According to NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Curiosity, ...

AT&T to offer new shared data plans for smartphones
San Jose Mercury News
AT&T on Wednesday announced a new set of wireless plans for smartphone customers that will allow users to share their data allotments across multiple devices. Following in the footsteps of chief rival Verizon, which announced a similar move last month, ...

Android Hacker: Jelly Bean Tougher To Crack
InformationWeek
Android 4.1, code-named Jelly Bean, is first OS from Google to correctly randomize memory, making it tougher for attackers to get a foothold. By Mathew J. Schwartz InformationWeek Expect some notable security improvements in Android 4.1, ...

How Office 2013's streaming as a service works
Ars Technica
by Sean Gallagher - Jul 18, 2012 8:00 pm UTC Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced on Monday that Office 2013 was “designed from the get-go to be offered as a service.” This caused a bit of confusion among those uninitiated in Microsoft's approach to ...

Scientists find new alien planet, smaller and hotter than Earth
Christian Science Monitor
The NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals astronomers a new alien planet possibly covered with molten lava. By Space.com Staff, Space.com / July 18, 2012 An artist's illustration of the alien planet UCF 1.01, a potential exoplanet 33 light-years from ...

Christian Science Monitor

Astronomers discover oldest spiral galaxy in the universe (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
By John Williams, Universe Today / July 18, 2012 Ancient starlight traveling for 10.7 billion years has brought a surprise – evidence of a spiral galaxy long before other spiral galaxies are known to have formed. In this computer simulation, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Photos of early 2000s iPad prototype emerge
Los Angeles Times
Photos of what is believed to be the earliest prototype of the Apple iPad were posted online Wednesday. The images show a significantly thicker device with traces of Apple's design style from the early 2000s while also undeniably resembling the ...

Controversial Spewed Iron Experiment Succeeds as Carbon Sink
Scientific American
By David Biello | July 18, 2012 GEOENGINEER?: The strand of Chaetoceros atlanticus pictured here can help pull CO2 from the atmosphere and bury it in the sea, given enough iron to bloom. Image: Courtesy of Marina Montresor, SZN / Alfred Wegener ...

Scientific American

Will Apple post UK notice that Samsung 'did not copy' iPad?
Fortune
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt July 18, 2012: 4:42 PM ET FORTUNE -- It was a judicial surprise, even in a patent court considered by experts to be the most defendant-friendly in the world. On Wednesday, nine days after his July 9 ruling that three Samsung ...

Explore the Antarctic with Google Maps and Street View
TechSpot
By Rick Burgess Armchair explorers can now enjoy impromptu South Pole safaris from the warm comfort of their cozy homes. Google announced on Tuesday that its Street View team has been hard at work collecting 360-degree imagery of notable locations in...

YouTube offers face-blurring in video uploads
USA TODAY
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) – YouTube is offering people a way to blur faces in submitted video. The new tool is designed for human-rights activists and others who may want to protect people in a video. Simply blur faces using the tool before submitting ...

USA TODAY

Nexus 7 has display looseness and instant fix
SlashGear
Now that the Google Nexus 7 tablet has been released to the general public and many citizens of the USA and the UK have it in their hands, a display looseness issue has arisen. This issue is rather similar to what Google I/O 2011 attendees experienced ...

SlashGear

EPEAT to Review Ultra-Thin, Light Laptops After Apple Fiasco
DailyTech
In response to all of the buzz associated with Apple's recent resignation from and reuniting with Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT), the organization is developing a review of ultra-thin and light laptops that are EPEAT certified ...

DailyTech

Hands-on: Samsung EX2F Brings Wi-Fi With an F1.4 Lens to the Premium Class
PCWorld
There's a lot of tough competition in the premium point-and-shoot class, but Samsung's EX2F stands out thanks to a fast F1.4 lens and Wi-Fi features. By Tim Moynihan, PCWorld Samsung announced the high-end EX2F premium point-and-shoot a few weeks ago, ...

Again, a Glacier Downsizes
New York Times (blog)
By JOANNA M. FOSTER In 2010, the remote Petermann Glacier in northwestern of Greenland caught the public's attention when a chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan broke off into the ocean. Now, it has lost another big piece: on Monday, ...

