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How to Bypass the Social Reader Apps in Facebook
Apr 10th
Some stories appearing in your Facebook newsfeed, like the one shown in the screenshot above, require you to add a “social reader” application to your Facebook profile before you can access the underlying story. This social-reading “feature” is enabled for quite a few popular sites including Yahoo, The Washington Post, Guardian, Huffington Post, Daily Motion, and many more
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How to Bypass the Social Reader Apps in Facebook
Appeals court: Fifth Amendment protections can apply to encrypted hard drives
Feb 25th
Two rulings this week helped to clarify the circumstances under which a defendant can be compelled to reveal the contents of an encrypted hard drive. On Wednesday, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals let stand a judge’s ruling in a Colorado case that the defendant in a mortgage fraud case could be compelled to produce the contents of her encrypted laptop
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Appeals court: Fifth Amendment protections can apply to encrypted hard drives
High-precision weigh-in for W boson means fewer hiding places for Higgs
Feb 25th
Fermilab’s Tevatron particle collider may have shut down last year, but it left behind massive amounts of data for scientists to sift through—physicists I’ve talked to suggest that papers should keep flowing at the same pace as when it was running for well over a year. Thursday, the CDF detector team released a new estimate of the mass of the W boson, derived from Tevatron data, that provides the most precise value for this particle yet.
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High-precision weigh-in for W boson means fewer hiding places for Higgs
Vita’s "augmented reality" games seem to miss meaning of "augmented"
Feb 23rd
A few days after I received my PlayStation Vita review unit in the mail, I got a set of six plastic cards with boxy black and white patterns on them. The free “augmented reality” games that rely on those cards were made available for download on the PlayStation Network today, and while the games definitely take place on a backdrop of reality, I’m not really sure how much the real world is being “augmented” through the Vita. Read the comments on this post
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Vita’s “augmented reality” games seem to miss meaning of “augmented”
T-Mobile seeks to block Verizon spectrum purchase
Feb 23rd
The nation’s fourth-largest cellular firm has asked the Federal Communications Commission to block a spectrum acquisition by its largest competitor. T-Mobile argues that allowing Verizon to purchase more spectrum would make it too difficult for smaller wireless firms to build next-generation networks of their own. The spectrum under dispute was acquired in an auction by a coalition of cable companies led by Comcast and Time Warner in 2006.
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T-Mobile seeks to block Verizon spectrum purchase
A flag no more: Microsoft unveils new Windows logo
Feb 18th
The multicolored Windows flag is no more. Windows 8 will do away with the wavy Windows logo that Microsoft has used in one form or another for the last 20 years, and replace it with a logo that’s, well, a window .
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A flag no more: Microsoft unveils new Windows logo
Nanopore tech brings rackmounted genome machines, USB-based DNA sensors
Feb 18th
The DNA sequencing systems on the market produce their output by synthesizing new DNA in a way that allows them to read the identity of the base that’s added. There have been a few ideas floated around that involved reading the bases directly from existing molecules, but the technical challenges of doing so have kept anyone from bringing these technologies to market
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Nanopore tech brings rackmounted genome machines, USB-based DNA sensors
Boom to bust: THQ’s "revolutionary" uDraw now filling warehouse shelves
Feb 3rd
Back in the long-ago days of the 2010 holiday season, it looked like THQ had a hit on its hands with its out-of-left-field uDraw Game Tablet, a slate-like controller that used a stylus to let players draw on the TV. The company sold 1.7 million of them to Wii owners by early 2011, beating expectations and leading some to speculate that the uDraw might be the biggest game control revolution this side of the Kinect.
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Boom to bust: THQ’s “revolutionary” uDraw now filling warehouse shelves
Intel working to keep the netbook alive with "Cedar Trail" Atom platform
Dec 29th
Netbook sales have been declining , with major vendors deciding to leave the netbook market entirely. That hasn’t stopped Intel, however, from launching a new family of processors designed for small and cheap laptops. The new chips are the Atom N2600 and N2800, based on the Intel’s third-generation Atom architecture, codenamed Cedarview.
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Intel working to keep the netbook alive with “Cedar Trail” Atom platform
Temporary Unlock Method for iPhone 4S, Try at Your Own Risk!
Nov 19th
Earlier, Gizmodo shared an usual method to unlock an iPhone. The method does not require you to jailbreak the iPhone. What you need is an original SIM card from AT&T and follow a set of procedures to unlock it…
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Temporary Unlock Method for iPhone 4S, Try at Your Own Risk!
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