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Gizmodo
Someone has been able to break into Apple's Cupertino headquarters and steal the document containing the biggest secret behind the iPad. This is it. [ 9gag ]
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Charlie Sorrel
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Wired Top Stories
Apple iPad May Ship with Webcam
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Close scrutiny of the iPad which Steve Jobs presented at Apple’s special event last week shows what may be webcam, tucked away in the black screen bezel just like it is on the MacBook Pro.
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Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
A Peek at Apple's Plans to Re-invent Textbooks
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ScrollMotion's been tapped to transmogrify textbooks published by McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and every standardized test-taking student's favorite, Kaplan. The WSJ says that education was indeed a "focal point" in the iPad's development, which we reported months ago. If you're over-analyzed the iPad keynote as much as we have, by now ...
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CNBC Anchor Says the iPad "Reminds Me Of Feminine Products"
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CNBC's coverage of the Apple iPad went downhill when a female anchor equated the tablet to the types of products that women use once a month. The male anchors couldn't hold back their distaste for the comparison.
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Infoworld News
Apple patches critical flaws in iPhone, iPod Touch
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Apple today patched five vulnerabilities in the iPhone's operating system, including one in a password-locking feature that's required attention before. iPhone OS 3.1.3 , the first update since September 2009, addressed five bugs, three of which were tagged with the phrase "arbitrary code execution," Apple-speak for a critical vulnerability. ...
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President has 'no problem' giving uranium to west for further enrichment, but wants it back within five months Iran is willing to satisfy the UN and send its uranium abroad for further enrichment, the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, told state television last night. Iran would have "no problem" giving the west its low-enriched uranium and taking ...
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Www.studio360.org
Iran, Dallas, Owen Pallett
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One of Iran's most celebrated filmmakers, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, represents Mir-Hossein Mousavi and his opposition Green Movement. Makhmalbaf tells Kurt from Paris about the situation in Iran as protests continue in the face of a seemingly intractable regime.
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Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing
It's been a year and Obama has yet to fill the empty seats on the government's main civil liberties oversight committee: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board was recommended initially by the bipartisan September 11 commission as an institutional voice for privacy inside the intelligence community. Its charter was to recommend ways to ...
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Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing
Zombie/NPR fanfiction
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Kirby sez, "Spot on parody of the NPR News Quiz Show during a Zombie Apocalypse. Peter Sagal, Carl Kassel, Mo Rocca, Paula Poundstone, and Tom Bodett don't miss a beat as they broadcast their last show before retreating to the cave system. The author gets the personalities perfect. You can imagine that this is exactly how the panelists would ...
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Cory Doctorow
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Boing Boing
Liquid glass will change your life, eliminate detergent profits
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A Turko-German consortium has announced a liquid glass product "that will revolutionize everything" (it's a "new kind of glass," as Mr Wolfram might put it). Seriously, it sounds like the applications for this stuff are endless, and yes, that's what everyone said about aerogel and the Segway, but maybe this time... They're shipping to the UK soon,
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Kdawson
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Slashdot
Coondoggie passes along a NetworkWorld report on the pronouncement of a judicial conference committee recommending that trial judges specifically instruct jurors not to use any electronic communications devices or sites during trial and deliberations. Here's the committee report (PDF). "If you think you're going to use your spanking new iPhone to ...
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Kdawson
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Slashdot
New iPhone Attack Kills Apps, Reroutes Web Traffic
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Trailrunner7 sends in a threatpost.com article on exploiting flaws in the way the iPhone handles digital certificates. "[Several flaws] could lead to an attacker being able to create his own trusted certificate and entice users into downloading malicious files onto their iPhones. The result of the attack is that a remote hacker is able to change ...
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TIM ARANGO
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NYT
Buoyed by “Avatar,” the highest-grossing movie to date, News Corporation’s adjusted second-quarter earnings were 25 cents a share, a nickel above the average expectations of analysts.
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Andrew Clark
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The Guardian World News
News Corp posts $254m profit
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Rupert Murdoch says he is moving closer to charging for all News Corp's newspaper websites Sophisticated tablet computers, ereaders and smartphones would be unloved "empty vessels" without quality creative content, Rupert Murdoch said yesterday as his News Corporation empire opened a new front in its battle to get consumers to pay for ...
