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Report: Apple to Buy Beats By Dre for $3.2 Billion - The Wire
Apple is reportedly close inking to a deal to acquire the luxury headphone maker Beats Electronics for a staggering $3.2 billion, which would be the company's largest acquisition ever.
Dr. Dre Appears to Confirm Apple-Beats Deal in Facebook Video
Apple is rumored to be acquiring Beats Electronics in a landmark deal worth $3.2 billion. While the purchase is yet to be confirmed formally by either company, a Facebook video uploaded by actor Tyrese Gibson suggests an announcement is imminent.
Snapchat Admits Its Photos Don't 'Disappear Forever'
What Is WebM, and Can It Dethrone the GIF? | Motherboard
4chan, infamous birthplace of Anonymous, and renowned the world over for its free-for-all image boards, announced yesterday that it added support for WebM to host animated images that are higher quality than GIFs in a smaller file size.
Report: 44% of Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent a Tweet - Digits - WSJ
Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say - NYTimes.com
Stepping into a heated debate within the nation’s intelligence agencies, President Obama has decided that when the National Security Agency discovers major flaws in Internet security, it should — in most circumstances — reveal them to assure that they will be fixed, rather than keep mum so that the flaws can be used in espionage or cyberattacks, senior administration officials said Saturday.
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Madonna earns the wrath of Joyce Banda - full statement | World news | theguardian.com
We had been studiously avoiding coverage of Madonna's latest trip to Malawi, but such is the deliciousness of the excoriating 11-point press release put out yesterday by Joyce Banda that we couldn't resist wading in.
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Fun & Entertainment: P. Diddy's Failed Attempts at Getting a 'Puff Daddy' Twitter Handle
P. Diddy's Failed Attempts at Getting a 'Puff Daddy' Twitter Handle
NSFW!! - ! nsfw US Airways Just Tweeted A Pic Of A Woman With A Plane In Her Vagina
For reasons no one can explain, US Airways decided to respond to the complaint of a woman who had a bad flight with a photo of a woman pleasuring herself with the large model of a Boeing 777. Super NSFW
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Pop! Raccoon loves bubble wrap as much as YOU do | Mail Online
Amazon to expand Fire TV's voice search with support for Hulu Plus, Crackle, and Showtime | The Verge
Amazon announced today that the voice search functionality in its Fire TV media streaming box would soon be expanded to include information from Hulu Plus, Crackle, and Showtime Anytime. Currently, Fire TV's voice search only supports Amazon's own content and music videos from Vevo. The company did not say exactly when the new sources would be added to the service, aside from indicating that it would arrive this summer.
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Facebook's friend problem | The Verge
Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? - NYTimes.com
Thayer Prime, a 32-year-old strategy consultant who lives in London, has even developed a playful 100-point scale (100 being “best friend forever”). In her mind, she starts to dock new friend candidates as they begin to display annoying or disloyal behavior. Nine times out of 10, she said, her new friends end up from 30 to 60, or little more than an acquaintance.
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Exclusive: Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware - CNET
The sportswear company has decided that only software has a future in Nike’s technology vision. That means cutting the FuelBand, including a slimmer version planned for the fall.
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The Not-So-Secret Language Of The Misfit Shine | TechCrunch
I ran into CEO Sonny Vu about a week ago, and when he pulled a Misfit Shine out of his bag, he pointed out something that no one seems to have noticed. Or if they noticed it, they didn’t say anything about it online.
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The Nokia Devices and Services acquisition close date - The Official Microsoft Blog - Site Home - TechNet Blogs
Today we are excited to share that we have completed the steps necessary to finalize Microsoft’s acquisition of the Nokia Devices and Services business. The transaction will be completed this Friday, April 25, when we’ll officially welcome the Nokia Devices and Services business as part of the Microsoft family.
Apple, Google Vie for Exclusive Game Apps - WSJ.com
The two Silicon Valley giants have been wooing game developers to ensure that top-tier game titles arrive first on devices powered by their respective operating systems, people familiar with the situation said.In exchange, Apple and Google are offering to provide a promotional boost for these games by giving them premium placement on their app stores' home pages and features lists, these people said.
'Today' Show Coming to Radio for First Time on SiriusXM - TheWrap
The companies are teaming up to launch “Today” Show Radio on June 26, which will make the NBC morning program available to radio listeners for the first time.
Netflix will raise streaming prices for new members this quarter — Tech News and Analysis
New Netflix subscribers could soon be forced to pay a bit more for the company’s streaming service: The company announced in its first-quarter earnings letter to shareholders that it intends to raise the prices for new members by $1 or $2 this quarter.
Mobile-Payments Startup Square Discusses Possible Sale - WSJ.com
The five-year-old company paid out roughly $110 million more in cash last year than it took in, according to two people familiar with the matter. Over the past three years, the startup has consumed more than half of the roughly $340 million it has raised from at least four rounds of equity financing since 2009, two people familiar with the company's performance said.
The Art & Science of Great Website Color Selection
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Where 'House of Cards' gets tech wrong (pictures) - CNET - Page 9
No, no, no, NO! Until episode 3 of the second season, "House of Cards" is above-average in its portrayal of tech, but when the anonymous hacker asks Lucas Goodwin to sign a "notary app" by putting his thumb over the iPad camera to take a fingerprint image, I nearly get whiplash shaking my head. Not only does it misunderstand the basic concept of notarizing a document, it confuses a fingerprint scanner with a, uh, camera. Put your finger over a camera and you prevent any visible light from hitting the lens. Ever take a photo in a pitch-black darkened closet? Of course you haven't, because you'd just get a black image, which is what would really happen here as well.
