February 2012
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Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are...
Some photos just don’t need to see the light of the next day. Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic. The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content “did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a...
EXCLUSIVE: The IM Conversation In Which...
Later this week, Facebook will file documents with the SEC to announce its intention to go public. People close to the deal expect the company to be valued somewhere between $75 billion and $100 billion when shares finally begin trading in late May. Facebook is so valuable mainly because more than 850 million individuals use the product each month. Half that number come back every day. In...
January 2012
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Apple's labor practices come under fire from...
In a comprehensive piece of reporting, The New York Times has laid out a strong case that Apple has not pursued safe and fair working conditions at its supplier factories in China as strenuously as it could have. Citing both current and former Apple executives, the NYT details dangerous labor conditions at Apple suppliers and lax oversight from Apple itself. The core of the problem stems from a...
October 2011
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How Recruiters Use Social Networks to Screen...
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Apple releases iOS 5, go update your iPhone, iPad...
The day has come, millions of iPhone, iPad and iPod owners finally have the chance to experience the new iOS 5 software from Apple, bringing a large number of new features, services and bug fixes. As with every major Apple release, the new software provides users with completely new but also vastly improved features and services. With the release of iOS 5, Apple brings enhanced notifications to...
September 2011
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How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right This Second
This morning Facebook announced Timeline, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It’s like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts. Facebook said that Timeline would be on the way for everyone sometime in the coming weeks… which is great and all, for everyone else....
Violence in Video Games: It’s All Part of Growing...
The issue of violence in children’s entertainment has been around much longer than you think. In the Supreme Court decision that confirmed the freedom of speech to video games, Justice Scalia made the point that children’s entertainment has had violence, making reference to specific Grimm fairy tales. But violence in fairy tales has been around since the earliest folk tales in children’s...
August 2011
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Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple, COO Tim Cook...
Apple’s Steve Jobs has resigned as CEO of the company, reports the company. Apple’s COO Tim Cook has been named as a replacement and Jobs has been named Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. In a publicly released letter, Jobs says that he can no longer meet his duties and expectations as CEO of the company and that he has resigned as the CEO of Apple. In the letter, he also recommended...
July 2011
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Basic Self-Defense Moves Anyone Can Do (and...
Would you be able to defend yourself and your loved ones if someone were to physically attack you? It’s a question most of us don’t want to consider, but violence is, unfortunately, a fact of life. Thankfully, regardless of strength, size, or previous training, anyone can learn several effective self-defense techniques. Here’s how to prepare for and stay safe in common...
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The Company That Makes Apple Most Nervous Is ...
Apple is more worried about Facebook as a competitive threat than any other tech company, according to a source who works with Apple. Our source was surprised since it would make more sense for Apple to worry about other companies. Google has Android. Microsoft dominates the PC business. Amazon is threatening to enter the tablet space. But Facebook is coming on like a freight train in a space...
March 2011
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Adobe Hopes Wallaby Can Vault Apple’s Flash...
Ever since Steve Jobs issued his “Thoughts on Flash” almost a year ago, there’s has been a lot written about the conflict between Adobe’s favorite runtime and Apple’s iOS platform, supported by the powerful new capabilities of HTML5. We’ve certainly given it plenty of attention as Adobe has tried, and largely failed, to get Flash onto the iPhone, iPad and iPod. It’s starting to look like...
ie6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing —...
It seems that Microsoft are just as sick of users sticking with IE6 as web developers are, if their latest ie6countdown.com venture is anything to go by. You’d think that web developers – at least the ones who haven’t already abandoned support for IE6 – would get behind this movement in their droves, and they may… but at what cost? You see, Microsoft is asking developers to join in...
Steve Jobs' reality distortion takes its toll on...
Apple twisted facts and used an erroneous quotation to try to convince crowds that all other tablets had no shot at de-throning the iPad in 2011. In what seems like a ritual at this point, I watched Apple’s iPad 2 keynote in disbelief, noting the factual errors that kept coming up minute after minute. See previous: How Steve Jobs turned a finger spot into a death grip ...
