NASA Tours The International Space Station (video)

Take a Tour of The International Space Station:

NASA's "fly-through" tour of the International Space Station showing various modules of the station, as well as a beautiful view of the earth below. Video above published Oct 28, 2016.

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Apple Developing Video Sharing App for iPhones & iPads (video)

Apple Said to Be Developing iPhone Video Sharing App:

Apple is developing a video sharing and editing application and is testing new related features for its iPhone and iPad operating systems. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports on "Bloomberg Markets" August 25, 2016.

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Living with Robots, Man or Machine? (videos)

Video playlist from FT.com:

Living with Robots

• Man or machine? Building robots like us 13:27
• My colleague, the robot 12:07
• Long road to a driverless future 12:19
• Pocket AI — bar raised for digital assistants 13:40
• The soft side of robots: elderly care 14:27
• Pepper the ‘emotional’ robot visits the FT 9:16

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The World's First $1 Million Drone Race (video)

Go Inside the World's First $1 Million Drone Race:

The World Drone Prix in Dubai was the first million dollar drone race, with the winning team taking home a cool $250,000. We meet the tech-loving thrill-seekers behind the sport who want to turn it into the next big thing. (Video by Austin Brown and Tom Gibson) (Published Mar 23, 2016)

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Two Apple iPad Pro Video Reviews

Apple iPad Pro Reviews--from the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg--

iPad Pro Video Review: With giant screen, keyboard and stylus, is the new iPad Pro a laptop? A sketchbook? A TV? WSJ's Joanna Stern goes on a journey to find out what the iPad Pro really is.(Nov 11, 2015)


iPad Pro Review: Big New Canvas - Bloomberg's Sam Grobart got a hold of the new iPad Pro and he needed both hands to hold it. Published on Nov 11, 2015

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Apple TV Review: A Big iPhone for Your Living Room (video)

Apple TV Review: A Big iPhone for Your Living Room - The new $150 Apple TV's touch-friendly remote and store full of apps bring the dream of cable-cutting closer, says WSJ's Geoffrey A. Fowler.
(Published Oct 29, 2015)

Onewheel, Part Hoverboard, Part Skateboard, CES 2015 (video)

Part Hoverboard, Part Skateboard Catches Air at CES -

It's part hover-board, part skateboard and turning heads at this year's Consumer Electronics Show. It's called Onewheel and Bloomberg Businesweek's senior editor Brad Stone took a spin with the inventor Kyle Doerksen. (1/6/2015)

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Google Chromecast is Amazon's best selling electronics device

Google's simple little device, Chromecast, is disintermediating cable TV, set top boxes, etc. . . .

Google Chromecast is Amazon's best selling electronics device: " . . . . Perhaps that was the availability it needed to zoom past Amazon’s wide range of Kindle products on the best selling list. We don’t have any sales figures, but what does this mean for Google? It means Chromecast is big-time, and it means there’s a real market out there for devices like this. It means Chromecast is sure to be a highly supported item for quite some time, and can evolve into a product that many would consider must-haves in their homes . . . ."

Yahoo revenue falls again, but earnings beat forecasts: "Yahoo reported reported another drop in quarterly revenue late Tuesday, however the company reported better-than-expected earnings. Net revenue, excluding traffic acquisition costs, or TAC, came in at $1.08 billion during the third quarter. That was down 1% from a year earlier when Yahoo generated $1.09 billion in net revenue. Earnings came in at 34 cents a share, compared to 39 cents a share a year earlier, the company also said . . ."

Apple Hires Burberry CEO as Retail Chief
Wall Street Journal
Apple has hired Angela Ahrendts, currently chief executive of British luxury retailer Burberry Group, to head up its retail efforts. Kathy Gordon examines her use ...

BBC News

Apple invites go out for Oct 22 event in San Francisco
USA TODAY
Apple sent out invitations Tuesday to an event on Oct. 22 in San Francisco, where the tech giant is expected to unveil new versions of its dominant iPad tablet computers. "We still have a lot to cover," Apple said in the invite for the event, which will take place at ...

Amazon Has Reportedly Teamed Up With HTC For Its New Line Of Smartphones
TechCrunch
HTC isn't exactly doing great these days, but that may change if a new (and secretive) partnership pans out. A new report from the Financial Times alleges that HTC has partnered with none other than Amazon on a handful of devices that could make their way ...

Nike unleashes new FuelBand SE
CNET
Nike today unveiled the new FuelBand SE. The updated fitness tracker hits stores on November 6 for $149, with preorders starting today. Up close with the Nike FuelBand SE (pictures). 1-2 of 10. Scroll Left Scroll Right. What's new in the FuelBand SE Among ...

Softbank to acquire 51% stake in 'Clash of Clans' maker
USA TODAY
Supercell will sell a 51% stake in the Clash of Clans developer to Japanese mobile Internet giant Softbank and Gung Ho Entertainment, a deal worth $1.5 billion. The Finnish-based game developer will operate independently and serve as a subsidiary of ...

Apple's 2014 in Rumors: Big Changes for Mac and a Sharper iPad
TIME
We've written before about KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo's track record with Apple rumors. He's one of the rare analysts whose Apple predictions are ...

Apple Insider

Who needs Google Street View? Indian brothers launch rival service ...
Times of India
BANGALORE: Who needs Google Street View! Even as the global search major struggles with Indian authorities to get permissions to take images of Indian city ...

The Hindu

Google to launch new Nexus 7 in India next month
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Google is gearing up to launch the all-new second generation Nexus ... Apple's new iPhones 5S and 5C will also hit Indian stores onNovember 1....