GitHub Harassment Story - Business Insider
Last year, GitHub appeared to be the perfect Silicon Valley startup. After essentially bootstrapping for four years, it accepted a $100 million investment from hot venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. It boasted that none of its employees had ever quit. Now the integrity of its co-founder and another executive are being questioned by a former employee who alleges she was verbally and sexually harassed.
A tour of the British Isles in accents - YouTube
Former Jaguars LB Russell Allen Discusses Playing Through Stroke in NFL Game | Bleacher Report
Allen finished the game, returned home and went to bed all while continuing to feel a little off. When he woke up the next day and still didn't completely have his bearings, he decided to alert the team's training staff, and it started a chain of events that eventually revealed he had a stroke.
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Tread 2 - Overview - Devon Timepieces
Skype Makes Group Video Calling Free on Windows, Mac, Xbox One
This Printer Can Make A Real Teddy Bear In A Few Hours | TechCrunch
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Disney Research have created a 3D printer that can output a real, cuddly teddy bear in a few hours, thereby putting Santa’s elves out of business. The machine uses soft yarn and a needle to “felt” the object together by entangling the fibers as the object is built.
Meet Flappy48, The Clone Game To End Clone Games | TechCrunch
Take the rules of 2048. Add the gameplay and physics of Flappy Bird.What do you get? Flappy48 — a weird (yet surprisingly… fun?) bizarro-world mashup of everything stupidly addictive from 2014.
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Hacker taps into baby monitor, shouts at sleeping infant - The Mommy Files
The Schreck family was using the latest IP camera from China-based Foscam. Last August, a similar incident occurred with a Foscam camera when a hacker accessed a Houston couple’s device and called their 2-year-old a slut.
Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
Stanford researchers found that walking boosts creative inspiration. They examined creativity levels of people while they walked versus while they sat. A person's creative output increased by an average of 60 percent when walking.
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Paperclip Armrest, An Award-Winning Design Concept That Allows Two People to Share the Same Airplane Armrest
Code/red: No New Apple TV at WWDC | Re/code
If you’ve been anticipating the debut of some new category-defining hardware at Apple’s upcoming Worldwide Developers Conference, a word of advice: Dial back your expectations or be disappointed. Sources familiar with Apple’s plans tell Code/red that Tim Cook will not use WWDC to unveil Apple’s mythical wearable device. Nor will he use it to show off a new Apple TV, or even preview the new software the company is developing for it.
Jury Finds Samsung Phones Infringe on Several Apple Patents, Awards $119.6 Million | Re/code
The panel ruled that various Samsung products infringed on two patents that Apple had sued over in its latest patent case and found damages on a third patent, awarding more than $119.6 million in damages. However, it found Apple did not infringe on two other patents and also awarded Samsung $158,400, saying Apple infringed on a Samsung patent.
Antibiotic-resistant superbug arose in northern Manhattan | Ars Technica
n able to pinpoint where and when it first began spreading. The hope is that this knowledge will allow a better way of controlling infection and stopping epidemics.
Have A MacBook Air? This Hack Might Make Your Screen Even Better
With me recently acquiring a MacBook Air, like any geek, I tried to find any ways in which to make it better. And I’ve found a way to make the display on mine even better. We all know how great the screens are on Mac machines, but this little hack can make some MacBook Air screens sharper, add more contrasts and generally make it better.
Amazon Extends Its Shopping Cart To Twitter | TechCrunch
Amazon has just introduced a new feature that lets Twitter users add items to their Amazon carts by including a hashtag within a tweet.
Amazon Launches #AmazonCart to Shop Using Twitter
Amazon is today rolling out an interesting new feature called
Doge At 'Dega: Dogecoin Sponsors Race Car : All Tech Considered : NPR
Dogecoin users, it turns out, are passionate about underdogs. At Talladega Superspeedway this Sunday, one of the cars running will stand out from the rest.
Close the EarPod doors please HAL.
You may have seen the story last week about Apple working on new EarPods with Biometric and Bluetooth Location features. All the news items I saw, from the Daily Mail in the UK to the evening news in the US.
Perhaps this is why Bloody Mary drinks are so popular on planes - latimes.com
loody Marys and other tomato-based drinks may be popular on airline flights because the flavor of umami is not diminished by loud noise and low cabin air pressure.
It came from the faucet - Boing Boing
There's something nasty in the water, but Maggie Koerth-Baker has you covered.
An Inside Look at the Insanely Complex Formula 1 Steering Wheel | Autopia | WIRED
The modern Formula 1 car is among the most amazing machines ever made. And when you’re going wheel-to-wheel with someone like four-time world champ Sebastian Vettel at 180 mph, you can’t take a hand off the wheel to do, well, anything. Every task a driver might need to do, every bit of information he might need to know, is quite literally at his fingertips.
Taking a photo against a white background? Amazon owns the patent on that - Quartz
An Amusing Time-Lapse Video of a Man Dancing to the Same Song for 100 Days
YouTube user ProjectOneLife crossed off an item from his bucket list by recording himself dancing to “Canned Heat” by Jamiroquai using the same routine for over 100 days and then compiled the footage into a single time-lapse video.
This is my favourite thing at the moment - Imgur
This is my favourite thing at the moment
Luxury Meets Grocery: See What Tiffany Yogurt And Milk Cartons Designed By Apple Look Like | Co.Create | creativity + culture + commerce
Paddy Mergui's new art exhibit combines luxury brands with everyday products.
snopes.com: American Psychiatric Association Classifies Taking of 'Selfies' as a Mental Disorder
On 31 March 2014, the Adobo Chronicles published an article positing that the American Psychiatric Association had classified the taking of 'selfies' (i.e., self-portrait photographs shared via social media) as a mental disorder
LIX - The Smallest 3D Printing Pen in the World
Thoughts on Apple’s possible acquisition of Beats
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