New York Times (blog)

There Is No Such Thing as Normal When You Live at the Bottom of the Sea
Gizmodo
The Aquanauts had killed the power and strapped on their emergency air masks. Someone smelled burning. In a rich-oxygen environment like Aquarius, fires can spread with ferocity; any hint of combustion is taken with utter seriousness.

Washington State Residents Can Register to Vote on Facebook
DailyTech
The state of Washington will be the first to offer a voter registration option on Facebook as soon as next week. Washington state citizens will soon have the option to register to vote on Facebook via an application on the Secretary of State's Facebook ...

DailyTech

Handicapping NASA's commercial space race
msnbc.com
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — If astronauts are launched from American soil once again during the next presidential term, they'll almost certainly be riding a rocket called Liberty, Atlas or Falcon. Those are the rockets being offered as the main contenders ...

Whales Can Ignore Human Noise
PlanetSave.com
Underwater human noise is a great threat to whales. It disrupts their communication, mating, navigation, and more. Unfortunately, this threatens whale species that are already on the brink of extinction due to whaling. The good news is that whales seem ...

Samsung Unveils MV900, A Wi-Fi Camera With a Flip-Up Screen
PCWorld
If you're into self-portraits, Wi-Fi features, gesture controls, and crazy in-camera tricks, you'll be hard-pressed to find a better fit than Samsung's new MV900. By Tim Moynihan, PCWorld Last year's Samsung MV800 was a unique compact camera, ...

Microsoft's reportedly working on Office 2011 for Mac SkyDrive update
Engadget
By Edgar Alvarez posted Jul 18th 2012 5:25PM Microsoft did quite a decent job of keeping us entertained with yesterday's unveiling of its most recent Office package and all of its promising integration with SkyDrive. Still, Redmond left out any mention ...

PayPal Acquires Mobile Payment Firm card.io
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot PayPal announced Tuesday that it has acquired San Francisco-based card.io, which provides developers with the technology to capture credit card information with the simple click of a smartphone camera. The partnership will allow ...


Music Tech Startup News: Audiosocket, Mixgar, WeGlow, Musikki ...
By Clyde Smith
Mixgar-logo Recent music tech startup news includes Audiosocket's partnership with the Associated Press, Mixgar's funding and deal with Pepsi for Hungarian summer festivals and MOG CEO's David Hyman's activities with WeGlow.
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Tech Report: Mozilla Updates Firefox To Encrypt Google Searches ...
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Tech Report: Mozilla Updates Firefox To Encrypt Google Searches. July 18, 2012 12:17 AM. Share this. View Comments. More Activity. Facebook Activity. What's this? Add to Timeline - What's This. Click "Add to Timeline" to publish what you ...
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Samsung buys chipmaker CSR's technology and patents | Android ...
By Cory Gunther
Today Samsung has acquired the chipmaker company CSR's wireless handset technology and patents for the tune of around $310 million. CSR is a UK technology.
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Steve Mann Attacked for Wearing Computer-Aided Vision System
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1 in 3 Facebook Users Are Getting Bored With It

Survey: 1 in 3 Facebook users getting bored with the social network ...
From the blog Technology News Blog: Are you just not as drawn to the social network comings and... By Mike Wehner, Tecca | Today in Tech – Thu, Jun 7, 2012 ...
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What I'd like to see in Apple's next MacBooks
CNET
New Mac hardware seems highly likely at Apple's upcoming WWDC keynote...and as an owner of a 2008 MacBook, here's what I'd like to upgrade to. by Scott Stein Here's what I'd like to see in Apple's next MacBooks, both from software and hardware.

Microsoft tips how Windows 8 store will promote desktop apps
Computerworld
By Gregg Keizer Computerworld - Microsoft yesterday added its Office suite to Windows 8's online store, the first non-Metro application to be listed in the e-mart. The move tipped how Microsoft will promote traditional x86/64 desktop software through ...

LinkedIn, eHarmony, Last.fm hacks highlight bad passwords
Washington Post
If there's one thing that the LinkedIn, eHarmony and now Last.fm hacks have taught us in the past week, it's that people are really bad at picking secure passwords. As MSNBC noted, a lot of people used the phrase “link” in their LinkedIn passwords ...

Apple to pay $2.25 million to settle Australia case
Los Angeles Times
When it comes to the legal world, it has not been a good day for Apple. The Cupertino, Calif., tech company agreed Friday to pay $2.25 million to end a case in Australia that claimed Apple misled customers who bought the 4G version of the new iPad, ...