Times of India

Google's planned changes to privacy policy rile some users, prompt ...
Washington Post
Google is facing pushback from consumers and at least one lawmaker after announcing last week that it plans to include users' names and photos in some ...

Washington Post

Google, Facebook, And The Rise Of Zombie Marketing
Chicago Tribune
Google and Facebook's recent changes to user privacy policies will make it more efficient to find users, and then throw marketing at them that appears to come ...

SiliconANGLE

Google's ad rates will be focal point of 3Q report
NBCNews.com
SAN FRANCISCO — Google's third-quarter earnings report will provide further insights into the Internet search leader's efforts to reverse a troubling decline in its ...

Amazon to open Tel Aviv office to support cloud services
Reuters
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Amazon.com will open an office in Tel Aviv to support its cloud computing offering called Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company's ...

Economic Times

Google's Super-Speed Internet Is Off-Limits for Businesses — For Now
Wired
Google's ultra-high-speed internet service is for homes, not businesses. ...He lives in Kansas City — the first city to receive Google Fiber, an internet service ...

eWeek

Google readying 'Mobile Meter' app that offers rewards for tracking ...
Engadget
Google already knows better than most how we use the internet. ...different habits of Android and iOS users, gaining an important insight intoApple's ecosystem....

SlashGear

Even Microsoft Thinks Cross-Platform Multiplayer "Makes Sense"
Luke Plunkett
One of the biggest failures of Microsoft's involvement in the PC space has been its treatment of gaming relative to the Xbox brand. Halo came late then stopped ...
Kotaku

SMS Changes Coming in Kit Kat, Google Tips Message App ...
Kellex
When Google unveiled Hangouts during Google I/O as its first step towards a unified, ... According to this post, Google is asking SMS app developers to make needed ..... They're gonna wait forApple to lay out its cards at the iPad event.
Droid Life

Google smartwatch reportedly coming 'sooner rather than later ...
Trevor Mogg
The smartwatch market is beginning to heat up, with several major tech companies already in the game. Two big hitters – Apple and Google – are yet to enter ...
Digital Trends

Apple serves blog with takedown notice over posting iTunes Radio ...
Ed Sutherland
Most of Apple's legal actions happen with other multi-billion tech firms. But sometime, the Cupertino, California company likes to scare to scare the pants....
iDownloadBlog.com

Google Finance: Stock market quotes, news, currency conversions ...
Get real-time stock quotes & charts, financial news, currency conversions, or track your portfolio with Google Finance. www.google.com/finance?ei=6FBAUPi8MuSMwAOZXw

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Instagram goes Video

Video on Instagram--

Facebook Unveils Video on Instagram
PC Magazine
Video on Instagram will allow for 15-second video clips and includes 13 custom filters just for video. A feature known as Cinema will also provide for image stabilization so no more dizzying shots of friends at the bar or the kids at the playground. Instagram has ...

Mozilla again postpones Firefox third-party cookie-blocking, this time for months
Computerworld
Computerworld - Mozilla has effectively postponed Firefox's controversial third-party cookie-blocking policy for several months. Yesterday, the open-source developer announced it was collaborating with a new initiative, dubbed "Cookie Clearinghouse," or ...

LA Cable Customers Want to Dodge Time Warner's Sports Spending
Businessweek
The push for a la carte cable TV spilled over into courts this week when four Los Angeles residents filed a class-action complaint (PDF) against Time Warner Cable (TWC) for “invidious” bundling of expensive sports games. The aggrieved customers say Time ...

Google: GPAs are worthless
CNET
Google's senior vice president of "people operations" reveals that grade point averages mean nothing in hiring. Oh, and Google's going to stop its silly brain teaser tests too. Chris Matyszczyk.....

3-D Map of Human Brain Gives Unprecedented Detail
New York Times
Researchers in Germany and Canada have produced a new map of the human brain — not the sort that shows every brain cell and its every connection or the kind that shows broad patterns of activity in brain regions, but a work of classic anatomy, done with ...

Apple trial defense: A guilty verdict would send chills across Internet industry
Washington Post
NEW YORK--Apple lawyers on Thursday closed their arguments in a federal antitrust trial with fierce warnings that a guilty verdict would sends chills across the Internet industry. After three weeks defending Apple against Justice Department charges that it led ...

Every search engine hates the Xbox One ... except Microsoft's Bing
NBCNews.com
Microsoft may have reassured fans this week that the Xbox One won't be as restrictive a device as many feared, but the company still has something of a Google problem. Microsoft's Xbox One console has already had something of a social media problem.

US House bill would force Obama to declassify Fisa court decisions
The Guardian
Two US congressmen introduced a bill on Thursday compelling the Obama administration to declassify the secret legal justifications for the wide-ranging surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency. The disclosure bill, a complement to one ...

How did the chest-hair-farming Hoff crab evolve? Scientists solve mystery (+ video)
Christian Science Monitor
Footage from first ROV dives to vent fields at depth ~2400 m on the East Scotia Ridge, near Antarctica, from RRS James Cook Voyage 42 in January-February 2010. This crab has come a long way to farm its own chest hair. Skip to next paragraph. In Pictures ...

Nokia M&A talk stirs share valuation rethink
Reuters
Thu Jun 20, 2013 12:39pm EDT. * Investors, analysts say default fears have receded. * Spreads on outstanding bonds shrink. By Ritsuko Ando. HELSINKI, June 20 (Reuters) - Investors alert to M&A speculation around Nokia are taking a fresh look at whether ...

