I’m bein’ for real yo! In case of catastrophic interweb meltdown, seven people across the globe have magical keys (possibly carved from witch’s tits) that can reboot the tubes and restore porn to the masses. Well thank God! The plan was drawn up by the internet domain name watchdog ICANN as a means to protect the internet in the event of a major attack on its infrastructure
When Apple’s latest privacy policy revealed the company could track any iPhone’s location in real time , it threw some for a loop… including a pair of gentlemen from the US House of Representatives, who asked what Cupertino was up to. In a thirteen page letter dated July 12, Apple’s legal counsel explains the whole matter away, while giving us a fascinating look into how the company collects — and justifies collecting — all that GPS data
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Apple responds to congressional inquiry, details location data collection in 13-page letter
It’s ugly. It’s buggy
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PlayOn for iPhone brings a wealth of streaming video to iOS, we go hands-on
It takes quite a lot to get Apple (or any of the other big timers) to swallow its pride and admit a faulty product, but the random deaths of its Time Capsules seem to have fit that bill. Of course, in classic corporate fashion, we’re not told that there’s a problem at all, but if you bought one of the earliest batches of Time Capsules — between February and June 2008 — and it has since suffered a fatal malfunction, you may now be entitled to a free repair or replacement.
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Apple issuing free repairs or replacements of wonky 2008 Time Capsules
It takes quite a lot to get Apple (or any of the other big timers) to swallow its pride and admit a faulty product, but the random deaths of its Time Capsules seem to have fit that bill. Of course, in classic corporate fashion, we’re not told that there’s a problem at all, but if you bought one of the earliest batches of Time Capsules — between February and June 2008 — and it has since suffered a fatal malfunction, you may now be entitled to a free repair or replacement. This new coverage is also being extended to people who’ve already had to pay to deal with a less than reliable Capsule; they’ll get full refunds of their money, but we doubt their hearts will heal that quickly, and let’s not even talk about the lost data that was supposed to be getting backed up on the thing
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Apple issuing free repairs or replacements of wonky 2008 Time Capsules
This seems to happen with virtually every hotly-anticipated device Verizon ever offers, so we can’t say we’re too surprised to hear rumors that Motorola’s Droid X has already started showing up in customers’ hands. Usually, this happens through a combination of persistence, repeated calls to customers service, and finding just the right rep who doesn’t realize that he or she shouldn’t be selling a particular device yet — but in the case of the Droid X, Verizon’s been teasing the launch with its @DroidLanding Twitter account, saying ” you might get yours before” the official July 15 release.
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Droid X already knocking on buyers’ doors?
We don’t blame you if you missed this the first time round , but HP’s ePrint service is probably best seen in action anyway. Fortunately, our brethren over at Engadget Chinese had the opportunity to play with these new web-connected printers recently
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HP ePrint really works: eMails and attachments printed from the cloud (video)
Over 100 million photos are uploaded to Facebook every day, making the social networking site something of a clearinghouse for random holiday snaps. Of course, those holiday snaps quite often contain people, and its in tagging those people that the whole process of adding photos to Facebook slows down a bit — finding faces, drawing boxes, typing names, etc. Those first two steps are now in the process of being automated thanks to recent Facebook acquisition Divvyshot
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Facebook adds face detection, still can’t identify books
Seriously, words cannot describe how incredibly entertained we are by this Mario Live wallpaper for Android 2.1 and above devices. All across the home and locked screen, our favorite Italian faux-plumber protagonist runs through randomly-generated levels across various themes like outside, underground, and castle. It’s very customizable, allowing you to change the level’s difficulty, see the alternate paths Mario’s AI has plotted, and rendering the background (all at a cost to CPUs and battery life, of course)
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Mario live wallpaper for Android: better than a Tanooki Suit in the summer
Finally, the moment you’ve all forgotten about been waiting for: the winners of last week’s Buckyball giveaway ! I promised I’d give a set to the first person with a non-first related comment, and used a random integer generator to select from the more than 6,600 entries for the remaining 9 sets.
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You’re All Winners In My Book (But These People Are Taking Home Free Buckyballs)
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