February 2011
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Press on Radiohead's The King Of Limbs - The First...
When Radiohead released In Rainbows digitally in 2007, the collective music press got their reviews online in no time. Today is no different with the release of its follow-up, The King Of Limbs. Here’s a round-up of The King Of Limbs reviews that have been published online. Rolling Stone has a track-by-track breakdown. “With eight tracks spanning 37 minutes, The King of Limbs is surprisingly...
January 2011
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7 Most Popular Online Dictionary
Using Dictionary online is one of the most common task performed by users on Internet, not only it has plenty of options other than just telling you the meaning, it has become quite interactive compared to previous decade. With excellent features of audio integrations and visual helps, online dictionary has definitely improved with getting more and more useful . Their are number of sites which...
Goldman Invests in Facebook at $50 Billion...
Tony Avelar/Bloomberg News The deal could double the personal fortune of Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder. Facebook, the popular social networking site, has raised $500 million from Goldman Sachs and a Russian investor in a deal that values the company at $50 billion, according to people involved in the transaction. The deal makes Facebook now worth more than companies like eBay,...
December 2010
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2011 will be the year Android explodes - Google...
(Not this kind of smartphone growth.) Image by @boetter via Flickr Ever-improving networks and a big hardware announcement that will send handset prices plummeting both point to smartphone growth in 2011 that could totally eclipse anything we’ve seen before. Smartphones have been growing at an unbelievable clip over the past year but they still account for only around a third of...
Man Officially Cured of HIV
Man Officially Cured of HIV For the first time ever, a man has been cured of HIV. The remedy may nearly have killed him, but it opens a door—just a crack—to hope that we may someday kill off the scourge for good. Strangely enough, the diagnosis that most concerned Timothy Ray Brown in 2007 was acute myeloid leukemia. HIV has been increasingly thought of as a manageable disease,...
October 2010
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Coca-Cola Awesome Design
Created an interesting project of brand packaging for the popular beverage company «Coca-Cola» entitled «Mystic». In the company’s history, bottle design has played a major role in the success of market consumption. In 1916, there is an original bottle of «Coca-Cola», which is now correctly allocated customers among competitors. Changing the shape of the bottle and has contributed to improve...
Apple responds on missing Flash in new MacBook...
The other day, we reported on the fact that those tiny new MacBook Airs are shipping without a pre-installed version of Flash. Based on Apple’s recent, vocal anti-Flash opinions, we took it as a sign that the company was putting even more distance between itself and Adobe, but according to a statement we’ve just received, that might not be the case. Apple spokesman Bill Evans just...
The New Facebook Groups: All You Need To Know
Today Facebook announced a revamped group products as covered during our live coverage. However most people are either still not aware about what this means or unaware of what all the features are. This guide will answer all of your questions. What’s Different About The New Facebook Groups? If you haven’t heard about it yet, Facebook has completely revamped their groups product. ...
Giving You More Control | The Facebook Blog
The biggest problem in social networking is helping you easily interact with your friends and share information in lots of different contexts. For example, you might want to share photos from a family vacation with just your family, send a video from a party to just the people who were there, invite coworkers to an office event, play a game with a few friends, or use a running website with your...
September 2010
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Unreal Engine Games Coming to iPhone, iPad and...
Epic Games announced at the Korea Games Conference that the developer kit for its popular Unreal graphics engine will soon “generate iOS applications.” In other words, one of the most popular and advanced 3D engines used by console and PC video games will soon be used to produce graphically impressive iPhone (), iPod touch and iPad games. Epic demonstrated a tech demo game running the Unreal...