Pirate Bay founder Warg jailed for two years for hacking and fraud
Register
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg has been found guilty of hacking in Sweden and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. Warg, 28, was found guilty of breaking into the Swedish arm of IT services firm Logica before publishing the personal data of ...

Xbox One reversal: did Microsoft make the right decision?
The Guardian
The internet won – that's the message flooding Twitter. Microsoft's attempt to restrict the sales of pre-owned games and to tie consoles in to a rigorous online authentication regime has been quashed. Xbox One games will now work like Xbox 360 games – you ...

Mars had materials rich in oxygen about 4 billion years ago
DailyTech
A new study suggests that Mars had an oxygen-rich environment long ago -- even before Earth. Oxford University researchers, led by Professor Bernard Wood of Oxford University's Department of Earth Sciences, compared meteorites and surface rocks before ...

'By the way, does anyone know how to stop an asteroid?' NASA issues 'Grand ...
Digital Trends
Although the idea of an enormous asteroid smashing into our plant and ruining our day in a big way still seems fantastical to many, events like the one over central Russia earlier this year mean more and more earthlings are waking up to the idea that, actually, ...

US Court of Appeals upholds Wii balance board patent
Gamasutra
The Federal Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has upheld a 2012 decision ruling that Nintendo's Wii balance board does not infringe on a patent held by IA Labs. The patent in question (U.S. Patent No. 7,121,982) describes an "isometric exercise system" ...

Chrysler Just Dared Its Competitors To Steal Its Customers
Forbes
With yesterday's last minute agreement with NHSTA, Chrysler will work on just over half of the Jeeps it had been asked to fix. It also doesn't have to call it a recall, but rather a customer service action, which'll give it cover in lawsuits arising from crashes.

Best Buy recalls thousands of MacBook Pro batteries due to fire, burn hazards
Digital Trends
Best Buy has put out a recall notice for 5,100 MacBook Pro batteries after reports of fires, with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) warning that consumers should “immediately stop using the recalled battery”. The recalled batteries, which ...

Here we go again! Facebook Phone rumors reignite
Computerworld
Computerworld - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in South Korea this week to meet with Samsung executives, and sparking speculation -- yet again -- that the social network will build its own smartphone. Zuckerberg reportedly met with the head of ...

Parents' Challenge: Many, Many Kids Apps to Choose From
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Swedish app maker Toca Boca on Thursday launched a new kids' game called Toca Builders, its 20th title in a stable of apps aimed at children hungry for interactive experiences. It's like a box of Legos for an iPad. Toca Boca: A screenshot of Toca Builders.

Snail genes reveal human migration
BBC News
A genetic similarity between snail fossils found in Ireland and the Eastern Pyrenees suggests humans migrated from southern Europe to Ireland 8,000 years ago. The slimy creatures in Ireland today are almost identical to snails in Southern France and ...

AP Buys Stake in Live Video Service Bambuser
ABC News
The Associated Press said Thursday that it has bought a minority stake in the live video service Bambuser, boosting its ability to acquire and distribute video collected by people who have witnessed news events. Financial terms were not disclosed. As part of ...

IDC gives Apple 9% of Chinese smartphone market, double the prevailing ...
Apple Insider
IDC has ranked Apple the fifth largest smartphone vendor in China, assigning it a 9 percent share of the 78 million smartphones sold in Q1. While the market grew by 117 percent, Apple's sales of the entry level iPhone 4 grew by 211 percent, the firm noted.

LinkedIn outage prompts security concerns
PCWorld
LinkedIn's domain name was temporarily redirected to a third-party server Thursday, which resulted in a service outage and potentially put user accounts at risk of compromise. Uptime monitoring service Pingdom recorded that LinkedIn was unavailable ...

Photoshop CC pirated already? You're missing the point
ZDNet
Summary: Adobe's decision to move to the cloud isn't about curbing all piracy. Just some. Remember ...

Lecture from space inspires children's dreams
Xinhua
BEIJING, June 20 (Xinhua) -- While watching a live broadcast of a science lecture delivered by an astronaut aboard the space module Tiangong-1 Thursday morning, Wang Lutian was drawing a colorful rocket with crayons in his classroom. "Moon...stars...a ...

Massive bee die-off in Oregon city prompts investigation from wildlife experts
CBS News
WILSONVILLE, Ore. Experts are investigating why 25,000 bees were found dead or dying in a parking lot at a Target store in an Oregon city southwest of Portland, CBS Portland affiliate KOIN-TV reports. The strange sight first caught shoppers' eyes a few days ...

Nvidia Cuts Shield Price to $299 Before June 27 Launch
PC Magazine
Nvidia today announced that it will drop the price of its upcoming Shield portable gaming system from $349 to $299. "We've heard from thousands of gamers that if the price was $299, we'd have a home run. So we're changing the price of Shield to $299," ...

Here You Go, Taxpayers: A Billion-Pixel Image of Mars
The Atlantic
This, to be clear, is not the full billion-pixel image. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS). The main purpose of the Mars Science Laboratory's mission to the red planet is exactly what its name suggests: science. There's a secondary mission, too, though, something that ...

Android Dolphin Browser Gets Boost After 80M Installs
PC Magazine
Dolphin today celebrated 80 million installs with the launch of a new version of its Android mobile browser. Version 10 boasts features like a customizable home screen, an intuitive user interface design, and rare functions like vertical search and Flash support ...