Whopping .00038% of Facebook users vote on data use policy change
Ars Technica
by Casey Johnston - Jun 8, 2012 5:16 pm UTC Facebook closed the vote on its new data use policy and new statement of rights and responsibilities Friday, with a paltry 342632 ballots cast as of a minute before closing. The vote needed 270 million ...

Revamped Azure cloud uses OCZ SSDs
Register
By Chris Mellor • Get more from this author Microsoft is taking the fight to Amazon, cutting Azure cloud storage transaction prices by 90 per cent. A statement on Microsoft's Windows Azure team blog says: "We heard you loud and clear that you want ...

Space Shuttle Enterprise sails to New York
Christian Science Monitor
Named for the iconic 'Star Trek' spacecraft, the Enterprise was the first of NASA's fleet of space shuttles. By Mathew Murphy, Reuters / June 8, 2012 The space shuttle Enterprise makes the final leg of its journey to its new Manhattan home on the ...

Christian Science Monitor

Neutrinos totally do not travel faster than light, say scientists
Christian Science Monitor
Neutrinos, like everything else in the known universe, can travel only at or slower than lightspeed, putting to rest speculation that the ethereal particles may have broken the cosmic speed limit. By Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer / June 8, ...

Christian Science Monitor

Here's What Google Will Lose When Apple Wipes Google Maps From The iPhone
San Francisco Chronicle
This is a news note from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet businesses. Sign up for a free trial here. Reports say that Apple is planning to announce its own mapping service at next ...

Swiss Court Relaxes Google Street View Requirements
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius A Swiss court this week granted Google a partial victory in its battle over Street View in the region. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, a Swiss federal court found that Google does not have to black out 100 percent of faces ...

Facebook stock gets a boost, easing post-IPO decline
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Facebook's stock is getting a boost, easing a decline that has followed the company's initial public offering last month. Shares of Facebook Inc. climbed 73 cents, or 2.8 percent, to $27.04 in midday trading Friday.

My Favorite Computex PCs
PC Magazine
By Michael J. Miller One of the great things about Computex is the tremendous number of personal computers that are always on the show floor. This year, the show teemed with what Intel calls "Ultrabooks" and what AMD calls "ultrathins," but within ...

Xbox 360 has more than two years left, says Microsoft
Neoseeker
Microsoft has stressed that the Xbox 360 has more than two years left in its life cycle. During their E3 press conference, they revealed that the Xbox 360 is the current best-selling console globally. It's due to the ongoing positive commercial ...

Beneath Arctic ice, scientists find an ecosystem never imagined (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
Scientists report finding a massive bloom of phytoplankton hidden under Arctic ice, suggesting that, as the ice thins and melts, the region is becoming vastly more biologically productive. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer / June 7, 2012 The moon rises over ...

Christian Science Monitor

Prof gets patent for side mirror with no blind spot
CNET
A Drexel math professor invents a side mirror that offers a wider field of view. However, it is subtly curved, so it can't actually be put on any cars sold in the US by Chris Matyszczyk Comparing the standard mirror with Andrew Hicks' invention.

Bankrupt LightSquared's Drama Drags On -- And Markets Move On
Forbes
Last time we checked in with LightSquared, its sad saga suggested why crony capitalism might be here to stay. Philip Falcone, I remarked, sounded “like some of the less sympathetic Occupy protestors who have complained that even though they went ...

Intel reportedly ponders a new interactive TV service
CNET
The chipmaker wants to use facial-recognition technology to more accurately target ads to viewers -- but media companies don't want to risk disturbing their business models, Reuters reports. by Lance Whitney The new service would use a set-top box with ...

Gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 brings direct programming, indirect lighting
Ars Technica
by Kyle Orland - Jun 8, 2012 4:00 pm UTC That statement from Epic Games' Senior Technical Artist and Level Designer Alan Willard doesn't seem like such a big deal on the surface. To a non-programmer, it probably sounds like the blindingly simple and ...

Ars Technica

Apple May Focus on iOS, Mac at Developers Conference
Fox Business
Apple Inc. (AAPL) will kick off its annual developers conference Monday, and anticipation is growing over the possibility of a raft of new software apps and products, as well as a revamp of its signature line of Mac computers. Few, however, expect the ...