August 2010
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Google Realtime Search: a new home with new tools
When we first introduced our real-time search features last December, we focused on bringing relevance to the freshest information on the web. Our goal was to provide real-time content from a comprehensive set of sources, integrated right into your usual search results. Today we’re making our most significant enhancements to date, giving real-time information its own home and more powerful tools...
Google And Verizon Announce... Um... Something...
If you read the tech news, you certainly saw today’s reports of a announced deal between Google and Verizon over net neutrality. The two companies outlined the “proposal” on their own website, and it basically looks like exactly what was discussed last week, despite vehement (and, at times, mocking) denials by the CEOs of both companies about last week’s reports. This...
July 2010
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Radiohead At Ease » The Glastonbury Videos: Thom...
last Friday was kind of epic for Radiohead fans at the 40th anniversary of the Glastonbury Festival. The Telegraph ranked the surprise appearance of Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood first place in their top 10 of Glastonbury highlights. The Guardian wrote: “It was the unexpected moments that really made the weekend”. SPIN named the show: “Best surprise appearance not nearly enough people saw”....
June 2010
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Apple hiring iPhone antenna engineers for some...
36diggsdigg Three Apple job postings for iPhone / iPad antenna engineers to “Define and implement antenna system architecture to optimize the radiation performance for wireless portable devices.” All three were posted on June 23rd, the same day that we started seeing widespread reporting of the left-handed reception issues. Coincidence? via engadget.com Posted via email...
10 ways to find more pleasure every day
(RealSimple.com) — Go ahead: Indulge yourself. Top your cone with another scoop of ice cream. Then check out these suggestions for creating (even more) moments to savor. I’m not a happiness guy—there’s nothing new that I can tell you about how to live a fulfilling life. Instead, I am interested in the more concrete topic of pleasure. What’s the difference? Happiness...
iPhone 4 Gets The Spirit Jailbreak Treatment
If you purchased an iPhone 4 but have been hankering for a way to jailbreak the device and install all sorts of wonderment, I bring good news. Within days of its launch, @planetbeing (the guy who ported Android to the iPhone) and @chwnpwn have been able to successfully employ the “userland” jailbreak vulnerability, a technique used by the Spirit jailbreaking tool, to gain root access on the...
New Radiohead album almost finished, Release this...
Radiohead are making progress in the studio. The band started recording past Winter and are currently in the studio working on the last bits. Ed O’Brien said it will be a matter of weeks till it’s finished and hopes to see the release before the end of this year. ‘It has got to. I hope so’ Guitarist Ed O’Brien was a guest on Adam Buxton’s show on BBC 6 Music today, saying he thinks the new...
The Vuvuzela By the Numbers [INFOGRAPHIC]
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iPhone 4: The Definitive Guide
We already showed you the new iPhone from every angle, inside and out. Today, Steve Jobs re-revealed it, telling us about the remaining details. Here’s the exhaustive guide to all the features of the new iPhone 4. The design The hardware design hasn’t changed from the one we already knew about. It uses the same materials as the prototype: Black glass and stainless...
May 2010
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Cheating by the Numbers
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Woman’s Stolen Car Returned to Her Completely...
No that is not a headline from The Onion, this really happened, which is why I found it worth reporting. Observe: “A Brooklyn schoolteacher whose car was stolen three years ago has gotten it back — totally souped-up and unrecognizable. Amanda Pogany’s 1996 Honda was returned to her drag-race ready, with a new engine, manual transmission, leather interior, tinted windows and oversize tires. ...
April 2010
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This Is Apple's Next iPhone (via @Gizmodo)
You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It’s the real thing, and here are all the details. ...
Heavy US sales means international launch of iPad...
Apple says that although it has “delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week” the demand for the iPad in sales and pre-orders is “far higher than we predicted”. The upshot of all these US sales? The international launch – that’s including us here in Europe folks – will be postponed by one month, until the end of May. However, make a date in your diary as Apple says it will...
