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Download a Copy of The Pirate Bay, It’s Only 90 MB
torrentfreak.com
Last month The Pirate Bay announced that it will stop hosting torrents in the very near future. This change is expected to go into effect before the end of the month. From then on, Pirate Bay users can only download files through magnet links. The Pirate Bay team told TorrentFreak...
Americans spend 33 hours a week watching TV, and broadband sees streaming gain ground
thenextweb.com
According to Nielsen’s latest cross-platform video report, Americans now spend more than 33 hours each week watching video across all screens, but how they’re consuming this visual content – be it traditional TV or online – is changing. The report indicates that 75.3% of Americans are now paying for broadband...
RIM: BlackBerry apps are more profitable than Android apps
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Research In Motion executivess took the stage during BlackBerry DevCon Europe on Tuesday to clear up a few facts about the company’s success with its BlackBerry App World marketplace. RIM’s new CEO Thorsten Heins said BlackBerry App World is now home to more than 60,000 applications, which is a...
Sony's final 2011 report shows a record net loss, optimism for 2012
www.engadget.com
After a slew of bad news and drastically restated projections, Sony has reported the numbers for its full 2011 financial year and as expected, they're not good. The company experienced a record net loss of 456.7 billion yen ($5.73 billion) and an operating loss of 67.3 billion yen. The...
How Do You Break the Olympics Website? Throw a Cloud at It
www.wired.com
Photo: 2014lovessocial/Flickr How do you make sure the official Olympics website can handle the millions of people who will suddenly bombard its servers when the Games kick off this coming weekend? You get help from the proverbial cloud. In effort to ensure that its site — www.london2012.com — can...
eHarmony confirms its members' passwords were posted online, too
arstechnica.com
Online dating site eHarmony has confirmed that a massive list of passwords posted online included those used by its members. "After investigating reports of compromised passwords, we have found that a small fraction of our user base has been affected," company officials said in a blog post published Wednesday evening....
All That Cash: On Apple, Twitter And The New Bit Factories
techcrunch.com
Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Amit Runchal, who blogs at Interactioned. The speculation of what Apple is going to do with all their cash has long been a favorite topic in the tech and financial press. But the thinking along those lines is often akin to the...
To avoid an IPO, Twitter makes its top employees keep 80% of their stock
thenextweb.com
A stock restriction enforced by social giant Twitter, which stops employees from selling more than 20% of their stock, reportedly became the catalyst for some of its more high-profile resignations, CNNMoney has revealed. According to the report, the rule has been in place for more than a year but was...
GE turns butterfly-inspired tech into cheap, accurate thermal sensors (video)
www.engadget.com
When last we heard from GE and its Morpho-butterfly inspired sensors, all the talk was about detecting chemicals. And, with $6.3 million in funding coming from DARPA, we're not surprised. In the latest issue of Nature Photonics, however, the company's researchers show that the wing-like structures are just as...
iFixit tears down the new MacBook Pro’s Retina display, an “engineering marvel”
9to5mac.com
They first took apart the new Retina MacBook Pro calling it the “least repairable laptop” ever, but today our friends over at iFixit have taken apart just the device’s most impressive new component: its Retina Display. Here’s what they found: The Retina display is an engineering marvel. Its LCD...
Remember Friends Reunited? Here’s the video it hopes will bring you back
thenextweb.com
Earlier this week, the mainstream press in the UK was filled with coverage of the impending relaunch of Friends Reunited. Now the site has released a video that shows a bit more about how it’s pitching its new direction. Huge in the UK in the early-to-mid part of the last decade,...
Interphase's Penvue interactive display system highlights its strengths (video)
www.engadget.com
If you've ever been on the receiving end of "death by PowerPoint," you'll know just how tiresome a passive presentation can be. Interphase hopes its new Penvue (pronounced Pen-View) portable interactive display system can maybe help spice things up a little. The hand-held unit is about the size of...
Crucial outs v4 SSD for solid-state storage on a budget
www.engadget.com
Solid-state drives cost just a fraction of what they did a few years ago, but with prices that can still exceed $1,000, you could hardly label them as cheap. Crucial still aims to put solid-state storage within reach of those on a budget, however, releasing its 2.5-inch v4 drive...
Digia buys Nokia's remaining Qt assets for 'fraction' of purchase price, eyes Windows, iOS, Android
www.engadget.com
Nokia's Qt project could be reinvigorated now that it's been bought out in its entirety by Finnish firm Digia, following a partial acquisition last year. Digia is eyeing porting the development platform, used to code applications for Symbian and Meego, to Windows 8 (the PR doesn't mention Windows Phone...