E3 2012: not quite ready to go mobile
Engadget
By Brian Heater posted Jun 8th 2012 1:00PM Perhaps E3 2012 will be remembered as the year that even Nintendo acknowledged the existence of smartphone gaming -- if only begrudgingly so, dragged kicking and screaming into the early '10s.

Federal judge tentatively dismisses Apple, Motorola lawsuits
Los Angeles Times
A US district judge has decided to tentatively dismiss a case involving lawsuits regarding patent infringements between Apple and Motorola Mobility, which was recently acquired by Google. The judge said he dismissed the case as both companies failed to ...

Oracle Cloud Now Available
Zacks.com
Oracle Corp. (ORCL - Analyst Report) recently launched its much anticipated public cloud computing service. The public cloud system known as Oracle Cloud offers a portfolio of software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform as a service and social applications.

Earth Summit: Can Rio +20 solve world's environmental problems?
CNN International
(CNN) -- Rio +20, a major international environmental conference held in Brazil this month, is being billed by its organizers as a "once in a lifetime" opportunity to safeguard our planet for generations to come. For three days from June 20, ...

MetroPCS Introduces Latest 4G LTE Smartphone and Huawei's First in the US with ...
Hola Arkansas
DALLAS, June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ -- MetroPCS Communications, Inc. (NYSE: PCS) and Huawei, a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, are making 4G LTE service available to all MetroPCS ...

Scientists to hold bake sale for NASA Saturday
Fox News
Scientists are trading telescopes for aprons this week to sell Milky Way cupcakes, Saturn cake, and chocolate chip Opportunity cookies in an effort to salvage US planetary science projects. The 2013 budget proposal submitted by the Obama administration ...

Real fish find robotic one attractive
msnbc.com
When we all become mindless automatons following around a mechanical leader, we may look back on an innocent-sounding robotic fish experiment playing out today as the beginning of the end. A team of US and Italian researchers report they've ...

DSLR Dilemma: Canon Rebel T4i or EOS 60D?
Stark Insider
For many, the T4i is clearly the better choice. And it's $149 less expensive to boot! Canon EOS Rebel T4i: Only $899 (body only) and continuous auto-focus for video make it a strong alternative to the EOS 60D, a higher priced DSLR sibling.

Stark Insider

Bing, Encyclopedia Britannica Partnership Brings New Answers
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot Microsoft's empire now includes Encyclopedia Britannica, which recently signed on to participate in Bing's answers page. The search engine on Thursday announced a new partnership with the encyclopedia, a move that will display ...

The True Costs of a Prepaid iPhone
The Atlantic Wire
Though the straight numbers say that the new prepaid iPhone offerings from Cricket Wireless and Sprint Virgin Mobile are the way to go, it got us wondering what kind of hidden costs come with the too-good-to-be-true cheap option.

The Atlantic Wire

New Top Level Domains Set to Be Revealed
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet
Over $100 million in VC dollars are tied to a big shift for the domain name industry as ICANN is set to expand the Internet beyond the current 22 Top Level Domains. By Sean Michael Kerner | Jun 8, 2012 On June 13th, ICANN will for the first time ...

55+ Events in Business, Tech and Social Media
Featured in Tech ... 55+ Events in Business, Tech and Social Media ... gap of demand for STEM jobs — careers in science, technology, engineering and math.
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How the Tech Industry's Anti-SOPA Tactics Changed Politics
The tactics used in the massive online protests that helped convince Congress to axe the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills earlier this year brought new weight ...
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How Tech Changes the Game for Consumer Giants

How Technology Is Changing the Game for Consumer Giants
U.S. News & World Report
But like everything else these days, technology is changing the equation. The growing interest in online communication and marketing among corporations that have long relied on traditional advertising strategies is fueled by the meteoric changes ...

Interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn straddles tech and media worlds
Los Angeles Times
The interim CEO has spent his career straddling technology and media, working in senior positions with search pioneer AltaVista, as well as CBS Sportsline, where he oversaw content and development. As president of News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media, ...

Technology helps keep seniors at home
MiamiHerald.com
Technology is transforming the role of caregivers, making it easier for them to stay on top of their loved ones from afar. By Ana Veciana-Suarez Just as technology can track down a stolen car or guide us, turn by turn, to a new Chinese restaurant, ...

