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  • "Apple's commitment to customer privacy"

    18 June 2013, 6:33 pm

    Official Apple statement on PRISM and privacy: "Regardless of the circumstances, our Legal team conducts an evaluation of each request and, only if appropriate, we retrieve and deliver the narrowest possible set of information to the authorities. In fact, from…
  • Wi-Fi Light Bulbs to run the Open Source Contiki OS

    18 June 2013, 6:26 pm

    The open source Contiki operating system and its commercial Thingsquare distribution are making strides towards the connected home. According to a Computerworld article, a new LED light bulb manufacturer is putting small computers into their light bulbs. Each…
  • Google challenges US gag order, citing First Amendment

    18 June 2013, 6:25 pm

    "Google asked the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on Tuesday to ease long-standing gag orders over data requests it makes, arguing that the company has a constitutional right to speak about information it's forced to give the government. The…
  • The Nexus 7, one year later

    18 June 2013, 1:45 pm

    "I can't find one person who has been using the Nexus 7 for an extended period of time, and hasn't seen a massive downgrade in performance. Just what kind of downgrade are we talking here? I cannot pick up my Nexus 7 without experiencing problems like a lag of…
  • MenuetOS 0.99.16 released

    18 June 2013, 1:32 pm

    A new release of the hobby operating system MenuetOS! The release notes are a bit non-descript, but you'll have to take what you can get: "updates and improvements (picview, httpc, ehci, ...)".
  • Introducing Project Loon: balloon-powered Internet access

    17 June 2013, 1:58 pm

    "The Internet is one of the most transformative technologies of our lifetimes. But for 2 out of every 3 people on earth, a fast, affordable Internet connection is still out of reach. And this is far from being a solved problem. There are many terrestrial…
  • Bootable Minecraft clone written party in x86 assembly

    17 June 2013, 1:52 pm

    "MineAssemble is a tiny bootable Minecraft clone written partly in x86 assembly. I made it first and foremost because a university assignment required me to implement a game in assembly for a computer systems course. Because I had never implemented anything…
  • Rubinstein on HP's purchase of Palm: "Talk about a waste"

    14 June 2013, 5:03 pm

    Jon Rubinstein, former CEO of Palm: "Well, I'm not sure I would have sold the company to HP. That's for sure. Talk about a waste. Not that I had any choice because when you sell a company you don't get to decide that. Obviously, the board and shareholders…
  • Review: Haswell-infused Alienware X51 R2 SFF game PC

    14 June 2013, 4:46 pm

    "And so it is with Dell's Alienware X51 R2, a small form factor gaming PC in console digs. It's shaped similar to Microsoft's Xbox 360 Slim, and though it's slightly larger than either a 360 or PlayStation 3, the X51 R2 would be right at home in a living room…
  • 'Microsoft gives zero-day exploits to US government'

    14 June 2013, 1:32 pm

    From Bloomberg: "Microsoft, the world's largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be…
  • "Start updating your applications for iOS 7. Now."

    14 June 2013, 7:39 am

    "The key takeaway we've reached (after two less than 24 hours playing with the iOS 7 Beta release) is this - every App must consider even basic updates to its UI to survive in a post-iOS 6 world." Great. Telling developers to update their entire application -…
  • Microsoft launches Office 365 for iPhone

    14 June 2013, 7:32 am

    "Overall the app is really basic, and designed for on the go editing. Microsoft says it's not planning to create an iPad version, noting that tablet users can utilize the Office Web Apps instead. We'd like to see some additional options for editing, including…
  • Retiring Chrome Frame

    13 June 2013, 3:39 pm

    "Today, most people are using modern browsers that support the majority of the latest web technologies. Better yet, the usage of legacy browsers is declining significantly and newer browsers stay up to date automatically, which means the leading edge has…
  • Why does the design of iOS 7 look so different?

    13 June 2013, 10:45 am

    The Next Web: "First of all, many of the new icons were primarily designed by members of Apple's marketing and communications department, not the app design teams. From what we've heard, SVP of Design Jony Ive (also now Apple's head of Human Interaction)…
  • OS X 10.9 Mavericks

    13 June 2013, 10:35 am

    The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS…

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