The Nokia Asset Offload Continues: Qt Assets Go To Digia For 'Fraction' Of $150M Nokia Paid For It
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More downsizing and rationalizing from troubled handset maker Nokia. Today, Finnish software company Digia, which bought the Qt commercial licensing operation a year ago, announced that it would buy the remainder of Nokia’s Qt business. Qt is an open source development platform for Android, iOS and Windows 8 environments. The...
Studying rapidly evolving user interests
engineering.twitter.com
Twitter is an amazing real-time information dissemination platform. We've seen events of historical importance such as the Arab Spring unfold via Tweets. We even know that Twitter is faster than earthquakes! However, can we more scientifically characterize the real-time nature of Twitter?One way to measure the dynamics of a content...
Dating site eHarmony confirms password breach that affected “a small fraction” of its user base
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Online dating site eHarmony has revealed that it too suffered a hack into its password database, after it confirmed that “a small fraction” of its user base has been affected. The company says it is continuing to look into the issue but has taken the precautionary move of resetting the passwords of...
Opinion: EFF should call for the elimination of software patents
arstechnica.com
As recently as 2010, Justice Kennedy se. The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced a new initiative on Tuesday to seek reform of the United States patent system. Under the banner of Defend Innovation, the civil liberties organization suggested seven ways Congress could make the patent system less harmful to progress...
AT&T to start testing small, short-range cell sites this year to boost network coverage
www.theverge.com
AT&T is going to start testing small cells "later this year and into next year" to improve its network coverage and capacity, the company reiterated at CTIA. The miniature, short-range cell sites can be deployed at a fraction of the cost of a traditional tower. AT&T announced it was...
Now Twitter Looks Nice Even on Your Crappy Feature Phone
www.readwriteweb.com
When we talk about the mobile Web and apps, we're almost always talking about smartphones. Android and iOS and their competitors are getting most of the innovation these days, but it's worth recalling that less than half of American adults currently own a smartphone. Many of the rest of us are still...
Facebook Is Running Out Of Time To Figure Out Its Mobile Advertising Strategy (FB)
www.businessinsider.com
Facebook users are increasingly abandoning the desktop version of the social network in favor of the mobile version, the company revealed in its latest 10-Q filing. About 102 million users accessed Facebook solely through mobile devices in June, a whopping 23% increase from the number who did so in March,...
Evernote Wants To Be The Automatic, Trusted Place To Store Your Life [Interview]
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Evernote, the multi-platform app that lets you capture notes, audio and images when you are on the go, and then access those mementos wherever you want to next, has carved out a position as one of the more consistently useful services out there for smartphone consumers. The growing number of...
Shutting down spammers
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Twitter continues to grow at a record pace -- we now have 140 million active users and more than 340 million Tweets each day. As our reach expands, we become a more attractive target for spammers. While spam is a small fraction of the incredible content you can find on...
Will Facebook adapt to mobile or will mobile adapt to Facebook?
gigaom.com
We all know Facebook needs to become a force in mobile advertising, but just how much of a force? If Facebook were to replicate the success of its desktop ad business on mobile it would account for a healthy chunk of the entire world’s current mobile ad spend. And if...
PSA: I'm Watch smartwatch series ready to ship, as soon as it confirms the destination
www.engadget.com
All things I'm Watch went a bit quiet following the unveiling of its latest series of smartwatches at CES 2012 several months ago. Now there's finally been an update -- we've heard from a kindly reader that the Italian manufacturer is now ready to deliver on its preorders, requesting...
Y Combinator’s Harj Taggar On Bad Pitches, Learning To Code, And The Power Of Hacker News [TCTV]
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Paul Graham may be the most public face of Silicon Valley startup incubator Y Combinator, but as the firm has grown so has its managing team. One of the first people to join YC as a partner besides its founders was Harjeet Taggar, an Oxford-educated entrepreneur who first came...
Lady Gaga Launches Pinterest for Little Monsters
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(ladygaga.tumblr.com) Lady Gaga's social network, LittleMonsters.com, is in beta, though we're not sure why. The Gaga-themed Pinterest-like site, in production for more than a year, is black and white and red all over. Users become "fans" of each other and bookmark posts as "inspired." It's so Pinterest-y that some bloggers...
Why you should have comments, even when they are bad
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If you spend long enough reading blogs — or even newspapers, for that matter — you will eventually come across an essay about how a site is struggling with the question of whether to allow comments, or has decided to shut them down. The latest example of this genre...
The Best Microsoft Office Alternative You've Never Heard Of
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Tired of paying a small fortune for Microsoft licenses? Kingsoft Office Suite delivers robust word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations for a fraction of the cost....
New iPad Uses Retina Graphics When Running iPhone Apps
www.macrumors.com
When the iPad was first introduced there weren't many iPad-specific apps yet available. As a solution, Apple allowed apps designed for the iPhone's smaller screen to run on the iPad in a form of emulation. The apps could be run as if they were on the iPhone, using only a...
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