Twitter's strange Discovery engine
CNET
The top story in my Discover tab recently was about bark beetles. I have to believe that Twitter's Discovery engine has mistaken me for another user. by Dan Farber May 15, 2012 8:36 AM PDT Follow @dbfarber I am an admitted Twitter addict.

AMD Trinity: Intel Ivy Bridge's New Rival
InformationWeek
AMD challenges Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge processors, with an eye to powerful graphics and long battery life for ultrabook-like machines and laptops. By Art Wittmann InformationWeek AMD released its Trinity chips Tuesday, its second generation ...

Diablo III: 40 Minutes With Blizzard's Action-RPG
PC Magazine
By Jeffrey L. Wilson Diablo III, Blizzard's long-awaited fantasy action-RPG, went on sale at midnight (both as a boxed copy and digital download), sending the gaming community into a tizzy. I admit that I, too, was caught up in the Diablo III fervor, ...

Upgrading a new PC to Windows 8 will cost you... $14.99
CNET
Microsoft's usual plan is to offer a free upgrade to users of older versions of Windows to bump up to the next release version. This time around there will be a cost, according to sources. by Zack Whittaker May 15, 2012 8:57 AM PDT Those who shell out ...

Apple iCloud Refresh Eyes Social Weak Spot
InformationWeek
Apple is preparing to make it easier to share photos through its iCloud service. It can't let Google have all the photo-sharing fun. Apple plans to make some major changes to its iCloud service, reports the Wall Street Journal.

Sprint Tops List of Most-Satisfied Wireless Customers
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius Which major wireless carrier has the most-satisfied customers? According to a new survey, Sprint narrowly beats out rivals like T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, though only by one or two percentage points. Apple, meanwhile, topped the ...

Baidu-based Android phone launches with Windows Phone, iOS in mind
CNET
The company is reportedly considering bringing its Cloud Smart Terminal to iOS and Windows Phone 7, though it's not clear how Apple will respond to that. by Don Reisinger May 15, 2012 8:17 AM PDT The Google of China, Baidu, today announced a new ...

How to buy a single share of Facebook stock
Los Angeles Times
By Salvador Rodriguez Typically, stock traders purchase shares in large bundles, but Facebook's upcoming initial public offering is attracting more than your typical stock trader -- and some of them just want a single share.

Apple MacBooks: A rumor roundup
Washington Post
With Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference on the horizon, those who love the Cupertino, Calif. company are devoting a lot of time to wondering whether the company will release any hardware products this year. WWDC used to be where Apple showed off ...

Nokia accuses Apple of Siri bias over smartphone answer
BBC News
The debate over "what is the best smartphone ever?" took an unexpected twist after Apple's voice-activated assistant Siri appeared to favour the iPhone's rival. Over the weekend, users of Siri were told the answer was Nokia's Lumia 900.

BBC News

3 Soyuz Astronauts Blast Off for Space Station
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts successfully departed from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this morning for a two-day trip to the International Space Station (ISS). NASA astronaut Joe Acaba as well as Russian ...

Berkeley Trains "Harmless" Viruses to Harvest Human Kinetic Energy
DailyTech
Viruses, tiny chunks of protein and nucleic acid, have long plagued mankind and its evolutionary ancestors before it. But thanks to the wonders of modern genetic engineering, researchers believe they have finally been able to instill a beneficial ...

DailyTech

SpaceX Capsule Slated to Soar to Space Station on Saturday
Mashable
SpaceX announced that it is gearing up to launch its Dragon capsule toward the International Space Station on Saturday. If successful, the trip will mark the first time a private spacecraft has ever docked at NASA's habitable artificial satellite.

T-Mobile Sensation 4G Android 4.0 update ends free tethering
SlashGear
T-Mobile USA subscribers using the HTC Sensation will have to choose between free tethering and an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade, with the carrier's fine-print revealing mobile hotspot use will no longer be overlooked. ”HTC Sensation 4G [users] will be ...

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Honda UNI-CUB mobility device will definitely make us all obese
Digitaltrends.com
Honda unveils a new mobility machine, the UNI-CUB, that can be directionally controlled just by shifting the weight of your body. Remember that scene in WALL-E when the our robot protagonist finally falls into the realm of the Axiom ship, ...

