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The iPhone Is 5 Years Old -- Let's Pause And Gawk In Awe At How It Has Changed The World
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Five years ago today, Apple launched the iPhone. It seems safe to safe that never in history has a single product been so astoundingly successful so fast and had such a radical impact on the world. A few highlights: Five years ago, the iPhone didn't exist. It now generates nearly...
Astronomers have found the largest structure in the universe
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An international team of astronomers led by the University of Central Lancashire in the UK has discovered "the largest known structure in the universe." The team says that the recently observed large quasar group — comprised of dozens of highly energetic star-like objects — has a typical size of...
Quantifying the Impending iOS 6 Maps Backlash
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Apple's new Maps app is the very first item on their list of major new features in iOS 6, but for many iPhone and iPad users around the world those new maps are going to be a major disappointment. In iOS 6, Apple no longer uses Google's traffic, transit, or...
ZestCash Debuts New Big Data Underwriting Models To Determine Consumer Credit Risk
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ZestCash, a company founded by former Google CIO and VP of engineering Douglas Merrill to legitimize the payday loan industry, is announcing a new patent pending credit decisioning model to better analyze credit risk. ZestCash also introduced Hollerith, a new set of underwriting models that allow the company to extend...
Rights Group Fined For Not Paying Artist For Anti-Piracy Ad
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In 2006, Dutch musician Melchior Rietveldt was asked to compose a piece of music to be used in an anti-piracy advert. It was to be used exclusively at a local film festival. However, when Rietveldt bought a Harry Potter DVD in 2007, he discovered his music being used in the...
Dozens held in web abuse raids
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A retired teacher, Armed Forces personnel, and a scout leader are among 76 people arrested in raids in a 48-hour operation targeting online paedophiles....
Criminal websites are taken down
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Dozens of criminal websites offering credit card details and other private information are taken down in a police operation spanning three continents....
Urban Airship Acquires Tello, Maker Of PassTools For Apple's Passbook, Because Not All Brands Need Fully Featured Apps
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A little over a year after Urban Airship’s acquisition of location startup SimpleGeo, the company has moved to once again expand its feature set by acquiring venture-backed Tello in an all-stock deal. The startup, which debuted at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2010, had initially been focused on building real-time feedback tools...
Urban Airship Acquires Tello, Maker Of PassTools For Apple's Passbook, Because Not All Brands Need Fully Featured Apps
1,000 Foxconn Workers Rioted Monday Night Over A Tiny Incident
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Tensions are still high at electronics manufacturer Foxconn despite pledges to raise quality of living for workers. On Monday night a huge riot started at a Chengdu dormitory over a tiny incident. According to Taiwan-based WantChinaTimes, workers with a grudge against the security guards prevented them from catching a thief....
U.N. summit's meltdown ignites new Internet Cold War
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New geopolitical rift isn't east-west or north-south: it roughly tracks commitment to free expression. The U.S., Canada, Europe, Japan, and their allies are now facing off against the likes of China, Russia, Libya, Nigeria, and dozens of other nations. [Read more]...
Google to pay $7 million to US states for Wi-Fi eavesdropping
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Google will pay $7 million to settle complaints from dozens of U.S. states about its unauthorized collection of personal data transmitted over Wi-Fi networks. The money will be paid to 37 states and the District of Columbia, which had gone after Google after it admitted that its Street View...
McKinnon extradition decision due
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The home secretary will decide later whether to extradite Gary McKinnon, the Briton wanted in the US for hacking into dozens of military computers....
VIDEO: At Foxconn, An Exclusive Look At How An iPad Is Made
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Much has been written about conditions at Foxconn, the embattled Chinese manufacturer for Apple and a host of other hardware companies. But only a couple of reporters have had access to one of the sprawling company’s factory floors: Joel Johnson wrote Wired‘s March 2011 cover story, “1 Million Workers....
Retail | Why Amazon Prime Could Soon Cost You Next to Nothing
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A new report says Amazon makes so much money off Prime customers that the company could drop the annual fee by dozens of dollars and still come out ahead....
Chinese gamer returns dozens of spacebars stolen from internet cafe
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According to a bizarre story reported by Chinese state newspaper The People's Daily, a man recently turned up at an internet cafe in the country with dozens of stolen spacebars. Irritated by the noise made by players of the rhythmic game Audition Online, which involves repeated tapping of the...
Apple's 'Find My Phone' Feature Keeps Sending People To This Poor Guy's House (AAPL)
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Apple's "Find My iPhone" feature lets people track a lost or stolen iPhone to make it easier to recover, and for the past two years, it's mistakenly sent dozens of people to Wayne Dobson's house in Las Vegas, reports the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The 59-year-old retiree is no thief and...