An estimated 700,000 iPads bought on day one --...
jboudreau@mercurynews.com The iPad arrived in Silicon Valley on Saturday with the usual Apple flourish: stores perfectly prepped for fired-up fans, some of whom waited in lines throughout the night to get their hands on the highly coveted tablet. A number of Apple apostles did experience more than the thrill of holding a new shiny object: They got a serendipitous jolt of tech royalty. In San...
March 2010
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The Current State of Twitter [INFOGRAPHIC]
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February 2010
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Twitter Uses BitTorrent For Server Deployment |...
Twitter is calling in the help of BitTorrent to deploy files across its many servers in a more efficient way. The project dubbed ‘Murder’ is based on the Open Source BitTornado BitTorrent client. Aside from assisting Twitter it is available to other developers at no cost. Large scale web-services such as Twitter need thousands of servers to manage the flow of updates that are sent out by...
iPhone and iPod Touch Firmware 3.1.3 is now out!
This update for iPhone and iPod touch contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following: • Improves accuracy of reported battery level on iPhone 3GS • Resolves issue where third-party apps would not launch in some instances • Fixes bug that may cause an app to crash when using the Japanese Kana keyboard via appsapp.blogspot.com Posted via web from Frederiek...
January 2010
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How to love the iPad - Kevin Rose
Kindle DX 9.7” - $489.00 — 1024x768 color display upgrade - $1.00 Internet browsing upgrade - $1.00 iPod w/16GB upgrade - $1.00 Run iPhone apps upgrade - $1.00 1Gz A4 processor upgrade - $1.00 H.264 720P HD video upgrade - $1.00 Bluetooth upgrade - $1.00 10hr battery upgrade - $1.00 Multi-touch display upgrade - $1.00 Digital compass/accelerometer - $1.00 — Your cost:...
Facebook News: Potentially Breaking Changes for...
Starting this Wednesday, January 20, we’re increasing the size of the largest photo a user can upload to 720 pixels (up from 604). We’re releasing this feature to a limited set of users, and will slowly release it to all users over the next three weeks. If you’re querying the photo FQL table or using photos.get to return the src_big image, you’ll need to accommodate...
Apple iPhone OS 4.0 features detailed! Also, Apple...
That’s right, y’all. We’re back at it, and this time we’ve received some exclusive iPhone OS 4.0 details from one of our trusty Apple connects. Here are some iPhone OS 4.0 features, according to our guy: There will be multi-touch gestures OS-wide. (Would make sense for that as the rumored OS for the iTablet is close if not the same as the iPhone) “A few new ways” to run applications in the...
How to Deliver a Great Presentation Like Steve...
Steve Jobs is probably one of the most polished presenters in the world. He doesn’t use any bullet points in his presentations, his keynote addresses are free of any jargon, there are very few words in the slides but they have photographs and headlines that are hard to forget (everyone still remembers “the world’s thinnest notebook,” a phrase that Steve used to describe Macbook Air). How to...
At the top of the tallest building in the world!
Taken from ‘At the Top’ on the 124th floor of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world. Photos courtesy of Alisdair Miller via thenextweb.com Posted via web from Frederiek Pascal’s Playground | Comment »
Check out this trailer we created with @Sevenedge...
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December 2009
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Fight Night 2 - Ludgens Saribekyan Vs. Dimitri...
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Afghanistan, Kabul 40 years ago vs. Kabul today...
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2009 World MMA Awards ceremony debuts Jan. 6 on...
The 2009 World MMA Awards conclude this Wednesday, Dec. 30, with a red-carpet, black-tie ceremony that airs live on Versus.com at 10:30 p.m. ET (7:30 p.m. PT local time). The event, which celebrates and honors MMA’s best of 2009, then airs via delay on the regular Versus cable station on Jan. 6 (9 p.m. ET/PT), Jan. 7 (midnight) and Jan. 9 (2:30 p.m.). Each broadcasts runs one hour. ...
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Holiday Flowchart: Inappropriate Times To Use Your...
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