'XCOM' brings console-quality gaming to iPad, iPhone
USA TODAY
Last October, 2K Games and studio Firaxis launched XCOM: Enemy Unknown, a stellar turn-based strategy game for PCs and video game consoles that delivered incredible depth, smooth controls and intense combat. Now, it's available on your iPhone and ...

Life after Google Reader: why Feedly is the best alternative
The Province
NEW YORK — On July 1, we say goodbye to Google Reader, a handy tool for bringing headlines and articles from your favourite websites into a single place. With Reader, I've been able to see at a glance all the updates from various news services, blogs and ...

LG's next flagship smartphone will feature a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU
Inquirer
KOREAN PHONE MAKER LG has announced that it will partner with Qualcomm for its next generation flagship smartphone that it plans to release in the third quarter. LG and Qualcomm have enjoyed a close relationship for a while, and that looks set to ...

Durable batteries are large, but cheap -- perfect for grid storage
DailyTech
You won't find this battery in your laptop or smartphone anytime soon, but it may help deliver steady power to those devices. I. Wood Battery -- Inspired by Nature As the world races forward towards intermittent alternative energy sources such as wind and ...

Holograms Enabled by $10 Optical Chip
Photonics.com
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., June 20, 2013 — An optical chip built by an MIT graduate student at a cost of $10 could be a “game changer” for holography, enhancing the resolution of conventional 2-D displays and enabling color holographic videos suitable for 3-D ...

Quantum Network Experiment Marks Major Milestone
Nature World News
Georgia Tech graduate student Lin Li adjusts the optics on equipment being used to measure the entanglement between light and an optical atomic excitation in the laboratory of Alex Kuzmich. (Photo : Nature; FA9550-12-1-0025; PHY-1105994).

Secrets and lies: Details of Yuri Gagarin's fatal plane crash are finally revealed
Science Recorder
The cause of the 1968 jet crash that ended the life of the first human being in space has been the subject of considerable speculation and rumors over the decades. Now, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who performed the first-ever spacewalk, has revealed the ...

How the 2012 drought could lead to one of the largest Gulf of Mexico "Dead ...
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
It looks like this year's “Dead Zone” in the Gulf of Mexico will be one for the record books. Scientific experts predict that the annual, low-oxygen area that suffocates fish, shellfish, and other marine life will be one of the largest ever, reaching the size of the State ...

Microsoft backtracks on Xbox One sharing policies
Fortune
(CNN) -- Reacting to "feedback from the Xbox community," Microsoft is appearing to reverse course and change two key components to policies for its new Xbox One video game console. All disc-based games can be played without ever connecting online, ...

ANALYSIS: Why Microsoft is willing to pay bug bounties
USA TODAY
Microsoft has long benefited from the bug bounty programs of other vendors, especially Google and Mozilla. But it is now offering three new programs to encourage and compensate so-called gray hat and white hat researchers who spend their days hunting ...

Google and privacy: European data regulators round on search giant
The Guardian
European data regulators are rounding on Google in a co-ordinated campaign to force the company to improve protection for consumers, with the UK, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands also planning to take action. France on Thursday launched enforcement ...

Apple e-book antitrust trial to wrap up Thursday
Washington Post
After three weeks of testimony from executives of Apple, Amazon and Google and personal insights of late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, attorneys will deliver five hours of closing statements and field questions from U.S. District Court Judge Denise ...

Microsoft Explored Deal for Nokia
Wall Street Journal
Nokia jumped at an alliance with Microsoft, which at the time was looking for an ally for its new smartphone software. Nokia picked Microsoft's Windows Phone smartphone system over GoogleInc.'s Android software in the battle against Apple. Microsoft ...

Google 'not in cahoots with NSA' - chief legal officer answers your questions
The Guardian
Questions have been raised over collaboration with the US government by Google and other tech companies – including Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Yahoo – in giving access to user data via the Prism program. Google has called for greater transparency ...

Apple Technicals No Longer So Bearish
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Apple Inc. has been trading below its 50-day moving average, which many traders see as a bearish signal, but some technicians think there's still a bullish case to be made. The stock was down 0.9% at $428.01 in midday trading Wednesday, while the 50 ...

Google brings Android Nation store to India to spice up its retail market
Economic Times
... technology blog 9to5Google said while breaking the story on Google's possible foray into retailing. "Google competitors Apple and Microsoft both have retail outlets where customers can try before they buy, so it won't be an entirely new area," it ...

Microsoft Adds Office for iPhone. Yawn.
New York Times (blog)
For example, Apple's own Pages, Numbers and Keynote apps ($10 each) can edit Office documents, as can the free Google Drive app (text and spreadsheet documents only). More serious apps, like Documents to Go Premium ($16), Polaris Office ($13) and ...

Apple's Siri May Now Prevent Suicides
ABC News
Apple declined to comment on the new update when reached by ABC News, but the company started working hand in hand with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline a few months ago. PHOTO: Siri now provides access to suicide prevention sources.

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Guardian Goggles video - life is too short to think for yourself

 Guardian Goggles: because life's too short to think for yourself - video
Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief, unveils the latest exciting step in the Guardian's mission to ...
guardian.co.uk

Google Proposes Settlement Terms to EU Regulators
Wall Street Journal
That means Google is likely to avoid the fate of Microsoft Corp., which was punished by the EU over how it distributed its Internet Explorer Web browser to consumers. The EU levied multibillion-dollar fines against Microsoft forced it to change some of ...

No Microsoft Office for iPhones or Android devices until 2014
Sin Chew Jit Poh
However, the longer the company waits to launch its apps, the more competition it will face and new apps and services offering everything from word processing and inbox management to spreadsheet formatting appear in Apple's App Store and the Google ...