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Lenovo announces world's thinnest Ultrabook, ThinkPad X1 Carbon
TechSpot
By Lee Kaelin Lenovo announced a wave of notebook updates this morning, including new range of ultrabooks set to run Intel's brand new third-generation Ivy Bridge processors. Among the models released is a new 14-inch ultrabook, the ThinkPad X1 carbon, ...

TechSpot

Amazon prepping new Kindle tablet, e-reader
TG Daily
Amazon is reportedly preparing to launch a new Kindle e-reader with front lighting, alongside an upgraded Fire tablet. According to Reuters, the new e-reader could hit digital store shelves by July, as Amazon has been "ramping up" production of the E ...

TG Daily

Toshiba and Western Digital Complete Transaction of HDD Manufacturing Capacities.
X-bit Labs
by Anton Shilov Toshiba Corp. and Western Digital Corp. have announced that they have completed transactions of hard disk drive manufacturing assets from WD to Toshiba and vice versa. As a result of the transaction, Toshiba will gain 3.5" hard drive ...

X-bit Labs

Report: Consumption of Earth's resources unsustainable
CBS News
(CBS News) The Earth's population is depleting our planet's natural resources at a rate faster than what is needed for those resources to be replenished, putting increased pressure on biodiversity and the health of ecosystems, according to a new report ...

CBS News

Facebook privacy head suggests company will serve ads on other sites
Computerworld
By Cameron Scott IDG News Service - Facebook's head of privacy policy, Erin Egan, hinted in a Web chat on Monday that Facebook would begin serving targeted ads to users on third-party websites. The company proposed changes to its privacy policy last ...

Debut of Cut-Rate Mobile Plan Marred by Alleged Malicious Attack
PCWorld
The launch of a cut-rate unlimited $39-a-month mobile plan offered by upstart Voyager Mobile was marred Tuesday by what the company claims is "a malicious network attack to its primary website." By Daniel Ionescu, PCWorld The launch of a cut-rate ...

News Summary: Saverin renounces US citizenship ahead of Facebook IPO
Washington Post
STATUS UPDATE: Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his US citizenship. The Brazil-born 30-year-old became a US citizen in 1998 but has lived in Singapore since 2009. THE ADVANTAGE: Giving up his citizenship will allow him to avoid paying ...

Blame the app stores: Adobe Touch apps not in Creative Cloud
CNET
App store limits forced Adobe to change plans for including its tablet-oriented software in the Creative Cloud subscription plan. by Stephen Shankland May 15, 2012 6:50 AM PDT Follow @stshank The company initially pitched the $50-per-month subscription ...

CNET

Oracle Positioned to Succeed in the Cloud Computing Market
NetworkComputing.com
In the second of a three-part series on Oracle's cloud computing offerings, Network Computing takes a look at the vendor's position in the software and hardware markets. Part one, "Oracle Embraces Cloud Computing, the New Consumption Model," examined ...

5 lessons from a lost iPhone
CNET
Sree Srinivasan chronicles the lessons he's learned midway through 48 hours without a smartphone. Welcome back to the early '90s! by Sree Sreenivasan May 15, 2012 5:53 AM PDT Follow @sree Screenshot from Find My iPhone app. After leaving the phone in a ...

A Computer Interface that Takes a Load Off Your Mind
Technology Review
By Kate Greene Conversations between people include a lot more than just words. All sorts of visual and aural cues indicate each party's state of mind and make for a productive interaction. But a furrowed brow, a gesticulating hand, and a beaming smile ...

Technology Review

Nokia announces two cheap web-connected handsets
Inquirer
By Carly Page FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has introduced two cheap web-connected handsets in its bid to "connect the next billion consumers to the internet". Promising to consume 90 per cent less data than your average mobile phone by compressing web ...

Inquirer

Court Lets Apple Pursue US Ban on Samsung Galaxy Tablet
BusinessWeek
By Susan Decker on May 14, 2012 Apple Inc., (AAPL) (AAPL) maker of the iPhone and iPad, can pursue efforts to halt sales of Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet computer in the US while a patent-infringement case is pending, ...

Watching an electron being born
Phys.Org
Atomic processes take place on extremely short time scales. Measurements at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) can now visualize these processes. A strong laser beam can remove an electron from an atom – a process which takes place almost ...

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