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Soulskill
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Slashdot
An anonymous reader points out an article at SavyGamer in which several game industry veterans were polled for their opinions on DRM. Cliff Harris of Positech Games said he didn't think his decision to stop using DRM significantly affected piracy of his games, accepting it as an unavoidable fact. "Maybe a few of the more honest people now buy the ...
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NYT
America’s top intelligence official said he was “highly certain” that Al Qaeda or one of its affiliates would attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months.
John Harris visits the seaside, where Caroline Lucas could become party's first MP John Harris John Domokos Natalie Hanman Caroline Lucas
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NYT
A new Steven Brill endeavor enables news outlets to charge their online readers. The tattered news industry may be ready to give it a whirl.
At issue is the Herald's exposé of the JLU, a group which has run a multi-year surveillance program on members of the Second Life community and compiled 1700 pages of files on other players - files containing often false and potentially libelous information.
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Will Gary Ablett, just like Chris Judd at West Coast, quit Gee-Long because of its culture of drugs and disgrace? Stokes stood down after drugs charges GEELONG forward Mathew Stokes has been suspended by the Cats from all club activities...
Foreign aid workers and security officials reported to be among casualties of blast on Afghan border An explosion near a girls' school along the Afghan border in north-west Pakistan wounded several people today, police said. Local TV channels reported foreign aid workers and security officials were among the casualties, but the officials would ...
The public sector workers' union, the PCS, is balloting its members for strike action over the government's plan to cut redundancy pay. By cutting lump sums paid to staff made redundant to a maximum of two years' pay, it's hoped to save £500 million. But our Whitehall correspondent Polly Curtis says that the union plans a series of strikes to ...
Mike Masnick
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Techdirt
Last month, we wrote about a local news website in Illinois that was getting frustrated with the dialog in its comments, and it instituted a "cooling off period" where it shut down its comments for a while, hoping that it would drive away the less desirable comments. The whole thing made no sense to us. Those types of commenters would eventually ...
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Starting today, Nexus One users will begin to receive an over-the-air software update on their phones. This update provides some great new features, and fixes a few problems that some users might have experienced, including:
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Infoworld News
Nexus One update fixes 3G problem, adds limited multitouch
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Google has started pushing out an update for the Nexus One that will fix a 3G connectivity problem that has plagued some users and adds limited support for multitouch. After receiving over 1,500 messages in a support forum from people complaining about trouble connecting to 3G, Google said last week that it had identified the problem and would ...
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Johannes Gutenberg's printing press easily makes anybody's top 10 list of all-time technological achievements.
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Inventors.about.com
Johannes Gutenberg
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The earliest dated printed book known is the "Diamond Sutra", printed in China in 868 CE. However, it is suspected that book printing may have occurred long before this date.
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Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
It leaked earlier today , but we're still pretty struck by Olympus's latest micro four thirds camera, the E-PL1. Why? It has a built-in flash (finally!). And it's $600, making it the cheapest micro four thirds camera around. The E-PL1 takes the opposite tack of the E-P2 , stepping down a rung. So, you're probably wondering what you give up to ...
Matt buchanan
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Gizmodo
Internet Explorer 8 is the best browser Microsoft's ever shipped. It actually sorta tries to be compliant with modern web standards, or at least more so than its predecessors, so it's a huge leap forward, even if it's nowhere near WebKit-based browsers like Safari or Chrome on that front. So, I'm glad to see it's now the world's most-used browser,
Kdawson
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Slashdot
Hweimer writes "A novel study analyzes the installed base of various office packages among German users. (Here is the original study report in German and a Google translation.) While Microsoft Office comes out top (72%), open source rival OpenOffice is already installed on 21.5% of all PCs and growing. The authors use a clever method to determine ...
Mike Masnick
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Techdirt
A bunch of folks have sent in the Citizens United Supreme Court decision and asking for my opinion on it. The ruling came out last week when I was traveling, and I didn't have that much time to look at the details or think about what it all meant until now. It's one of those cases where I see both sides of the argument, but am troubled by what ...
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