Apple board member's remarks pique iWatch speculation
CNET
Recent remarks from Bill Campbell, an Apple board member and close friend of Steve Jobs, suggest that rumors about an iWatch -- or perhaps even an Apple competitor to Google's high-tech Glass specs -- might be worth heeding. At an event for Intuit ...

Does Apple need a hybrid MacBook?
CNET
Then there's Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet. It has laptop-class performance (via its Intel Ivy Bridge chip), but it's considerably thicker and heavier than an iPad and has inferior battery life. Putting aside the question of whether Apple would ...

Google releases tool for managing online data after death
Arab News
Planning “your digital afterlife” — a phrase Google uses on its website — is aimed at keeping the company out of messy family affairs. Privacy laws prohibit Google from sharing personal information, even with a user's closest surviving relatives ...

Arab News

Microsoft History: Windows, Office, IE and Xbox 360
Vancouver Sun
Formed in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico by Paul Allen and Bill Gates, Microsoft is one of the biggest and most successful computer tech companies of all-time. The business worked with several other companies early on to develop programming ...

Veteran analyst Sherlund downgrades Microsoft in wake of steep PC shipment ...
The Seattle Times (blog)
Microsoft shares, which had been up earlier this week agove $30 — possibly as a reaction to the news that the company along with 16 others had brought antitrust complaints against Google'sAndroid before the European Union — was down again today.

Google Enters test Phase
Businessweek
Last week FairSearch, a group representing Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), Expedia Inc. (EXPE) and Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), filed an antitrust complaint against Google over its Android operating system, which FairSearch said was used in 70 percent of smartphones at ...

Google superfast Internet service heads to Texas
Livemint
Google Fiber debuted in Kansas City and in November began providing users there with Internet service that moves data at a blazing gigabyte per second, about 100 times faster than the speed provided by typical broadband connections. Photo: AFP ...

Livemint

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft execs back CISPA through trade group
CNET
A tech trade group whose guiding lights include executives from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo sent a letter to Congress this week in support of CISPA -- the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act -- proposed cybersecurity legislation that's ...

Songza Raised $3.8M According To SEC Filing, Amazon Still In The ...
By Mike Butcher
While Amazon has long been an “unconfirmed” investor listed on AngelList, it parlayed its investment in the earlier Aime St vehicle into Songza. In late 2011 the startup closed what was reportedly a 'seven-figure' round of financing led by ...
TechCrunch

PSA: Xbox Live sign-in issues ongoing, Microsoft working on it ...
By Jordan Mallory
Update: Limited connectivity appears to have returned, although Microsoft warns that users may still encounter errors while managing their friends lists and/or while attempting to send text or voice messages over Xbox Live. [Thanks to ...
Joystiq

Xbox Live is Down: Microsoft is Working on Signing In Issue
By Alex Wilhelm
This sort of network issue is embarrassing for Microsoft, a company that recently endured a very public squabble concerning gaming console access; an employee at the company went on a public tirade on Twitter, claiming that 'always -on' ...
The Next Web

Mental Health Related Google Searches Decline In Summer ...
Mental Health Related Google Searches Decline In Summer. A study tracking Google searches about mental health issues showed substantial decreases in summer versus winter, implying a lessening of symptoms during the longer, warmer days. Larry Greenemeier reports. Tweet. Tweet. submit to reddit · play Listen to this Podcast. Listen to this Podcast. Download MP3. More 60-Second Tech. Amazon X-Ray Aims to End Unidentified Actor Angst. 4/7/13 ...
Scientific American

Baidu Sets Up Shop In Google's Backyard - Business Insider
By Julie Bort
Google Is Whittling Away At The iPhone's Best Remaining Advantage · Microsoft Skewers GoogleFor Giving Your Personal Data To App Developers. About six miles south of the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif., is the town of Cupertino.
Business Insider

Facebook Home - Android Apps on Google Play
Facebook Home is the mobile experience that puts your friends at the heart of your phone. From ...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook...

How to tell Google what to do with your account in the afterlife - CNN ...
Google launched the service on its account settings page to give users options with their account should it remain inactive for an extended period of time.
www.cnn.com/2013/04/11/tech/web/google.../index.html?...

Successful Indie Dev Defends Microsoft, Xbox 360 - IGN
The Behemoth, the successful indie dev behind Castle Crashers and BattleBlock Theater, has come to the defense of Microsoft.
www.ign.com/.../successful-indie-dev-defends-microsoft-xbox...
Cameron: 'fact' that North Korea has 'technology ...
David Cameron has said that it is a “fact” that North Korea has thetechnology to reach the UK with ...
telegraph.co.uk

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Twitter buys video firm Vine

Twitter buys video firm Vine
SlashGear
Twitter has reportedly purchased a new video sharing startup called Vine. Vine hasn't launched at this time and is said to be a three-person company based in New York that formed in June. So far, there is some indication that Vine could launch as a ...

SlashGear

2 American Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
New York Times
Two Americans shared this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for deciphering the communication system that the human body uses to sense the outside world and send messages to cells — for example, speeding the heart when danger approaches.

Slingbox announces new 350 and 500 models
SlashGear
In what was a seemingly strange move, two new Slingbox models – the 350 and 500 – appeared earlier this month on Best Buy shelves with nary a peep of announcement. This sudden appearance of new models left us scratching our heads, but stranger things ...