RIM behind 'Wake Up' flash mob at Sydney Apple store
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The Australian "Wake Up" campaign that included a flash mob faux-protest outside of Apple’s Sydney store last week was actually sponsored by RIM, the Waterloo company has revealed. Many were expecting Samsung to be behind the campaign, given its history of lampooning Apple and the upcoming launch of "the...
Fast fashion startup JustFab: $100M revenue, 500K new users/month, and now $76M in new funding
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500,000 new users each month? $76 million just closed in second round funding? Maybe not quite all in a day’s work for JustFab’s chief executive Adam Goldberg, but it is in character for an entrepreneur who started his first company at age 16. “We think we’re the next evolution of...
I’m Back
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Hey! So TechCrunch Disrupt New York is just around the corner on May 19-23. So, what, you say, you don’t work here any more, right? (for the newer TechCrunch readers, I’m the guy who founded the site) Well, yeah, I don’t work here any more because Aol fired me last...
Amazon Offers 'Amazon Pages' For Brands To Customize With Their Own URLs, And 'Amazon Posts' For Social Media Marketing
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Just in time for the holiday shopping blitz, it looks like Amazon is opening a new chapter in its role as an online marketplace for third-parties to sell their goods. The company is quietly pushing a service called Amazon Pages, which lets companies set up their own pages on Amazon.com...
Amazon Offers 'Amazon Pages' For Brands To Customize With Their Own URLs, And 'Amazon Posts' For Social Media Marketing
Hackers target Westboro Baptist Church after Newtown threat
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After church leaders announce plans to protest at site of school massacre, Anonymous posts the personal information for dozens of members of the extremist group, including names, e-mail addresses, and phone numbers. [Read more]...
Intel shows off wireless keyboard that re-juices via inductive charging (video)
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Imagine this: Intel hosts an event with dozens of Ultrabooks arranged on tables. All the tech writers in attendance rush past them, and instead swarm around... a keyboard. That was the scene at one of Intel's Computex press events today, where the company demoed an interesting use of inductive...
Inside The Ballmer Peak-a-thon: The Boozy Hackathon With No Biz Guys Allowed [TCTV]
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Dozens of programmers gathered together this past weekend at the PariSoma coworking space in downtown San Francisco to do two things: Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and collectively pursue the Ballmer Peak, an elusive state of inebriation at which people supposedly attain “superhuman” coding abilities. This Saturday night hackathon, appropriately...
Recruiting Is Broken, And Video-Driven Readyforce Wants To Fix It
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Dozens of startups have launched in the past few years claiming to fix the broken recruiting and hiring process. One of them, Readyforce, has already signed up some well-known startups with a relatively straightforward and compelling idea, and it’s opening up its beta test today. When it comes to finding...
Amazon settles with patent troll
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A subsidiary of Acacia Research Corporation, easily one of the world’s most annoying patent trolls, has managed to force Amazon.com into settling a pending patent lawsuit. The subsidiary, Adjustacam LLC, originally filed suit against dozens of retailers in July 2010, including Amazon, Dell, Wal-Mart, Newegg.com, Eastman Kodak, Target, Sears, Overstock.com...
CA to app devs: get privacy policies or risk $2500-per-download fines
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flickr / iMAL.org They had a month—and now it's over. Any California mobile-app developers who don't have a privacy policy obviously available to consumers need to get one and fast. If they don't, they could be facing potentially massive fines: up to $2,500 per app download. On October 30,...
HP's new Prime graphing calculator fights smartphone envy with a touchscreen and apps
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Back when many of us were in high school, Texas Instrument's TI-83 graphing calculator reigned supreme. But today, smartphones can easily replicate the functions of an advanced graphing calculator with low-cost apps, and do dozens of other things to boot. For those that have decided to hang on to...
Microsoft wasted 'millions of watts of electricity' to evade power usage penalty
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Microsoft deliberately burned through "millions of watts of electricity" to avoid a penalty for lowballing its power use last year, according to the New York Times. The company planned to continue wasting power at dozens of diesel generators in Quincy, Washington until the $210,000 fine was cut. Microsoft uses...
Dear Eric Schmidt, It’s Been 6 Months — Where Are Those iOS-Slaying Android Exclusive Apps?
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Flashback to December 6, 2012: Google Chairman Eric Schmidt is on stage at LeWeb in Paris and is asked by an audience member why most application developers still choose to develop for iOS first rather than Android? Schmidt’s response: “Six months from now you’ll say the opposite. Because ultimately applications vendors are...
Visualized: Google Street View car fleet gets ready to conquer (and map) the world
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Ever wonder how Google can make such grandiose claims for the sheer amount of Street View imagery it collects? Here's how. Google's Masrur Odinaev has posted a snapshot of a central mapping car parking lot that shows dozens of the camera-equipped Subaru Imprezas amassed ahead of future runs. While...
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