IBM, AT&T Team On Secure Cloud Services
InformationWeek
Business customers can opt for secure connection to IBM's SmartCloud Enterprise+ cloud services via AT&T VPN network. By Paul McDougall InformationWeek IBM has teamed up with AT&T to offer a service that gives customers access to Big Blue's back-end ...

400 Verizon 4G LTE Markets; Taiwan Requests Apple Map Blurring; iPad Mini Leaks
PC Magazine
By Stephanie Mlot Topping tech headlines on Tuesday, Verizon Wireless announced that its 400th 4G LTE market will go live next week — two months ahead of schedule. Marquette, Mich., will serve as the 400th location, with another 20 markets lighting up ...

LG, T-Mobile team up to tackle US smartphone market
ZDNet
Summary: LG is teaming up with T-Mobile to try and claw back lost marketshare in the United States. By Charlie Osborne for Between the Lines | October 10, 2012 -- 11:11 GMT (04:11 PDT) According to the Wall Street Journal, LG will offering the Optimus ...

Is lightspeed really a limit?
Register
By Richard Chirgwin • Get more from this author We don't (yet) have any way to test this, but University of Adelaide applied mathematicians are suggesting that an extended version of Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity also holds true for ...

Samsung TVs tune in to Spotify
CNET
Spotify Premium subscribers in Europe will be getting access to millions of streamed tracks and their playlists directly through the television set. by Jason Jenkins Owners of Samsung's astonishingly thin 2012 smart TVs will soon have another app to ...

Memo To Oracle, SAP: Listen To P&G's Language
InformationWeek
Oracle and SAP keep fighting a war of words over whose technology is bigger and better. They could learn a lot from Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini's big data work. Listen closely to the language of SAP and Oracle. They battle over architectural ...

South Africa gets its first 4G service
ZDNet (blog)
Summary: Vodafone subsidiary Vodacom has switched on the country's first LTE network in the city of Johannesburg. By Jo Best for African Enterprise | October 10, 2012 -- 13:25 GMT (06:25 PDT) South Africa's first commercial 4G service has gone live.

ZDNet (blog)

Space station crew captures cargo capsule
USA TODAY
This image from NASA-TV shows the capture of the Dragon capsule by a robot arm on the International Space Station as they passed over the South Atlantic Ocean early Wednesday. (Photo: AP) 9:18AM EST October 10. 2012 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

Toyota Prius Plug-in: the little electric hybrid that could (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
The Chevy Volt, General Motors' foray into the electric hybrid market, has been the subject of heated debate in recent weeks, from its robust sales figures and customer satisfaction to quibbles over profit loss and the feasibility of the electric car ...

Christian Science Monitor

Global Internet Users Need SOPA-PIPA Moment
Forbes
In January, several million Americans contacted Congress to stop passage of two bills that would have destroyed Internet freedom and stifled innovation. The twin bills, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA), were meant to counter ...

Does the iPhone 5 offer insights into what the iPad 4 or iPad mini might offer?
ZDNet
Summary: What clues does the iPhone 5 give us as to what the iPad 4 or iPad mini might have to offer? Quite a lot as it turns out, as the improvements carried out to Cupertino's flagship smartphone are far from skin deep, and many would translate well ...

Microsoft: MS Points will remain on Xbox
TG Daily
Don't get your hopes up; Microsoft Points are not going away on Xbox Live. There had been some speculation that the fake currency would be ditched on the platform since Windows 8 appears to only deal with digital transactions in terms of actual dollar ...

TG Daily

Albert Einstein's anti-religion 'God Letter' goes on sale on eBay
Los Angeles Times
Bidding has started on eBay for Einstein's "God Letter" -- a handwritten letter from Albert Einstein in which he is very frank about his feelings on religion. "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses," ...

Logitech's Windows 8 Peripherals Touch Down
PC Magazine
By Brian Westover Logitech today announced three new peripherals designed to provide intuitive navigation and touch controls for Windows 8 PCs that aren't a part of the new crop of tablets and touchscreen-equipped systems.

Rapid7 acquires Mobilisafe to assess mobile device risks
TechTarget
Rapid7 has acquired Mobilisafe, a fledgling Seattle-based mobile security firm that assesses smartphones and tablets for known platform vulnerabilities. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. You can tell if a device is out of date and inform employees ...

Hacker Attack Kills Thousands of WOW Players and Non-player Characters [DONE]
AMOG
By Aki Libo-on It's a no-brainer that wars and plagues can wipe out an entire civilization. Strangely enough, it appears that the same thing happened with a number of realms in World of Warcraft. There were reports that hackers took advantage of an ...

Galaxy S3 Mini, Smaller Version Of Samsung's Flagship Smartphone, To Launch In ...
Huffington Post
SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co plans to unveil a smaller version of its popular Galaxy S III flagship smartphone in Europe on Thursday, the head of Samsung's mobile business said, raising competition against Apple Inc's new iPhone.

Federal employee wins Nobel Prize
Washington Post (blog)
By Joe Davidson David Wineland, after learning he and Serge Haroche of France were awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. (MARK LEFFINGWELL - REUTERS) Wineland is a physicist with the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and ...

Apple Choice of IPhone Aluminum Said to Slow Down Output
Bloomberg
Play This Expert Has Five Big Problems With the iPhone 5 Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone 5 supply shortfall is being exacerbated by a quality-control crackdown at Foxconn Technology Group that's designed to cut the number of devices shipped with nicks and ...

HDS Revamps Unified Compute Platform
Server Watch
By Pedro Hernandez (Send Email) Ricky Gradwohl, Director of Global Public Relations for Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), says businesses increasingly "want it done in less than a week." So his company has done the bulk of the prep work and cobbled together ...

Tesla Model S vs. BMW M5 Drag Race Video
Automotive Discovery
One bad rap about electronic vehicles is that even though they are great for the environment and certainly save at the gas pumps, they are nowhere near fast, or even zippy. But the Tesla Model S is on a mission to change the sluggish reputation for ...

Facebook, Netflix, Apple: Tech Premarket
TheStreet.com
By James Rogers 10/10/12 - 09:11 AM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Facebook (FB) was a big loser in premarket trading on Wednesday, slipping 1.91% to $19.84. Early on Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that the social networking phenomenon fought the ...

Slime Mold Has An “External Memory”
Uproxx
One of the riddles of modern biology is the slime mold Physarum polycephalum or as we like to call it, Slimer. Slimer has no neurons. It, in fact, has nothing we can scientifically quantify as a brain. Yet, it's perfectly capable of solving mazes, ...

Uproxx

App traces lost cellphones, even if batteries die
WTOP
WASHINGTON - It can be alarming to misplace a cellphone, especially when it's chock-full of phone numbers that people spend years collecting. Is it at work, at school, at home or in the car? It can be a frustrating search, especially as the cellphone ...

Apple's 'next big thing' may be iDevice TV remote
Apple Insider
By Mikey Campbell While speculation of an Apple-built HDTV has cooled somewhat amid the launch of the iPhone 5 and expected "iPad mini," one analyst says the company's next market disruptor is already here, and it's not a TV. In a research note shared ...

Apple Insider

IBM Rolls Out New PureSystems Data Servers
Server Watch
By Sean Michael Kerner (Send Email) IBM is expanding its portfolio of PureSystems today with new offerings for transactions, analytics and operational analytics. The PureData Systems are pre-configured solution bundles of server hardware and software ...

Whale floating in Boston Harbor washes up on island
Boston.com
The finback whale carcass washed ashore at Rainsford Island off the coast of Hull today. By Billy Baker, Globe Staff The finback whale that has been floating dead in Boston Harbor for several days washed ashore this morning on Rainsford Island, ...

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 660 Ti Graphics Card Launched
Benchmark Reviews
ZOTAC International, a global innovator and manufacturer of graphics cards, mainboards and mini-PCs, today pushes the ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 660 Ti to extremes with the new limited edition ZOTAC GeForce® GTX 660 Ti AMP! Extreme Edition.

100 Million-Year-Old Spider Attack Preserved In Unique Fossil
CBS Local
Screen grab of “the only fossil ever discovered that shows a spider attacking prey in its web. Preserved in amber, it's about 100 million years old.” (Credit: Oregon State University) CORVALLIS, Ore. (CBS Seattle) – Experts at Oregon State University ...

CBS Local

Polaris rover will travel to the Moon in search of polar resources, try to ...
Engadget
By Jamie Rigg posted Oct 9th 2012 3:45PM The Polaris rover may look a little punk rock, but that mohawk is no fashion statement. It's for catching solar rays which shine almost horizontally at the Moon's north pole, a location Polaris is due to explore ...

How Lasers Inspired the Inventor of the LED
Wired
By Nathan HurstEmail Author In 1962, 50 years ago today, Nick Holonyak Jr. and his team at GE invented the Light Emitting Diode. While LED lights are almost everywhere today — from bridges to headlights to keychain flashlights that are brighter than ...

An Apple-1 computer from 1976 failed to sell at an auction in London
The Sun
THOUSANDS queued overnight to buy the latest Apple iPhone5 but an original Apple computer failed to attract a big enough 'byte' from bidders when it went up for auction in London today. An original Apple home computer from the 1970s, with no screen and ...

The Sun

Polycom, Microsoft, Take on Cisco in Video Conference Technology
eWeek
By Robert Mullins | Posted 2012-10-09 Email Print As Polycom introduces a wide array of new video conference technology, the company says its partnership with Microsoft presents a strong challenge to Cisco Systems. Polycom introduced a number of new...

eWeek

Sprint still sees demand for phones with qwerty keyboards
Computerworld
By Matt Hamblen Computerworld - Behold the Qwerty physical keyboard. It just seems to hang in there with customers. Sprint announced Tuesday that it plans to sell the LG Mach smartphone with 4G LTE this fall, adding a second slider-style smartphone ...

Computerworld

Mercedes starts assembly of M-Class at Chakan
Business Standard
PTI / New Delhi Oct 10, 2012, 18:51 IST Luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz India today said it has started assembling its sports utility vehicle M-Class at its Chakan facility near Pune, making it cheaper by over Rs 10 lakh in the country.

Huge solar eruption causes spectacular northern lights show
Yahoo! News Canada (blog)
By Jordan Chittley By Jordan Chittley | Daily Buzz – 6 minutes ago A huge eruption on the sun last Thursday sent a wave of solar particles toward Earth and resulted in some amazing views of the Aurora Borealis from Alberta to the United Kingdom.

Facebook proposes new settlement over ads #thecircuit
Washington Post (blog)
By Hayley Tsukayama Facebook settlement: In a filing with the US District Court in San Francisco, Facebook proposed a revised settlement with users who took issue with the company's “Sponsored Stories” advertisements. As Reuters reported, the agreement ...

Nokia Pokes at Apple Maps Errors to Seek Navigation Sales
Bloomberg
As Apple Inc. (AAPL) faces consumer scorn over errors by the iPhone's navigation software, Finnish rival Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) is seeking to seize the opportunity by touting the reliability of the digital maps it has spent billions crafting.

T-Mobile and MetroPCS: Another Sprint and Nextel?
DailyFinance
By Dan Radovsky, The Motley Fool Perhaps one of the reasons Sprint Nextel's (NYS: S) board of directors essentially said "nay-nay" to CEO Dan Hesse's secret scheme to acquire MetroPCS (NYS: PCS) last year was their memory of Sprint's inability to make ...

Sprint Now Offering Vanity Mobile Numbers
TheStreet.com
By Gary Krakow 10/09/12 - 12:24 PM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) - You know about vanity license plates. They've been around for decades. Sprint (S), however, is now offering vanity cell phone numbers. The telecom giant's using a special code to set these ...

Box CEO Aaron Levie highlights how mobile shift is great for business at ...
Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal (blog)
Mobile devices have forced businesses to change the way they let their employees work, Box CEO Aaron Levie said Tuesday at his company's annual convention, BoxWorks. “Mobile really acts as a force multiplier,” Levie said at the event in San Francisco.

Apple's mini iPad: Three things it needs
Washington Post
It's coming late to a market where Amazon's Kindle Fire, Barnes and Noble's Nook Tablet andGoogle's Nexus 7 are already fighting it out. But Apple will likely be able to compete with those tablets just by being Apple. As Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu said in ...

Analysis: Microsoft Surface tablet price range, RT and Pro
Computerworld (blog)
In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder whether, at $400-$500, Surface RT can compete withApple's iPad. Microsoft ... The least expensive Microsoft Surface tablet will be priced more in line with a low-end laptop than a $199 Google Nexus 7. ... And the Pro ...

Computerworld (blog)

Google Seeks Better Android Tablet Apps
InformationWeek
Having previously prioritized release speed over quality to ensure that early versions of Android caught up with Apple's iOS, Google last year renewed its focus on quality. In March 2011, the company delayed the open source release of Android 3.0--the ...

Developers: Apple ignored our warnings about iOS 6 Maps
Ars Technica
The public backlash over iOS 6 Maps continues: developers are coming out of the woodwork claiming they warned Apple about quality issues before launch. A new report at CNET highlights stories from six third-party developers who say they tried to tell ...

Google launches credit-card program for small businesses
Washington Post (blog)
Last month, the Internet giant launched its “Google for Entrepreneurs” campaign, a site marketingGoogle technology to small businesses. Now, it's offering credit cards to small businesses — but the plastic can only be used toward AdWords, Google's ...

Insight: Frugal Amazon opens checkbook for streaming video
Chicago Tribune
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's deal to purchase streaming movies from cable network Epix could transform the way such deals are done, thanks to a pay-for-performance sweetener that had not been previously disclosed. According to an ...

Apple Choice of IPhone Aluminum Said to Slow Down Output
Businessweek
Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone 5 supply shortfall is being exacerbated by a quality-control crackdown at Foxconn Technology Group that's designed to cut the number of devices shipped with nicks and scratches, according to a person familiar with the matter.

AOL Rally Outperforms Apple as Armstrong Plots Turnaround
Businessweek
After adding more than 4 percent last week, AOL's shares have almost tripled in the past 12 months, eclipsing the performance of Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The stock hasn't seen that kind of gain since the dot-com boom (3311Q) in 1998, ...

Netflix CEO to step down from Microsoft's board
CBS News
When Hastings steps down from the board at Microsoft's annual meeting on Nov. 28, the company will appoint a new lead independent director. Hastings has filled that role since December 2010. The position requires coordinating meetings with other board ...

Daily Report: Scrutiny of Google's Smartphone Patents Widens ...
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The F.T.C. issued subpoenas in June seeking information from Google and smartphone rivals including Apple and Microsoft, and it questioned representatives of the companies as recently as a few weeks ago, said people briefed on the ...
NYT Bits

Google Brings More Than 100 Virtual Keyboards, Transliterations ...
By Frederic Lardinois
Google just announced an update to Gmail that will make life a bit easier for those of us who often write emails in different languages. Gmail users can now easily switch between over 100 virtual keyboards and transliterations. In addition, you ...
TechCrunch

Microsoft Mixes Apps And The Web With Its HTML5 Port Of "Contre ...
By Mark Hachman
Microsoft isn't the only browser maker trying to show off games that started as apps and have moved to the Web; Google, for example, persuaded Rovio to develop a browser-based, socially connected version of its Angry Birds franchise for its ...
ReadWriteWeb

Reed Hastings Leaving Microsoft Board - Business Insider
By Owen Thomas
ClassicMap Will Let You Use Google Maps On Your iPhone Again—Sort Of ... Amazon Tried To Buy Netflix For $12 Million In 1999* · reed hastings f8 · Netflix Historian Claims Reed Hastings Has An 'Emotional IQ Of Zero' · Marc Randolph, Netflix ... Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is planning to leaveMicrosoft's board, the software maker announced. He joined Microsoft's board in 2007 and he's ....Farhad Manjoo. | The iPhone 5 Is A Miracle. When Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 last month.
Business Insider

Tech giants to talk patent peace
CNET
Apple, Microsoft and other tech giants are meeting in Switzerland today to discuss patent litigation reform, seeking to find ways to protect their intellectual property without hurting innovation. The roundtable, hosted by the U.N.'s International ...

A Handy Map of Which Tech Companies to Visit This Friday for ...
By Sally Kuchar
Hotshot tech companies with offices located in San Francisco will be opening their doors to the general public this Friday by participating in OpenCoSF, which is one part conference...
Curbed SF

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